Background
HOTZE, Henry was born on September 2, 1833 in Zurich, Switzerland, United States. Son of Rudolph and Sophia (Esslingcr) Hotze. His father was a captain in the French Royal Service.
HOTZE, Henry was born on September 2, 1833 in Zurich, Switzerland, United States. Son of Rudolph and Sophia (Esslingcr) Hotze. His father was a captain in the French Royal Service.
Hotze, who was educated in a Jesuit College, came to the United States, became a citizen, and moved to Mobile, Alabama, in 1855. His wife was the former Ruby Senac of New Orleans. In 1856, he edited Gobineau’s The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of the Races for publication in the United States.
In 1858, he was part of the Mobile delegation to the Southern commercial convention at Montgomery, and he joined the editorial staff of the Mobile Register, where he became a friend of the businessman Colin John McRae. He was secretary at the U.S. legation in Brussels, Belgium, in 1858-1859, and in 1859, he was secretary for the Board of Harbor Commissioners in Mobile. In April 1861, Hotze entered the Confederate Army as a member of the Mobile Cadets.
In August of that year, he was sent to purchase supplies in Europe, and in November 1861, he became a Confederate commercial agent in London. Working closely with Edwin De Leon in selling the Confederacy to the European governments, he became an advocate of arming and freeing the slaves. From May 1862 to August 1865, he edited the Index, an effective London-based propaganda organ for the Confederacy.
He disseminated Confederate propaganda in France and wrote editorials for London newspapers. Hotze was also involved in various financial and diplomatic schemes for the Confederacy. He was probably the most talented Confederate in Europe.
When the war ended, he remained in Europe and became a journalist. Little is known about the remainder of his life.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.