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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
ause the Emperor to lay aside, for the time being, the design which he was believed to entertain? If such were the facts the answer of Lord Russell was a contemptible quibble, unworthy of a statesman, however worthy of him. Let us suppose it to be true, for the sake of argument, that Seward made the intimation in question, and that he held it out as an inducement to the Emperor to withhold his intended mediation.--Do the annals of Tasitus, or the pages of Gibbon, or the history of Warren Hastings's government of India, or any other record of cruelty and injustice, ancient or modern, reveal a crime so cold-blooded so atrocious, so utterly damnable in all its phases and aspects either of imagination or commission! Did not Lord Russell know in what manner Seward designed to obtain that cotton, with which he proposed to purchase his forbearance, and the hope of obtaining which be held out as a bribe to the Emperor of the French? Had it not been announced in proclamations, in acts