Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-28
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
BELLEFosTE, Ala, G. s. A.. a
March Is, 1861. {
N. 0 WALLACE

committed myself, when ! left your
deleciable town, TO place myself under
the sgis Of a foreign government.
because | felt that more worthy
matter claimed your attention; bat
now since temporary calm has oc-
CURED and The powers that be are
pausing and apxiously Surveying he
national chesstoard eparatory TO an
Their NOV; while paragraph writers,
are patiently waiting like Wilkins
McCauber for some thing to turn up,
| will send you few lines hoping
that they may al lcnst serve to fill
up; knowing tia, editors like 'spru-
i lent nature abhor a vacuum.
j have become pretty well ac-
quainted with the people in ihIs local
ity and liDd them to be determined
ST cessionists, not that impetuous,
hasiy, leap before you look, kind of
people that they are generally rep.
resented 10 be, hui cool. prudent aud
calculating. and consequently these
sentiments are permanent and un-
alterable. There is no ostentatious
buster about them, but each, con-
,cious of the iortitude and patIiotism
that will pc required to sustain their
new government, are quietly awaiting
The issue Of evf MIS-, and bold them
selves ready to "beat 10 arms"
whenever the necessity r. quires IT.
Several companies organized in this
county, have proliered themst Ives 20
the Government Some | understand
have been accepted.
Their rauks are not cempcstd Of
advent urous youth, aud desperal
characters who have DO higher OBJ
j ct than a holiday expedition. bat
number among thom the prominent
men Of the county among the pr
Yates the professions are we'll rep
resented indeed ali classes are well
represented, the press, the pulpit.
merchants, students, sc. &c, bays of
Is side By side with their sires Of 90.
have seen many articles constru-
ing the inaugural as smbodying war
measures. | must confess | do not
deem it consiraabIe either way, Ger
tainly III was intended us 'war-tack .
sabseq uelt events have not derel-
oped such to be lis spirill The Black
republicans have "lashed tempest
into an ocean to drown hy.
IB +, ilecting upon what Lincoln
said be would do and npon what be
he has done, | an reminded Of the
old nursery eoDplet
The King Of France with twenty thousand
Marched up hill and then-nla'e1sl DOM
again.
/ mag be however that the pres
ent state Of mastery inactivity is
ominous OF pending storm, aud a
prelude to the wnr that will 'treb!y
laundering swell the gale
1t has been reported here tlat
Fort Sumter has been evacuated, but !
in these piping times the ycraclty of
telegrapbie reporters is at heavy /
discount, and it is not credited. Ii
it were so. though, il seems TO me-
that Lincoln is but making a Virtue
OF neces siiy, since the OrAcuiar Die
lator has said it is Impossible 10 re-
inloree the garrison. Notwitistsn,l-
ing this fact, some who love he Tn
Mon not wisely but too well consider
such a coup d eiat a pence measure.
| hope Tennessee viii not allow her.
sell TO be betrayed By kiss. The
which he purposes to col
lect the import dulles is quite novel,
and any one who is at all CONVEX
SAINT with the custom OF importers
and The regulations Of the custom
house must pronounce IT fanaticil
bbsuriity-bu, if such 4 thing were
mol imITaciicable in.l.sell' vonl'ilt be
permitted by the Confederate States
n submitted to by ioreign govern
mentss | opine not.
] was very much surprised aud no
ess chagrined at the result Of your /.
February election; before that event
be position which Tennessee wonid .
axe was locked forward TO with con.
siderable interest coupled With a fpel-l
ng of distrust. / insisted TINT
ucb was unfounded and that prtju- .
ice should be smoihered unlil~lhe ,
esGlt was known. Well! ne hare !
eefl arhnf me hare seem. since hen !.