, 1861-05-17

thus; Gentlemen, now go home and teIl
your people if they don't attack Us we won't
attack them; If they attack rs We will re.
taliate severely. Troops must come IN
Washington and that through Maryland.
and they shall"
In Boston over $l2, 900 has been raised
for Fletcher Webster's regiment. Tbev
will be ready to march in few days.
Lieut.. Brown, who resigned from. tho
Niagara, has been arrested for utteying 60.
ditious language, and confined in the re-
ceiying ship Ohio.
The citizens on the coast Of New Hamn.
shire are putting their harbors in a state Of
defence, aud from the White Mountains IN
the ocean in New Hampshire, they are
ready for duty.
The Legislature Of Vermont unauimousIv
appropriated 500, 900 for military purposes
and throughout the State enrolling and or.
ganizing is going on.
The steamers Massachusetts, and SouA
Carolina have gone to the Navy Yard to
be raced and constructed into war vessels.
The New Orleans dispatches of yester-
day say the steamer CatawJa, of the New
Orleans aud New York line, was seized at
one O'Clock yesterday morning, but was sub
sequently released by order Of the Mont
merry government, and sailed at six o'clock
in the evening.
Accounts from the upper parishes say
that the military excitement is increasing
and volunteer companies are forming rap
idly.
The planters are Offering money freely.
Rumors from an authentic source have
reached Brazos that the Mexicaus are get.
ting up another guerrilla warfare against
the citizens on the Rio Grande about
Brownsville. The town Of Roma has been
pillaged and burnt, and many families have
been murdered. Brownsville, also, has
been threatened.
The number Of Federal troops left in
Texas is about / ,00O They are abundant.
ly supplied with provisions and means Of
transportation. The number in the vicinity
ofIndianaola is about Eve hundred
There is no donbt that Gosport Navy
Yard was blown up, the ships scuttled, and
the U. S. troops withdrawn. The Virgin
ians also intended to carry Fort Monroe By
surprise, but 1t was reinforced
In consequence Of the telegraph and mail
communications from the South being in o
great measure interrupted, by order Of the
Confederate authorities, il is impossible to
get any important Southern news.
There are every day reports and contra
dictions. Reliable information cannot be
obtained until free communication by tho
telegraph is restored. -.
The Illinois Legislature had under con-
sideration yesterday bill for the organiza-
tion Of six regiments, as called for by the
President. The bill passed and was signed
by the Governor.
At the assembling Of the Illinois Legis-
lature, Senator Douglas addressed both
Houses in the Representatives Hall, last
night, and was enthusiastically received.
He said a war Of determination and oppres-
sion is now being Waged against the Fede-
raj Government. Walker boasts, that on
the LIST Of May the Confederate flag win
wave from the dome Of the National Capt.
tol, and on the 4th Of July the army will
occupy Independence Hall. Already, their
piratical flag Is uufnrled against our COM
merce, and the navigation Of the Mississip-
pi is obstrueted, and we are required to
pay tribute at its mouth, The question is,
shall we allow this to proceed, or meet the
oppression. He said there was no cause
for this rebellion, that no evidence had
been presented that their institutions we're
insecure, that the Fugitive Slave Law was
NoI rBfkt,
Gently, at Chicago. Are we to inaugurate
the Mexican system in the United States2
Had the candidate Of the DisuniOnsts been
elected, and the Republicans Of the North
rebelled, would have used my best efforts
to crush them. The FIRST duty of AmeFi-
can citizens is obedience to the Constitu-
ton and the laws In my opinion it is our
duty to lay aside all party creeds and plat
forms, until you have secured the country
from our assailants. l will never aequiesce
in warfare upon the Constitutional rights
or institutions of the South. If an attempt
be made to invade these rights, or incite
servile insurrection against them, would
be the first to rush to the rescue, yet they
must distinctly understand that / will never
aequiesce in their invasion of our Constitu-
tlOudl IIBuIS.
1t is clearly against Constitutional free
dom to attempt to crush the United States.
out of the map Of Christendom. He ap-
pealed to the men Of all parties not to al
low their passions to get the better Of their
judgment, and not to attempt to manufac-
ture partisan capital out Of the miseries
and struggles Of their country To the
Democrats he would say, don't allow party
considerations to make you traitors. The
most stupendous and unanimous prepara-
tions for war is the shortest way to peace.
The greater the unanimity the less blood
will be shed. Every friend Of the country
must feel that this cause is his own. The
Seeded States have proceeded to obstruct
our most inalienable rights of navigation Of
the Mississippi River The people of the
Mississippi Valley can never consent to be
excluded from free access to the Gulf Of
Mexico. will never cease to urge my