New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-08
ABOLITION NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

representations and falsihcatons contained in on
single issue Of Black Republican paper lately re
| ceived at this office. We begin with letter pur
porting to come from I" gentleman of high socia
position, residing in the central part of Missis
sippi:n
Our State has seceded-gone ont of the Union.
She mas no credit, and must resort to direct taxa
tion, which the people viii resist, and then comes
the dreadful reckoning between them and the base
rascals, demagogues and politicians who have led
them on to their ruin. But for my property here,
would leave at once. stay to prevent confisca-
ton which will be resorted to against all nonresi-
dent property holders. You can form no idea OF
the madness which prevails here, nor of the dis
tress among our people. Our country is almost
destitute OF meat and bread the poor are accumu.
launs upon our hands, and where all this is to end
God only knows.
This is what this gentleman of high social posi-.
ton, residing in the center of Mississippi, says-"a
savehoider,s besides, the account states. The
letter was doubtless manufactured in the office of
the paper in which it appeared; but there are a
plenty of fools who will eagerly believe any state.
ment 1T makes Thus are the Northern people de-
ceived with reference to not only the physical
comfort of the South but the temper and spirit of
our people.
Extract and falsehood No. 2 is as follows:
GROWING DEsPERATE.-Yes terday we saw a pri.
vate letter from a late Georgia member of Con
gress, a rahid secessionist. in which the writer
TaVed like maniac over the impending reaction
IN the popular mind of the Gulf States No bed
iamite was ever more furious, incoherent and
yenomous in his expressions of hatred and rage.
He boldly intimated that the people were to he
Kept IN subsection in those States by resort to
the most despotic MEANS and that it is the purpose
OF those who have usurped the Government of
those States and deprived their people of American
hbertles, to make war upon their former brethren
as fhe best means Of preventing them from stopping
to reflect.
That is tolerably steep" The idea of making
war upon the people to keep them from rejecting
Black Republicansm.
No. 3.-Gen. Jackson said on his death-bed that
be had only one thing to regret, and that was that
he had not hung John c. Calhoun
This is so immensen that we are scarcely able
to make any reply TO it. This is the first we ever
heard of it, and no other paper appears to have
the news. Parton. in his late Biography of Jack
SON has strangely omitted to give us this startling
piece of intelligence.
No. A Baltimore correspondent of the paper
we aliude to writes the following:
l learn from good authority that the Montpnmar,,
movement will be abandoned the moment suf1i
clent excuse IS afforded therefor, id est compro
mise.
The 9 Montgomery movement" means the South
arn Congress and the Southern Government at
Alabama. The date of the letter
vas about three weeks ago. Though the nauthor-
ty" was so " good,' we have not vet heard that
he movement has been " abandoned. IF anv.
body else has heard Of it, he will please call and
give US the particulars:
No. 5.-The Aiabamians begin TO feel the press.
ne. FROM other sources we have already learned
hat thelr stores OF grain are getting empty since
ne establishment of non-intercourse with the
northwest. upon whose great supplies of bread
tufts they have hitherto relied. The cry of fam
ne Is now heard, and the inedible cotton. no
ongef mefcituI KING fades into nsignticance
esides the terrible picture of vacant pantry.
That's bad for Alabama. We were slightly of
le opinion that the supply of breadstufs at this {
ty was never greater than now. Also, that COM
nnlcation between here and Mobile was frequent
1a easy and cheap. It appears we were mistaken, |
at Alabama is in state of starvation, that "tbe
y OF famine IS row heard " and that each hungry t
aoaiian y aally appalled, at the terrible picture
VACANT pantry" But there is consolation to r
drawn from this circumstance, for it will bring l
e rebellious Alabamians to their senses. Here is
e argument:
HE Cry OF HuNGER-There is nothing like
lngry stomach to take the conceit out of the I
dieuLS SenQ tnelf children
lpperless to bed to conquer their peryerse willis
he refractory pupil repents during the night and
axes in the morning quite tractable and In sinh.
ssslYe MOOD. q similar process seems to be 90.
3 on ~ ALABAMA.
Strange that this fsprocess" shouId have boan
going ON, so long and vat NO l;.i, =; Al,
o5iota ,ria;,;t,. W -. w. living ia tne I'M
srAss sia,hsJ' aaye hot yet heard OF it g
NO. 6.--The following we strongly suspect to be i
true, though we cannot saw posjt,velv. i
Va orai inf 4 -s,-H
anlooss If tha MI soou autnorlty that several
sdinp at Hnntsn;IIa MS aIa Gnarieston Railroad
iii aufhorites to taRa tha required oy the
w. " ~ tahe tne oath OF allegiance to
ose to leave, and have resigned Their nos;tinnS
the railroad and gone where there is no test :,
"a required. y
NJ. e ls no Doubt strong attempt will :,
~ ,,i :, 9e 70 estaDlish Monarchial Govern
1vhieb Il ! evIlsolluated form the new @
the old Federai snste, eieateu upon the RUNS ft
!, ~ 4z iii 4 ~ a. system'
,ust now the montgomery movement was to 4,
Abandoned altogether there is to he 4
onselidated Gouernmaptt, e., 60 " IL
~ I 49,, =. - 'io seeeued states, ii
~. tionaFcny' All TINS IS, as Old Solomon q
7s 10 the play, the very fsnewest news.n -
No. 8.-Stealing a Library fol-, he Southern .
aJederdcg--ln addition to the other frauds ner- a
rated oy the seeding members of Congress, p
y nave taken from the Congressional Library ia
zen ls probably the best in the country contain ~
oooas Mllcn cannot De obtained else =
,aetoa :, .ae most valuable IN the whole q
a otad y aoiiafs worth have been ID
long them s;naa sas',h ~ ~ py lnese members.
re- man sam ,uost ~ member mas of
character ana wh ii uisus.s o. ene most Yalua az