Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for England or search for England in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ate a fourth class clerk in the State Department, on a charge of having said in a conversation with J. C. Wright, in Georgetown, that he was in communication with the Southern Commissioners in Europe. Mr. M., at his examination before Justice Donn, explained what he said to the witness. He is an intimate acquaintance of A. Dudley Mann, one of the South Carolina Commissioners to Europe, and received, a few days before this conversation, a letter from him, in which he stated positively that England and France would recognize the Southern Confederacy. In the conversation, Wright expressed the opinion that the European powers would not recognize the Southern Confederacy; the prisoner expressed a different opinion, and referred to this letter as the ground for it. He declared that he was ready to show that letter to the President at any time, and claimed to be a good Union man. The Justice detained him in custody to await the order of General Mansfield. Wm. Gerecke, liquor dealer,