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This incident the assembling together in that 

 distant and inhospitable realm of vessels from dif- 

 ferent nations in pursuit of the same benevolent 

 and noble aim, the recovery of the lost is in 

 itself sublimely beautiful, and marks a grand epoch 

 in the progress of humanity in modern times. 

 Often have the gallant ships of England and the 

 United States met before upon the rolling deep ; 

 but those encounters have been for the purpose of 

 hurling carnage and death against each other. 

 Armed men have often arrayed themselves there 

 with implacable fury in their hearts ; and the broad 

 bosom of the ocean has been covered with the float- 

 ing wrecks of splendid vessels, and with the bruised 

 and struggling forms of dying and drowning war- 

 riors. The thunder of battle has often resounded in 

 the mighty caverns of the deep, and the flash of 

 artillery has illumed the heavens, and reddened 

 the vast horizon with its lurid and portentous 

 splendor. The combatants have then separated 

 after the awful conflict was ended, exulting in the 

 misery they have inflicted, in the widows and 

 orphans whose hearts they have lacerated, in the 

 fiendish ferocity and malignity which they have 

 exhibited. 



But how different and how much nobler were the 



spirit and purpose of this meeting of English and 



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