It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.
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Dispatch to John Russell at a period of diplomatic tensions between the US and Britain during the US Civil War (5 September 1863); more information on the significance of this statement is available at "The American Question Abroad in the Civil War"Charles Francis Adams
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