New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-18
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.


the bOrIliH yrant was installed on tHe throne,
and not being paid for the inconvenience of so do
ing, SHALL on the morrow, Providence willing,
shake off the dust of my feet against the city, and
take up the line of march Southwark.
There have been no new developments. The
drift OF the Gorilla policy has not manifested itself
in action No practical coercion step has been
taken. "Orders in council u are being prepared.
no donbt hnt they are kept secret. The first blow
1T ruck by the Coercive. Kangaroo powers will be
In secret. The first stab at the Southern Confede
racy will be in the dark
| In lieu OF deeds, we have CAB. endless CAB.
| Each day OF the week is set apart by the delega-
tons from the triumphant States for paying obse
quous ciVllltles to the various and snndry animals
freshly Gagged in the Federal menagerie. Early in
| the morning some hotel v0mts dark stream Of
human forms, containing the aouls Of insects Now,
Wizards gapes its great iawg and lets out thous
and pismires from New York now the Avenue
House heaves up couple Of hundred ascarides
from Indiana These wind their way to the white
den OF the Imperial Gorilla thence to the burrow
| of the prGeminent weayel, Seward thence to the
coop Of the plumed peacock and bustard -ofwar,
Scott thence to the kennel Of the incompatible
hound, Andy johnson and so on around the entire
ring. Of royal beasts, princely nondescrpts, and
martial birds Of prey.
| In reference to the vermicular obeissnce made
to the kingly quadrupeds and fowls, there is one
note with many variations. All the potentates and
powder thorned big bugs make it their business to
congratulate the worms Of the dust that they hnue
n Government" This the burden Of every throat.
from the shrek Of the king gorilla down to the foul
howl OF the hound. Would to heaven your readers
| could peruse the local columns OF to-day's Star
that abhorrent repository of the excrementous
ideas of His Supreme Loathsomeness, Dug Wallach.
| Permit me- AS An act Of necessary deflement to
insert for the frat and last time, in the clean and
pure pages Of tho Crescent, few elegant and odor
ferrous extracts:
To the Illinois parasites Gorilla Lincoln said
I" am little more troubled to know what not to
aay upon this occasion than I ever have been.
T 1,i,t Wn nroN aSnin OF Tia
success so far of tho principles of Government"
Government" you see The plumed peacock
and BASTARD of war, Scott said:
ave had yesterday great saturnaa. Our
Union has been in state Of great peril, but thank
| God, we yet have Federal Government. Tim
mense appause.] Thank God, the great body Of
the Union still exists. E Amen THANK God
yes, and ever WILL Yes, thank God. we still
glorious President. Another voice-yes, and eo
rious General, tool And . President who has
brought the right heart and the right mind TO pre-
serve what we have, and to bring back what we
have lost"
"Federal Government you perceive. Bring
back what we have lost" yon observe.
Hannibal Mulatto Hanlin being sick, a thing ap-
| peared for him and said
"My friends, Mr. Hamn is unable to appear to-
day. He is now quite ill., and You know if our
Abraham should be removed to old Abraham's
| bosom, should want him to fill his place"
| daughter and applause.l
g Abrahams BOSOM" you will consider A
neat joke, and the nation in pretty fix for joking.
| Canine Johnson said:
"The country is in a crisia. There has been
peril upon it, and it requires oil true men and
| good men to stand together, whether they live in
Illinois Tennessee, for the maintenance of the
Union"
Maintenance Of the Union" you observe.
Rumpless Rooster Wool, said /:
| 81 assure you. nothing gives me greater plea
sure than to see 1noisans, knowing them, as do,
as being always faithful to their country. and,
under all circumstances, ready to sustain this
Union. [Applause. ]"
Sustain this Union" you notice. Weazel Sew
| ard expressed his pleasure in welcoming them
to his house, and at being able to assure them that
| they had Government. In the struggle through
which they were passing they should forget all
sectionalism, and, uniting upon the firm basis of
the Constitution, maintain the Government at all
| hazards"
Government at all hazards" you remark.
Asinus Maximus Trumbull said:
| "They had no Government few days ago. but
they had one now, and it must and should be
maintained. [Applause.l If they were firm and
| Government at all hazards, there would ne no
need of fighting. [ A voice-How's the Cabinet y
The Cabinet is with the President Mr.. Lincoln is
President, and the Cabinet will sustain him.
When they go back to Illinois, be wanted them to
inform the public mind of the state of feeling in
Washington; of the unity of the Cabinet, and of
their determination to sustain the Government"
uphold the Government" mark you. Skunk
Loveioy said:
"The great overshadowing question Have
we Government" Some wanted to settle the
difficulties by compromise, even if they destroyed
the Constitution itself. They were like the Jews,
who crucied their Maker that they might save the
silver and pillars of the temple. He did not be-
| eve that 80 OOH 900 people would live without
| Government. If war must come, let it come. Je
h0vah allowed it in heaven. IA voice. Yes, and
the secessionists went DOWN. You recolect how
the battle waCed, and how it resulted. A voice
{ Exactly.l You know where they went to-where
oil oil Oupht fkDlPRS-t
are already on the way.'1'
"Hare IRE a Gorernnent?" I beg you to re-
member. And very. binding" even astringent
on the secessonists, is Skunk LOveoy.
Last. but not least, Cacoethes Loquendi VoA An
| gcus Timber jaw Baker said
'They must use every weapon of peace, of mod
Grafton and concession, and if possible win back
their estranged brethren. But if it did no good
and men persisted in their madness and treason
then let them strike for their Government. Let
nothing be undone that would avert war, but if it
| did come let the flag of the old Union wave in the
front of the battle. [Cheersl If they must strike
for their Union and their Government, strike hard
and home. But before this was resorted to, they
should concede everything that an honorable man
| might ask or an honorable man offer"
| q Strike for the GoUernn7ent, strike hard and
home, - pray you heed and cherish in the inmost
| reCesses of memory.
have not bored YOU with all this stuff for no.
thing. 1t will have historic value some years
hence. It will show with what cunning and CON
nvance the abolition usurpers set to work as soon
as they got in power to stir up the national attach
ment of the people for the Government. And why !?
Plainly to arouse their affections to the fever heat
of war; of fighting for the Government. They talk
of concessions-some few Of them debut that is a
part of the game. See how admirably it will act
| Concessions not worth button will be proffered.
They will be rejected. Concessions which might
have heen all the South asked desired before The
Southern Confedcracy ards formed, will then be
tried for it will be perfectly safe to make them.
Then kno1o they 1ciN be rejected. Once rejected,
they will turn to the people of the North and say
See what sacrifices of principle we were willing
to make for the sake of the Union and behold how
the rebels have spurned us in their mad desire to
| break up the Government. Men of the North
Americans, Freemen, Sons of the Heroes of Bunker
Hill will you stand tamely by and see your Gov
eminent destroyed by the tools of the slave power"
| And like the sound of many waters, "Never!
| never!h will be Numbered from the North. The
pear will then be ripe, the war will begin, and the
perpetuity of the Republican party-in no other
way attainahle-will be assured. This 7 think is
their plan. 1t may fail in practice, but it is ad-
miraby devised.
1t is with mingled Indignation and grief that re-
peat the generally credited statement that Mr..
rittenden is to be rewarded for his devotion to the
Union by Black Republican appointment to the
Supreme Court How have the mighty fallen
| Eight hundred more mercenaries will be here in
few days if rumor is to be believed. The more
| the merrier.
IAN much inclined to give a resume of the event
| full session Just ended, but space forbds. That
must be the historians task. We who have been
in the thick of the revolution and have played such
| parts as we were able to perform in it we who
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