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pany Mr. Wells. Of this appolatment he says: "I therefore have been 

 in many of the manufactories of Europe, and had an opportunity to study 

 them and learn the wages and the condition of their working people."* 



Returning to this country on a visit in the latter part of 1868, the mem- 

 bers of the New Jersey Bar gave a dinner to Mr. Dudley on November 

 25, at Newark, in recognition of his distinguished services to the coun- 

 try, at which the late Mr. Justice Bradley, of the Supreme Court of the 

 United States, Senators Frelinghuysen and Cattell, Chancellor Zabriskie, 

 Attorney-General Robeson and many eminent persons were present. Mr. 

 Bradley, introducing Mr. Dudley, spoke of him as a Jersey lawyer, 

 whose professional career had ever been marked by the greatest prompt- 

 ness, assiduity and painstaking in tlie cause of his clients, and whose 

 unfaltering patriotism and sympathy for the principles which on our part 

 lay at the bottom of the struggle, pointed him out as the man to be im- 

 plicitly trusted. And how well and nobly has he justitied the confidence 

 which President Lincoln reposed in him !" Mr. Bradley also enumerated 

 the numerous vessels captured, sunk and detained through his watchful- 

 ness. 



Mr. Frelinghuysen, on this occasion, spoke of the energy and persever- 

 ance with which Mr. Dudley had stood by the interests of his countr}"- 

 amid difficulties and discouragements of no ordinary kind and in spite of 

 the social Coventry, to which, in company with others from the North, he 

 was contemptuously dispatched during the progressof our civil war. " It is 

 sometMng," said he, "to do our duty when it is hard, and incurs the gen- 

 eral opprobrium of those around ; and honor should be given to him who 

 faithfully performs his duty under such circumstances." 



In 1871, Mr. Dudley proceeded to Geneva to attend the Court of Arbi- 

 tration there and to assist the Government in regard to ihe Alabama. The 

 English themselves appear to have been impressed with his character 

 while endeavoring to controvert his important testimony concerning the 

 Florida In the "Counter Case of Great Britain," at the Geneva Arbi- 

 tration. We have the following (p. 299) : "The American Consul at Liv- 

 erpool, whose activity in hunting for secret information appears to have 

 been indefatigable," and again (p. 301), " Mr. Dudley, though he appears 

 to have been an intelligent and painstaking officer," etc. In short we 

 may say that the subject of this sketch possessed that staunch quality 

 which is the admiration of the Anglo-Saxon race all the world over, called 

 ' ' force. ' ' 



The testimony of another Englishman on another occasion is also worth 

 recording. Mr. James Spence, of the well-known firm of Richardson, 

 Spence «& Co., a citizen of Liverpool, said of Mr. Dudley : "My acquaint- 

 ance with him commenced when he first came to Liverpool, and our 

 friendship, I am happy to say, never varied. He filled a very responsible 

 and onerous position in most troublesome times, with much prudence and 

 discretion with credit to himself, and benefit to his Government." 



*r. 19, speech at Astoria, N. ¥., Oct. 23, 1884. 



