New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-20
Letter from HIfssissippi.


oh1 uieav't s,lall SoefNta -
Dear Crescent-0n this, the 18th day Of May, in
the first year of the New Republic, old Mother
Nature seems to wear dark seowi on hertasually
benign face, and to act as though she had half s
notion to reverse the machinery of the seasons,
and turn back into the gloomy days OF last Becem-
ber. The heavens, which for more thana fortnight,
had been as bright as the smile of heantgs have
for more than two days past been covered With {
wintry looking clouds, singing and splitting nasty
rain, as though angry because the North wind we y
are having cannot coerce the flowers net to bloom
or the birds not to sing in this Eden7like region,
the valley of Bayou Pierre. Thus DO the atheisti-
cal philosophers of the North threaten the order
of Gods economy, and carry us back from the
spring time of civilization nowshiaag most bright
| ly, as the flowers bloom most beautifully in this
great Republic of Gotten and slavery 60 the dark
| ages! But SO surely as Nature shall not reverse
| the rolling seasons, or cause the 1pwers og the
stars to fade before the fulfil ment OF their missions
of love-just so the hopes of civilization and
liberty shall not perish, or COTS law respecting
the two races be in any degree annulied befo1e the
murderous sword of The advocates of free loFe'i
and 'free labor" But far beyond the death of the
false and fleetng symbols through which fanati-
cism now appeals to the hoating mob to do the
| wicked will of Abraham Lincoln and the devil, the
God of Battles, beneath the stars of new born
flag, is kndling the stars Of new revolution, more
glorious to his name and beneHeent in It's results TO
mankind than any that has ever yet occurred
In o county of about 6tl0 voters We have already
mustered into the service about 256 meus of as
good fighting material as ever walked the green
carpet OF Gods footst0ol all of whom are gone or
are soon to go and seek and fill The post OF duty
and danger. God grant that they aud their breth-
| rem may soon clear our borders OF the $hordes
of hireliug, perjured scoundrels, who are now
seeking to commit arson, ass assination and plum
der. We will still have enough OF men and arms
, at home to administer the laws, discipline the
plantations, hang the emis-ares Of tie enemy,
, | and afford pro ection TO our families.
Looking only to information from we'll Uniformed
and credible sources, you yourselves will bear me
f witness that aside from the existing war, none Of
fore so prosperous. aud that in spite of all the mis-
chievous reports and other untaVarable phenonl-
ena, the slave population We're never SO ooedlenf,
= and consequently never SO cGntepted and quiet as
at the present moment Let it, now and hereafter,
| as heretofore, be the sacred dairy OF masters and
managers to guarantee To the slaves their usual
| wholesome discipline and let not the mere exist
d ence of war and false aud exaggerated reports,
Is subject the shave to i'll founded suspicious. rs
S The American Revolution, in the last century,
il laid two eggs of civilization, The Northern States
le got one, ana it has rotted. Pine South got the
other, which, after a hsathui iReuhation has Just
:; .snipped . and is now Matching game cock des
~ tined to crow at the dawn Of the millennium morn
40 40 ing. His Gown dunghillh shall be world, anc
q" 'S when the thunders OF the last day shall have
S S broken the pillars Of earth. aais chicken shall &c
w w to roos on the trees that geoT hard by the rive
70 Of tifa.n AuRELIAs.