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of my career, I am to be condemned and vilified by you and your clergy because I still maintain them to the utmost of my slender ability, be assured, my Right Reverend Brother, that I shall regret the fact much more on your account than on my own.

In conclusion, I have only to say that I feel no resentment for the grossly insulting style of your manifesto. The stability and unity of the Church of God are the only interests which I desire to secure, and I am too old in experience to be much moved by the occasional excesses of human infirmity.

BURLINGTON, VERMONT,

October 5, 1863.

JOHN H. HOPKINS,

Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont.

Cox & WYMAN, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON.

OF THE

SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY,

INDISPENSABLE FOR RESOLVING THE

AMERICAN QUESTION.

With a Map.

LONDON:

WILLIAM RIDGWAY, 169, PICCADILLY, W.

1863.

RECOGNITION

OF THE

SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.

HOWEVER much British statesmen may differ respecting the means to be employed, they all assuredly desire to see such a termination of the American war as will insure the welfare of the AngloSaxon race, the future of the Negro population, and settle every question which might renew the deplorable conflict now raging between those who are only aliens to us in name.

The people of the Northern States believe they are fighting to maintain the Union; in reality they are struggling to retain their fellow countrymen of the Gulf States in worse than Egyptian bondage.

The people of the Southern States imagine that their ardour to secure independence is inspired by the love of freedom; at heart they covet the immense space situated between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains; which, included within their limits, would entice them to keep their black brethren in slavery for a period beyond the ken of generations yet unborn.

A power adequate to amalgamate the shattered fragments, or to separate the antagonistic masses of

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