Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-12-21
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Insanity in New Orleans.

[ "A gentleman of Chicago direct from New Or
/ leans, where he has been spending short time
Tor commercial purposes, tells us that we of the
/ North can form no adequate idea of the blind,
unreasonable passion and insensate fury by
which the people of that city and the extreme
South are animated. They are for instant and
unconditional dissolution of the Union at any
price, and at all hazards. They want no com
promises. no concession, no bargains. no
amendments of the Constitution. They are for
a Southern Contederacy-nothing less There
is, he tells us, a conservative class but they
are borne along with the crowd, and dare not
yet lift a voice in remonstranee against the ex-
ueme measures uIon which the lopulace are
bent nor do they hope that anything like rea-
son will again rule the hour that some fatal act
is committed which will separate the cotton
States flom the Union, and perhaps plunge the
country into civil war. OF course in the midss
OF excitement like that which reigns in New Or
leans, no Northern man, unless untrue to his
principles, or under the protection of power-
iuli friends, IS safe To be suspected of Repub-
heanlsm IS the signal for warning to be con-
Vlcted OF 1t, is to be driven off The movable
ponce force is the mob under the name of yig-
lance committees. and these the better class
OF citizens are powerless to restrain. There
Is IN fact throughout all the Cotton States an
undlsguised Reign of Terror.
The St. Charles Hotel is the center of the ex-
OF the most violent of the fanatics. who be-
tween their cups and their cursings amuss
themselves with hunting up, insulting and dri-
wing Oft Northern men because they are North
ern men. When our friend had left the oity-
the rutians had made Il clean sweep; and that
caravansery was without resident Of any OF
the free States within its walls They had all
been compelled to leave-some to quit the city
and their business others to look up more de-
rta VIII
are not the rule. One evening in the reading
room of that establishment the crowd was as.
sembled as usual, the Abolitionists were the
theme. Becoming excited, one man said to
be wealthy and influential pulled out his
pocket-book and said, Here are S5, 600 which
will subscribe to a fund to procure the assas-
slnation Of LINCOLN and HAMLIN Who'll swell
the pile ~ In ten minutes, or less, more than
$4,000 had been offered for this infamous pur-
pose, ,snd the names of the subscribers we're
taken down. The witness of this transaction
Is far from believing that this was mere gascon-
ade
We are told further that masters of vessels
and steamboats,, if suspected of free soil procliv-
tiles, are not safe. Only few days ago, a cap
tain and the clerk of river steamer were ta-
ken 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-cnptains are sub
Jected to wanton abuse and threats of violence
not because they are known to be Republicans
but because they are suspected of believing
that buying and selling men is not pure Democ-
racy and the highest evidence of Christianity.
New Orleans is certainly miniature Pande-
monium. . +r.r
Our informact says that on his way through
Southern Mississippi b. coach. (ths railroad
track being washed away for many miles, he
saw the dead bodies of two men suspended by
the neck from trees by the roadside In an
swer to the inquiry .'For what were these
men hung 2; he was told, because they were
d--d abolitionists ~ and the excuse for
the barharity displayed in permitting them to
remain, rotting in the sun. was, that ''Missis-
sippi would not pollute the State by having
d------ned abolitionists buried in the soil -
This fact, says our informant. displays as for
cibly as anything else the temper by which the
extremists Of that section of the country are i'm
PEELED. In further proof Of the insanity he re-
lates the escape of Professor Mitchell, the well
known Astronomer of Cincinnati. He was on
the cars going South. and when near jackson
Miss, a somewhat infiamed with IL
quor but more with pro-slavery hate, entered
into conversation with him on political subjects.
The Professor was cautious and reserved but
yenturing to say that he thought Mr.. Lincoln
Was conservative man and would not do in
justice to the South his pro-slavery friend was
greatly incensed and when the train halted
at Jackson jumped to the platform and shout
ed to the crowd about the station, There's
d--ned abolitionist on the train Lynch him ~
Instantly at least fifty men jumped on and COM
menced search for the offensive specimen Of
Northern opinion but before the Professor
could be pointed out the conductor. seeing the
danger, pulled his bell-cord and the cars
moved off, and with them the Professor with q
whole skin.
We have not told a fourth that has been rela-
ted to of the state of opinion in the South but
we have given enough to satisfy all parties that
when men of the North talk about conciliating
such ruffians by Compromise, they fooling
thoir time away. They mean reyolution.-Chi.
Tribune.