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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident (search)
lar old soldier in these matters, made no sign until he saw his carriage ready to receive him, when, with that happy tact which he possesses, he struck out & 'There was an old saying, a good old saying, that it was good to welcome the coming and speed the parting guest.' Here a lusty cheer responded, and eager faces clustered together, and anxious cars were open for wonderful opinions on foreign policy which was expected to call from his lordship's lips. 'Now,' continued his lordship. 'my Leeds friends have been very kind in their sudden reception of me, and perhaps they will be equally kind to make a lane through which Lady Palmerston and myself can get to our carriage.' A roar of laughter and cheers followed this speech, and the crowd immediately fell back, and his lordship handed his wife to his carriage, and drove off." It would seem from this incident that our English cousins are as much given to the vice of speech-making as our own countrymen.--In the United States it