The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-10
Communicated.
To John Henry UDshur, formerly, and rig hit
ly, Nottingham,} Lieutenant in the Navy
Of the remaining United States Of America.

Myself, together with others formerly your
,anrit nn "m tho far nroae of
youth. had entertained, down to quite re-
cent date, faint yet lingering hope that your
con timed adherence to the miserable and ty-
rannous rule OF Lincoln and his Cabinet nigh t
be referred to extraordinary and ins uperable
difficulties in the way of your escape from
the malicious vigilance OF your Federal asso.
clates that your remaining with them was
an Involuntary detention that your heart,
still sin the right place, and full of gra tefui
and fond reme.nbraHces of mother, friends,
Virginia, home, if not openly, at least Sc
cretly, sighed for deliverance from the unholy
trammels, and that you only waited the aus
picious moment to seize and avail yourself
of it.
Bat, alas too many noble spirits, whose
situation could not possibly be better than
your own, have "cOne out from among them, -
risking their all, and finally overcoming every
obs tacle-too many such, say, to warrant us
in believing that you have not cast a gratui-
tous and scandaious blot upon the escutoheon
OF u family-my JdmtIy-to whose ndme, even,
you enjoy only an equivocal right, and which,
up to the dark beginning of your treason had
proudly held its head erect and high above
all imputaton Of reproach.
l shall not apologize tor the stern utterance
Of strict, albeit, perchance. unpalatable, truth
John only regret much that cannot make
this verbal communication, instead of
having thus to resort to medium involving
so much uncertainty of its ever reaching you.
I would then audibly address you, as do
now by the only means at my disposal, in
terms to this effect -" ohm NOttingha mo
longer Upshur,) yog have affixed the sole dis
honor it has ever sustained upon the name of
my famiiy-~a name which you were once
graciously permitted to assume, but to which
your accorded title justly expired the instant
you basely sought to dishonor it, In arraying
yourself in arms against your country, you
have, with the old villain Scott. and the rest,
proved yourself traitor--to your State I; TO
the family which confided to your defence and
keeping the sacred trust Of a most honorable
name to the hallowed memories of the good
and brave, whose spirits have been spared this
last humiliation at your hands to all, all, a
traitor, degenerate, submissive pander to
the will Of a vulgar, imp0tent, God forsa.
ken, deluded despot! All Uorydon, Cory DON
quae te dementid cepitl That monied pollu.
ton is better than generous poverty! Ger
tain, perhaps increased, PAY for criminal SER
vices, preferable to the chances of honest
dininution thereof! But, twas ever your
failing, John-the etching PALM" and it
must explain your conduct now.
Now, in Consideration of all this, John, it
i! is my purpose to admonish you, that blood is
the sole specific for dishonor,-that, for man
he ut all suspected the finching OF his heart or
arm from its accomplis a sword
has long graced your side /; and that now
wear one. toe, although the warlike weapon
is to me {. comparatively novel acquisition
yet warn YOU to guard this cartel al ways in
your memory FOX ProyideEce in these despe-
rate times. r.ay far sooner intersect our paths
than either OF US can cream of now. ane
whenever aud wherever he does, fear not To
invoke a just and retrisutivs God to snstaia,
and defend the right. THos. w. upsHVR.
Lieut., "Wise LEGION"
Army Of the Confederate States of America.
Richmond, July 4, 1861.