The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . & Co., Spence, the Lairds,and McE-ae, who, by the aid of the London Times, and allthe papers were able to fleece the English aristocracy outof fifteen million dollars. 542 THE BOYS OF 61. [April, From mercenary motives they enlisted in the cause ofslavery to destroy a friendly republican government. Theyhad persistently asserted that a constitutional democracy likeours must ultimately fail to secure the rights and liberties ofthe people, — that int
The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . & Co., Spence, the Lairds,and McE-ae, who, by the aid of the London Times, and allthe papers were able to fleece the English aristocracy outof fifteen million dollars. 542 THE BOYS OF 61. [April, From mercenary motives they enlisted in the cause ofslavery to destroy a friendly republican government. Theyhad persistently asserted that a constitutional democracy likeours must ultimately fail to secure the rights and liberties ofthe people, — that internal war would crumble it into ruinslike the ancient republics; and now they thought the fulfilmentof their prophecy so near at hand it was unnecessary longer todisguise their hatred, and openly gave their aid and comfortto the enemy, jeering at our efforts and denouncing our meas-ures to maintain our existence among the nations. They ven-tured their money on the doubtful issue and lost, and now solugubriously bewail their folly as to make themselves ridicu-lous in the eyes of the world, and the laughing-stock of theAjnerican
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