New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-02
VOLUME XIII.
SNeu Orleans QaiIy Gresfent.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1861.
WE MUST hcT PROMPTLY.

The Delta of yesterday contained some special
| dispatches from Washington in reference to the
| troubles between South Carolina and the General
| Government, which exhibit the President of the
United States In, to say the least of it, very in
consistent position. Everybody understood, from
his late message to Congress, that Mr.. Buchanan
was opposed to the policy of coercon-that if a
State Of the Union chose to secede, he was averse
to employing the Federal Army and Navy in the
attempt to reduce her to subiection Yet we arc
now informed that troops are to be sent to
Charleston Immediately that the Presidents let
ter to the South Carolina Commissioners is :" un-
satisfactory and flied with special pleadngu- that
he is every strong in his expressions against the
Secessionists and that two Of the Southern
members of the Cabinet, Thompson and Thomas,
have gone over to the enenly,n and consented
that the Federal troops shall be dispatched to
\ Charleston.
The act Of treacheEy on the part of tho Persistent
we do not complain of, nor are we at all SUI bFsed
at it. 1t accords precisely with our own previous
estimate OF James Bucbanants character, and il in
keeping with his whole political career. But that
there should be Southern members Of hs Cabinet
who can consent to hold a seat in IT. qfser the
avowal Of such policy, and who even subscribe
to the policy ITSELF is somethip> ich we are as
Il makes nc practical difference, one way or the
| other, so far ultimate results are concerned.
The Commissioners which South Carolina sent to
| Washington will have to 60 home and tell their
people to prepare for the approach of the Federal
enemy, instead of settling down into their ordinary
peaceful pursuits, as they had reason to believe
would be the case. Tie only consequence will be
the repulse of the Federal troops from Charleston,
not by the people Of South Carolina alone, but by
those of every other Southern State, who will
rally, by thousands, to their rescue the very mo-
mcnt it is known that Federal bayonets are pointed
at the hearts of the people of South Carolina. The
| attempt to Eubdue them will be utterly impotent
and futile-and if the President wishes to cover
| himself with undying infamy he has only to give
| the order for the Federal troops to march.
| We trust that we shall now hear no more of CO.
| operation, Of compromise, of anything that admits
| Of delay. Before cooperation can be brought
about this question will have been finally and for
| ever settled. The right of State to sscede,
whether by herself or in company with others, is
| about to be submitted, by the direction of the Ad-
| ininstration, to the arbitrament of the sword.
| South Carolina ia to be coerced-or, rather, vain
effort to coerce her is to be made--before the other
States will have the opportunity of asserting their
| own political independence, Thus, then, the
| States that are in the Union will have to stand
silently by and see the attempt made to crush out
| a sister State by the Federal Government. They
will be unable, as long as they are in the Union, to
extend official aid to their struggling sister, They
| will be unable, indeed, to assert their CIn sover-
| eighty to the extent Of repeling the Federal in
vader from their soil, if he should make it the
path to the field Of battle with South Carolina. In
| view Of this policy of the Administration, it be-
| comes Of the utmost Importance that every other
| Southern State follow the course which South
Carolina has pursued and retire from the Union at
| the earliest possible moment. The peril is not so
| imminent; but there are hundreds of other consd-
erations appealing to the justice, the maguannlity
! and the honor of the Southern States, which re-
| qure that we act OF once-promptly, decisively-
| we may say, dofantly.
| Let ali thought OF ' cooperation" now be buried
| in oblivion. We must cooperate only to save
| South Carolina from the degradation Of being ap-
| preached by armed Federal enlssaries and to do
| this we must make haste to get out of Union,
under the flag of which this raid upon sovereign
State is to he conducted. Cooperation is delay,
and delay is death. We want no such course 10 be
pursued by tie State of Louisiana. If she has no
| sympathy with the cause Of South Carolina, and
the cause of the South let her say so in outright
! and downright language. But if she accepts the
issue now rendered by the Federal Government,
every day Of delay, whether for cooperation or
anything else, is traught with inCalculabe mischief
and disaster.
REIGN OF TERROR IN PoEASD.--The following is
an extract Of letter, dated Wilma, November
| 1860, and published in the HIddom0sci Polshie:
| We live in reign of terror The DAYS of
Nicholas have revived in all their horror, and no
one can say what will happen on the morrow. The
Commission OF Inquiry has again been established
under the presidency Of Col. Haer, the chief Of
the Governors office. Searches in private houses
are frequent. The local chief of police, Wasilew
generally enters house unexpectedly at midnight
| with oil his suite, tumblng about papers and books
and looking into the pockets and beds of the in
| habitants. Men are sent to prison for having in
their possession forbidden books, which have been
for the last few years in uninterrupted circulation
about the country, and have found readers among
all classes from the students of the universities to
the employs of the police. All kinds of books
| and pamphlets are being looked for. A few days
| ago, Ass, the bookseller, in whose shop bundle
| Of foreign publications was found was arrested
| In former letter Informed you OF the imprson-
| ment of Ladslas JanknowsEi. The fate of that
gentleman greatly interests ali here, for every one
| is convinced of his innocence and of his worthy,
| immaculate character. He had boys school, and
| by dint of immense labor supported respectfully,
not only himself, but also his old father and his
two younger brothers, who are being educated at
| the University. The reason of this imprisonment
| was, that last year man lived at his house named
| Wisniewski a tutor, in whose possession were
found sundry patriotic verses. Many hope that
| eventually Janknowski will be restored to liberty
but in any case his career has been stopped ana
his means of life taken from him, and that they
call favor. As have already said that the days
of Nicholas have returned. need not add that the
| days Of HerOd have come too, and that the perse.
| cution Of children enters into the programme of
| these Sdt30HiGregnd. Several students have been
| imprisoned, R0mer, Grandson of tho late Mar
sha Ronler) pupil at the Dworzauski Institute,
who was accused of having put out some lamps in
the windows the day Of the arrival of the Czar,
was, by order of the principal Of the school, so
ptiGssly beaten with rods that next day the poor
boy became insane. All these prosecutions are
the consequence af an order of the Emperor to in-
quiro into cOnspiraces which never did or could
| have existed.
ANOTHER WiEE Across TIE MIssIssIPPI.-The
lightning hand now untes Memphis and Des Arc,
on White river, Arkansas. The Mayor of the
former received the following dispatch on the oc-
casion Of the completion of the wires to Des Arc:
| DHs ARC Dec. %, 1860
To The Mayor Of Memphis: Compliments of the
| Mayor OF Des Arc to the Mayor of Memphis She
| is great town, and Des Arc may become great
city. MAYOR OF DEs ARC.
The telegraph line is just completed to Des Arc,
hence the above.