Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-04-03


COMMISSIONERS FROM TEXAS IN New Mex
leo, ARIZONA, SONORA AND Chihuahua
Intelligence was received in Washington, on
Saturday, and laid before the Administration,
to the effect that Commissioners are now in
New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, Chihuahua,
despatched hence by the independent State
Of Texas, to confer with the people of these
Territories in relation to the present politi-
cal crisis, and to invite their co operation in
the formation Of the Southern Confederacy,
to be composed Of such slave States rs may
unite themselves for this object. The Com
missioners use the following significant lam
guage in their address to the people in those
Territories:
Every argument and every appeal hitherto
made in behalf ofthe prosperity of our once
glorious country, seems to have proved made
quate to the task of crushing out the black
fanaticism of the North, and the current of
secession, impellcd on by a sense of duty
and hereditary honor by the South, cannot
he turned to its fountain. Irreconcileable as
the thought may be to the American patriot,
the stern fact is palpable that the bonds of
our Union are severed. The beacon light of
hope, which a few days ago, doomed up in the
heart of every lover of his country, now
flickers dimly in the socket. and apparently
no earthly power, can avert the dissolution of
the slave a~ndnon-slave states of the Union. 1t
must be determined whether you will longer,
feeding upon hope, live in anarchy, or forget
a government by whom you nave been DIS
oaTded, even turning a deaf ear to your sup
plications, and at whose door you can justly
lay thelives and fortunes of many ofy our best
citizens
The matter seems to be we'll received
The Commissioners are invited to attend a
convention, convened to meet on March 16,
at MeSilla, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration the present political crisis of the
country. This convention, it was confidently
believed, would adopt some plan for the
carrying out Of the movement contemplated
by the commissioners.
This intelligence has caused great uneasi-
ness on the part of the administration. This
is another embarrassing question butt has
to be met, and that promptly too; for the
administration clearly see in the movement
the designs of the South towards the fertile
plains of Mexico.
WAsHINGTGN, March 27.-Private accounts
from New Mexico represent that the Texas
COMMISSIONS has met with little if any sue
cess in his secession efforts in that Territory.
The prospect of an extra session of Con-
gress is not encouraging. Many of the Re-
publican Senators are opposed to it. The
subject has not seriously occupied the atten-
ton of the administration
News FROM TExAs.-Gentlemen direct
=, from Texas represent the Union feeling there
as very strong, and as gaining ground, al
though the clustering Secessionists are pro-
. fessedly carrying all before them. Stirring
! news may soon be expected. Sam Houston,
. although formerly deposed from the Govern.
' orship of the State by the recent Conven-
ton, does not intend to give up his place
without a struggle. Dispatches from him,
i just received here, draw a gloomy picture n
the condition Of affairs, and declare that civil
n war is inevitable. He has the Convention
v and a host of the rebels arrayed against him
: but he is not the "0ld Sam of former days
# if he cannot find hackers enough to show
"a fight. The latest information indicates tina
he has studied his position, and taken a firm
stand against the Seceders. He expresses
g no fear of the ultimate result of the conflict
d which he seems to regard as very near.