The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-03

Oh the customs have been f0rcibly EXCLUDED
no entries for transportation OF goods In bond
to those ports can be permitted until further
instructions emanate from the Treasury De.
partment.
The Virginia state Convensfon-Appss-
tensions or a Secession Coup d'Etss.
Approximations are entertained that the Sc
cessonists Of Virginia. disguised with the
Union saving delays and expedients OF the
State Convention in session at Richmond have
laid their plans for Revolutionary coupdt tat to
break up the Convention and carry the State
over to the Southern confederacy. The following
circular, which has been extensively circulated
throughout Tie State it is suspected, il ad-
dressed to the purposes Of this projected coup
d'ftat:-
RICHMOND, Va, -, 1861.
Your presence is particularly requested a. Rchmoni
on the - day OF -, TO consult with the friends Of
Southern rights as to the which Virginia should
pursue in the present emergency Please bring with you
send full delegation OF true aud reliable men from
your county, ard convenient aid the same object
In the surrounding counties.
On arriving at Richmond report yourself and com.
panions Immediately TO -, At.
samuel soods, Of Barbour; J. R Chaub,isa Of Greens.
vile; Charles f. Collier Of Petersburg John A. dArmAn.
OF Augusta; Henry A. Wise, OF PriRcess Anne; John r.
o. Z,
Shelley, Of Smy the
This invitation Is to the macs meeting of the
secessionists which is to come off on the 10th
inst, and it is feared that the result Of the
gathering will be a successful movement, a Ia
Cromwell, to drive out and dispense the long
Parliament, to wit:-the Union State C0nven.
ton, which has been in session since the mid.
die Of February. 1t was elected before the
question of secession had been agitated in the
State to any extent; and thus the old Union
sentiment Of the State resulted in giving the
preponderance in the Convention to the old
line wings by heavy vote. But subsequent
events have vastly strengthened the secession
party, and the public mind of the State has been
thoroughly aroused, until at last it is declared
that the Convention has outlived the prevailing
public sentiment Of month ago.
PROFESSIONALLY the secessionists are fighting
most zealously on the offensive, while the
Unionists of the Convention and the State are
reduced almost to a defensive silence. The
secessionists have no less than three very
active and earnest daily newspapers at their
back in Richmond, while the Unionists have
but one-the tone of which, lately bold and
defiant, has become remarkably cool and mode
rate. To illustrate the spirit and temper of the
secession journals, we extract few passages
from the Richmond Examiner of March so. 1t
Gays, in its opening editorial, eff anything
could increase the disgust and contempt with
which the people of the State are regarding
that odiously corrupt body, now calling itself
the Virginia Convention, it would certainly be
the attempt to choke off the Southern side of
the debate, and forestsll the Instructions Of the
people," coming in. Again
The ceited eccentric stubborn few vbo oppose
cessicn are wairing against Providence hnding fault
with the ways OF God. They may occasion war AL
bloodshei by their irritating opposition they may pre-.
vent peaceful solution OF difficulties, but c2nno
ore vent secession If war Gees come the
will be alone blame for il We're they unite their
efforts with the secessonsts aud show 10 the imbeeie
government At Washington tina, virginaus united
and unanimous that government would let depart Ia
peace n they continue tier hopeless, ractioGs opp
sitop they Will prompt and encourage Lincoln 20 profit
cipent or, If escape from without. they may
cngender worse than war IN our midst vrgrians are
conser va,ive, order loving law abiding people they
patient and iofbeayng as they are brave and got they
but opposed til vared ,fretted by the submis
sicniss, will they rot At last become inolsrart pro
scrp,ye and cruel their English ancestry the days
OF Cromwell The barr icadce, the ga Ia t1ntTe" and
the gullotne Of Paris, viii never hnt place among
but certainly, unless the submssioniss succun5, and
obey the voice Of the people. they viii excite spirit
of persecution in Virginia worse in It's effects tnaa foreign
The suomissonsts are sure to be the drst vic.
tms of the intestine troubles which they invoke aad
occasion Already they have run NJ long account OF
guilt. They are keeping business at standstll. They
expeling much OF the wealth and population OF the
State Anxiety, doubt, uncertainty, beset and annoy
every mind They occasion tGis state OF things, All
they could remove IT, restore confidence, revive bus,
ne5s and arrest immigration by amply voting Tor
ordinance Of secession
Here are some very broad hints thrown out,
which may possibly, somewhere near the 10th
of this month, be interpreted in Richmond By
the revolutionary coup d'ftat to which we have
alluded. All the secession organs speak in the
same menacing vein, and from the public seces.
sion meetings occurring from day to day,
throughout the State, II Is manifest that Viz
ginla is drifting rapidly out Of the Union. Be-
fore the expiration Of this month such things
may occur in her capital az will cut short all
further controversy concerning the border
slave States, and carry them precipitately out
OF the Union. The suspicious mastery mac.
tivity Of cur federal administration is doing its
work Of widening the breach between the
North and the South; but this do.aothing
policy will soon have to be abandoned. Mr..
Lincoln may feel safe against any contingency
with Ger. Scott aud an army or hand in Wash
ingion; but ii will be well for bis adni1istra-
tion to act at once with reference to tne threat
ened secession Of Virginia, b. calling upon
Congress to try what may still be done fer the
Union and for peace.
LIGHT WASrED,-We have published during
the last fortnight certain elaborate and id.
mirably written explanatory statements sigued
by John b Floyd GODDARD Bailey end W. II.
Russell. These documents refer TO the very