"In six months at the furthest, this unhappy rebellion will be brought to a close.

We shall then have an account to settle with the Governments that have either outraged us by a recognition of what they call 'the belligerent rights' of the rebels, or by the active sympathy and aid which they have afforded them.

Let France and England beware how they swell up this catalogue of wrongs.

By the time specified we shall have unemployed a veteran army of close upon a million of the finest troops in the world, with whom we shall be in a position not only to drive the French out of Mexico and to annex Canada, but, by the aid of our powerful navy, even to return the compliment of intervention in European affairs." (Quoted by _The Index_, July 23, 1863, p.

203.)] [Footnote 1163: Bigelow, _Retrospections_, I, p.