Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-06-06
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From the New Orleans Delta.
LETTER FROM JUDGE RosT TO MI. YAxcEY.
At the desire and request of Major
General Butler, We insert the following
letter in our columns
HoTEL D'YNoLATEREA, MADnIp,l
March %, 1862
lion. ~ L. Yan-ey Richneosid:
Ny DEAR Sin Trusting that YOU
have, ere this, reaehed the new field Of
your labors, ] avail III self of the depar-
t!lre of the Cadiz steamer to let you hear
from US and our doings.
For some time after Mr.. Slidell's arri-
val in Paris, the weather was extremely
cold, and my wife being in feeble health,
l delayed my departure until the 18th Of
February. stopped on my way at Bor-
deaUx, at the request of Captain IIusc, to
see about getting some of his freight on
board of steamer loading at that port,
and then went in the ncighborhood to sec
one Of my sisters, who had been seriously
i'll !; there my wife fell sick, and after a
few days parted from her on my way to
Marseilles, where l took the French
steamer of the 9th Of March for Valencia
Mr.. Fearn met me on the way
/ arrived here on the Sth, and was well
received unoffically, but as far as | can as
certain there is truth in what was told me
at the Spanish Legation in Paris, and
also by NJ, Thouvenel, that Spain would
not act alone on the American question,
When You left, we did not expect that
our Government would be recognized, but
we had a wellfounded hope that the
blockade would be set aside \ ou will,
no doubt, have seen that the declaration
of Earl Russell, that it could not be con-
sidered Ineffective, had been sustained in
Parliament, and that similar declaration
of the French Minister had also been car
ried in the Chamber of Deputies by a
large majority. This destroys the last
hope we had that those governments
would do justice between the bellige-
rents
1t must now be manifest to every one
that we have to rely exclusively upon our
selves and our internal resources to estab-
lish our Independence After we succeed
we will owe the European Governments
no thanks, and war duty on imports, suf-
icient to pay the interest of the debt
which their course forced US to incur, and
create sinking fund, must be levied
Coupled with the declaration that the
blockade was not ineffective, Earl Russell
made the statement, unsupported by any
reason, that he trusted that by the first
of June, or even before, the civil war
would be ended. After reading in the
Presidents inaugural that the war would
probably continue series of years, / am
forced to conclude that the Earl gives
faith to the assurance of Mr. Seward that
three months after the people of the Con-
federate States had become convinced
that they had nothing to hope from Eng
land or France, the rebellion would end
The last news of our reverses, exagger-
ated as they have been by the Northern
press, has done great injury to or cause.
When people hear of Is, 600 men, strong
ly fortified, routed and made prisoners by
an equal number of assailants, they begin
to doubt the bravery of Southern troops
and their ultimate success. Can you not,
through Mr.. Helm, or by some other
channel, send us reliable Southern papers
exposing the falsehoods of the Northern
press.
Remember me to Gen. Sparrow, Messrs.
Semmes, Conrad, Perkins, Kenner and
Marshall, and believe me truly your
friend P. A. ROST.