Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-29

ponds the bridge the city depends on line Of single
rail to Baltimore. The Lorg Bridge, indeed, has been
repaired, and there Is talk Of laying down another
line of rail; but to about the ordra.
~ roads, and the ruts and mud hoows which may be
encountered on any of the ordinary outlets even now,
would astonsh pair Of Longacre springs Whist they
will be with the aid of the rains and the fore u.s.
Crimean experience may enable US 70 judge.
Extraces from late Northern Newspapers.
The following extracts from the Yankee pres, show.
ing what 10 being thought said and done in Lncolndom
will be read with interest:
NESsRS. MASON AND sLIDELL
From the Nsg York Herald of Fan.
or all the cousprators 10 the work Of this Southern re-
bellon, no two more guilty than James n. Mason
snd John slldell So universal IL this opinion among
loyal people, that the capture Of these prominent
traitors In the public estimation almost ecipses the late
splendid achievement Of navy in the sacred waters Of
South Carolina. Captain Wilkes, at all events divides
With Commodore Dupont the honor Of the day. in hav
ing the moral courage to beard the British lion himself
to the end Of making wholesome example of these
| srch-conspirstors, Mason and Slidell.
Mason IL Vrgnian, and arsocTa of the STRAIGHT
sect Proud OF the old English Cavaliers from whom
he Is descended he inherits all their contempt Of
psalm-sirging Puritaus and pebeen Roundheads Thus
he regards the Yankees the people Of the North with
that natural disgust Of the Cavalier which was first re-
vved In Virginia by that prince oil aer decayed arsto
cracy, John Randolph Of Roanoke. To Randolph the
Yankee" an adventurer, a base fellow a clock
peddler, swindler, Or at best but vulgar ups,srt
whose nasal twang Of itself sufficient to betray hs
inferiory Of caste. From the time OF Randolph down
this day this idea taking in Virsnia has been
difiused and established throughout the South.
Thoroughly saturated with this miserable notion,
Mason, OF Virginia. became orator Tor Southern
Confedeacy, In order to cut loose from these Yankee
pebisns oil the North their lusve fanatics and vu
reformers their philosophers IN pecoas aad their
women In brooches. To Mason, royalist by descent
ard by nature, these disgusting Yankees we're under
mining all the sanctes Of caste, Church and State and
il would be worth revolution to cut them off, This
has been his ruling ides-to relieve Virginia and tie
South from the contamination of the Yankees Mason
has never been plotting politician for the spoil, Asa
member Of Congress be would not frank letter beyond
the strict limit Of the law He 100 proud 10 tufn tho
advantages Of his o6 al position schemes of money
making and too lofty 10 descend to the petty ntIgues
aOd of party trcksters and Lobby obbers He
despised them.
Al things however, within bis reach, were made sub
seryieut 10 bis grand ultmston Of separation Of tho
8 nth from the poisonous touch OF the Yankees Hence
his adroit infusion into the Fugitive Slave bill of 1850
o. those features obnoxious sntsavery people
His object keep alive the slavery agitation and
10 nate the North and South from each other Hence
his eIertions 10 behalf Of the Kansas Nebraska bill Of
1854 his VISIT With Atchson, JEFF Davis and Others TO
Poor Pierce at the White House, on that memorable
Sunday morning. from which visit the conspirators re-
turned to LEAD poor Douglas his ruin aud to open the
box OF Pandora upon the country Hence the labors Of
Mason in behalf of the Lecompton Constitution, and
hence that Southern combination Of which he was men,
Der, which brought poor old President Buchanan
down upon his bones and 10 sackcoth and ashes
and all to save the Union, poor I'D man.
Masop too, ennently in .trumentAl In the humi
aon OF Douglas by BIZ removal from the head Of the
Senate Territorial Committee; and in that John Brown
Investigation Committee, and in the imprisonment Of
Thsddeus Hyatt and 10 the secession 10 expe
Secretary Holt from the War Department 10 which no
had been called at the eleventh hour by Mr. Buchanan:
and IN the attempts Of the Senate traitors to remove the
troops called 10 the defence Of Washington Mason was
the ringleader Driven at length from Wasbinctop n.
up next In Winchester, Virgins with manifesto
warning his loyal neshboTs tha, they bow down to
the Moloch Of secession or leave the State.
Thus much for Mason Too proud OF his blood and
bis caste to stoop 10 the common herd Of politicians he
Is simply thckhesded Southern fanatic upon that one
idea, his hatred Of the Yankees. He would rather he
subject of Queen Victoria than colleague again of vii.
son. Sumner and Seward In the Senate upon ary terms
he would submit to the abolition Of Southern slavery
under EOgland sooner than accept the protection OF
slavery under vulgar raisplitter ike Lccoln. or
course, Mason, with bis long training as Chairman
Foreign Relations in the Senate would as the Embassa
dor OF Davis in England, know how to deal with the
weak points Of Lord Palmerston and Earl RUSSELL and
would rather than fail 10 escaping from the Yankees sell
the Confederate States" cotton and all for mes, Of
pottage.
model Of cunning, seahy, slippery keen, dexterous
unscrupuous. intriguing politician. Any trick al man.
any instruments acceptable 10 him. IL he can US,
them. During the last few years at Washington he has
been In every plot every clique, every movement to
break down the Government, to b.eak I'D the Demo.
cratic party, and to break up the Union Spols, plum
der and political power are bis objects in every enter
prise and the end will justify the meaus VIVA.
chance would be opened to such man in the chaos of
Southern rebellion This Is the key to the treason Of
Slde This Is tbs key that admits to the splendid
social receptions at Washington of the and
fascinating Madame sldel and the charming circle Of
Southern beauties always around her. Taking the cue
from her. the hospitable mansions of Cobb Thompson
Gsn, and other leading secession conspators, became
alike celebrated for their social soirecs; and thus
Southern social olgarchy established at Washing
ton which controlled President Cabinet and Congress
under the festive Administration of poor old deuded
Observation-Disclosures. He was thus inyeiged TO the
brink OF destruction przs is led to the slaughter
bound In garlands Of flowers.
Sldel therefore, with bis French Louisiana training
aud his charming, accomplished and thoroughly French
family and French associations and with his deep cum
ming his perseverng Industry and skful Management
Of men, the for a. Davis at the court OF Louis
Napoleon. What might not such man hope to accom-.
pish there In behalf OF French Vceroy for the South
with the Golfers Of the millionaire Washington banker,
Corcon the service Of his dainty little secretary Of
Legation, Eustis
Captain wilkes, however has introduced Mason and
Slidel 10 az entertainment somewhat diffHen. from
that to which they we're commissioned. Mason will
ch,fs under the fortunes Of exile and imprisonment
in the midst OF the Yantces; but be will still be able
look upon siide viii something OF compassion upon
an unfortunate Yankee brought back 70 grief among
his own peculiar people. Upon this point however,
there yot % much to choose bstveen them for
While sRdel has not found In Captain Wilkes fellow
New Yorker Mason viii remember bis captof Lieutenant
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