To-day there are
rumors of a possible war with England, on account of the affair of Mason and
Slidell, now prisoners in Boston harbor. It will be an outrage on
humanity, a proof that England's pompous declamations against slavery are all
hypocritical, if this should be done; for all good authorities have declared
that a war on this account would never be, unless a pretext for war was wanted.
Perhaps Providence intends that this shall be brought out definitely as a
struggle for principles; I think the nation and the army need some such lesson,
and they will not learn it unless it is made very plain.
SOURCE: Daniel Dulany Addison, Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary, pp. 115-6
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