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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Foreign news. (search)
of the French, and they are very remarkable words He said: "I am afraid of the coming winter with respect to my manufacturing population." [Hear] And my honorable friend, the member for Sunderland, said:"Sire, we don't dread the winter, although we know that great misery must of necessity be entailed upon our manufacturing population if the cotton famine continue; but we, Sire, desire to avert from our countrymen the community that must arise from the continent on of that famine." Mr. George Gray made the following reply to this statement: I can only say that I am utterly unable to explain the discrepancy between the honorable and learned member for Sheffield's statement and the fact that Her Majesty's Government received no such communication It has been stated that the communication which was well known to have been made last year to Her Majesty's Government, on the part of the Emperor of the French, proposing a meditation between the contending parties in America, was tr
The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our wounded Generals. (search)
tement upon the subject, especially when he knew that it could so easily be detected and exposed. The explanation of Mr. Geo. Gray is no explanation at all. It relates only to the proposition for a mediation, which, it is well known, was made publimperor of the French could not possibly have confounded the two, and as it is now a question of veracity between him and Mr. Gray, we choose to believe the Emperor. In the first place he could have had no motive to lie about the matter; and in the s No man can prove a negative. We doubt not, then, that Napoleon transmitted the proposition, that it was withheld from Mr. Gray and transmitted to Lord Lyons, and that Lord Lyons, notwithstanding the high encomium of Mr. Gray, had the weakness or tMr. Gray, had the weakness or the baseness (just as you like) to betray it to Seward. It is perfectly in character with all his transactions at Washington, where he has been the supple and cringing tool of Seward ever since his arrival. To ingratiate himself with that despicable