The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-11
Tho shenandoah.

Tho shenandoah.
The Mobile Times, of the 2Sth ult. ,
publishes extracts from private let
ter of Capt. Wadden, of the Confede-
rate cruiser, SHENANDOAH furnished
by a citizen of Mobile, to whom it
was addressed. We subjoin that por-
ton of the letter in which he justifes
the acts of his ship after the surren-
der of the Confederate armies and the
capture of Mr.. Davis:
CATER reaching Behring's Sea, I
captured the ship VIM. Thompson
and brig Susan Abigail; both had left
San Francisco in April last. These
captures were made about the 23d of
June, and from each I received San
Francisco papers. These papers pro-
fessed to have the correspondence
between Gems. Lee and Grant con-
corning tie surrender of Lees ernny.
They also stated that Mr.. Davis and
Cabinet were i'll Danville, to which
place the Confederate Government
had been removed, and that Mr..
Davis had issued proclamation in
forming the Southern people that the
war would be carried on with renewed
vigor.
s'I was made possessor of as late
news by these two captures as any the
whalers had, and I continued my
work until it was completed in the
Arctic Ocean on the 29th of June,
when I had succeeded in DESTROYING
or dispensing the New England whal-
ing feet. I left the Arctic on the
29th of June, and shipped from some
of the whalers eight men on that
very day-men of intelligence, all
trained soldiers. It is not to be be-
ieved that those men would have
taken service in the Shenandoah if
they believed the war ended.
"After leaving Behring's Sea, I fell
in with no vessel until I communicate
ed with the British barque Barracou-
ia, from San Francisco, I'd August.
fourteen days, bound for Liverpool.
She informed me of the capture of
Mr.. Davis and part of his cabinet,
also of the surrender of Generals
Johnson's, Smiths and Magruder's
armies. The Berracouta furnished
that news the first time I had heard
it, and I instantly ceased to cruise
and steered for Cape Horn"
Capt. Wadden states that his naval
career is at an end. He expresses
feeling of bitter disappointment at
the result of the/war. He says the
South played false to her cause-he
has very little respect for her-does
nos believe she was in earnest-pre-
diets that she will never take the field
again, and generally slurs the DEGREES
of fate.
We are afraid this will be the gene
raj verdict hereafter -ssthe South
played false to her cause.'' By "the
South" however, cannot be meant
the many gallant men who promptly
rallied to the casue they thought
right and patriotic. We are sorry
that such man as Captain Waddell
"slurs the DEGREES of fate," whilst
entertaining the opinion that the
South will never take the field again.
The truth is, the South has some
thing else to do than be eternany
looking back to the past Whether
her people played false or not, the
''decrees of fate" were against them
in the war they waged, and having
seen their error, their only hope for
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness is in sustaining the Government
of the United States, so long as it is
administered on the principle upon
which it was founded.
NAPoLEoN's SPEECH. Napoleon, in
his recent speech, said: France, who
forgets no noble page of her history,