New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-07
Il ~ NJ - = - No.
!; A CALL 10 ARMS.


in the Napoleone style, calling on the Bay Skaters
to come ap and toe the mark. This production is
worthy Of being copied:
IS CoaSoywxatFK OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
"a He ysiytn Soldiers of Massachasetts "s' ~
A again in moment of public danger, your
country calls you to the post where the heroic SOL
diers OF April FASTENED with generous alacrty and
Lynnfield, two at Dedhanl, and one at Worcester,
are yet incomrletely recruited. They will march
immediately. Whether few or many, they will
march : armed, uniformed ands equipped - on
Thursday Friday and Saturday of the present
week. The Seventeenth Regiment needs 200 men,
the Eighteenth 400, the Nineteenth 800, the TWEEN
teth 500 and the Twenty-ffrst 200 men, in order to
I'LL their ranks to the maximum number allowed by
law.
Citizen soldiers of Massachusetts,! Duty, honor,
the dearest sentiments of patriotic love and devo
ton call for your brave hearts and uncomfortable
arms! JOHN A. ANDREWS,
Governor aud Commander Chief
Curious regiments they must be, which need,
some of them FIVE hundred men, to ELL up the
ranks These are probably the skeleton
regiments of which we have read in the news
papers, which were ordered to be forwarded to
Washington Immediately. without arms, ammuni-
ton or uniforms. They are not inaptly named.
One would think the difficulty might be avoided
by yfusing three or four skeleton regiments into
one, SO as to make it fall, and then call on the
people to organize other regiments de aogo. But
that would exclude lot Of officers whose ambition
aims rather at shoulder-straps pay and provend,
than at service to their country. For it is suspected
that the organizing Of new regiments might prove
d doubtful enterprise, tosay nothing of the chance
OF these sefeleeted officers being excluded from
the new positions.
/ It is rather curious, though, that after all we
have heard of the unanimity, patriotism and deter
mination to crush the rebels, expressed by the
North, the Governors Of the Northern States should
have to issue proclamatons calling on the people
to enlist. What has become of the boasts of the
Northern press that they could'at any moment put
a million of men in the field? What has become
Of their complaints Of Cameron for not accepting
troops as fast as they were offered? What has be-
come of that ardent patriotism that made Northern
men SO impatient that they were ready to rush to
the field of battle even before they called on?
We do not argue from this that the North is any
the less united, any the less desrons of seeing
the South subdued and Inundated. Not at all.
They are even more bitter and venomous than
ever. They hate the South with ranker hatred
every day. But the facts show that while they are
extremely anxious To see the South whipped, they
have special objections to helping to perform that
operation themselyes-we mean, a large majority
of them. They urge on others, but each one holds
back for himself. The Cincinnati Commercial
stated the other day that Arkansas had sent more
troops into the field than Ohio--and the CONNER
cial, for in its life, told the truth. According
to the census Of 1860, an abstract of which has
been Published Arkansas has white population
OF 35l, 40, while Ohio has a white population of
2,377sl7 The population of Ohio is nearly eight
times as great as that of Arkansas, while she has
not put as many men in the field. The white
population Of Louisiana, according to the same
census is 1854 ,245, while that of Massachusetts is
1881 ,494. YETI Louisiana has sent more of her
sons into the field than Massachusetts,. What does
this show !? 1t shows two things-frst, that there
never was a people more united and determined
and brare than are the people Of the South; and,
secondly, that however venomeus the North is,
when it comes to hard fighting, only small per-
centage of its population stands up to the rack.
Massachusetts and Ohio are not the only States
that have failed to respond to the call upon them
for men. Pennsylvania is deficient in her quota
and nossort Of coaxing and persuading and boun-
ties and promises of public lands after the war is
over can make her supply her complement of
men. This, we repeat, is not from any abatement
of hostility to the South, but because hating and
fighting, with Yankee, are altogether two differ
ent things. Take out the foreign enstments from
the Yankee army, and those who opposed the pol
icy of the party which brought about dIsunon,
and there would be precious little of that army
left. We venture to say that the Puritan element
in the aarmy-that which caused all the trouble
does notamountto ten per cent. of the whole.
There is, however, joke in this proclamation of
the Governor Of Massachusetts, which relieves it of
the, stern severity which otherwise pervades it,
and that is, in the concluding words in which refer
ence is made to that States uneonquerable
arms " The joke consists in the irony Of the Gov
ernor in using those words Yhe :" ufconqese,oble
arms 7 of Massachusetts! Whew! When and
where, we should like to know? History is
strangely silent upon the subject but as it is
point not worth arguing, we pass it over This,
however, is evident, that no matter how ferocious
they may have been in past wars, there ia, by the
Governors own confession, a considerable lack of
disposition on their part to show, in This war; how
" unconquerable' 2 their 3 arms" are.
Crops, Weather, etc, in Ascension Parish.
#1 g4isN ASCENSION, Sept. g. 1851
Ed. sCfesceia--We are in the midst of another
Hood, if forty days rain constitute such. True we
are deficient in the number of rainy nights; which
Is the only thing that enables the planter to pro-
gress at all with his work, as the rain of one day
passes off from the surface before the rain of the
next comes.
The crops, Notwithstanding, are looking remark
ably fine. An overwhelming crop of corn has
been already made, and we only wantd dry weather
now to enable US TO get it in. I,haye heard some
complaint about transporting and rotting in the
field; this undoubtedly will be the case, if we
have much more rain, as the stalk and ear are
kept constantly wet. The cane crop is also fine |
none ever better ] suppose in the State, and as |
compared with last year, fully two months in ad- |
vance.
i We are at last about to do something from our |
backward parish of Ascension; Gas the proverb |
says, better late than never) but still you know
there is such thing as making rapid strides, and
catching up. And probably Ascension will vet
occupy a.position in the foremost ranks. do sin
eerely hope she may. Weare about to be aroused.
Aud when the materials of which we are composed
are aroused, there is no stopping.
The parish has as yet sent but a part of two
companies, or about forty-fve or fifty men. But
now our Police Jury has appropriated $4,000 to
eqnipping that noble company of artillery, the
Gannoniers Of DonaldsonViIle, which will, in a |
short time, on the field Of battle gain for the honor
OF Ascension character truly to be proud of.
In addition to the Cannoniers our gallant friend |
from East Baton Rouge Furgns Pension ESQ, Is |
raising company on New River (Ascensionl of:
light infantry, which will be mustered into the |
Confederate service SO soon as he gets his re- |
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