Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-12-19
THE FEELING IN NEW ORLEANS.

The Chicago Tribwae, of late date says =
A gentleman of Chicago, directed from New
Orleans, where he has been spending short
time for commercial purposes, tells us that we
of the North can form no adequate idea of the
blind, unreasoning passion and insensate fury
by which the people of that city and the ex-
tEeme South are animated. They are for in
slant and unconditional dissolution of the u
nion, at any price, and at all hazards. They
want no compromises, no concession, no bar
gains, no amendments CT the Constitution.
They are for Southern Confederacy-noth-
ing less. There is, he tells us, conservative
class, but they are borne along with the crowd,
and dare not yet lift q voice in remonstrance
against the extreme measures upon which the
populace are bent ; nor do they hope that any
thing like reason will again rule the hour un-
til some fatal act is committed which will sep
arate the Cotton States from the Union, and
prehaps plunge the country into civil war.
Uf course, in the midst of excitement like
that which reigns in New Orleans, no North
ern man unless untrue to his principles, or un-
der the protection of powerful friends, is safe.
To be suspected of Republicanism is the sig
nal OF warning; to be convicted of it is to be
driven off. The movable police force is the
mob, under the name of vigience committees,
and these the better class of citizens are pow
erless to restrain. There is, in fact, through
out all the Cotton States an undisguised Reign
of Terror. The st. Charles Hotel is the GEN.
ter of the excitement. That house is the COM
mon resort of the most violent of the fanatics,
who between their cups and their cursings a
muse themselves with hunting up, insulting,
and driving off Northern men because they
are Northern men. When our friend left the
city, the ruffians had made clean sweep, and
that caravansary was without resident of
any of the Free States within its walls. They
had all been compelled 10 leave-some to quit
the city and their business, others to look up
more decent quarters, where violence and
rufianism are not the rule. One evening, in
the reading room of that establishment, the
crowd was assembled as usual, and as usual
the Abolltonists were the theme. Becoming
excited, one man, said to be wealthy and in
fluental. pulled out his pocket book and said,
ssHerc are So 900, which will subscribe to a
fund to procure the assassination of Lincoln
and Hamlin. Who'll swell the pile pa In
ten minutes, or less more than $40 900 had
| been offered for this infamous purpose, and
| the names of the subscribers taken down.
| The witness of this transaction is far from be-
| lieving that this was mere gasconade. We
| are told futher that masters of vessels and
steam boats, if suspected of Free-Soii procliv-
| tiles, are not safe. Only a few days ago, a
| captain and the clerk of river steamer were
| taken off their boat and forced, by threats OF
| hanging, to make their way North by the most
| expeditions route. 1t was said they had voted
] for Lincoln. Every day ship captains are SUBJ
| jected to wanton abuse and threats Of violence,
| not because they are suspected of believing
| that buying and selling men is not pure De-
| mocracy, and the highest evidence of Chris
| tianity. New-Orleans is certainly miniature
| Pandemonium.