Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-06-23
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MONTGOMERY, May 6.

arrival at Charleston, / have not been able
Give an account of many things which hay
come under my notice, and which appeared
= he noteworthy; and now that am fairly on q
> travels once more, il seems only too probab
We. shall be obliged to pass them over alu
=. The roaring FIRE of the revolution
~, sing over the prairie and one must
getbe. am Obliged to see all tn
iast sWeet south at once, and then, arr
before IL or ps. -%s 40 can procure.
can De seen OF tne ~ communication
ed with such saleeuaie 1sgraphs pull
make an enort 70 recover l.. Hs charg
Bridges broken, rails torn up, te.
down. am quite in the air, and b.
with powder and fire. s1 -t
One Of the most extraordinary books In To.
world could be made ont OF the cuttings and
pariGgs of the newspapers which have been pub
lished within the last few days. The judgments,
statements, asseveratlons of the press, every-
where necessarily hasty, IL siited, and offhand,
do not aspire to even an ephemersl existence
here. They are of use If they serve the pur-
pose of the moment. and of the little boys who
commence their childhood In decel. and continue
to adolescence in iniquity by giving vocal utter.
ance to the "sensation" headings In the journals
they retail so sharply and curtly. Talk of the
superstition OF the middle ages, or of the Gre
dulity of the more advanced periods of rural
life; laugh at the Holy Coat of Treves, or gr IN
over the Lady of Sslette; deplore the faith in
wiDking pictures or in eon,munique of the Mon.
iteur; moralize on the superstition which dis
covers more in the liquefaoion of the ichor of
st. Gennaro than chymical thrck but If YOU
desire TO understand how far faith can see and
trust among the people who consider themselves
the most civilized and Intelligent 10 the world,
you will study the American journals and read
the telegra rs which appear In them. One day
the Seventh New York Regiment is destroyed
for the ed6cation OF the South, and is cut up
into such small pieces that none of it is ever
seen atterward The next day IL marches into
Washington or Annapolis all the better for the
process. Another, In order to encourage the
North, It is said that hecatombs of dead were
carried out OF Fort Moultrie, packed up for easy
travelling In boxes. Again. to irritate both, it Ia
credbly stated that Lord Lyons is going to In
terfere, or that an Ango French feet is coming
TO watch the ports, and so on through q wild
play of fancy, inexact In line as though the bat.
teries were charged with the aurora boreaGs OF
summer lightning. instead of the respectable,
steady, manageable ofspring of acid and metal,
TO whose staid deportment we are accustomed
ct moderate price for entrance. As 10 usual
In such periods, the contending parties accuse
each other of inveterate falsehood, perfidy, op-
preston, and local tyranny and persecution
"Madness rules the hour ..
1t was only q day or two ago took up a To-
cal journal of considerable influence, In which
were two paragraphs which struck me as being
inexpressioly absurd. In the frstit was stated
that q gentleman who had expressed strope
Southern sentiments in New York hotel, bae
been mobbed and thrown into the street, ant
the writer indulged in some fitting reflection
on the horrible persecution which prevailed II
New York, and on the strocity Of such tsrNnni
| osi moo izwiessness In a civilized Community
In another column there Is a pleasant little mar
rative how citizens of Opelika, in Georgia, hac
waited on certain person, who was "suspeet.
ed" Of entertaining Northern views, and hat
deported him on a rustic conveyance, known a,
rail, which was considered by the journalist {
very credltable exercise of public spirit. NAY
more; In notUe paragraph, relative to an at
tempt TO burn the huge hotel of Willard, aI
Washington In which some hundreds of peopls
were residing. the paper, to account satisiacto
rilY tor the attempt, and to assign some intelIiei
BILE and laudable motive for IL, adds, that be
supposes that It was Intended to burn out the
'border rufiins" who were lodging there--a re.
production of the excuse of our Anglo Irish
Lord, who apologiZed for setting fire to cathe.
dral on the ground that he imagined the Bishop
was inside. The exultatioi in the South when
the flag of the United States was lowered at
Sumter has been answered by q shout of indip-
nation and battle cry from the North, and t6e
excitement at Charleston has produced a reflex
action there, the energy of which cannot be de.
scribed. The apathy which struck me at New
York when Handed, has been succeeded BY VIC
lent popular enthusiasm, before which all La.
odicean policy has melted into fervent ACTIVITY,
The truth must be that the New York populs-
tion did not believe In the strength and una
nimity of the South, and that they thought the
Union safe, or did not care about Ii. can put
down the names of gentlemen who expressed
the strongest opinions that the government Of
the United States had no power to coerce the
South, and who have since put down their na mes
and their money to support the government In
the attempt TO recover the forts woich have been
taken. As to the change Of opinion In other
quarters, which has been effected 80 rapidly
and mraculously that 1t has the ludicrous air
Of vulgar juggler's trick at a fair, the public
regard il 90 little that IL would be unbecoming
to waste word about IL. rr era =
depressed o belief In my frst letter, written
few days after my arrival, that the South
would never 20 back into the Union. The
North thinks that it osn coerce the South, an
! am not prepared TO say they are right or
wrongi but am convinced that the SouIh can
only be forced back by such conquest as that
which laid Poland prostrate ct the feet of Rus
sia. II may be that such q conquest o,n be
made by the Nortn, but success must destroy
the Union as it has been constituted In times
past. A strong government must be the iogi-
cal consequence of victory, and the triumph Of
the South must be attended by similar result,
for which, indeed, many Southerners are we'll
disposed. To the people of the Confederate
States there would be no terror 10 such an issue,
for Il seems TO me they are pining for Q strong
government exceedingly. The North must ac-
cept II, VIII ther they like ~ or not. Neither
party, II uch term can be applied to the rest
Of the United States and TO those States which
disdain the authority of the Federal Govern.
ment, was prepared for the aggressive or resist.
ing power Of the other, Already the Confede.
rate States perceive that they cannot carry all
before them with rush, while the North have
learned that they must put forth all their
strength 10 make good tithe of their lately ut.
tered threats. But the Montgomery govern
ment are now, say, anxious to gain time, and
to prepare regular army. The North, dis
tracted by apprehensions Of vast disturbance In
It's complicated relations, Is clamoring for In
stant action and speedy communication. The
counsels of the moderate men, as they were
called, have been utterly overruled
am now, however, dealing with South Caro-.
lima, which has been the foss 1t oriso Of the Sc
cession doctrines, and their development Into
the full life of the Confederate States. The
whole foundation On which South Carolina rests
is cotton and q certain amount Of rice, or rath'
or she bases her whole fabric on the necessity
which exists In Europe tor those products Of
her soil, believing and asserting, 90 che doee,
that Eug land and france can not and will not
do without them, Cotton without market is