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If the case of the Trent drags two unwilling nations into war, it will show how utterly

powerless is every motive of prudence that can

influence the human mind when brought into conflict with the sense of honor. There was so entire

an absence in England before Captain Wilkes's exploits of any hostile feeling towards the United

States. And the interests of the United States are so plainly and strongly adverse to a war with England.

Nevertheless, we all feel on both sides of the Atlantic that the national honor outweighs every consideration.

Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm Sarah Churchill.

And I'm David Ulyshoga.

And David, that's from an article that appeared in a number of British newspapers in December 1861.

And that reference to the Trent is the name of a British ship that was at the center of a crisis that brought Britain and the United States to the brink of war in the last week of

1861, nine months into the American Civil War.

And that's the story we're telling in the second of our three episodes on the relation

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