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Butler Full Of War

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Day
25
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Before departmg for his southern home and while talking to a group of reporters Senator M. C. Butler of South Carolina, In a manner deeply impressive, while discusslng the relations between the United States and Great: Britain with reference to the Corinto affair, said: "I have no criticism to put upon our government in that affair. It was the advice of Washington that we. have no entangling allianees. But I teil you what I would like to have seen, Just as the British were sailing into that harbor I should like to have seen Bonie of our own fine warships hovering along that coast. Those thing3 happen, don't you know, and you can't teil just how. But three or four fine ships happening along there about that time - well, of course they would naturally be Interested in seeing what the Britishers were up to in landing marines, and maybe there woula have been a little pleasure party of American marines sent ashore to get a fresh supply of fruits. England does not want to have a war with us. We are too valuable to her commercially. And yet in her eagerness and greed she may get into it. I would not want anything better than to lead 10,000 men Into Canada. It would please my old heart unmeasurably to assist in snatching that country from Great Britain and attach it to ours. We may do St, too. Who knows?"

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Ann Arbor Register