Lest We Forget Gladstone, Morley and the Confederate Loan of 1863
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Excerpt from Lest We Forget Gladstone, Morley and the Confederate Loan of 1863: A Rectification Among the by no means infrequent occasions on which the late Mr. Gladstone indiscreetly placed himself before the public on the defensive, there was one about which his chosen and gifted biographer, usually so prompt in his hero´s defense, maintains a mysterious reserve. In the year 1865 a report, having its origin in official sources, found its way into the public press to the effect that Mr. Gladstone, while Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been a subscriber to the Confederate 7% Cotton Loan brought out by the Erlangers in London and Paris in 1863. The only notice taken by Mr. Morley of this report, which produced. naturally, a world-wide sensation at the time, may be found in the following half-dozen lines in the second volume of his biography on page 83, and after a devotion of four full pages to an extenuation of Gladstone´s famous "simple mistake" at Newcastle. "Among the many calumnies poured upon him in this connection," says Mr. Morley, "was the charge that he had been a subscriber to the Confederate Loan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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