New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-18
VOLUME XIV.
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.


EdA01 crescent: got Il letter from New Or
leans not long ago, in which it was stated not t.
, my horror, that all the "short.gra Virginia
boys IN the Crescent City were cursng 'OIt
Short" (privatcly) all to ninters because of hc
submission to Lincoln" Now | was sorry of this
but not at all Mortified because myself had beer
doing that same thing day and night until very
recent period. May the Lord forgive me, for
outswore the army in Flanders by a long shot. Bu
can't blame myself so nightly much after all
1t all grew out Of a miscOnception, into which, nc
doubt, the @ Short boys in your town, anG
throughout the South, have fallen precisely as
fell. The mistake is natural enough, and it is this
We look upon the Convention here as the true cX
ponent Of the people Of Old Short--a big mistake
as will show.
You see, in the first place, the people were pro
digiously fooled by Letchcr and Sandy Stuart, in
the election for members of the Convention Our
side took too high ground, advocating immediate
secession for which the people were not pre-
pared,) instead Of guarantees, as Hunter advised
| Seeing this mistake, the other side moved up
almost to the very ground that we ought to have
| taken and consequently their men were elected.
Federalism, having achieved signal triumph, de-
termlned to hold its own as long as possible. It
has not yet given up, but | tell you it is mighty
| weak IN the knees.
| the people of the North would give them enough
TO STAND on: But devil an inch have they got, and
| now blood IS to be split, and with the first drop
away go al their hopes to the four winds OF leav-
| en-. cave they must Already they have lost the
| gentlemen on their side. Ballard Preston K. f.
! SGolC, " m l." NoGgIn, Jno I. Thornton, Speed,
| Slaughter Bruce, Jas. Barbour, and many more
are with us, Or nearly with that we are con
tent. Old Short is the mother of States Rights, as
well as Of statesmen You know very well that
no where in the world was Federalism so crystal
| |ed as mere Nhat otIer southern State kept up
q Standing army OF sixty or seventy thousand
wings steadiast ana 1rn, as the everlasting bills,
curing long years OF uhrcquted ildehty and eXces-
M MsiVe Denocfauc oppression; We'll, sir, in spite of
tiis persistent pctFlied adherence to federal doc
| trnes, would you believe it that these very men
VINO nave All the tme been preaching up ccntrali-
Za'ioh ana the paramount power OF the Federal
government were at heart states Rights to the
very core IL 1act. PcrhapS go little too
lar IN saying THIS. Theoretically they are unsound
as regards the rights of the States simply as States
out "neh II comes TO question between the Fed
Gfai uoVernment and OId Short, why that's a
dHIeFeAt LIih? lhey believe III Oid Short first
i'ls, ana all the lime. IheY love her, they rever
cnce hcr' and->heonrs to the contrary notwith
sandIn5-tAey are gong to stick to her through
thick ana thh
Then. agan we have always had here noble
BODY OF States Rlgt's Wings, and it would do your
heart good now to hear them anathemaizing the
"blnebel!icd Federalistsf in the Convention. q
Wool'dyed Democrat could mt do it better. But
what IS prettier to me is to hear Whigs who hate
the North as they do mean tobacco. and who 60
IN to the nit tor the South defending their doc.
tfInal VagareS about the Constitution and the in
terpfetatohs OF the fathers. And this IS very much
the athtude Of the Convention, which says, in
eject, TO the Gorilla Administration, " As for this
r18ht OF secession, we believe IN 1t no more than
you 90 IT'S nonsense. perfect nonsense. Admit
that right, and there is no Government. But, at
the same time it cannot be denied that all Govern
ments derive their Just powers from the consent of
Inc governed ana II you 20 to mOcSting the pCO-