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"Again, all that the South is asking is that it be left alone and permitted to govern itself as it sees fit. It will not attack except in its own defense; it is therefore senseless to believe that the South can be subdued. Besides, the North's blindness has reached such a point that it wants to fight the South regardless, and hopes to conquer it by blockading its ports. But it is not the South alone that it will harm; it is all Europe, which needs its cotton and its other products. It is therefore for the sake of its own interests, as well as for those of humanity and civilization, that Europe ought to intervene in one manner or another. It should exert all its efforts to stop this desperate and useless war. The sooner the great European states recognize the Southern Confederacy, which can invoke in its favor the theory of faits accomplis, the sooner they will have fulfilled a mission of peace and humanity." -Salomon James de Rothschild (4/28/1861) French Banker #history #ushistory