human
I am pleased to hear from your lordship the expressions of good will from her Gracious Majesty's Government.
gpt
I am sorry to say, however, the Minister hastened to add,
human
And why not?
gpt
Seeing that it could have no effect in really freeing the slaves until the South is conquered it appeared to be merely an attempt to excite a servile insurrection.
human
And may I ask of your lordship whether this would not have been even more true in the earlier days of the war than now?
gpt
Undoubtedly.
human
And yet I understand that her Gracious Majesty's Government was cold toward us because we had failed to take such high moral grounds at once in the beginning of the war?
gpt
The trouble you see is, he went on softly,
human
Europe begins to feel that the division of sentiment in the North will prove a fatal weakness to the administration in so grave a crisis. Unfortunately, from our point of view, of course, your Government is a democracy, the sport of every whim of the demagogue of the hour----
gpt
Allow me to reassure her Gracious Majesty's Government on that point immediately. The administration will find means of preserving the sovereign power the people have entrusted to it. For example, my lord, I can touch the little bell on my right hand and order the arrest without warrant of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch the little bell on my left hand and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New York; and no power on earth except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of Great Britain do as much?