The national Republican., 1861-04-08
ONLY A NAVY YARD.

announced in his Inaugural and now being
maintained by acts, the retention OF Fori Pick.
ems against The threats aud force Of an insolent
rebellion, is in the following paragraph:
"We freely confess that we should regard its
abar donment by the Government as the wisest
conceivable policy. Except for local purposes,
for the defence Of Pensacola and its navy
yard, the possession Of Fort Pickens is of no
earthly Importance to the United States and
to continue to hold it when not designing at
the same time to maintain intact its wonted
authority over the town Of Pensacola, eau mean
nothing else than that points of so called hon.
or are entering into the Governments policy in
that quarter"
If there is any point here, it is that Fort
Pickens is Of no use, unless it is intended at
once to retake the navy yard, which, by the way,
is half dozen miles from the little town Of
Pensacola. But the retention of Fort Pickens
will enable us to retake the navy yard when.
ever we please hereafter. 1t is the power Of the
fort over the navy yard, which is an element Of
its value, and this power is none the less
worth preserving, because its exercise may be
deferred to q more convenient season. Fort
| Pickens gives us the command of the harbor of
Pensacola, including the navy yard, and that
command is of priceless importance, because
there is no other harbor on the Gull, with water
enough for vessels Of war.
There is no commerce at Pensacola, and the
habitdNs of Florida have no concern with it,
and still less, the roughs and rowdies who have
been collected there from Mississippi, Alabama
and Georgia.
We suppose that the Star is ready to main.
tain that to hold on to Fort Monroe, which Sc.
cures the safety of this Capital, would be q
mere point Of so called honor"
AFFAIRS IN THE Seeded STATES.
The following is an extract from letter to
the 81. Louis Republican, written from Austin,
Texas, on the 25th of March
"a despotism is upon the people. The
usual consequences have followed. Trade par.
alyzed money out of the question; many
| people feeling insecure in liberty and estate,
and seeking new homes; the United States
army driven off; our frontier exposed; our
internal improvements and the cause Of edu.
cation arrested. No man can see the end
"You may ask me if the people cannot be
aroused. Look at the state of things in all
these Confederate States Few presses have
the boldness or Independence to speak out the
facts as they are. The mails are under the
control of the disunionsts, and nearly all
prominent politicians are in the movement,
finding their reward as members of Conven.
tions military officers, or in the promise of
giving to everybody everything, and making
everybody independent of everybody else. Large
standing armies are being raised life tenure
in office is proposed heavy tariff is grinding
us q Government at Montgomery is grinding
away, without any responsibility to the people.
| If liberty survives all this, we shall owe it to
good fortune rather than to the disposition of
the leaders or the vigilance of the oppressed
Masses"
A Texas correspondent of the N. Y. Esening
Post says:
San Antonio, Texas, March ls.-You ask
me now, what has Texas gained by secession
/ answer, nothing absolutely nothing She
has lost everything. She has lost the overland
mail, the Pacific railroad, and the immense
yearly expenditures of the United States army.
With her own hands she has poured forth her
own liie.blood, and spurned from her midst the
very source of her wealth. Besides this she
has brought upon herself calamity more to
be dreaded than the pestence. l refer to the
Indians, who emboldenod by the departure
of the United States troops from the long line
of our frontier, are now desolating it with all
the savage ferocity of their nature.
"Day after day we receive news of the mur.
dering of whole families, and the stealing of
thousands of horses and cattle, from the poor
settlers. The frontier is almost depopulated,
by reason of the desertion of its inhabitants,
and is now entirely at the mercy of the red.
| skins. They have even been so bold as to
come within FIVE miles of this large town. The
cry for aid and protection has, of course, been
responded to by the people Of San Antonio
young and old, rich and poor, have left their
business, and are securing the country-your
correspondent would also have gone, could he
have gotten ahorse. More than this, the Mexi
cans along the Rio Grande, knowing of the
revolution, are about to prey upon us; and
Cortinss the outlaw, is now upon the frontier,
with some six hundred bandits, waiting, they
say, for a chance to plunder.
with the scarcity of money and the pros.
pective tariff we shall suffer much here, unless
kind Providence gives us bountiful harvest.
"If mistake not, the tyranny and oppression
of the Convention at Austin must soon produce
its effect, and before long you may expect to
hear of great uprisings of the people here in
Texas as we'll as throughout the South.
! "To conclude: Texas, by her hasty action,
has sunk to the position which she occupied ten
years ago."
The ~ Y Tribune is impatient for move.
ment on the part of the Union men of the Sc.
ceded region. They will move when matters get
ripe; and that they are rpening fast, is appa.
rent from the above letters. This revolution
started out as revolutions generally do, by
promising everything to Everybody. The har-
vest of disappointment is now being reaped,
and it is an early and most abundant one, and
nowhere more so than in Texas.
EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED STATES TO
HAYTI.-Intelligenc from Port.au.P Prince of
the 18th ult. states that the brig Mary A. Jones,
with Al colored emigrants from the United
States on board, arrived there few days pre-.
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