The national Republican., 1862-09-19
INTERESTING EXTRACTS FROM
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TSe most stirling thing Ia Il, is letter nom
that vain and stupid pedant, N. +, Maury, Of
the C. s. N, that is, Com. of the Confederate
s,atss Navy. A Commodore with nothing to
command.
It is long, and stupid o. 1t Is lorg, and false
In reasoning and fact as 1t Is stupid. ,,,-..
The letter is Addressed 10 Admiral Robert
Fits Roy, R. N, London. ,,.,, a., r., : H So
This literary oharlstAn and naval psdant ~
ceived his education, all be has-"you can't
maks elk purse Of . sow's ears--st the ex-
peuse Of The United States Government. and
he now slories In becoming traitor 10 that
Government, and writes several columns od
senselsss rigmArols 70 blacken the character Of
q people who have never done aught 10 him
but good. He speaks Of The Government Of
the United States @ Lincolns Government
whereas be knows II Il the Government Of the
people, and ". LlAcoln b only is chosen Ger.
want for the time being g-chosen, too, In accord.
sncs with ths Constitution, the same as was
Washington, Jefferson, and every other Prssi-
deut since Washington down.. ,,,,,
He dwells largely upon the, operations Of the
tariff, gives numerous statistics, and tries hard
to make out that the poor, sbuesd South has
suffered immensely at The hands Of The NORTH
We pass By, for the present, Naurys s.Atls-
tics on the operations Of the tariff, and give
some extracts from bis letter which are Of more
Immediate interest. -.
The following 10 rich: .. "a
@For more than thirty years, the country has
been ruled by q faction, first Of one party, then
pf another; and The master spirits Of the faction
ruled, and there was lack Of ststesmsnship IN
the national councils. PrsSdents and their csh.
inets, lawgivars and the o2oers ei the Govern
ment ceased long ago to be selected for their
dtneee. but solely for their party availability.
Thus The great men OF the couotry, Calhoun
Webster, Clay, DO, were prescribed, and the
populsee came down below mediocrity In
search Of ruiers." u ~ >" 80.
This ruling faction always belonged IN the
South, and when It could rule no losgeF, 1t
attempted to break up the Union. This faction
"proscribed Calhoun, Webster, and Clay,
says Msury. True, every word of It. The Gaze
Of Mr.. Webster IL too fresh In The memory Of
ell to be forgotten. He did NOT, because Of
this faction, get single Southern vote. PRO
seribed" for availability candidates. Pearce
tor Instance. I'VE thank thee, Jew" ior teach
log usthat word. prescribed"
Again, this pure.rniuded ~ patriot says:
Finally, it became 90. that party feaity
was almost the only test Of fitness for any cfiice
| from that Of tide wafer up. And when an Ad.
ministratioD wss turned out Of the end of -four
years. as 1t was sure TO be, the successful part
raised the cry that, 10 the victors belong the
spoils,' and went into the Government like d
victorious army into the encampment of van.
Iquished toe -f
Or oil this tcramble. etc., etc. th. sanity,
whining bypocrits Maury would have the
world believe the South was entirely Innocent
What q model Government Of purify and
righteousness the South will exhibit BY. and by
when Davis, and Cobb, and Floyd, and Marry
and their ccmpeers bear sway over ibe snnny
south! Can cousumma,s Impotence 60 any
further: =.
Maury is writing for the English people, snt
hence there Ia covert attempt all through HI
letter to chow that It il no, slavery they ere
lighting for. Oh! no.. II is the tariff and
the Commerce Of he North with the Sputh, Oh,
Of which they (the North) were getting rich
and the South growing poor. Hear him.:
His people, that is. Mr.. Lincolns people
not The people Of the United States-prstsnd
and many Englishmen seem to think, that Al
rican slavery Is al the bottom Of all our pres
snt troubles. No such thing"
After much renssless rigmarole which We
have not the space to quote, he again says:
Thus you observe that slavery was neither
The remote nor proximate cause Of this war. II
10 true, that the enemy ia trying 70 strike j,
not striker - afhey Who be ID thai M
slavery is the oause Of this war, show that they
have BY DO means been attentive observers Of
close students Of the American Government
iLs Institutions, its operations, and ito people
The truth is, that Government had, IN many
ways and for divers reasons ceased 10 answer
the purposes for which 1t was established. IN
that fact aad not In slavery, IL to be found the
cause oi this war;
Now, mark how plain tale" shall pu
this fellow down Ever since the days of oh,
G. Calhoun, the South, BY the aid ot the Demo
cratic party, has made aud unm ,de tariffs, 40,
had this thing all their own way; and even th
Morrill, tariff could not probably have bee
passed. had the South kept her delegates 4
Congress even TO the end of Mr.. Buchanan
Administration. Aud, besides, In all the conver
lions that were held in the South or In the North
slavery, and nothing but slavery, was talke,
Of as The bone OF contention Every effort Il
Congress aud in the famous Peace Convention
held In Washington, hinged on the SLAYER
question. What did the Crittenden propositio
mean but an adjustment Of the slavery contss
giving 10 that institution greater protection :
slaverv, a. sn iuduosmsnt to the South to r,
main in the Union. Mr. Maury knows, Euro.
knows, the whole world knows that slavery
the cause of secession. But Mr.. Maury know,
one other thing, and that is that the who
world is opposed to slavery, and be tries hsr,
10 hide, at least, from bis dear friend Roy, Lh
TACT that the South are fighting for God. d.
! lying institution. 1t will not 20 down, NJ.
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