A VOICE FROM SECESSIA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1845, 21 March 1863, Page 5

A VOICE FROM SECESSIA.

" A Voice from Secessia" comes to us in the shape of a letter from Captain M. F. Maiiry, the distinguished author of the " Physical Geography of the Sea." The letter is dated London, Dec. 32. It contains a confident prediction of the ultimate triumph of the South ;— "I am fresh from the South, having quite recently run the blockade of Charleston. I know the sentiments and feelings of ray country-men ; and so far From losing faith in our cause or entertaining any doubts as to success, we were never more decided nor in better heart. Besides our own self-reliance, the faith we have in our cause and leaders, w© derive encouragement from the enemy. He begins to show signs of giving in. Mr Lincoln for the first time recognises the possibility or permanent disunion, for hecan find ' no line, straight or crooked,' which will suit him for a boundary, as yet, notwithstanding no country so abounds in well-es-tablished lines of this sort, for each State has its own. Moreover, financial ruin is staring his people in the face. The signs of its speedy coining among them are unmistakeable. He dares not enforce a draft upon his militia nor the Tax Bill upon his people. They will neither give him his full contingent in men or in money. The dawn of returning reason is visible in his recent elections ; his administration is vacillating ; it is trying to shape a new policy as to satisfy each of two opposing factions. His people are beginning to tiro of him and his war, and to confess that nothing but grief can come of it to them. On the other hand , we have'but to stand firm, think of our dead, and , be true to ourselves, and all will be well with U9. As soon as the Northern press is unmuzzled and the tongues of the friends of free government there are loosed, then we shall begin to ( see the beginning of the end. In the meantime we are fighting, not against a conutitutional government, for that has been overturned, but against a mob, with Mr Lincoln at the head of it. I have heard since leaving the South a great deal said about our want of arms, about the half-starved and worse clad soldiers of the South. There is no lack of food among us. As for arms, we have taken enough from the enemy to equip all the forces that we require; and then as to clothing, it is enough for me to say that the Custom-house receipts at Charleston for the month of July, 1862, were greater than they have been for the corresponding month of any year of the last ; arid this revenue was derived chiefly from duties on clothing and munitions of war, notwithstanding the famous blockade. What the receipts have been for the months of August, September, October, and November, I cannot say, for I have not seen the returns.. A. considerable amount of importations has also entered Wilmington , Mobile, and the ports of Texas. Besides this large quantities of clothing have been brought across the Potomac and the Chesapeake, into the numerous rivers and creeks of Virginia, also from Ohio and other producing States of the West. Events now transpiring in America show that we are quite as able to keep the field as is the enemy, and far more united."