Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Cridland or search for Cridland in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], President's message. (search)
make remittances. Virginia is in no wise responsible for the existing condition of affairs. She did not inaugurate this war. It was forced upon her by Lincoln and his a the cents on both sides the water, and they put it out of her power to fulfill her obligations. The Commissioners of our Sinking Fund, as their annual report will show, (and to it I invite your attention.) applied to the British Consul at this city to get him to attend to the matter as the agent of the State, which Mr. Cridland was willing to do, provided it met the approbation of the British Minister at Washington. Lord Lyons, however, as the Commissioners were informed, disapproved of this course upon the ground that it was a violation of the neutrality assumed by the English Government; and therefore the agent of that Government declined to enter into any arrangement by which money due to the people of Great Britain might be paid. Application was then made to the Austrian Consul located here, and he was wil