New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-15
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.


Specialize the New Orleans Cresccnt.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. s, 1861.
iN'. Editor-We get glorious news this morn.
ing, for surely that is glorious which unites the
South. dispatch has just been received from
Charleston, by an army officer here, stating that
Anderson, being apprized that rcnforcements
were on their way to him. at once wrote letter
to the officer in command of Fort Moultrie, telling
him that if the rGinforcements were molested in
their approach to Sumter, lie would fire into Moul-
trie. The South Carolinan replied at once q fire,
and be d--d!" So the war begins. We purchase
our liberties with price; we unite the South with
that best of cements, blood.
That inbecile, untruhfuI old man, Buchanan,
gave his word of honor to Boteler, of Virginia, that
no Federal troops should be sent to Harper's
Ferry. No sooner was his honor pledged than he
fastened to perjure himself, by sending twenty
five soldiers there from Carlisle barracks and
the report is that other soldiers will be sent
from Fort McHenry. Good The bayonet will
rouse that slumbering lioness, Virginia and when
size springs, look out!
In the face of actual Federal oppression, pro.
claimed at the cannon's mouth, is it conceivable
that men, Southern men, New Orleans men, will
commit themselves to the delay of cooperation? !?
Tell it not in Gath! I will not cannot believe
it. Merciful Heavens! Shall this day, so sacred
to Louisianians, witness the wanton shedding of
Southern blood; and Southern men, descended
of the heroes of the battle of New Orleans,
stand by with folded hands and say, tlet us
be patient and take things easy, there is no
need for hurry Indeed You will wait then
until you are bound hand and foot-for what? For
fear of = horrid word = precipitation. You will
|
aud say, don'tbe excited keep cool take things
easy" The plain truth is this we have cause to
be excited, abundant cause. The Southern man W ho
is not excited now, either loves the North better
than the South or his fear overcomes his indig-
nation, and he keeps quiet because he is scared.
After Crttenden's appeals, addressed yesterday
to the Abolitionists, and their naughty, scornful
silence, all kentucky will leap to arms. Burnett
reported the land in blaze of fire ten days ago.
| What will it be now?
Andy Johnson, the back-hearted traitor, has
been hung in eifigy over and over again in West
| Tennessee. The brave fellows in one county
! carried their Indignation so far as to hang Andy
| and then shoot him to pieces. In another county
| they hung him, shot him, cut him down. quartered
him, put the quarters in coffin, nailed it down
and sent it North by Adams Express. This is the
| reward of coercion
| The pleasantest sight have seen here this win
| ter occurred in Browns hotel the night the Mem
| phis Appeal came with its denunciation of Andy
| tall Tennesseean stood up in the middle Of The
floor and read it aloud to two members from his
State. The article was admirably and powerfully
written. The members applauded each sentence
and when the reader closed, in the excess Of theil
delight, they rushed into each others arms like two
| French comrades embracing after long absence
You see the Appeal was Douglas paper, and SC
strong that it divided the Democratic party ant
carried the State for Bell. An attack on Andy
from such source was indeed eXhiarating. II
| showed brotherhood in the State, now that the
question of arms has been raised We shall ge
good tidings from the smooth bores of Tennessee
when the fight begins.
After Mr.. Crttenden closed yesterday, Mr.
Toonbs rose and made a thorough going Southern
speech. Some of its passages displayed grea
power but his habit of dropping his voice and talk
ing as it were to himself, marred the effect very
much. Still, it was up to the mark of Southern
sentiment-bold, defiant, strong. He gave thu
North to understand that the South accepted the
gage Of battle eagerly, and when taken up it woul,
not be laid down until our enemies were crazy will
sorrow in that they had been foolhardy enough t,
profItr it, The Abolitionists received his declara
ton of war with the utmost GOODNESS. What d.
they care? They don't intend to fight. The me
chanics they have reduced to starvation will do thu
fighting and then they will get rid of them. The.
are in their glory. By adroit management the.
) have got Buchanan into the war; and now they cal
get all the credit of ending it when they come in
or else have every excuse for carrying it Oh. Thus
the Lord be praised, all things conspire to necoss
tate dissolution and to bind the South together a
| one man.
Pennsylvania Avenue is full of volunteer soldier
to-day. They march badly. Very shortly the
will march to another tune. Guns have been fire.
for Anderson. Soon they will be firing agains
him. At this very moment Sumter may be re
ducing Moultrie TO ashes. No matter. We did al
we could to avoid bloodshed. 1t has been force
, upon us and we must, we will have drop for drop
There's no loophole large enough now for the sui
missionists small as they are, to creep through
They, like the rest of us, must face the music.
There is some talk about the Senators from tn
seeding States remaining here after their State
go ont, in order to staye off the passage Of fore
bill. Let us stoop to no such trick. 1t is unworth
Of the South. Itpostpones the evil day but sho1
time. Let us 60 out boldly, fight bravely, and wi
an independence manfully, like our fathers befor
us. No Yankee tricks for US. MALoU,
SOUTHERN Observation-Disclosures. J. B. Waller
No lot of sou+hs,