The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24

Judge Curtis. y The Senhtor from Gepr-j
gia, benjamin. II. Fiji, vas i,utbrio,isiy
the chosei, friend ana counsellor of Mr..
Davis vet within thirty "a SIS OF tho
Montgomery Mr.. Hill had denounced bit
terly the Southern movement. There
was mover day when lie either expect
ed or desired The ConfAdetneyst TO i've,
t1sife and speeches OF -, H.. Tin, BY his
sony sS n Z ss 95s ts n
while the Commissioner i s5ser j thug ei1,-
ployed, Monc,ire 2: CONWAY Vlrginian
youth gone Nortllsto enlis til Ga ,son,s
Phillips. Mrs. Howe and Tho most Srallcal
OF the aboltionIsts, dSertiscd iii London
that lie would lecture I'll tha t MY under
tho auspices 81 M Ohm Bright and that
the object OF tiisSlccttre was to give NOR
al support to a. party the United States
that would rise III, and coercc tho Lin.
concede tho Ind depend e1Ice of he Con FED
eracy Conway VI ser, I'll Conn issiorer Ma
son a. ticket to Ills iaei,ife syt II ID
Again and again tlin Conf derat lei Conf
missioncrs urged 81 Upon I'm gland and
France tile rights I of their Government
under the terms Of The Paris Convention
It Yves sho,wn! hi t3iow III the third year
Igraham of the Confederate navy had
attacked IA the blockading squadron off
Charleston. destroyed some OF Its vessels
and entirely dispersed ID the Others from
View. The next winter, 1t may 1lotsbc,
nfiiss al this place to say Ca plain Dlxoi,5
md crew ran the Submarine torpedo boat
-"Hunley," the first boat OF tho kind
known to naval warfare, under the block
adcr "1Io,isatonic, q n powerful warship,
off tho 3larbor of Chnrlestons The = Iou-
satonic'' and all OIL board about B 400
persons, won't TO the bottom carrying the
',Huncy withiit. livery bocRader, tAls-s
Ing fright, ned, and tho pprt was open for
several days. At tho aninn3 season IN
which Ingral,hnl opeird the port OF Char,
neither Englanh or Francs enforced the
terms OF tho t'ntls Convention. III the
winter or 1s62.B3 tho ihplovsed navy OF
tho CorfcdctHcy destroyed eleven war.
ships Of tho Tinted states, while tho Ala
baina md tho sumter irbvn tho :ner-l
chant marine " tho enemy 81 tile high.
seas. s$ %sS tii gs,s
/ Among those III high place, ehrlS I'M
pressed with Tho Importance spf foreign,
sympathy and trade, especially fl the
mattersof procuring arms FOR tic confed-S
cracy, was tho hrat seoretary OF Ware
General Leroy Pope wal kerr The stcre..;
tary suffered 4 rare, experience. lid Muss
so beset by inpbrtunNtA8 ca plains OF COM
.panics to receive their commands into
the army ha Il he found essential TO
his personal comfort to rtaeliss his office
in Montgon,ery ~ ths paek way e ayoa
made d nequisitlonsSon his Government
for t1ED, 900 foreign rifles, but was shut off
withS Is 900. q Thee q oSet,llnent did never
ithelcss promptly a select ii III p,iTc chasing
agent and ordered hin, g. to 4 Europe with
full discretionary power to BUY arms and
army equipments. The pcrsofl !, selected
was AN A. Ole " army of.lcer, who had tptelS
detailed as drill muster and comma istiant
at the University of Alhbamn.Eh ~ Dung
man. Captain Caleb Huso Of. NassRchus-,
ictts Cnptnin Huse was 3tn graduate OF
West " Point and good soldier, but
citizens and prudent soldiers Thought:
General Bcangerard. with A. 60 tnpeterlti
staff must have been a lore ser itea BILE
officer to have sent abroad OH 80 vital a;
responsibility
Joseph u. Johnston, soon after the First
Manassas, proposed ]. to- invade ii he Mort u,
rs the necessary strategy OF wal. PRESS
dent Davis assured him the Wat Depnr t-$
,mcnt had not tho arms & needed The
said with apparently deep FEEL
ing, that sheA''l,ad tried to get rms but
had failed, and he did not 5Nl,o ~ shen no,
could get itnonl,'' 90 about inc amp une,l
had recruited and put u In camp Yen or
twelve thousand ollnteerss for tho & Vest
tern armyst llc Secretary of War ord eteAS
tho CAMPS broken up and the men return
ed home for want B OF arms. In NIL thnt5
time, and for months after, Captain HNsei
was receiving only $3.50. or about, a month
tfromabis government TO use III Ills duty.
but having made known to friends OF
the Confederacy4 in london his urgent
need. Sir Isaac Campbell loaned him half
n million dollars OF private account md y
his cargo OF 4 much-ncedcd arms snilcd.5
The Confederacy needed n currency and
manufactured ono. Did the abortive Of!
feet fairly represent the opportunities.
OF tho governments There was much
OF foreign sympathy rejected In 4 the pro-
tceedings.5 nj We shall see that cotton
England and France. were almost 100 per
cent, higher than tho bonds of the United
States on Wall Street al the same period
= well remember that Vice. President
Stephens in CONVERSE ton remarked to me.
in the war tin,o, that the Confcderacy
with g little moro business tact In Its A.
nances, might establish "the strongest
paper currency in 4 tho world; !" eferring
to the uses that might BIO made OF credit,
founded on cotton. yfthe Treasury De-
pnrtnrent.
was built for tho government at Birken-
head on the Merscy by a firm Of which
Laird. member OF Parliament, was q
member. The cost was s25Oo00 and tho
firm rejected offers from the Secretary of
tho Navy a t Washington to build several
war ships for the United States. They
would have built others for tho Confed-
eracy because 1t paid good prices.
IN September, 1852, Commissioner Mason
wrote / 0 his government that twenty TO
twenty-five millions could be had for
| It's uses on Cotton obligations" Now
tho income OF the United States, In 1850.
was about 100000 only, At single
draft our. government was able to COM
mand one-third that sum, Cotton obll-
cations" OF the government consisted In
n simple pledge OF honor to deliver 80
many pounds OF lint. at a price named, at
II convenient seaport within the Con-
fcderate limits within three calendar
months, after the arrival OF peace, n 80
attractive to foreign money lenders were
he cotton obligations that Mr.. Erlnngcr
OF tho private banking Arm OF ErIanger
ana Company u'aris tnade ills way
! through the blockade to Richmond to
urge the authorities there to sell large
/ blocks OF this character OF paper for