LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
LORD CROMRR ON AN AMERICAN PARALLEL.
[TO TES EDITOR or TIM "BPscrkrox.,"] Sin, I think that the following letter from Lord Cromer will interest your readers, and especially those who are Americans.—I am, Sir, Ito., " MY DEAn —,—I am very sorry that I am not well enough to meet your American friends. I should very much have liked to make their acquaintance, all the more so because I could have told them that the spirit which now prevails in this country reminds me very forcibly of that which I found in existence when I landed at New York in the summer of 1864, with the exception that at that time the Northern cause looked much more gloomy than our present prospects. At that time General Early had just made a raid, with the result that when I went from New York to Washington I had to cross an inlet called Gunpowder Creek in a boat, the bridge having been blown up by the Southerners. The dead were being buried within a few miles of the Capitol at Washington. To such an extent was the currency depreciated that an English sovereign was worth thirteen paper dollars (greenbacks). The trade in New York was practically at a standstill, and yet I never came across a single individual who spoke of giving in. All were imbued with the fixed determination to fight the issue out to a finish, and with profound confidence that that finish could only be in one direction. That is, I think, what we all here feel about the struggle with Germany, and for my own part my confidence in the result is equal to that shown by my American friends fifty years ago.—Very sincerely yours,
CROMER."
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