New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-04
cALMsIBl GUSHING.

/ I seems that we are about to have for sneigh.
Dor Baigaaier. General Caleb Cushing The tumor
runs that Phelps is to be removed from the com.
nand at Ship Island and Caleb Is to take his place
Phelps they say, il insane. His proclamation Ger.
stainly goes fer to sustain the charge but we do
not know that he is any more mai than the 9TH.
ers Lincoln 's MESA Stewards dispatches, and
the reports Of Cameron and other officials of the
Gorilla Government, SHOW them to be Oil insane
and prove that Iunany is the rule and not the ex
;ception among all Of the chiefs, civil and military
Sof the Federal Administration The Yankees have
a way Of proneuneing everybody insane who
makes mistake. They distinguish between men
insanity and what they call !. moral insanity
and when false step is taken, it is not blundeI
but an exhibition Of this latter kind Of nadness.
Sherman was said to be insane when he declared
that it would take fifty thousand men to whip the
Confederatss out Of Kentucky Yet more than
double that number have been sent fer that pur-
pose, and have not yet succeeded. Poor Sherman,
however, was whistled down the wind, and has
fallen into disgrace with his Yankee
compatriots.
In Phelps case the allegation is based on q bet
ter found for he IS certainly either mad Of
fool And so he has to- give way to Gushing, who
is neither one nor the other, but lis knaye of the
first water, and q hypocrite Of the deepest
/ iNo man id the North has protested greater
friendship for the South than Caleb Gushing No
man has made better speeches IL our behalf, and
no one has better illustrated hs professions BY his
deeds. Even so late as the time when the Charles
ton Convention met Cushing stood up like a man.
When the war broke ont he solicited an appoint,
Hnents III the Federal Army but was refused on ae
count 81 his former devotion to the Constitutional
rights Of the South, WI ich caused him to be sus-
ypected. II may OF may not, have been the case
that he Ind his eyeon one Of the vacancies on the
bench Of the Supreme Court. He may; not have
pretended to be friend Of the South, SO that be
might have chance Of elevation to high office III
the old Union. Bnt, certain IT is that as soon as
the accession movement commen and he cav
the Union hopelessly dissolved he became our
enemy. His whole political career shows that he
looks tothe main chance. He sustained Nj. Tyler
forn other reason than to get office, and he got
it. Sent to China, he came home only to be placed
soon afterwards IN the sineeure sof the Attorney
Generalship. When he saw a vacancy in the
Supreme Court at the beginning OF the Southern
revolution, the bait was too tempting to him, and
he edate1y ate all Of his former brave words,
and wanted to fight the South So great his
greed Of office that in default of other positions,
be eagerly accepts q membership ii the Massa-
chusetts gisIature, and is now we believe, a
in that inustrious body. azssss4
y We hope Gushing will come to Ship Island, and
Ne trust he may land somewhere on the Mississippi
81 Louisiana coast, so that We may have q, chance
tos q bags him. Picayune Butler, another great
friend Of the South, in by gone times, has had bis
proper share Of A BOLTON glory and It win be q
pity to deprive Caleb of his chance. II he isstin
at the North, if any doubt Of his .loy-
vet remain, we may say that no uncertainty
n regard 70 his real sentiments now exists with u.s.
We recognize him as 3 genuine Dugald Dalghetty.
HewiI speak and work on any side fol: pay, and
perhaps he viii fight, for the same Consideration
Zig motto il Tor should Beg uatts post sst,ss,sos
Caleb is cnte and cautious. He has not lived
among the lestals Of the Flowery Kingd om Tor
1othing he comes To Ship Island, nothing will
3e, necessary to bring him over to our side if we
lhould consider him worth the purchase but the
,fer Of AID tional rank and pay to that ZEN him
y the Federals. If he fights no better than the
,ther braves that Massac has sent ferthto
,attle, We may possib have the pleasure Of soon
urveying his puritanieal face through the gratings
# our Parish Prison.