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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Cabinet (search)
ld have been lost. Burleigh was one of those successful, mediocre men, so often met with in history, whose sole statesmanship begins and ends with getting and keeping office. He knew the Queen did not wish to believe in the Spanish invasion, and he encouraged her not to believe anything so unpleasant. In that way he kept his office, and got credit for the happy event, which was due to no foresight of his own. To Walsingham,--first of all — to Drake, to Raleigh, to Frobisher, to Essex, to Hawkins--to her gallant seamen, and her invincible little Navy — England owed her salvation from the danger. These facts, which have just come out now, in the 19th century, offer a singular commentary upon the manner in which history was written in former times. Writers never seemed to think it worth their while to examine a public document, or an original manuscript of any description. They merely stated facts as they had been stated in some printed books before, and that passed for history. E