Continued the Bright
case. He delivered a written speech very much modified in tone from one he made
last week. Upon examing the Globe for the speech of last week in
which he declared he would now repeat the act under the same circumstances, and
that he was, as he always had been, opposed to all coercive measures by the
Government to put down the rebellion, I could not find it, and was told by the
man connected with the Globe that he, Bright, had suppressed it. At the
conclusion of the speaking a vote was taken and he expelled 32 for 14
against
At night I attended
a party at the Presidents—a very large and very brilliant one. Did not get home
till 2 Oclock in the morning
SOURCE: The Diary of
Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. 1, p. 529
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