NORMANBY, CONSTANTINE H. P. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



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completion of his father's "Illustrations of the 

 Literary History of the Eighteenth Century," 

 the sequel of the well known "Literary Anec- 

 dotes." He arranged and edited the seventh 

 and eighth volumes of that work, which were 

 published in the years 1848 and 1858. 



NORMANBY, CONSTANTINE HENRY PHIPPS, 

 Marquis of, born at Mulgrave Castle, York, May 

 15th, 1797, died at Hamilton Lodge, South 

 Kensington, July 28th, 1863. He was educated 

 at Harrow School, and at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, at which university he took his degree 

 as M.A. in 1818. Shortly after he attained his 

 majority he entered parliament as member for 

 Scarborough, where his family had great in- 

 fluence. His first speech in the House of Com- 

 mons, made in 1819, Avas in favor of the Roman 

 Catholic claims, and was considered by his 

 political friends a decided success. He second- 

 ed Lord John Russell's resolution on reform in 

 a speech somewhat in advance of his party, but 

 shortly afterward resigned his seat (his opinions 

 differing from those of his family), and retired 

 to Italy. In 1822 he was elected member for 

 Iligham Ferrars, and shortly afterward return- 

 ed home to resume his position in the House 

 of Commons. In 1826 he was chosen repre- 

 sentative of the borough of Malton, and gave 

 his support to Mr. Canning's administration. 

 He was then a Liberal, and a popular member 

 of the Lower House. In the summer of 1832, 

 having the previous year succeeded his father as 

 Earl Mulgrave, he was appointed Captain-Gen- 

 eral and Governor of Jamaica, an office which 

 he filled with much credit. On the formation of 

 Lord Melbourne's first administration, Lord Mul- 

 grave accepted the post of Lord Privy Seal, 

 with a seat in the cabinet. In April, 1835, 

 Lord Melbourne being again in office, he was 

 selected for the important post of Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, and his reception in Dublin 

 the following month was most enthusiastic. 

 While occupying this position, his strict impar- 

 tiality and integrity won the confidence of both 

 political parties. In June, 1838, he was creat- 

 ed Marquis of Normanby. In February, 1839, 

 he succeeded Lord Glenelg as Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, an office he held but a 

 few months, as he changed it in August for the 

 Home Department, which post he held till Sep- 

 tember, 1841. In August, 1846, he was ap- 

 pointed ambassador at Paris, where he remain- 

 ed until the early part of 1852; in the latter 

 part of that year he had a very serious illness, 

 which . so affected his general health, that he 

 was advised to reside in Italy. His opposition 

 to the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon in 1852, 

 which the English prime minister had approv- 

 ed, also made his further continuance at the 

 French Court as minister plenipotentiary un- 

 pleasant, and he resigned in the spring of 1853, 

 and resided for some years in Florence, where 

 he was on terms of close personal intimacy 

 with the Grand Duke. It was while there that 

 he accepted from Lord Aberdeen's Government 

 in 1854 the post of minister at Tuscany. Re- 



turning home in 1868, in time for the first 

 meeting of the new Parliament of February, 

 1859, he denounced, in a speech delivered that 

 night, the grounds on which it was attempted 

 to remove the ministry of Lord Derby, and 

 objected to any change which should place 

 the supreme control of foreign affairs again in 

 the hands of Lord Palmerston, whose recogni- 

 tion of the French republic of 1848 he entirely 

 disapproved of. He was the author of several 

 political pamphlets of great ability, one of 

 which, published in 1861, on Italian affairs, 

 created a controversy with Mr. Gladstone. He 

 wrote also several other works of much merit, 

 among which are : " Yes and No," " Matilda," 

 " Clorinda," " The Contrast," and " The Proph- 

 et of St. Paul." 



NORTH CAROLINA. Much dissatisfaction 

 existed in North Carolina throughout 1863. 

 But it does not appear to have resulted in any 

 advantage to the Union cause. Any efforts to 

 withdraw from the Confederacy, or to unite 

 with the Union, if undertaken, would have been 

 promptly suppressed. The promises held out 

 by the secessionists had failed ; the Confederate 

 Government was drawing from the State all 

 its military resources, while many believed 

 that it was so administered as to destroy the 

 rights of the States and the liberties of the 

 citizen. The following is a statement of the 

 causes of this dissatisfaction: 



The conscription and the tithing law leave nothing 

 to the States, hut the Central Government takes our 

 fighting men with one band and the tenth of our sub- 

 stance with the other. If the first was really necessary 

 the States themselves could have enforced it, and each 

 State could have kept its quota of men in the field in 

 brigades, duly officered; and if provisions were need- 

 ed, and could not be purchased, the States could have 

 furnished them by a system of purchase of their own, 

 and taken in exchange for them the currency of the 

 Government. 



Seizures of persons and property have become as 

 common as they are in France and Russia. Personal 

 liberty has been made dependent on the mere will of 

 army officers appointed by the President Hundreds 

 have been arrested for opinion's sake, immured in dun- 

 geons, denied trials before the civil tribunals, and re- 

 leased only when the military power chose to do it 

 Our courts, when they have interposed to protect these 

 unfortunates and to uphold the law, have been disre- 

 garded in many instances, and their integrity reflected 

 on in gross terms by the War Department at Rich- 

 mond. The Confederate currency which is the life- 

 blood of the system and the emanation of plighted 

 public faith, has been to some extent repudiated as a 

 matter of convenience ; and a portion of it in one 

 instance has been refused bv a Cabinet officer, on the 

 same ground, in open violation of a law of Congress. 

 Our patient, uncomplaining, heroic soldiers have been 

 placed in the van of every battle, and in the rear of 

 almost every retreat; and when they have fought with 

 an ardor and steadiness which would have reflected 

 credit on the old guard of Bonaparte itself, just praise 

 has been denied them by journals supposed to speak 

 for the administration, and their fathers and brothers 

 at home who are conservatives have been held up as 

 disloyal and unfriendly to the cause. Brigadier and 

 major-generals from other States have been placed 

 over them in many instances, and when such officers 

 have been appointed from our State they have been 

 almost invariably of the same politics with the admin- 

 istration. Proscription has thus been practised over 



