New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-12
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE,
Special to the New Orleans Crescent.1
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purpose Of giving intriguers Of all sorts chance
| to work their schemes.
/ From the show of hands now visible, it is con-
| ceded by the soberest men that the Union is gone
ttsave the pieces" is the latest cry The hope
is, on the part of the moderate border States men,
| to patch up compromise that will keepin all the
| States except South Carolina, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi, which they have given up. But since it
is known that Georgia is the key of the position,
| and since the most prominent man in the State
| next to Stephens has written that it is doubtful
i whether secession can be prevented at all-does
4 it look as though the moderate men were counting
4 without their host2
i Cobb and others have yielded to the Presidents
appeal, and every energy is at work to keep South
Carolina inert till the 4th of March. But the
| bers from that State assure me that if every one
i of them should go back and on bended knees pray
for postponement, the only effect would be to
bring themselves into contempt.
All far-seeing men agree that any receding is out
of the question. South Carolina, Alabama and
Mississippi would become the laughing stock of the
whole world. No! it has come to such pass that
immediate action must be taken, and the
States that are out of the Union by the 4th of
March the better for the both sides. Nay the
sooner the seeding States go out the better.
A plan, the origin of which is attributed to Judge
Pennybacker, formerly of Virginia, but now of
this city, and which was broachedby aletter writer
in the Herald about month ago, is this: To
maintain the Union as it is with the exception of
New England. Cut that off and let it go to Can
ada. But this is simply impossible. 1t is felt by
the truest Southern men that the division must take
place on the slavery line, and that the Southern
Confederacy must have no free State in it.
Mr.. Hunters letter, published in the Richmond
, Examiner, receives general appreciation. His best
position, to my thinking, is expressed in the words
secession to be effective, must be immediate, or
something tantamount to that. If Virginia and
Maryland would heed this advice and not plunge
into the tardy boggle Of a Southern and then a
National Convention, the inauguration Of Lincoln
would probably take place, and the difficulty
of ousting him would be avoided. Once permit
him to control the army and navy, and there is no
! telling how much blood will be shed. Dsunion
being universally conceded, this is now the all-im
portant question: viz: "Shall Lincoln be inaugur
ated?n f05sa5M - 5M..44s...z Msm @
g The hotel at which stay is kept by well
I meaning, but rather thick-skulled Republican
!, Many Republican members board with him. was
If amused the other day at their talk. They do moi
$ dream that the border States will go out they
i, |
!: detestable demagogue, John Minor Botts thai
;, South Carolina would soon come crawling bach
!, to her duty.n Up jumps tall fellow, with sandy
I hair and big nose, and exclaimed " shed one
+ drop of South Carolina blood by the Fedora
bayonet and 100, 900 men will take possession o
! this Capital in less than forty-eght hours 4
: : "Where will they come FROM" inquired all tn
Republicans. .s.sn mM..#u.s.nr
J, From Virginia. answered Sandy Hair, reso
y lutely. And it was really laughable to see hoy
J. quickly his interrogators became sober, and eve
8, melancholy. @nM.@ s. 5m@ 5
IS Think of Winter Davis, and Kellogg, who is G
Il the genuine Lovejoy stamp, being placed on
lie committee to propose plan of saving the Union
ID Can the South tolerate anything in which they hav
~ hand? Surely not. But supposing the best me-
in the House, and heaven knows they are preciou
in few in number, had been put on the committee
does it not occur to every sensible man that th
day of compromises is past? For my part / car
not conceive of any settlement that would stand
day. Opinion inborn ingraned, ineradicabe an
st diverse as the poles, between the two sections
that must be changed; not the Constitution. Cel
I'd tainy not one of the amendments proposed in th
10 shilly-shally, wishy washy Message can be agree
to upon by who represent the honest conviction
If of the North and South. The nndenable fac
n stands forth in the glare of noon-day, that til
y; house of the Union is divided against itself and t
st only thing to be done is to separate as quckl
e, and peaceably possible. Andit behooyes you th
,n people of Louisiana, TO take instant action Della
p 4 not day, nay not even an hour. If you do, I'll
e chances are that a tattered, rotten peace will
II, patched up, and the whole work will have to /
o oI done over again.
as The voice of Hale, the buffoon of the Senate,
ot :" still for war. Gods!h Pooh! What is of MOI
significance is the determination of the Republics
iG G Senatorial caucus, held night before last, not
es make any concessions. Right! Would we of IL
IS. South accept concessions wrung from tyrants
IN the torture of fear2 Is it honorable to accel
g terms of peace which are yielded reluctantly
enemies in whose faith we can have not the sligh
er- est confidence? Does it not look as though v
nu consented to mean and unsatisfactory truce b
We cause we dared not maintain our rights? Whe
fer men knolr that by dissolving connection with par
ge ners who have outraged all the promises sworn
ss or implied in the articles of co.partnership, the
can start a new business which shall be as profit
es Bile as the old, and perhaps more So do not the
es stutify themselves by continuing the old concern
;th The case, in my judgment, is only too plain.
ice can't get along together; we must part.
ey Senator Pearce, of Maryland, was heard to ST
re- to-day that civil inevitable and that opnit
&c. is rapidly gaining ground / understand that II
ne Attorney General comes out tomorrow in an
of ticle defending the Presidents Message, and arg
in ing that the Federal Government can take no CO
he nizanee of State aetien-that its laws contempla
1p- only individuals, and that they must be enforce
in. And that is Cass' view also. What a wretched S
be of old grannies our Cabinet is composed Of
if South Carolina would see her citizens imprsone
shot down or hung by Lincoln, after she has sec
ded, and submit quietly. Let the pitiful old fogi
of the Administration try this game if they dare.
An organization exists in Baltimore, to viii
" large numbers are daily added, the object of viii
,rn is to prevent Lincolns passing through that ei
.en with an army of wideawakes at his heels. Bt
,at even the Marylanders themselves say this orga
lea ization will never show its head when the try
nc. moment comes. 5#= Z.4z' =44z S.
Tho The Putnam Phalanx, from Hartford Com
IN. numbering It's men, many of them gray boards
rev or 10 years old, are making noise here. The
prv cocks will have something to do before long I'll
his will tarnsh their bright Revolutionary regimepta
80 .=.zm-.-5 MALoU
ub- ACCIDENT TO AN OFFICER Major Thompson,