Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-12-05

Admiral of it's fleets for patron and friend Inducements are held out such as none but the most magnanimaus of Princes could offer, an1 such as nothing but a stern sense of duty may withstand.
 A home in the bosom of my family on the banks of the Neva, where in the midst of books, and surrounded by friends, l am, without care for the morrow, to have the most princely means and facilities for pros ecution those studies and continuing those philosophical labors in which take most delight All the advantages that enjoyed in Washington, are, with 9 larger discre ton. to be offered me in Russia.
 Surely a more fattering invitation could not be uttered. Certainly 1t could not reach a more grateful heart. have slept upon it. It is becoming that I should be candid, and in a few words, frankly state/ the circumstances by which find myself surrounded.
 The State of Virginia gave me birth within her borders among many friends, the nearest of kin, and troops of excellent neighbors, my children are planting their vine and fig tree; in her green bosom are the graves of my farthers; the political whirlpool from which your kind forelhought sought to rescue me has already drawn her into fierce and bloody war.
 In ITS, when this State accepted the Fe- deral constitution and entered the Ameri- can Union, she did so with the formal dec laration that she reserved to herself the right to withdraw from 1t for cause, and resume those powers and attributes of sov ereignty which she had never ceded aacay but only sdelegoted" for certain definite and specified purposes.
 When the President elect commenced to set at naught the very objects of the constitution, and without authority of law proceeded to issue his proclamation of 18th of April last, Virginia, in the ex- ercise of that reserved right, decided that the time had come when her safety and her honor required her to resume those delegated" powers and withdraw from the Union. She did so. She then straight way called upon her sons in the federal ser vice to retire therefrom and 10 come to her i relief
 This call found me in the midst of these
  ry in Washington, which am now, with so much deIicacy of thought and goodness 1 of heart, invited to resume in Russia. Hav | ing been brought up in the school of State | Rights, where we had for masters the great est statesmen of America, and among them | Mir. Madison, the wsest of them all, l could not, and did not hesitate. l recognized this call considered 1t mandatory, and for mally renouncing all allegiance to the broken Union, hastened over to the south side of the Potomac; there to renew to fath- erland those vows of fealty service, and devotion which the State of Virginia had permitted me to pledge to the federal union, so long only as by serving 1t, knight serve her.
 Thus my sword has been tondered in her cause, and the tender has been accepted.- Her soil is invaded, the enemy are actual y at her gates, and here l am contending, as the farthers of the republic did, for the right of self government and those very principles for the maintenance of which Washington fought, when this, his na- tive State, was colony of Great Britain
 The path of duty and honor is therefore plain. By following 1t with the devotion and loyalty of a true sailor, I shall, an persuaded, have the glorious and proud re- compense that is contained in the "well done' of the Grand Admiral of Russia and his noble "companions in arms"
 W hen the invader is expelled, and as soon thereafter as the State will grant me leave, promise myself the pleasure ot a trip across the Atalantic, and shall hasten to Russia, that l may there in person, on the banks of the Neva, have the honor and the pleasure of expressing to her Grand Ad- miraI the sentiments of respect and esteem with which his oft-repe acts of kindness and the generous encouragoments that he has afforded me in the pursuits of science has inspired his
 Obedient servant.
 II. F. MAuEY,