[A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookA Footnote to History CHAPTER X--THE HURRICANE 4/27
On both these days, and again on the 7th March, the men-of-war must steam to their anchors.
And it was in this last month, the most dangerous of the twelve, that man's animosities crowded that indentation of the reef with costly, populous, and vulnerable ships. I have shown, perhaps already at too great a length, how violently passion ran upon the spot; how high this series of blunders and mishaps had heated the resentment of the Germans against all other nationalities and of all other nationalities against the Germans.
But there was one country beyond the borders of Samoa where the question had aroused a scarce less angry sentiment.
The breach of the Washington Congress, the evidence of Sewall before a sub-committee on foreign relations, the proposal to try Klein before a military court, and the rags of Captain Hamilton's flag, had combined to stir the people of the States to an unwonted fervour.
Germany was for the time the abhorred of nations. Germans in America publicly disowned the country of their birth.
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