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I deeply regret the anti-American articles of some of the leading reviews. / The Americans regard what is said of them in England a thousand times more / than they do any thing said of them in any other country. The Americans are / excessively pleased with any kind or favourable expressions, and never / forgive or forget any slight or abuse. It would be better for them if they / were a trifle thicker-skinned.
The last American war was to us only something to talk or read about; but / to the Americans it was the cause of misery in their own homes.
I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, / religion, laws, government, blood, -- identity in these makes men of one / country.