New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-19
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Whoever relies upon telegraphic reports for
news, or for ascertaining what the Administration
| All Washington proposes to do, will have hard
| time of it to reach any fixed and definite concfu-
sion. One day We are informed that this or that
win be done, and the next day that it is all mis-
take One days intelligence is eontradieted by
the next until the reader left in such state OF
confusion and doubt that he hardly knows his mead
from his heels. It reminds as OF Ioodies STORY q
the man who went to sea. !" First we heara ifoth
him and then we didn't Then we did ana tnen VS.
didn't, then didn't and then W aio' ano 'A'n
did and then we didn't.
The latest news, which appears more reliable
tnan that we usually get, is that Seward has asked
far sixty DAYS time wherein to determine the policy
| of the Administration. The Southern Commission
ers we suppose are to wait for two months,
loafing about Washington City, to see what His
Supreme Highness, Mr.. Seward-for we do ot
take the rail-spltter into the account at aM-is
going to do about the Southern forts. T ais ia a
modest proposition, truly, Peace Congr esses, and
Congressional Committees, and indiv iduals have
been hammering and tinkering away at this bust
| ness fer three months, and yet NJ Seward wants
| TIVE more months time in witch to make up his
mind. The proposition is as insolent as it is ridic-
1 a5ous-and we think the Southern Commissioners
will represent sheir Government best by consider
ing and treating such proposal as downright in
suit.
1 These commissioners are not in Washington in
the chaesoter Of suitors. They not begging fol
ianythtag. They are not interiors approaching 0
superior, but they are the equals, in politca
sense, and the superiors in every other respect,
Seward or Lincoln, or any of the rest They go t,
arrange for an understanding whereby war may b.
avoided and collision between the two Confed
eracies averted by peaceful negotiation. To b.
met at this stage of the game, with proposition
for sixty days delay is piece of cool audacity IN
g usual in one who, like Seward, mostly acts upol
the Machiavellian system in his party and persona
f policy.
But the explanation of it is easy. The Abolitio
:, regime at Washington has been deceived by false
hoods emanating from the South to the effect tina
the people here are dissatisfied with the Souther
!, movement, and are anxious for reconstruction Q
the Union. They believe that time only is needle
to q develop the Union sentiment as they cali il
in the Southern States and for that sentiment to
h sert itself for the destruction of the Government
; Montgomery. This is a fatal error of course BIT
!. it is not to be wondered at that they commit it,
view of the multitadinous lies that are daily ser
: to the North from the Southern States in the wa
: of both private and public correspondence, b
!. Abolitionsts and Submissionists in our midst q
cretly and nsideusly seeking to betray the sectic
in which they live, and the people by whom the
are sustained fattening upon the generous bouni
le of the South, aud all the time plotting her ruiz
O. This is the secret of this sixty-day proposition
Of The Abolitonists are told that in sixty days th
Gulf States will be anxious to go back into til
Union, when, in truth, they are going back neithe
y in sixty days nor in sixty thousand years.
e As an illustration OF the way in which the stat
as of affairs at the South is misrepresented to til
II Northern people, read the following, which pul
ports to be letter written from Charleston Sout
Carolina, to the Philadelphia Enquirer. 1t was, i
all probability, written in the Office of the paper
"a and never saw Charleston, but that makes no dill
ference. The statements will be eagerly believe
by the Northern people, because they are anxiou
Al to believe them The writer, whoever he is seem
g to have forgotten the old rule that to keep pre-
y liability in view is one of the first requisites
il successful lying. We italicise some of the yer
IS "heavy1' statements:
ie am pleased to inform you that have to-nigh
met with scores, and from them know of han
dreds more, who have been called back to reaso
ID and to duty by the national and eloquent terms
. the inaugural.
G. Several men have said TO me tonight, we hay
worn the mask long enough-we have not dare
to speak, and scarcely to breathe the name of OIL
of own country but our hearts with the Union an
III the Constitution, and synpatlies are aruh Il
policy and principles ea1eaciated 6y abraham Lii
coin y This is important and reliable news ser
you this evening from Charleston. have Just lie
is d company Of some sixteen intelligent men, mar
b. of them natives of South Carolina. The comple
q message was brought in, and l was requested
y read il. These men were no politicians, and heal
N it read with respect and thoughtfuluess, and as
it. read the beautiful uerances with which it close
euery eye 1ras dinnaed Nth tears i; and one ma
If almost losing that command over his languae
!. which is necessary here, exclaimed, God Die:
y Abe Lincoln ~ and the pryer met NTH ,espons
y. in every heart.
IN am more and more convinced that the peopI
az are getting holder in their agowas of loyalty
= the Union. | handed man. this morning. a COP
q of the Inquirer. He told me that every paper h
1t could obtain, which spoke patriotcally for tn
he Union and the Constitution, were immediatel
Z snatched up by many of his friends