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A GRISWOLD FOR AN ALABAMA.–

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There is a beautiful thought in the address of the ladies of England in reply to Mrs. Stowe: “You have sent us the Griswold for the Alabama.” Not “a Roland for an Oliver,” not tit for tat, but good for evil. Let it pass into a saying in our mother tongue, “A Griswold for an Alabama,” when good is returned for evil.”*

*During the war the ship George Griswold was sent to England with a cargo for her starving poor.

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