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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Confederacy on the waters. (search)
d, two years ago. But she is now beginning to find that it is not on the land alone that Southern prowess and enterprise are to be dreaded. We have the flower of the old navy under the Southern flag — in Maury and Brooks, the most scientific; in Semmes, Maffit, and others, the most chivalric and energetic of naval commanders. Other names will arise, as opportunities are afforded, which will emblazon with new glory the ocean flag of the South. In Semmes alone we have produced a naval prodigy nSemmes alone we have produced a naval prodigy not surpassed since the days of Paul Jones. If a Government and people will but lend their whole energies and resources to the organization of a navy and privateers, we shall drive Yankee commerce from the ocean and inflict more injury upon the great cities of the North than ten years campaigning by land. We may lose ships, but every ship, property manned and managed, will have more than balanced her destruction before she can fall into an enemy's hand. A cloud of privateers let loose upon