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Rh sufferings and shorten the duration of an unnecessary war, but with or without it he believes that the Confederate States, under the guidance of a kind and overruling Providence, will make good their title to freedom and independence and to a recognized place amongst the nations of the earth. When you are officially recognized by the British Government, and diplomatic relations between the two countries are thus fully established, you will request an audience of Her Majesty, for the purpose of presenting your letters accrediting you as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Confederate States near Her Majesty, and in that capacity you are empowered to negotiate such treaties as the mutual interests of both countries may require, subject of course to the approval of the President and the co-ordinate branch of the treaty-making power.

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We propose, from time to time, to add to our "Gettysburg series" such reports as have never been published and are important in completing the Confederate account of that great battle.

We are quite sure our readers generally will thank us for giving this week the reports of the chivalric Georgian and the gallant Carolinian who both won military fame which has been only eclipsed by their splendid "victories of peace," and who now sit together in the Senate chamber at Washington.