New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-26
The PRO-SLkVERY REBELLION.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
DIsAFFECTIoN TOWARD THE SOUTH.

From OuI Own Correspondent.
CHARLESTON, March II, 1861.
The more pursue my voyages OF discovery
alOug the highways and byways of this swampy
city. the more am / certain that the evacuation
of Fort Sumter is no military necessity, and
ought not to be ordered until the Government
have taken every means in their power to OBJ
tain Trustworthy information Of the strength and
weakness of the rebels here on the spot. If an
agent of the Government will visit me in Charles
ton, | will undertake to satisfy him beyond the
shadow of a doubt that volunteer force of
thousand men who are now resident in this city
can be found within twenty-four hours to enrol
themselves on the side Of the Union. Beside
this, l am in pOssessiOn'Of information, which Is
entirely satisfactory to me, that there are now
upon the islands German companies OF volunteers
whose aggregate number is 600 men, ooO oil
whom have not the slightest sympathy with Sc
cession, but, on the contrary, have warm and
enthusiastic love of the Union. ] am assured by
a lieutenant Of one of these companies that the
first shot at Fort Sumter would be their signal
for revolt / cannot give better proof of the
possibility of these statements being true than by
assuring you that my informant now serving on
Morris Island, stumped the State of Wisconsin
four years ago on behalf of Carl Sehurz.
Shortly afterward, business matters brought
him to Charleston; he assures me that his views
have undergone change in only one respect, and
that is in reference to the Slave Ohgarchy for
which he has great aud growing contempt lie
says that although the organized militia regiments
have all Obeyed the orders Of the Governor IN
entering upon active service he, being member
of most of the German societies, and Intimately
acquainted with their feelings and intentions, can
positively assert that the German companies will
never fire gun upon United States troops; that
they Will never consent TO perure themselycs on
behalf of the slave power, but that, on the con-
trary, the first gun fired against the Government
they have sworn allegiance to, will be their sig
nal for revolt, and their bugle-call to muster I'M
der the folds of the stars and stripes. This good
friend of mine, who is a very intelligent man,
came over from the island this morning to visit
his family, and as he stood at his own door with
me, in a street not for behind the Charleston
Hotel, he pointed me to ten houses in his imme-
date neighborbOod, in which every occupant 10
true to his country.
Passing from the Germans to the Irish. / an
compelled to admit that many of them are as
false to their oaths as Archbishop Hughes could
desire them to be, but there are, to speak within
bounds, hundreds who will not be induced by
even the ArchbishOp's logic and loose morality to
violate the sanctity of their vows. l AN person
ally acquainted with many who would embrace
the first favorable opportunity to fight on behalf
of the Union and human freedom, and who have
NO sympathy with the paltry sycophant, John
Mitchell, OF with any Of the toadies OF the slave
power.
Having mentioned one Irish renegade VIII
take this opportunity of immortaliziDg anotherthe
famous, equity, corpulent Captain OF the steam
shin Columbia, the bosom friend Of ParsOn
Yates, who, some time since, in presenting tes-
trmonial to tho Captain, made that famous Bible
aDd-Revolyer speech which earned for him the
title Of Fighting ParsOn. This same Captain
Berry is the very willing and Submissive tool of
the Rebels; he engages in numberless small I'm
dertakipgs for the purpose of keeping up the
reputation here of having "A heart as big as a
bullock" At the instigatiOn of some plotters
here, be sent an invitation to Major Anderson
and his regiment to accept passage in the Colum-
bia on Saturday to New York, without any
knowledge that the Major has yet received orders
to evacuate. Men who, ike Mitchell and Berry,
pretend to have adopted this country on account
of it's freedom, and then prove false to it, are TO
my mind in the same category with men who
are false to the mother that bore them.