text:  "What then are we to do? Are we to be guilty of the egregious folly of supplying our huge and overgrown rival at the moment when we have the opportunity to strike a blow at the very centre of her system and that without having recourse to the slightest belligerent measures? Are we at the commencement of her impending misery to reciprocate with England--that England which arrested us in the midst of our career of conquest swept our navies from the seas baffled our bravest armies and led away our Emperor captive? The man who can entertain such an idea--be he who he may--is a traitor to the honour of his country