Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-22
LETTER FROM COMMODORE M. K.
HaAURE.

LETTER FROM COMMODORE NJ. z
MAURY.
We take pleasure in publishing the following
letter from distinguished American to dis
tiuguished citizen of France:
RICHMOND, Va, July 4, 1862.
lily GOOD FRIEND: Your excellent letter o
August last has reached me- only now. Not
withstanding lis long tanying by the way, ]
hasten TO thank yau for it with all my heart,
aud TO assure you fhst its kind words and gen
er0us sentiments have lost none OF their force
by the lapse Of time.
hope you viii moi, think me inSensible to the
hOnOTs with which, you tell me- would be wei
coined in Europe, if, at present, l appear desf
to your assurances of their high import.
Ii is true that the rOlte which, up to this time,
l have been permitted to play in the great drama
which my country is enacting before the world,
IS humble; still our cause is just; to me the
blood of my children has consecrated tit is
precious 10 my heart. Al have and all own
are in it, therefore, l prefer to tsTy here-a ref
ugee fiOm my home and my little ore5-watch-
ing and waiting.
That we have no navy is also true Never
tbeless something may turn up. Chance nay
throw opportunity in my way. If so, here l am
in plaza and here ] prefer TO tarTy, content to
wait upon events and patiently to bide my time.
1t has now been but little more than year
since this war was forced upon US. We, on our
part, had to commence il without an army, with
out g navy, and even without 3 governmental
Organization.
On the other hand, the enemy, surrounded with
all tie appliances of war snd complete IN his
organization, arranged his legions for battle and
r.ioced in his strength
We found ourselves purely an agricultural
upnDfn prrA r4f fr0U1 the world and c1ddpufy
thrown upon our own resources, while he was
backed by ali the appliances that the workshops
Of Europe could supply or that commerce could
furnish. Notwithstanding this our peOple bravely
and deliberately resolved to withdraw from all
political association with the Moth and to &C
cept the consequences, be what they may
There was no h2te, coercion, or intimidation
about this move Never was the popular will
more fairly expressed than when the Southern
people uttered their voice fer secession.
Our enemies hsve sought to make the imp-es
sion abroad that the reverse wss the case; that
this so-called rebellion was hatched by fac
ton, and is led by few fre-eaters" No such
thing. We were pushed into it, all unprepared
as we were, by the tyranny and usurpalions and
tie insciion Of the North.
In every Southern State the people were regu-
iaTiy consulted on the question of separation
from the North. They expressed their opinion
freely, and after full delibeTation and never
were people more unanimous at any ballot box
than were ours for instant complete, AID eter-
nal separation from the North; and that, too,
at the instant, all unprepared as they were
There is now no Union feeling in the South, but
the Yankees would fain have you believe that
there is.
1t is fact not generally known abroad, but
/ may state it now, that when this war COM
menced, and even after we had assembled an
army in The field, such was the want of prepa-
ration and such the lack of munitions of war
on our part, that there wss not only not per-
cussion cap machine in the Confsderacy, but
when the army of Manassas took up its position
it had but four rounds to the man. Had the en-
emy joined battle with Us there q few weeks SOON
eT than he did, VIC should, for tks want of per-
cuSsion caps, have had TO quit the field or fight
hin entirely withAhe bayonet
But see what we have accomplished in the
way IF preparation: At this moment the GRAND
ARMY OF tbs North, said to be the most superb
with equipments that the world ever ss an
army which we have stood E,il and permitted
the enemy to raise and discipline and to bring
against US at leisure-that grand army before
which our capital was to fall and our people sue
cum6-is now driven from its trenches, routed
snd flying before cur braves, armed, some with
flint locks, some with fowling pieces, some with
we could fsbricate, or rake aud scTape theIn tc-
gether. This fighting and fleeing has been GO
ing on since yesterday week.
In all probability you and the whole Of Eu-
rope will first hear of it as a great Yankee vic
tory, for your first intelligence Of it viii be from
the North.
Happily, for the cause of truth, you, in Eu-
rope, ere beginning TO fad the Yankees cut, and
TO understand their mendacious procliYities.
They know it, and have recently re5orted to a
new dodge" You have ceased to believe
their newspapers, and have begun 10 fad cut
that their representations of the Southern cause,
of Southern prowess, sentiments and feelings
are not to be depended on, so they now send you
what purports to be Southern papers but they
are cOunteTfeits printed in the North.
They will take one of our Richmond papers,
for instance, duplicate its form and type, copy
its advertisements, fill its reading columns with
their own inventions, give it the Richmond i'm
print, and send it abroad as a bona t6e Southern
paper which you will be sure to believe. From
this counterfeit their own papers are filled with
extracts credited to the Richmond papers.
Thus the designing men there still seek to de-
ceive their own people and the world.
They boast of this as one Of their "cute Yam
kee tricks. They are a curious set.
The Yankees in this war, have equalled the
Chinese in falsehOOds. Their generals lie t.
their soldiers, to one another, and to their gov
ernment, and their government to the world.
About mouth ago the heart of all Yankee
dom was made by Gen. Halleck to rejoice over
the reported capture, by Pope, of 10000 men
and 1900 stand of arms from Beamegard's s
Teari when these 10, 0,008 prisoners with the 49,
600 stand Of arms had no more existence in Ie-
ahty than Falslaff- men in Buckrsm. AfTiend
Of mine brought up Beauregard's rear. he
waited and offered Pope battle, but Pope made
no stack except upon train of cars with a
| few sick.
You recollect that MIR. Lincoln reported to his
! Congress last December that he had an army Of
667 600 men already raised to " crush out the
rebellion - and that France and England were
asked to wait ninety days, when they should
/ have plenty of cotton.
Now let us inquire where that army is, for
/ have never been able to make it out. You know
that we have never pretended to have on our
side more than 400, coo men in the field ct any
one time, and that in every advance that Lin
coin has attempted to make upon US, he has
been brought TO q stand-still, or driven back as
soon as he parted from his ships and gunbosts.
| Neither Hunter in Georgia, nor Benham 10
I South Carolina, nor Burnside in North Carolina
have found themselves in sufficient force TO ad-