AThis is one example of the flagrant contradictions in Northern “Yankee” reports, circulated in national newspapers to defame, belittle, humiliate and harass the great chess celebrity Paul Morphy. Because he retired from Chess, Paul Morphy's retirement supposedly implied, Paul Morphy suffered a “malady of mind”? That, dear friends, is what the Northern papers claim and do omit, how Paul Morphy was given no other alternative by his aggressive, former associates in Washington, DC and New York, threatening they were “cutting him so dead” (1865). Northern agitators forced Morphy out of chess, all the while refusing to tattle tale on themselves. Now, having achieved forcing Morphy to retreat back to New Orleans, they declare his absence in the game must be the result of his??? “mystery mental malady”.
In this set of reports, from the same newspaper, no less! out of one side of their mouth, claim that Paul Morphy has ‘not seen a chessboard in ten years!!’ Then, from the other side of their lying mouth, claimed Paul Morphy yet plays in private! conducting exhibitions of his skill among friends in New Orleans, and the source confessed witnessing Morphy playing! In other words, it is possible for Northern Newspapers to criminalize a person for simply the way they breathe but, everyone is guilty for doing that… it's all in the subtle and not so subtle way they frame the words that ruin the man for doing, absolutely nothing wrong all the while, talking out of both sides of their mouth. Now that's what I call multi-tasking!
