...estimates of the United States. He did not doubt their power or their future, but stated that they were ' totally unscrupulous and dishonest and determined somehow or other to carry their point ' (1857). Alone among our ministers he saw real objectives for British policy in the Crimean war (p....

...reality in the region favoured United States over British domination. As he suggested. the Americans are "on the spot. strong. deeply interested in the...dishonest and determined somehow or other to carry their PoinL"12 Whatever the accuracy of Palmerston's assessment. by the outbreak of the American Civil War....

...referred to Americans as "such ingenious Rogues" and said to his foreign secretary, Lord Clarendon, that "these Yankees are most disagreeable Fellows to have to do with about any American question." Clarendon wholeheartedly agreed with the prime minister, labeling the United States a "nation of Pirates,"...

...explained his willingness to retreat in Latin America: "[The Americans] are on the spot, strongly, deeply interested in the matter, totally unscrupulous...somehow or other to carry their point. We are far away," he continued, "weak from distance, controlled by the indifference of the nation . . . and by its strong...