New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-18
LATE rELEGRAPtsuC DISPATCHES,

For our part we are very much gratifed with
the mass of Geographic dispatches that have beer
poured upon the people since the news of the
unconditional surrender of Fort Sumter reached
all sections of the continent, North, South, East
and West.
The intelligence, officially communicated to Gen.
| Beauregard, that the Government at Washington
had determined to provision and reinforce Fort
SUMTER "peaceably if they oould-forcibly if they
must made the people of the Confederate States
a unit and the bombardmeut and surrender
which followed only served to perfect that unity of
feeling, if such thing were possible. None but
traitors at heart now fail to cordially support the
Montgomery Government.
While this result has been brought about in the
Confederate States, the foolish as we'll as insane
policy of Lincoln and his advisers, in forcing hos
tiities in the first instance and formally declaring
war in the second has produced its natural effect
in the Border Slave States. The people of those
States honestly clung to the old Union, deluded by
the conciliatory promises of Lincoln, hoping that
reconstruction on just basis was alike feasible
| and desirable They are now undeceived. The
mask has been thrown off-and the hideous Abo-
liton monster stands before them in repulsive,
unmitigated wickedness. They recoil from the
prompt measures to join their fortunes and des-
TIMES with their brothers of the South.
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Caro-
lima will lock shields with the Confederate States
in less than thirty days. No other alternative is
left them Indeed the intoerabe insult offered
the people of Virginia and Kentucky by Lincoln,
in calling upon their Governors to furnish men
to wage war upon US, may, it ought, lead
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hearted Abolitionist, could have sunk so low as to
thus attempt to outrage all the ties of consan-
guinity interest and inclination. Virgnians and
kentuckians cannot fight Louisanians, without
they are prepared to shed the blood of their own
relatives, so closely are family alliances inter-
twned. Why did not Lincoln send to the New
England States for troops, instead of calling upon
Virginia and Kentucky? Because he is an Abo
litionist-and in that single word the sum total of
all that is cowardly and unutteraby infamous is
comprised.
We pay very little attention to the dispatches
from the North-the accounts of public meetings
and the rendering of troops. Lincoln's Govern
ment cannot prepare one hundred thousand men
for march in six months. 1t takes time as well
as money to do such things. The other day Gov
Curtin of Pennsylvania, according to the telegraph,
forty eight hours, if their services were required
A late Philadelphia paper informs US that the State
does not own arms enough to fully equip five
thousand men!
Then, again, none of these troops propose to
march south Of Washington. Lincoln may be en-
abled to concentrate large army there, and keep
it in that vicinity, as long he raise a dollar
or force a reluctant creditor to take treasury
note at par, when it is at heavy discount, or get
| nothing; but when that resource is exhausted as
it must speedily be, there will be general break
ing up in consequence thereof, unless jeff Davis
forces compel an evacuation at an earlier period,
which is most probable, according to our view
For these reasons, we conclude that Lincoln's
war policy, combined with his treachery and
doubledealing has brought about what we have
long hoped fora hearty union of ali the slave
holding commonwealth with the Confederate
States of the South.
Thus, their own wickedness has brought confu-
sion upon our enemies. So may it ever be.