New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-31
SOUTHERN snLnIERs.

There arrived in this city, night before last, five
companies of Texan troops numbering four hun
dred and eighty-six men, on their way to the seat
4 of war in Virginia. In consequence Of the pres
ence of the enemys vessels in the Gulf these SOL
diers had to come by the overland route. They
| travelled about five hundred miles before reaching
this city, a considerable part Of the distance on
foot, the trip occupying them fourteen days. For
most of the time it rained every day and when it
did not rain they were exposed to a burning sun.
| The country through which they marched being
| thiny Inhabited, they had to bring provisions
along with them, and those provisions consisted of
dried beef and bread Notwithstanding all these
obstacles and exposures they arrived here in a
| cheerful and good-humored state of mind; some
what travelstained and Drowned by exposure, but
IN good health and spirits, animated by the loftiest
sentiments of patriotism, eager for the work of
delivering their country from the invader, and
impatient to advance. They arrived at night, and
were off next morning by railroad for Virginia.
\ They report that other troops are behind them,
anxously awaiting the order to come forward.
They say that all Of Texas is in fever of excite
ment and the people complain heavily of the
authorities at Richmond for not calling more Texan
regiments to join the army. They declare that as
Texas was one of the foremost of the Southern
States in putting in motion the ball of Southern
independence, she is entitled to front place in
| the picture. 5t
| The news of our grand victory at Manassas had
reached the camp of the Texans just before these
soldiers left and stimulated to fever heat the I'M
patience of the troops. They only await the sig
nal to start. They are willing to march all day
through scorching sun, to sleep on the ground,
4 IN ton IN rpiuat
only they may be permitted to rush to the aid of
their brethren Of the South, now struggling for
liberty on the plains and in the mountains of the
/ Old Dominion.
These are men who have been accustomed all
their lives to the dangers and hardshps of frontier
life. They are men who spend half their existence
in the saddle, who hunt the wild game of the for
est, who biyouac on the prairies, and take no
thought of the morrow for their food or their raj
ment They are accustomed to Indian fighting, are
equally ready with the rifle or the revolver or the
bowie knife, and consider it bad shot if they do
not hit squirrel in the eye every time, in the top
Of the tallest tree of the forest.
We would like to ask Abraham Lincoln LID,
if he thinks he can whip such men as these: We
would like to know what insane spirit of mad
ness has possessed him that he undertakes the
subjugation of these sturdy heroes and patriots.
We saw some of these men and talked with them.
There was no brayado about them, no buster, no
boast Of what mighty things they were going to
nothing but cool, calm modest demeanor,
and an invincible determination, expressed by
their manner and not by their words, to g do or
die for the Southern cause. These are your
true, Heaven-inspired heroes These are the men
to lead forlorn hopes, to stand unmoyed in the
imminent deadly breach p to receive unfinchingly,
like human wall, the shock of an advance, or to
rush precipitately upon however superior foe in
numbers. Such is the stuff of which Southern sol
diers are made. And yet the insensate fool who
rules at Washington expects to conquer them
There is not q man Of them who would not die in
the last ditch before he would yield