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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The English press on the emancipation Society. (search)
ericho. Let us glance at some of the most conspicuous of the tribunes who, by hook or by crook, were got together under the auspices of the Emancipation Society. The chairman was Mr. William Evans, doubtless a most worthy and estimable member of society, but who, as a politician, orater, or public man, is utterly unknown beyond the confines of Exeter. Hall. Mr. P. A. Taylor, M. P., is a rampant kind of Republican, who very speedily found his level in the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. Thomas Hughes is a crochety clever man, who gained some literary reputation by an amusing boys" book called "Tom Brown's School Days," and lost it by an inconceivably stupid novel called " Tom Brown at Oxford." The Rev. Newman Hall and Baptist Noel are fluent preachers, sufficiently popular in some Dissenting circles. Mr. Edmond Beales is, we believe, a respectable auctioneer. Mr. Morse is the American Consul-General in London, and nothing further need be said about him. Mr. Chamerovow is, or was,