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Rh make a desperate effort to resist external foes and crush the plotters that they saw everywhere in their midst. This resolution was carried out with determination, and although it resulted in a bloody and cruel civil war, in which millions were slain, it cleared our country of traitors and enabled the people under the guidance of intelligence to defeat all its external foes.

"While India, the Colonies, and the United States of America were never actually at war with the mother country, on several occasions they nearly came to blows. Fortunately, the fact of their being situated far apart, together with the kindly feeling arising from kindred race, prevented such a fatal issue taking place. Besides, they all had their own troubles at home; they were all suffering from the same state of misgovernment; all had committed the fatal error of placing the control of the State in the hands of the ignorant, and all had come to the same goal. Like England, all had tried the principle of equality and fraternity, and all had proved it to be but a snare and a delusion.