The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Resignation of Commodore Maury.

The resignation of such an officer as Maury will carry moral weight in favor of the Southern cause throughout the civilized world.--There is no American as widely known in Europe. Wherever science has shed a ray of light on the globe, there the name of Maury is as familiar as a household word. Kings and Courts, philosophers and statesmen, have vied with each other in showering honors upon his head. The extraordinary and beneficent labors of Maury, for the commerce of the world, have associated his name in the minds of mankind with all that is truly great and good. The adhesion of such a man to the Southern cause will cause men abroad to reflect, and will exert infinitely more influence than would that of Scott. Europe is crowded with military men, far more eminent than Scott, who is scarcely known outside the limits of our own country, and even then only as a soldier; but wherever the sea rolls a wave, Maury is known and reverenced as a great light, and a benefactor of his race.