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  what direction the new quarrel may give to the old. They cannot calculate consequences. In this matter they only know, with a wringing sense of shame, that their country's flag has not been a protection to those who believed themselves secure where it waved. Only atonement for the outrage can relieve them from the duty of vindication.

A publication, which often sends a voice of heroic poetry ringing through its playful sallies of wit, has finely expressed this feeling of the nation: