New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-04
Neh 0rIeans Qailp Grssesnt
Letter from Boston.


The following an extract from letter received
by gentlemen of this city from friend in Bos
ton. The change of public sentiment, Of which he
speaks, unfortunately comes too late:
Bos7oy, Jan "A, 1861.
Mn Dear -: You don't know what gratitica-
ton your letter in reply to mine, just prior to
the late unfortunate election, gave me and my
friends, to many Of whom | read 1t tet0re, aud
many more after the election. And cannot longer
withhold an invitation for you to repeal, at your
first leisure. The crisis is now more portentous-
the anxiety more intense-the apprehension more
fearful. Your more than prophecy was so exact
in fulllment, so far as the voting and its results
were concerned, that we fear your specuiations,
all, are to be too sadly realized. But we are anX-
ious to have your views from the standpoint,
where the progress of events, up to the time you
get this, shall have left you.
We have read Stewards speech. Although II IS
considerable backward stride, tor him, from that
of the " irrepressibe conct" notoriety, it is not
quite what we could have wished his principal,
Abraham-hal authorized. Nor is it, we fear, all
that is needed, even if anything non would be sea-
sonabe for our united salvation
You may be sure that very decided change has
occurred here since the election and, today Lin
coin could not get the vote of Massachusetts.
Still, it will be difficult to make the mass of our
people feel the necessity and proprlety OF letting
other peoples affairs alone, and yielding to them
| all the rights guaranteed to them. am satished
| that Stewards vivid pictures of the blessings OF
| Union will tend further to remove the blindness
| from Republican eyes hereabouts for the reason
that it authoritatively in the first place, and
that will secure it general perusa and then it,
calInness will commend it as an assuager to thell
wounded pride.
Our city, perhaps you may have seem has beer
fully revolutionzed since the national election, b.
a complete turning over to Union men-that IS
Democrats and Bell and Everett men. John BroW1
meetings could not now be held here.
Our clergy, however, are, many of them, Still
rampant-especially on Fast Days"
We have large laboring population dependen
| upon the success of our commerce, foreign ant
coasting, and especially upon our manufacturing
They must, ere long, feel pretty seriously, the eft
fects of the present DISTRESS even il nothing wors
comes to u.s.
Will Louisiana secede? 1t looks so to us here
for we see that even your city gives majority 10
that course! What constitutes that majority!
it your merchants and commercial men? are you
substantial citizens really in favor of Souther
Confederacy?
We don't want to part. We don't blame you
we Southern Yankees-for hating our section. W
acknowledge your abundant reason for complain
against US, and we don't suppose you could eve
bring our pharisaical, self-righteous community t
a sense of their wrong-doing and get them to &C
knowledge your equality with them, except b.
some such course as the South seems now mos
likely to pursue. And if you do go, do you nc
suppose you will come into fraternity with L
again. after we have seen, sufficiently, the effect {
| Our fOlly ?