Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

1858. June 10.—Reception and dance at Lady Palmerston’s. Had conversation with Stanley of Alderney, who seemed astonished when I gave an unqualified contradiction to the statement he borrowed from the Times, that slaves were sent into the United States from Cuba. I told him that was the way in which a bad cause was perpetually striving to bolster itself by inventions.

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