THE LAST CONFEDERATE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—The Spectator, of the 1st inst., says that within six months after the fall of Richmond "there was not a Confederate left in England." I claim from the courtesy of an enemy the right to give explicit denial to a statement very offensive, not only to myself, but to hundreds, probably thousands, of English gentlemen. It happened that I was among the few Southern partisans in our Press who understood the constitutional question of Secession as fully as did the Spectator, and probably knew—certainly studied— public opinion during the war as closely as yourself. Of all my acquaintance, only one renegade has deserted the " Lost Cause.''' That one Confederate still is left you proved not long since by quoting my verses on "The Ninth of April," which I am told went the round of the Southern Press with the Spectator's name,
not mine, attached l—I am, Sir, &c., P. G.
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