Excerpt from Lest We Forget Gladstone, Morley and the Confederate Loan of 1863: A Rectification Though Mr. Morley does not formally adopt or con firm the statement, which he calls a calumny, I am not going to reproach him for using this offensive ex pression upon the authority of one whom he may be excused for regarding as the most competent witness. For reasons I propose presently to disclose, I have not the same excuse for allowing Mr. Gladstone's statement to go unchallenged. Therefore, acting as I generally try to, upon the Golden Rule of doing as I would be done by, I ad dressed to Mr. Morley a brief history of the incident which Mr. Gladstone alludes to as a mischievous forgery, indulging the hope of a reply that would spare me the necessity of taking any public notice of it personally. In this I was disappointed. Mr. Morley's reply was as follows. 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.