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It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

— Charles Francis Adams Sr.

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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); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365

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