Blackwood’s Magazine . . .

. . . of February, assumes that a war between the United States and Great Britain will take place before 1863, and welcomes it with satisfaction.  “The campaign,” says Blackwood, “is just as likely to end by establishing a new frontier for Canada, with Portland on one flank and Lake Ontario on the other, as by leaving the enemy in permanent possession of a mile of Canadian territory."

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 1