Commodore Conner. (Note On "maclay's History of the United States Navy") Mexican War
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282, 283, and also in that of Commodore Perry's letter to that officer) distinctly point out and acknowledge Commodore Conner's inadequate means. Although adequate means were early and repeatedly requested by Commodore Conner, the Navy Department was unable to supply them during Conner's term of service. Such means, however, at length reached his successor, Commodore Perry, who, using them well, was by them enabled to reap complete success. Commodore Con- ner used to the best advantage the mean...s put by the government in his hands. If there was failure, it arose from the inadequacy of those means, a fact which true historians will be most careful to point out, for otherwise the inference does a great wrong to an officer who served his country not only with high commendation from his government, but, in truth, faithfully and well, as can be seen by all who choose to look at the authentic official correspondence at Washington, and not merely at the shallow publications of that day, — publications false and mis- leading because their authors, even when spectators, could not fully understand what they saw, being to a great degree ignorant of its causes, and therefore incapable of properly appreciating the circumstances or of forming a just opinion as to correct action under them.
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