OR, WHAT WE THINK OF OURSELVES, AND BY M. J. MCINTOSH, AUTHOR OF "TWO LIVES; OR, TO SEEM AND TO BE;" CHARMS "There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out."-SHAKSPEARE, Hen. V. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 443 & 445 BROADWAY. LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN. 1863. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. THERE are some, it may be, to whom this book will be more a memory than an imagination—some, who may recognize in the child-hearted Commodore Moray-in his wisdom, free from one taint of guile, in his generous consideration for others, in his sensitiveness to every touch of honor, in his more than womanly tenderness, and his more than manly courage, a feeble portraiture of one of whom it may indeed be said, "None knew him but to love him." It has been suggested to the author that the discovery of one portrait may lead to the search for others; that in the official personages, at least, and more especially in those connected with the historical incident of the landing of our troops on the Mexican coast, the sketches, however imperfect, may be supposed to be sketches from life. Such a supposition would be unjust to all concerned, and, most of all, unjust to the author, who has simply availed herself of the vraisemblance communicated to a story by the |