New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-06
THE WASHINGTON coNeREss.

THE WASHINGTON CONGRESS-.
We have by telegraph tolerabIy full report
of the first days proceedings of the Federal Con
gress at Washington. 1t appears that the Senators
of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland have taken
their seats in the upper House, and also that john
son, of Tennessee, has made his appearance in the
same body. We hardly thought this bold traitor
would have the audacity to do this, and we can
attribute his conduct to nothing but love of pef,
The people of his State, by sixty thousand major
ity, have voted to sever their connection with the
old Unior; and yet this fellow, with an efrontery
as conspicuous as it is shameless, takes his seat
among the legislators of foreign nation. He has
no more right in the Senate of the United States
than an enissary from Timbuctoo or the Feee
Islands would have. And yet, considering his
character, he is not out of place there. He is
tit associate of Wilson, Sumner, Jim Lane, and the
other unhung worthless who now disgrace a cham
Der once occupied by the first gentlemen of the
nation.
We cannot however, understand what Messrs.
Breckenridge, Powell, Kennedy and other Sena-
tors from Southern States still in the Union, pro-
pose to themselves by taking their seats in this
Abolition conclave. OF course they are poWerless
there. Their voices will be drowned in the Ado
lition melee, and their votes will be of no effect
against the overwhelming Abolition majority. The
idea that they can be of service in representing
| Southern sentiment and sustaining the Southern
side of the question reject as being utterly with
out foundation. If the Yankees do not understand
| Southern sentiment already (and their leaders
| most certainly do) We are opposed, to any further
| attempts to enlighten them by mere words The
truth must be conveyed to them in 4 more impress
siye way and in such manner that they will not
be likely to forget it for many years 10 come. 1t
must 90 to them in the shape Of bullets. 1t must
penetrate their souls through assures made by
bayonets Further parley with them in the way OF
argument or remonstrance would be as useless
| and Improbable as singing psalms to dead horse.
1t is lowering of the Southern standard, and
reflection upon Southern manhood, to go to a war
of words, at this time, with the people who are
even now devastating the fair fields OF Virginia,
and shooting down men who are merely defending
and protecting their own homes against an i'll
yader
If these Southern Senators presume to utter a
word of protest against the unconstitutional acts
Of the despot who sits in the White House, the
chances are they will be arrested and tried fer
treason--perhaps convicted and executed. Al
ready they have put the Marshal of Baltimore in
irons, and deposed him from his ot1ice-a man who
is not Federal officer, but municipal officer of
the city of Baltimore. Already they have nullEed
the habeas corpus privilege, though it is expressly
set down and guaranteed in the Constitution. If
anybody supposes they will stop short of any
stretch of usurpation necessary to accomplish their
dlabolical purposes, he knows little of the Abo-
lition anmus Mr.. Breckenridge, and those other
gentlemen, whose fidelity to the South we do not
question, may think to do us a service by taking
their seats in the council chambers of our enemies
but we cannot help thinking precisely the reverse.
EXpostuaton with the enemy will be utterly with
out avail. Nothing but the point of the bayonet
will meet tee requirements of the hour cold steel,
and not warm language, is the medicine which
must be administered to the Yankees, and the
more liberal the dose the better.
We see that Wilson proposes to introduce bill
to "confirm the acts of the Presdent.n In other
words, Lincoln's fragrant violations of the Consti-
tuition are to be covered up with ca post Jfucto
plaster. Like the liar, who tells another fasehood
TO hide previous one, the Constitution is to be
again violated, so as to give sanction to previous
infractions Of the same instrument. 1t has already
been sufficiently violated and trampled upon-as
full of holes and rents the target board of
company of sharpshooters. Yet, another invasion
of it is to be made, to legaze the crimes of Lin
coin and Seward The Northern Government has
become despotsm, before which the despotisms
of the Old World must pale their Intellectual fires
In the House Of Representatives they have elect
ed Grow Speaker and Etherdge Clerk the former
Pennsylvania Abotonist and an endorser of
the Helper book, and the latter a Tennessee
traitor. Notices of various bills for increasing the
military force of the country were given. There
was no sign of any abatement of the war-spirt,
but everything looked quite the reverse. 1t is
evident that nothing butlack of money wherewth
to prosecute the war, or else succession of dis
astrous defeats, will bring the war to close.
Those who anticipated peace from the assemblage
of the Lincoln Congress may as well diyest them.
selves Of any such idea. Contact with each other
will only make them the more ferocious and vim
dicye.