Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-03-21
TCorre,pondencs Of tho Richmond Enquirer
CONFEDERATE STATES,
n,pur Alabama March 10 1881

MOBILE Alabama March ID, 1861.
Ncssrs. Editors: promised to write you
at some point in my southern tour, but neces-
sary business engagements have prevented my
doing SO with the drliberation | could wish.
have taken much pains, however, TO get in
formation as!to the true political character Of
the secession movements in these Southern
States, and were ut liberty to quote the con-
yersatiol,s have had with gentlemen in highly
responsible positions, and with the people
generally, fancy you would no longer doubt
that this Coufederacy is now firmly established
and that it meets with the almost universal
appreciation of the people. These States,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississipp Louisiana and Texas, are gone
They are gone forever and it is simply idle
in the " Union" men OF Virginia to suppose
that tIlc Copfrdcratcd States are ever coming
buck to the old fold Such an occurrence will
never take place Of this fact the most skep.
teal member o!,he Virginia Convention would
now BIZ fully convinced had he travelled over
the principal portions of these States, as
have done, diligently seeking the truth and
mingling with the people repeat the Con.
icderate States ere irreeocably gone. If Old
Virginia would 90 with them, they would be
rcjoiced but, if they must part with her,
dearly IS they love herr they wl do so re-
gretfully but, nevertheless, they will part.
and though it bo forever, they will surely
part.
What tom-fooery is it then, for the political
grannics end old maid politicians in the Con-
vention of Virginia, to hc spending time and
the peoples money in milk and water echcmcs
10 restore the disrupted Union: Could We be-
lieye them entirely sincere, they would rcsem.
Bile the distracted mother over the ilrleSs body
of her child, caressing its inanimate form, till
her frantic devotiuns oacnd the sole,nnitieS Of
death itself and she is torn away from her
idol. Let the people then rise mp in their ma
jeSty, and, invoking the spirits Of Henry and
Mason and Jefferson, to their aid tear the old
mother away from the putrid remains Of once
glorious Union, now SO ;acrilegiuusiy presented
her, attircd in the arb Of sectional flnaticism
Let them do this, and these children cf hers, in
the great and glorious South and West. stund
ready with extended arms, to receive her and
glorify her.
At Charleston, obtuined yacht, and went
around Fort Sumter twice, and guile close up
to the guns, and about and beyond all the forts
QUITO sea and back. would attempt q de-
scription OF them, but il would be extending
this letter to too great 4 length. In my humble
Judgment. however. the State batteries are
capable Of dcinolishing Sumter in "a hours
The Pail Road Iron battery On Morris Island,
is q novel and wonderful construction, and
Major Anderson might lire with all his guns at
it for L month, without inflicting serious scar
OH the work.
At Savannah, Macon, Columbus, Montgn.
merry, Mobile, Selma, Atlanta, and New Or
leans, the people seeuted quite indifferent as
to what might be going on at Washington city
They took much interest in the proceedings OF
their Congress at Montgomery, ard, though
many Of them would prefer direct taxation to
tariff on imports, they express patriotic
devotion to the new Government, and say they
will endorse what the Congress does.
saw merchants 10 New Orleans buying
their Spring goods and was told by them that
they had heretofore bought in New York, but
that they were entirely satisfied with their
Scw Orleans purchases.
j. r Anderson & Co, P. Rliam i Co., and
the McsSrs Talbot all have depots in New
Orleans for their fine machinery and their
agents express regret tina: mure plachiner!
has not been sent to them before the new
Southern tariff goes into operation.
10 me, the many Eirginians ! meet with
here, are like roses scattered along the path
way Of stranger in a foreign land-and thus
au made happy by their cheerful SMILES and
greeted with L heartfelt welcome every where
Yours, truly, v. L. c.