The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-16
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From the N. O. Crescent
Northern and Western Men.
WASHINGTON, March l, 1861

most eventful year in American history
since 1776. 1t is a soft, hazy day, full of
mellow, light and feecy clouds, rolling
their white bulk athwart the dreamy blue
welkin. But it is too warm for comfort
and if it were not, the dense volumes of
dust raised aloft by the true March wind,
would render this first day of spring exces-
sively disagreeable.
Yet a little whIle-barely more than
forty-eight hours and the aN-important
moment will have arriged-the moment
that to see the tall frame of Abraham Lin
coin lifted on the east portico of the Capitol,
to speak forth words more fraugAt with
veal or woe to the dismembered nation,
aye to the whole civilized world, taan any
which have issued from mortal lips during
the last century-perhaps during any
century In anticipation of this most
solemn event, and with the assurance of
safety under the bayouets of Scott's jannis-
saries, thousands on thousands have already
assembled in the national metropolis. Tens
of thousands more are on the way The
West, teeming with an adventurous, i'm
poverished and INSCRIPTIONS people, over
joyed at the election of one of themselves
TO the Chief Magistracy of the once great
Republic, has disgorged vast shoals of over
grown, awkard, eager and untiring hunters
of place.
The like of Hoosiers, Buckeyes, and be-
ings from unnamed and inconceivable holes
and corners of the Northwest, was never
seen before in Washington. Every eormo-
rant of them is arrayed in his Sunday best
"a well preserved suit of shiny broadcloth,
of an obsolete cut and venerable age. There
are also numerous herds of codfsh-faced
Yankees, laden each one with the inevita-
ls-k.s
of the unadulterated wooden-nutmeg, horn
gun-fint accent. All of them carry canes,
and doubtless deadlier weapons, for here
they are in Il newly conquered province,
filled with bloody-handed and murier low
ing barbarians the stout, cayniverous
Marylander on one side, and the bOny,
ghastly and demoniacal Virginian on the
other What son of Freedom is safe in
the midst of these assassins What though
a thousand trained soldiers, with their red
artillery, are at hand
In an instant ere he suspects danger
perhaps in the full-bIaze of MONDAY and in
the sacred presence of the mighty railsplit-
ter himself, the peaceful son of Connecticut
may be stabbed to the heart by some inft-
rated keeper of slaye-pen, who laps the
mild blood from his fifteen inch bowie, and
then hurries away into the herbless and uu-
inhabited wilds near Bladensburg. Or,
mayhap, in the dead hour of night, when
the impatient Chicagoau is fastening home
from a.. i-to--se---ufti1 the men who Is 70
get him snug office in one of the Depart
ments-perhaps then, some raving Secs
sionist may bring him down with an ounce
ball from Derringer, or, having emptied
one barrel of revolver into his unoftend-
ing breast, will distribute the rest promis-
cuouslY into the nearest crowd, and make
off for his lair in the mountains of Cul-
peper.
No wonder, then, that the enterprising
strangers keep together in squads and carry
crooked headed canes, and try to frown
down terri6cally all the other Yankees
and Hoosiers they meet mistaking them
for the implacable welding Southern
ers, because they in their turn are frowning
terrifcally too. No wonder that soon
as they fad they can't get an Office that
day, they heap themselves into the omni-
buses running to the steamboat that goes
to Mount Vernon, and come back hot,
weary and hungry-ready to eat everything
on the table, and inclined not to be so par
ticular about this or that place as they were
when they first got to town. Poor, greedy,
grasping unwashed, coarse-grained devils
Why could they not stay at home and pur-
sue their cheating and their fanaticism in
peace, selling their worthless gimcracks for
double value to simple-minded, calf f-brained
| Southerners, and attending the SeanceS of
| their bowling lecturers with steady devo-
! ton? Why precipitate themselves into
this bottomless quagmire of corruption and
meanness? Washington was bad enough
before, Heaven knows; but what it will be
/ after four years occupation by these pump
kin-fed, scum-covered, demi-leprous, scab-
! hatched, free-love enthusiasts and nigger-
maniacs, mortal man can only conjecture.
| When Lincoln descends the throne he shall
| have befouled for twice two times the
rolling year." let Dant rise from the dead
and return to the earth, for there will be q
new hell for him TO paint.
Ask me for no news. You have the tele-
I graph; what more do you want? a hazy
weD has been woven by the cid women OF
the Peace Conference, with which they hope
to bind up the fragments Of a broken na-
ton The new seat IN the breeches of the
Union may last for day, but ere the going
down of the sun the rotten threads will
have parted, and the rearWard vacuum will
cape more horribly than before. The natu-
raj damage is beyond the tailor's art
Something fresh, strong, whole from the
loom of time is needed.
Lincoln has made a speech to a gang o.
Washington lickspittles who gave him g
serenade last night. Using the Imperia
Eqo, the unmannered, ill-taught tool of al
unprincipled party, told his serenaders tha
he would give the South all the rights tC
which it was entitled under the Constitution
= Summing up all his speeches, and takins
: into view the fact that Chase and Blair ar,
to be in the Cabinet, l am now convince'
that what, for week or two l doubted, i
5 true, viz: that Lincoln is going to coerce
And let me tell you that there are thousand
= in the slave States who will sustain him.
, Recent disclosures made in the Virgini
Convention leave no room to doubt that, 5
: far as the old federalists are concerned, the
are perfectly willing to see the central de;
+ potism maintained by force of arms. Th
same is true of the " blue-lights in Mary
land, Kentucky and Tennessee. They thin
= secession is anarchy, and anything is bette
o than that. They honestly think so. An
g this, more than all things else, is maxim
g war certainly. Be prepared for it.
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