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Title: The Uprising of a Great People
The United States in 1861. To Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States.

Author: Count Agenor de Gasparin

Release Date: January 8, 2004 [EBook #10637]

Language: English

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THE UPRISING OF A GREAT PEOPLE.
THE UNITED STATES IN 1861.

TO WHICH IS ADDED
A WORD OF PEACE
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND
THE UNITED STATES.

FROM THE FRENCH OF
COUNT AGENOR DE GASPARIN

BY MARY L. BOOTH.

NEW AMERICAN EDITION
FROM THE AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION.
1862.

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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
TO THE REVISED AMERICAN EDITION.

The edition of the _Uprising of a Great People_ which we issue herewith,
has been carefully revised to conform to the new edition of the original
work, just published at Paris. The author has corrected several errors
of fact, which were noted by American reviewers on the appearance of the
translation, and has also made sundry changes in the work, designed to
bring it down to the present time, and to adapt its counsels to the new
light that is breaking in upon us in the progress of events. These
changes, however, have been few, and relate chiefly to the policy of
emancipation, for so truly has this remarkable book proved a prophecy,
that the author, on reviewing it after a lapse of several eventful
months, can find nothing to strike out as having proved untrue. We are
indebted to the kindness of Count de Gasparin for one or two corrections
of trifling biographical misstatements in the translator's preface.

The pamphlet concerning the Trent affair, and the surrender of Messrs.
Mason and Slidell, which we append to this edition, will be read with
interest at the present crisis, as an able exposition of the views of
European statesmen on the international difficulty which has sprung