osing the packet and passengers to serious
inconveniences. Let us say that he was unfortunate, since his courtesy
on this point seems to have become the blackest of his misdeeds. In
truth, to see in the affair of the _Trent_, all that England has seen in
it, it is necessary to commence by supposing that the United States,
which have already a sufficiently heavy task on their hands, it seems to
me, have been tempted, besides, to procure a quarrel with Great Britain.
Hypotheses of this kind will be welcomed only by those who feel
themselves unconquerably impelled to praise the messages of Mr.
Jefferson Davis, and to stretch their hand decidedly to the brave South,
which has so much to complain of, and which is defending so just a
cause![C]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote C: This article, with the exception of a few changes and
additions, was inserted in the _Journal des Debats_, December 11, 12,
and 18.]

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