New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-09
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The Convention Of Texas, out Of great deference
to tho popular will, determined to submit the act
of secession to q vote Of the people The vote
Y has been taken and we have never known d more
i onessided business in the course of our lives The
vote was like the handle of a jug-altogether on
one side. II is true, here and there, there was a
solitary individual who voted against secession;
| but all such must have been wags, who voted that
way merely for fun. IL is moro thoroughly solid
vote than used to be the Democratic vote in the
old Tenth Legion of Virginia, during the days of
Jackson and Van Buren,.
Probably no State of the South had greater
reason to abandon the old rotten Abolition Union
than Texas. During the last year it appeared that
there was an organized effort made to disturb her
domestic peace by Abolition emissaries from the
North. No one can have forgotten the plots
Matched in different parts of the State last summer
to lncite sefvile insurrection No one has for
gotten the villages burned and the farms laid
waste by the incendiary's torch. Under the pre-
tence OF sending preachers to Texas TO preach the
gospel, the North sent Abolitionists there to stir
up q revolt among the slaves, and to burn and
desolate the towns. The people of Texas caught
all OF these fellows that they could, and hung them
upon the nearest tree. without Judge or jury--and
IN go doing they did perfectly right. When an op-
portunIty presented itself of getting beyond a
Union IN which such spirit towards them was
manifested, 1t is not to be wondered at that they
gladly embraced it.
The Importance and the value of Texas to the
Southern Confederacy can hardly be overesti-
mated. She has territory enough for half dozen
states OF the ordinary size She has a soil of un-
surpassed fertility and sea coast of great eapaci-
ties for commercial intercourse. She can produce
not only cotton in almost unlimited quantities
| and wheat, corn and other cereals in abundance
Her mineral wealth is yet to be developed and
ascertained but enough is known to show that it
is very great. Her climate, as general thing is
good, and her people are brave, hardy and in.
dustrious. The Southern Confederacy welcomes
Texas, and greets her with the most friendly salu
tattons.
At one time it was thought that Texas would re- |
turn to her former condition of an Independent |
Republic. Happily for us, and for herself also, as
we think, she determined to cast her lot with her
sister States Of the South With common ipstitu
tons, with extensive business and social connect |
IONS with the other Southern States and with a |
common destiny before us, Texas became one Of
the Confederate States by natural and easv
transition. State which, in its infancy, defended
us independence Of Mexico by force of arms. and
8hlch IS capable Of becoming, and is rapidly be- |
coming, an Empire of itself, is an ally of which we
may well be proud. If Abolition should now at.
tempt the enterprise of subugation-an attempt /
winch Mexico gainly made quarter of a century
ago-lt Will ind that it has undertaken lob ruueh
easier to talk about than to accomplish. There
are no better fighters on earth than the Texans
ana thefe IS not man of them who would not die |
in the last ditch before he would acknowledge him.
self whipped.
Even should no other State join our Confederacy,
we Will be, in many respects, a frstclass nation
among the powers Of the EARTH We have a terri
tory extending from the Atlantic to the Rio Grande
u one direction, and from the Southern spurs Of
ne Allegheny mountains to the Gulf of Mexico in
We have every variety of soil and
inmate, and can produce and manufacture, if need
'e, everything necessary for the comfort Of our
eopie There is not such a free, brave. pros.
erous, and enlightened people on the face of the
lobe. II Old Abe Lincoln thinks he can subdne
: and pntus down, let him come along and trv it, fl