> "Let them duke it out?" Yes. That is exactly what the First
> International proposed that England should do during the U.S. Civil War,
> one of the bloodiest civil wars in history.
And yet they didn't hesitate to declare which side they "supported":
"From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class" --Marx to Lincoln, 1865.
I have no reliable information on the workingmen's thoughts regarding the election of Franklin Pierce, however.
Seth