Excerpt from Southern Secession: A Letter Addressed to Captain M. T. Maury, Confederate Navy, on His Letter to Admiral FitzroyAnxious for the success of the South in its struggle for Independence, my joy at reading your letter to Admiral Fitzroy was great indeed. Here was at last a voice from one of her sons who is known over all the world for his services to humanity, setting forth the justice of her cause hitherto so entirely misapprehended in England. Here was that appeal which I had so long wished to hear, an appeal from tyranny to freedom - from falsehood to truth - from hypocrisy to honesty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.