Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-29


To the Editor: Sir-SOon after the COM
meneement of the American war, the Yankees
rssorted to tricks OF getting up fac signilss Of
Richmond papers, IN type, paper and siz0, of
copying their Advertisements, sild then filing
up with reading matter of Northern mar Rufsc-
ture. These papers were then put into the
mails, received, c5pied from and then circulated
with0tA suspicion, ss Southern uiterAness"
The English pTeEs is nov victim Of anotheF
"trick' Of the same sort. A document, copied
frCn the Northern papers, is now going the
rounds of the continental ard English prsss,
which pUrports to be the oficiSl report Of Mr..
Mallory, the Confederate Secretary Of the Navy,
to the Congress in Richmond.
lis q tsko in, it bears internal evidences of
hoax, and 1 know many ef its statements to be
false. Please, therefore, inform your readers
that no such document has ever beea uttered
by the Secretary Of the Confederate navy, and
SO help me TO "uAl to the counter" the spuri-
Gus thing also. Yours, truly,
January go II T. MAURY.
Notwithstanding this warning, says the Rich
mond SsstiHeI, impeachment and denial by
Commodore Msury, which, if regarded By the
British Ministers as speculation rather than tss-
tim0Dy, should st least have put them on their
guard, and directed them to that internal evil
dence which wculd have demonstrated the
forgery, we ind them censenting without hesi-
tstion to become the dupes of kna7es. As late
az the 23d Of Fsbrusry-almost four weeks after
the appearance of the above lstter--the attorney
general made speech in Parliament on The
seizure Of Lsird's rams By the Government, Of
which the following IS passage:
The attorney general then proceeded TO show
that the Government had satisfied itself that
there was no truth in the representation that the
rams were intended for the Egyptian Govern
msnt, and added:
'His honorable friend (Mr. Fizgsrald) re.
ferred to papers which had been laid before the
Congress Of the United Ssstes But there was
another Congress before which the papers had
been lsid. Hear, hear / A report Of the Sec
reisry Of the Navy Of the Confederate States
was laid before the Congress, in which il is sta
ted that, in accordance with the order of the
President, early in the present year, he dis
patched several fgents 20 England and Franee,
With orders 60 contract for eight irOn-elad yes
sells suitable fer ocean service, and calculated
to resist the ordinary armament of wooden yes
sells Of the enemy.
These ships were to be provided with rams,
70 break the blockade of such ports, and which
could not be broken by the iron-clsd monitors
OF the enemy-6ye TO be built in England and
three in France. Due precaution was TO be Ia
keu sRainst c0ntTsyening the laws in the con
sEIuction aud equipment of such vessels. Three
Of those vessels were completed. The Govern
nlent Of England dispatched several war veg
sells to the mouth Of the Mersey to prevent their
departure, and they were subsequently, ssizsd
bP the British GJvefnment Loud cheers I L
will be more convenient TO diseuss the question
as regards MessFs. BsVIsy and Laird in another
place, but as regards tho Confederate States, we
know, IS g matter Of fact, tom information Of
tle most Unque5tionable kind from headqusr-
teTs, that these vessels were built in violation
Of our laws, and intended to be used in the bel
bgeTent service of the Confederate States"
By the use thus made Of the forgery, the
attorney -genorsl drew forth loud cheers from
bis supporters, and was enabled to carry bis
point BY vote Of l78 to 153; 8 mesger triumph
at best, and one tha. will make bis situation
more than pTecsri0us when Parliament shall
learn the imposition upon sheiE credality which
the AttOrney-general has pFsetced, if not erin
inally, ct least culpAbly.