At all times since the traitors commenced their war upon the Government, they have misrepresented to foreign nations their true purpose, knowing full well that if they boldly announced that they were fighting in behalf of the vilest system of oppression and slavery, instead of receiving aid and sympathy they would excite the universal scorn and horror of mankind. So the Yanceys and the Rosts and other advocates of the Southern cause in Europe, ashamed to admit the truth, have labored to deceive the people there, by attempting to show that they rebelled in consequence of high tarifs imposed by the North. That meanest of all traitors, Lieut. Maury, has lately been trying his hand at falsehood by writting a letter addressed to the Admiral in the French Navy, which is reprinted in the London Herald. Here is what he says about the cause of the rebellion :
“The negro is not, as the Yankee would have the world believe, the cause or the object of the war. The tariff and the hatred of the Yankee character—these are the true causes. They are a nation of shopkeepers and pedlers ; and under pretext of raising revenue to maintain the government, Southern industry was taxed to support Yankee workshops. With this they waxed fat and grew insolent, and their insolence became unbearable.
We chose no longer to submit to their rule, and so sought simply to withdraw from all political association with them. We ask nothing of them. All we want is simply to be left and let alone.
The fuss and tumoil about slavery is merely incidental in this unhappy state of affairs,”
The Daily Manchester American, Manchester, NH