New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-09
VOLUME XIV.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
speeial 10 the New Orleans Crescent

Special 10 the New Orleans Crescent,l
WASHINGTON, March l, 1861.
| Spring once more-the spring of the most event
! full year in American history since 1776. 1t is
| soft, hazy day. full of mellow, light and heecy
Clouds rolling their white bulk athwart the dreamy
blue welkin. But it is too warm for comfort, ana
if it were not, the dense volumes of dust raised alott
by the true March wind would render this first day
of spring excessively disagreeabe.
| Yet little while-bareiy more than forty-eight
| hours and the all-important moment will have ar
riyed-the moment that is to see the tall frame of
| Abraham Lincoln lifted on the east portico Of the
Capitol to speak forth words more fraught with
veal or woe to the dismembered nation aye! to
| the whole civilized world, than any which have
issued from mortal lips during the last century
perhaps during any century. In anticipation Of
| this most solemn event, and with the assurance Of
safety under the bayonets of Scott's janssaries
thousands on thousands have already assembled in
the national metropolis. Tens of thousands more
on the way. The West, teeming with an adventu-
rous, impoverished and unscrupulous people, over
ioyed at the election of one of themselves to the
Chief Magistracy of the great Republic, has
disgorged vast shoals of overgrown, awkward,
eager and untiring hunters of place.
The like of Hoosiers Buckeyes, and beings from
unnamed and inconceivable holes and corners OF
the Northwest, was never seen before in Washing
ton. Every cormCrant of them is arrayed in his
Sunday best--a well preserved suit of shiny broad
| CLOTH of an obsolete cut and venerable age.
| There are also numerous herds of codfsl'faced
Yankees, laden each one with the inevitable carpet
bag, and vocerousy distributive Of the unaduter-
ated woodcn-nutmeg, horn-gun-aint accent. All
of them carry canes, and doubtless deader wea-
pons, for here they are in a newly conquered
province, filled with bioody-handed and murder
loving barbarians; the stout, carniyerous Mary
| lander on one side, and the bony, ghastly and
demoniacal Vrginan on the other. What son Of
| Freedom" is safe in the midst Of these assas-
sins? What though thousand trained soldiers,
with their red artillery, are at hand?
In an instant, ere he suspects danger-perhaps
IN the full blaze Of MONDAY and in the sacred pre-
sence of the mighty Railsplitter himself, the peace
full son of Connecticut may be stabbed to the
heart by some infuriatcd keeper of q slave-pen,
who laps the mild blood from his fifteen inch bowie,
and then hurries away into the herbless and unin-
habited wilds near Badensburg. Or, mayhap,
in the dead hour of night, when the impatient
Chcagoan is Fastening home from an interview
with the men who is to get him snug office in one
of the Departments perhaps then, some ravng
Secessionist may bring him down with an ounce
ball from Derringer, or, having empted one bar
rel of revolver into his unoffending breast, will
distribute the rest promiscuously into the nearest
crowd, and make off for his lair in the mountains
Of Culpeper.
No wonder, then. that the enterprsing stran-
gers keep together in squads and carry crooked
head canes, and try to frown down terrifcally
all the other Yankees and Hoosiers they meet
mstaking them for impiacable knife-welding
Southerners because they in their turn are frown-
ing terrifcally too. No wonder that as soon as
they find they can't get an office that day, they
heap themselves into the omnbusses running to the
steamboat that goes to Mount Vernon, and come
back hot, weary perspiring and huugry-ready to
eat everything on the table, and inclined not to BIZ
so particular about this that place as they were
when they first got to town. Poor, greedy, grasp
ing, unwashed, coarse grained devils Why coult
they not stay at home and pursue their cheating
and their fanaticsm in peace, selling their worth
less gmcracks for double value to simple minded
caIfbraincd Southerners, and attending the Sednce
of their bowling lecturers with steady devotion
Why precipitate themselves into this bottomles
duaemire of corruption aud meanness? Washing
| ton was bad enough before, Heaven knows
but what it will be after four years occupation
by these pumpkin.fed, semi covered, demi-lep
rous gcab. matched, tree-love enthusiasts and mig
ger-manacs, mortal man can only conjecture
When Lincoln descends the throne he shall hayt
befoned for ttwCc two times the rolling year, !
let Dante rise from the dead and return to th
earth for there will be new hell for him to paint
Ask me for no news. You have the telegraph
what more do you want? A h0zy web has bcel
, woven by the old women of the Peace Conference
+ with which they hope to bind up the frag
ments of O broken nation. The new seat in tn
breeches of the Union may last for day, but er
the going down of the sun the rotten threads vii
! have parted, and the rearward vacuum will gap
: more horribly than before. The natural damag
is beyond the tailor's art. Something fresh, strong
!, whole from the loom of time is needed
9 Lincoln has made speech to gang of Wash
ington lickspittles who gave him serenade las
0 night. Using the Imperial Ego, the unmannere6
ill-taugbt tool of an unprincpled party, told hi
T. serenaders that he would give the South all til
= rights to which was entitled under the Constitr
ton. Summing up all his speeches, and taking il
to view the fact that Chase and Blair are to be
" the Cabinet, am now convinced that what, for
|. week or two doubted is true, viz that Lincoln
j going to cberce. And let me tell you that thel
y are thousands in the slave States who will susta
j him. Recent disclosures made in the Virginia Coz
" vention leave no room to doubt that, far tt
e, old federalists are concerned, they are perfect
y, willing to sec the central dcspotism maintained
:: force of arms. The same is true of the "blu
G, lights'' in Maryland, Kentucky and Tenncssc
n They think secession is anarchy, and anything
" better than that. They honestly think so. Al
r, this more than all things else, is making war
e. certainty. Be prepared for it.
9 I shall remain for few days after the Fourth
y y March to see the drift of events and, after one
G two more letters, will close my labors for t
n, Crescent
a. MALOU.
"' Second Annual Report of the House of ii
, Good Shepherd.
ID IFor the year ending February 9th, 1861
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