"That merely shows how history repeats itself," laughed Kit.
"Don't laugh, sir!" cried Raed. "The principle is the same, as if, with a hundred thousand men at your back, you should land in England, and undertake to subdue that island instead of this."
"You have a very forcible way of putting things, I'll allow; but there's danger, Raed, of carrying general principles too far."
"For example," interrupted Wade. "Raed, with a number of other abolitionists, believed that all men ought to be free: so they kept to work stirring up bad feeling between the North and South till the war broke out, when they fell upon us with their armies and fleets, and committed the most wholesale piece of robbery that ever disgraced history,—robbed us of several billion dollars' worth of property, all at one swoop."
"To what sort of property do you refer?" Raed asked.
"Slaves."
"I thought so!"
"Then you are not disappointed in my 'principles,' as you choose to term them?"
"Not in the least!"
"I, at least, have never tried to conceal them."