The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-05-14
IDENTIFY futile effort 10 Oa.er ,be-hasbss for the
relief Of Major Anderson.
Al Interior view OF Mississippi.


The letter from which we have been a.
lowed to print the folio wing extracts, was re
ceived iu this city yesterday, by a brother Q
the high standing in Mississippi, who ha
lived there between thirty and forty years,
a STAKEHOLDER, and is well known in this city
"-,April IA, 1851.
awe are in the midst Of the greatest ex
element. The storming of Fort Sumter anC
the warlike news from the North has rouset
our Southern Confederacy, and can assur
you has caused a general gloom.
I'VE have come 10 the conclusion that th,
North would not fight, that they would suffe
themselves to be spit upon without resenting
it. have told them all along that they
were mistaken 10 the character of the North
that they wero not always clustering, swag
gering and boasting Of their chivalry, bu
prepared themselves cody and deliberately
and when fairly aroused there was no backing
out in them. Two or three companies have
left this vicinity for Fort Pickens, and troop,
are collecting from all Confederate States
principa y young boys raised in the shade
An army of regulars would whip million o.
them. We begin TO think there is fight in
the North. and that the war will be bloody
one. We have been told time and again by
our fire. -eaters that there would DO no war
that the North would not fight. have told
them otherwise; that war would come, that
tho best government that ever existed would
not TO broken up without a struggle.
=" We are in bad condition for carving
on a war. Our cerdt is not good. We
have not money to carrying on a war three
months without forcing it from the pockets
Of the people.
" The banks in all the seeding States, OK.
cePt one, have suspended. All confidence
aud credit among individuals is gone.
"If ali. Wa, 60. -i... afo IndeUted
for our flour. meat and corn, should shut
down upon US, we could not hold out three
months. 1t will require from the West 5Oo,-
900 bushels Of corn to save our State alone
from starvation. The price of slaves has
gone down from 81 500 to $500 or $500, in
deed, they cannot be sold at any price. All
our surplus capital ha. been absorbed in taxes.
ave have just heard Of the surrender of
Fort Sumter. Cur people are growing over
the victory, and threaten to march on Wash.
ingtou and take that. If the North are COW.
ards, let them give up, but il there is any of
the spirit of'76 left, our people will here see
sights.
"There is everywhere lergo amount of
Union sentiment, but it dare not at present
show itself, but will eventually. The leaders
have no intention Of going back to the Union,
but boldly declare that the Union mu.t come
to them. Cotton is king, and every knee
must bow to him. Nothing but severe
will bring them back. l expect the
next news We shall have will be the attempt
to take Washington. We have fools enough
10 make the attempt. The Union party here
8 Powerless, and kept in subjection through
ear. The Convention has taken away all
power from the people. Not one paper nas
he independence to take q stand for the Un-
on. Times are shocking hard"
Boston Daily Advertiser.