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Excerpt from Correspondence on the Present Relations Between Great Britain and the United States of America
The change has been particularly sad to me'and my friends, who had formed interesting friendships in what they loved to look upon as the mother-country. I know that I must have loved you, wherever I might have met you; but I doubt not that my friendship for you and others was heightened by the sentiment that we were of one race, and that our countries, in the chief essentials of Christian civilization (at least so far as New England was concerned), were the same. England was to me a hallowed spot; and I looked for ward to another visit there as among the hepes of the future. My whole intercourse with your countrymen had led me to believe that there was a cordial good will towards us, which every man should do his utmost to cultivate and extend. The consciousness of sup posed superiority, which few of them know how to conceal, and many are not aware of as appearing in their manners, sometimes amused, but never offended me; and, until ten months ago, no passport to my hospitality, - humble indeed, but hearty, and to that of my friends generally, was more sure than an introduction as a gentleman from England.
This feeling had been of late growing throughout our country with surprising rapidity and strength. It was exhibited (i should have thought unmistakably) in the universal gratification expressed throughout the land in the opportunity to evince our national good will in the restoration of the Arctic ship the Reso lute in sending an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin; in raising our ?ags at half-mast when Ha velock fell; in contributions for Ireland; and in the reception of your Prince, which no observer could mistake as a popular excitement for a pageant merely, instead of seeing In it the exhibition of a downright hearty good-will to your Queen and people. Had She landed on our Shores, it would have been more feel ingly demonstrated; and no monarch, at home, could receive an ovation more grateful to a' generous and noble heart than she would have met with here.
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