We should be sorry wantonly
to raise so dreadful a suspicion; but if British M.P.s are permitted,
according to the Roebuck precedent, to be PAID agents, why has not
Southern money found its way into senatorial pockets? Greedy Mr. Laird,
and unscrupulous, money-loving Mr. Lindsay,[A] always resolutely
grubbing for the main chance, are perhaps sufficiently paid by indirect,
though heavy gains in shipbuilding. Needy Mr. Roebuck may be salaried by
the Emperor of Austria, though there is nothing to prove, except his own
open-mouthed and loud-tongued professions of purity, that he is not
"_paid_ agent" of the Confederate Government. The indulgence of the evil
feelings of malice and uncharitableness may, however, sufficiently
recompense him; and to him, perhaps, his virtue may be its own reward.
But if paid agencies are not permitted, a very serious suspicion fastens
on that hard-mouthed, rising lordling, Robert Cecil, son of the Marquis
of Salisbury, and one of the most active and energetic champions of the
slave-mongers of the South.
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