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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER II: What the Postman Brought
19/26

The Alabama.

The Confederate Commissioners (I know you will say we were wrong there--and so we may have been technically--but John Bull bullied us into compliance when our hands were tied).

Lincoln told his Cabinet 'one war at a time, Gentlemen' and submitted....
"In 1898 we were a strong and powerful nation and a dangerous enemy to provoke.

England recognized the fact and acted accordingly.

England entered the present war to protect small nations! Heaven save the mark! You surely read your history.


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