...Mr. Adams, speaking of the posible sailing of the ships, made a remark destined to become famous : " It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." At last, the authorities were satisfied. The ships were seized and in the end bought for the British...

...Mr. Adams, speaking of the possible sailing of the ships, made a remark destined to become famous: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." At last, the authorities were satisfied. The ships were seized and in the end bought for the British...

...could quietly say to Earl Russell, with reference to the apprehended escape of " Lairds' Ironclads," "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war," it is obvious that Mr. Robinson was a man of fancy, 287 though tastes will necessarily differ as to...

...Russell the dispatch which contained the words, better remembered than any in our diplomatic history, " It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." This dispatch was sent on September 5, 1863, and the Morning Post of September 8 announced that the...

...closed by leaving him loaded with connivance in the rebel armaments, and ended by the famous sentence: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war!" What the Minister meant by this remark was his own affair; what the private secretary understood by...

...Mr. Adams, speaking of the possible sailing of the ships, made a remark destined to become famous: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." At last, the authorities were satisfied. The ships were seized and in the end bought for the British...

...closed by leaving him loaded with connivance in the rebel armaments, and ended by the famous sentence: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is warl " What the Minister meant by this remark was his own affair; what the private secretary understood...

...Charles Francis Adams, our Minister in London, to Lord John Russell, the British Foreign Secretary: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war." Earl Russell understood. He and Adams both knew the language which men use when they mean what they...

...of the British Government as by the wise courage of our minister, Adams, who wrote to Earl Russell : "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." But, in spite of all these delinquencies and blunders, the fact remains that Confederate diplomacy...

...Russell's order, protested to Russell. MINISTER ADAMS' NOTE TO EARL RUSSELL, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1863: ... It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war. No matter what may be the theory adopted of neutrality in a struggle, when this process is carried...