New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-04-08
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According TO q telegTap pms re port tne virginia 1
State Gony yentien has adjourned, after session Of
six weeks, without having done anything 4
plenty of speeches were made, but that seems TO
have been all. They did not even submit to the
people as they virtually had instructions TO DO,
the question Of secession or Union. When the
election for members Of the Convention was held,
the people also voted upon the proposition Of re-
feFring back TO them the action Of the Convention,
and carried il by an Overwhelming majority But
the Convention has not taken any ".actionn at
all-and, of course, has nothing to refer to the
people Ii has adjourned, if the telegraph reports
correctly, after the passage of resolution in
regard to forts and arsenals which amounts to
nothing practical either one way or another.
The submissionists Of the border States have
been complaining very loudly of late of the action
Of the Southern State Conventions in adopting the
Montgomery Constitution without giving the people
chance to vote upon it. They have vehemently
demanded, in behalf Of popular rights that the
people should decide everything by an appeal to
| the ballotboS. Yet the Convention of Virginia
appears TO be istrustfui of the people to extent
| far greater than the Conventions of the Gonfeder
ate States for itdoes not even permit the people
OF Virginia to say whether they will stay in the
1 old Abolition Union or not. The Southern Con-
u
4 most unanimous in support of the Montgomery
Constitution having been already ratified with en-
thnsastic approval in the hearts of the people, and
4 that it was important that no time be lost in put
II ting the new Government into operation, exc
euted promptly what they knew was the popu-
Y lar win. Tie Virginia Convention does not even
Il permit the popular will to be ascertaned. The
Il action of the people Of Tennessee and North
Sfa my to4h 4hap Al
all is wiser and more consistent than that Of Yr-
ginia, in having Convention which adourns, after
six weeks session, without having moved a peg.
But it is manifest, notwithstanding all this, that
i the cause Of secession is gaining ground in Vir-
ginia, as well as in all the other slave States of
Tie old Union. The Convention Of Virginia. we
see it stated adjourned in the interest," and by the
votes, Of the Unenists of the body, they having
4 the majority. There was q storm of popular i'm
patience rising throughout the State. The people
were tired of trifing, and dly-dallying and mac
ton. a revolution in public sentiment was in pro-
gress, and instructions in favor of secession were
pouring III upon the Convention from districts pre-
viously strong for the Union. The Convention had
to adjourn, or else bend before the rising storm,
1 and SO it chose the former.
4 ID Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkan-
NJ
4 IN one direction In the lastnamed State the un-
i conditional Union party were defeated the other
day in the city Of st. Louis, which formerly
i Black Republican. Gradually, the people will get
the upper hand Of the politicians and assert their
rights. The question Of their Union with the Con.
federate States in one common family is question
i Of time only
A Meantime, the Administration at Washington,
/ having waited for the Virginia Convention to ad
4 iourn, and being encouraged by the submissive
spiritof the border State politicians is said to be
preparing actively for the experiment Of Southern
snbjugation The reports, that vessels Of war are
/ fitting out recruits are enlisted, and reinforce
ments for Southern forts are about to be sent. A
| military agent of South Carolina, recruiting in
Washington, is put under arrest. Forts Sumter
and Pickens are not evacuated, although we have
been assured every day for three weeks past that
| they would be. There is no siga that pacific
policy is to be adopted, but every sign Of the re-
verse. II the border slave States hesitate much
longer as to the coursethey will pursue, we will be
prepared to believe the constant assertions Of Abo-
iition orators and organs that they will submit to
anything and Z. cannot be kicked out of the Union
i The Confederate States have no dstrnst Of their
ability TO take care Of themselves. Their people
only wonder that their friends Of the border should
hesitate about doing that which, everybody must
Isee, they are bound to do sooner or later.