As was pointed out earlier (with documentation), the great chess icon, Paul Morphy, motivated by disillusionment with war, went to Paris, France. It is written in Morphy's home-town newspaper, The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, March 22, 1863 — “Mr. Paul Morphy is in Paris, and in excellent health. He is staying at the Grand Hotel, which, by the by, is filled with people from New Orleans. Mr. Morphy has not played a game of chess since he reached Paris; he has not even entered the Cafe de la Regence; he says the course of events in America engross his thoughts so entirely, and painfully, he cannot play his favorite game.” Mr. Morphy is reported in a STATE OF MORAL GRIEF for the tragic war-time events playing out, back in America. Ask any Psychiatric Professional if this is anything but normal. They will tell you, “Yes, it is normal under the circumstances!” In fact, I dare say, it is not the behavior one would witness from a “radical secessionist” nor a “radical Union loyalist” driven on their greed for power. It would seem, rational men could comprehend Morphy's reported “Grief” during war time! That is, if they were humans with a soul to wrap their minds around it. But are small, petty men, grasping desperately for power and dominion as they trample over the lives of millions, “rational”? Of course not. So reports the Northern newspaper, Evening Star Washington, District of Columbia Friday, May 15, 1863 — “Paul Morphy, the chess-player, has deteriorated since he became a rebel. They are beating him at chess in Paris. Let him stay a rebel a year longer, and we will challenge him to a chess match ourself, giving him knight and pawn, playing with our back to the board, and at the same time dictating editorial articles against the rebellion.”
Who made up the false rumors, alleging Paul Morphy was a “rebel,” and so-called “bitter secessionist”? Who was it that persecuted Paul Morphy with a flood of defamation in contemporary media to eternally besmirch the character of Paul Morphy and extinguish any hope that Mr. Morphy should return to Chess after the close of the war? Does Washington D.C. condemn Morphy over the matter of slavery? No, of course not. It is only the matter of the “rebellion” against the elite group White Supremacists holding the reigns of Federal power in (Northern) Washington, D.C. that are the concern of the day. These vindictive, petty souls, operating in Northern newspapers, would go on to wage a vitriolic campaign of defamation that Morphy had supposedly “lost his mind” and even falsely reported as locked away in an asylum, although contemporary asylum records till 1884 record no such admission of any Morphy while many public statements were issued to the press over the ensuing years by friends and associates of Paul Morphy confirming his good health, both physically and mentally!
As was done again almost a century later to Robert J. Fischer, the papers printing lies upon d**** lies.
The organized campaign of brutal persecution carried out against Robert J. Fischer from 1956-2008, was old-school for the political powers-that-be, behind the scenes of the White Man dominated empires.
Bittersweet Taste of Karma
Not a word is breathed about slavery, only loyalty to the White Supremacists in Washington, DC and their grasp on Imperial power over millions of lives and the taxes reaped from it. Ah, Morphy was “loyal” in yesteryear… but now, fanatics in NORTHERN NEWSPAPERS… bitterly persecute Morphy for the things he has not done.
Never mind little things like GRIEF. It's an all-out defamation campaign against an innocent man to utterly ruin him!
Cleveland Daily Leader Cleveland, Ohio Wednesday, April 13, 1864
Northern Newspapers Persist to Falsely Label Paul Morphy a "Rebel" 13 Apr 1864, Wed Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, Ohio) Newspapers.com
This was the Campaign of Defamation which drove Paul Morphy out of Chess by the pens and gossip of bitter, vindictive men hellbent on grasping absolute power.
