Excerpt from Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney-General of England, in the British House of Commons, May 13, 1864 And yet, in characterizing the writings of Historicus and Mr. Gibbs in these terms, the writer begs that it may not be supposed that he has overlooked the fact that one of them - the former - is thoroughly and bitterly English in his prejudices, - apparently believing that no good can come out of a republican form of government, and that the highest art in, American demagoguism consists in getting up a war against England; and that the latter (mr. Gibbs) sees no other end to our civil struggle but failure On the part of the North. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.