New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-04-25
VALOROUs wORDs.os Of the


< Ane Telegraph, every day, is lst to desper@-
s, reports of extensive militar.ter, the Northern
: North. lnfuriated maddance against us, and
tIon by their defeat termination.
people are swePde not correspond with their
L. threatening asome regular soldiers, trained to
is. But th5nce to orders, have been sent to the
brayPstates. but none of the Northern militia,
Sa5r. have crossed the border of any State out of
, the old Union. 1t is our opinion that they never
will.
Their purpose, they have all said, was to main
tain the Union, uphold the National flag, and COM
pei the Southern States to be "loyal." But when
they got to Washington City and to Cairo they
stopped short. A disloyal State lies across the
Potomac from Washington, and there are plenty Of
troops in the city-but no attempt is made to re-
duce that State to submission All the vaor of
the Massachusetts, militia oozed out of the palms
Of their hands, like Bob Acres, when they came
to look upon the cold Virginia shore.' They are
qnaking with apprehension lest they may not be
able to hold even Washington City, and thus pre-
vent the necessity of another escapade by Old Abe
| at night, 'disguised in Scotch cap and a long
military cloak"
| The Yankee mode of fighting is like that of the
| Chinese-penty of noise and fuss, but no eNecu'
| ton Chinese warriors attempt to frighten the
enemy by painting their faces, carrying broad
| shields with hideous devices on them, and making
unearthy noises by beating gongs and ringing
bells. At the first pop of a gun they throw dowE
| their gopgs and their shields, and run with light
| ming swiftness. A squad of Massachusetts militia
confronted by an equal number Of Mississippi rifle
men, would make better time than ever Lexington
made over the Metaire course.
| Massachusetts pluck and prowess are terrible or
paper, but on paper only. The downeasters o
| Massachusetts, and Maine are now ayowing thcil
ability and their intention of whipping the South
ernors, to use their own classic language, to al
darnation.n When it comes to the pinch they will
simmer down more quickly than the well.known
| individual, whose call for the man that struck
| Billy Patterson was so promptly and unexpectedly
| answered An illustration of Massachusetts, brave
ry was furnished few years ago, when military
| company in Boston rescued the slave Burns from
the mob and carried him boldly down the street
the populace oontenting themselves with looking
| on, ieering, and bowling, and believing like
parcel Of buffaloes when they come across The
| body of a recently y-slaughteTed comrade on the
| plains.
| The Governor of Maine notifies US that every
man in that State is ready for the Of Southern
| subjugation. The bounty on Goldfish is in danger
a bounty the Treasury of the Union has paid for SC
many years to Maine fishermen-a bonus to those
people for following business profitable of itself
the first and only instance of such favortsm, VIC
venture to say, in the legislation of the whole
world The South, so it is threatened is to be in
| vaded by an army of Goldfish and onion.fed war
riors from the State of Maine. Al the first fire
| from Bragg's or Beauregards battery they will
scatter like parcel of young chickens when they
see the hungry hawk swooping down on them from
the upper air.
people whose most bloodthirsty achievements
consist in harpooning whales and evscarating
Goldfish have the assurance to talk about whipping
Mississippians and kentuckans who can with the
deadly and uuerring rifle, pick squirrel out of the
topmost branches of the highest tree at every pop.
If these Yankees had the modesty to say that the
contest would be doubtful one. we might have
some patience with them. When they talk as if
the subjugation Of the South is easy matter as
! the peeng Of one of their own onions, they put a
| point upon it rather too fine. We might consent
to be moderately whipped by these doughty war
riors and valorous champions from Maine and Mas
sachusetts--but the idea of being utterly eXtermi
mated, cleaned out and "disperscd" is rathe
| binding " on us. viii not the Goldfish and oniol
brigades of the bold North show us at least lit.l
mercy?