New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-10

WASHINGTON C0RREaP0NDEECE

WASHINGTON, Jan. d. 1861.
NJ. ElHo,-From present appearances, there is
little hope that day Of humiliation fasting and
prayer will accomplish the pious designs of the
President. Does it not strike every as pitiaby
absurd for a man who never told the truth, except
by accident, to 7te on his bended knees imploring
God with his roicc to send peace to the distracted
country of ehich he is the Chief Magistrate while,
with his hands, he signs the order to shoot down
in cold blood the very citizens whose lives and
property he is sworn to protect? It's miserable,
q shameful farce.
Edgar A. Poe wrote story called "Three Sun
days in Week." We realize that fiction this
week. Tuesday was New Years day--a sort of
Sunday, as regards business. To-day Frday) we
are all at prayer preparatory to hearty fight
which gives us Sunday No. O. And, day after to-
morrow, we have Sunday No 9. Rather super
abundance of Sundays!
Much was expected of Douglas speech; little
came of it. He started beautifully and ended
wretchedly. After defending the South very ably
from the Abolition charge that it had no grievances
to complain about, he came square up against his
Norfolk Speech and, abandoning State Rights,
took ground against secession. A Virginia men,
| ber, trying to excuse the Little Giant, said his
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over po, saZtetn1. at single bound. We must wait
| and let him pave the way. I don't know about
this for, willie his most intimate friends seem to
think the Judge will eventually reside in the South,
it does appear that this crisis demands of every
| public man some positive, unmistakable action.
Douglas has not so acted. We can't wait for him.
We must now rely only upon ourselves, and fight
| the battle out.
hat bnro tod
decided war policy. He will be backed by the
| whole North, Democrats and all, to any amount of
money and men. When the Herald comes cut in
a double,leaded leader approving his coercive
measures, you may give up all hope of help
| from the North. Before the present month is
ended, force bill will have been passed by large
majority in both Houses-the Gulf States Senators
being no longer here. The President will either
sign it. or it will be passed over his veto by two
thirds vote, and the bitterest and bloodest war
ever known will begin. Nor will it end speedily.
OF course, this is madness on the part of The
| Nortil which has so much at stake in the Union
but madness rules the hour. And now that it has
come to tllis-that we of the South must win oul
independence with the sword, like our forefathers
did before us-et us be up and doing giving life
and fortune to secure for posterity the priceless
inheritance of lberty-of freedom from the mos
loathsome and bloody tyranny-the tyranny of ar
Abolition mob.
The signs are favorable for the early conjunc
ton of the Border with the Gulf States. A Ken
tuclzy member told me last night that he woult
answer for his own State and Tennessee; ant
members of the Virginia Legislature now here OIL
their way to Richmond speak as hopefully in re
gard to the Old Dominion. BY the time the sum
o1,o1,.I 4J,n4o oil
the Southern States, Delaware excepted, will b.
in solid column opposed to the hordes of Lincoln
And then, please God, we acM ''see it out" as tn
Tribune desires. No man believes we can be con
quered. We shall suffer calamities but there is n
help for it. We asked to be permitted to depart i
peace, but this poor boon the Abotionists pei
emptorily refused. We have the right on our side
and albeit they have the might, we shall in the en-
win peace that will be worth all and more tina
its cost
I trust the people of Louisiana have acted q
promptly and wisely as the brave Georgians-
have taken care that the cannon in the forts o
their soil shall never be aimed at the very men fc
whose protection they were mounted. The Alb,
litionists will howl awfully, as matter of cours
Much good may it do them. They are praisn
Anderson and firing guns in his honor. Poor fools
done more than all things else for secession? C0ol
eration after this act of bad faith was out of IL
question. Self-defense is the first law of natur
s. The Governor of Georgia did not act unadvised
s. The ablest man from his State had seen the ord
of the War Department to reinforce the Savanna
' forts, and warned him in time to take possession
them before the Federal troops could get ther
To-day the steam frigate Brooklyn leaves Ne
York, no doubt for the purpose of assisting A
deraon. But all the channels have been closed /
sunken ships, the bloys and lighthouses remove
so that the Brooklyn viii have high and dry o
II time in getting to Fort Sumter. 1t was reportC
II and believed yesterday that thirty Charlestonia
had been killed by Anderson, but the report h
Is not been confirmed. Blood will be split, thong
II in a very few hours from this time, and the C
"a ''To arms to arms " will ring through the Ian
- from the st. Lawrence to the Rio Grande.
i, The mails are very irregular. The schedule sa
If ''three days to New Orleans,i which, Judging fro
d the Crescents receive, means one mail eve
e third day. And this state of things is going to
% no better fast. MALoU.
l. Opie Tsls painting an old beau of fashion. Whe
K ever he thought the painter was touching t
-e mouth, he screwed it up in most ridiculous ma