Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-03-15
RICHMOND wHIG.
From the New Orleans P.eayuns.
TIE DUTIES OF THE EXIGENOY.

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correspondent has 10 the following phy APPEAL
anticipated in the happes manner much that 1t was |;
minds TO say to readers, the peculiar and i'm
mediate duties which The present crisis brings with il
for all Of US 70 perform. TIE Wter diaEs happily from
the page Of history example that is rngenty be
hooVes Of these Confederate States TO emulae, anC
We ehser uy adopt his eounsels admirably adapted
| TO the Cxigenoy.
In 1893 France he'd for her enemies Great Britain
Austria Prussia, Spain, Slrdnil and Holland. In Au
gust OF that year. levy Easse, resolved on by
| the Committee OF Public Safety. They reported "A
France aud whatsoever il con aims Of aud
pui under requstion. The Republic is vast be
sieged ei y"
Tleir port says: "The young men shall 20 to the
bait y il is their task 20 conquer. Tie married. men
shall forge aud transport baggage aud artillery
The shall work at soldiers clio hes, make tents
and serve in the hospitals The children shall scrape
linen into surgeons lint. The aged shall have
emsevts carried into pub ic places aud there by their
words, excite the courage OF the young"
In those days two hundrI and 6ty rges set up
in the Luxembourg garden and around the outer walls Of
the Tuileres 10 make gun barreh Cut OF from Sweden
and the world the republic must learn to make steel fo'
it.e and, by the aid ct chemists shs learns. Towns
thss knew only iron before, nsW knew steel
Church b lis are transmitted into cannon, and iron
stsncsons into swords TIE wheels OF Llngres scream,
grinding swords The stithes OF Oharleville ring with
gun making. Two hundred and fifty eight forges stand
in she zen spaces Of Paris grim smiths heating and
forgog lock and barrel Toe clock IN Ike came requi.
siioHed TO do the touchholes the hard sold and e
Wo'k. Five gTea! barges, serving in the Seine, laden
Witd boring implements great press drills grating harsh
hunders to the general ear aud heart and stock makers
gouge and rasp. All men bestr themselves according 10
their cun0ing l. l. reckonei that thousand finished
muskets be delivered diiy."
But now arises the question, what Is to be done for
saltpeue Interrupted commerce and the glish navy
huis Us out from sapetre and without sap tire there
,p Nd acian al a;ta "a;
ative. A naturalist reports that sai,pstFe exists
here and there, though IN ateuuited quantity; that
old pllster walls hold sprinkog OF it that the earth
Of Paris cellars hold sprnkling Of that dlsed
through common rubbish and that IL these were dug 10
and washed, si'petre might be bad
Whereupon the ctoyens with upshoved honpet rouge
or with d,ed hst and hair toll vet;sd digging dercely
each In bis cellar Tor sal pore The Garth besp rises
evesy door, the eoylnes With hod and bucket ca rying
IL up. The citoyens, pih in every muscle sho Yelling
and dggg for life and salpetre. What Of sallp,re Is
essential the Republic shall not want
Here e use pause. On the 2ls. Of February 1861,
the Provisional Congress OF the confederate States p4s,
an act ordsnng the. he rreFident or the Secretary
or War EGder bic direction, Is empowered to make con.
tracts for the pu craze and manufacture Of heavy ord.
aad small arns ard OF machinery for the N inu
fac ure OF alteration ofsmI arms anl NV glons Of war
Lud 10 employ The 1eoeesarY agents and artisans fer
these pGrPcsss And 20 NIX, contracts for the estab
lishmert cfp1wd mil aud the psnuiaeure Of pow
d. and the Peesdeu. VS. aahorE, d to Ike copirae
provided isr in this act in such manner and oHfuoh
terms as in his Judgment the publc e4geney may re-
Quirs.
Why Is L the oon,ieTaoy has no: 4 sufficient. supply
Of arms aud anuuni.ioy We ask in no ceusorious or
au hldirg spirit, buI merely to reply, "Il de
Iaudace, ct encorI DE- FGufsca 4 TOT dc raudace
IN .Ry entTgv, Titanic energy is wsnHg.
8u the brightest aspect OF the French revolution i
gjyeG 20 by the arT!ts IN, soldiers we're des i,u.c
o most things cir hoes we're OF wood and pas.c.
board, or they went booted with hay rop! in dead OF
Siuter. They skeECrei mat around their shOulders
Shat them Il is fas the rights Of France, of IN u
hood that tkey usht the uuqusuohable spirit here a.
s!~ewhere, works miracles! With Steel and bread, ~
says the convention repr sentative tone may get to
China On all the frontiers, the sons of night, az
s1uisbed after short triumph, rCcoil The sOra OF
the republic hyog At them with wild " - VA Msr-
eillsise aux armies With .Se ,enper o! caamouuf
or demon incsrnaie, which no son Of night clu saud
We have coll, lted from the bisory OF the French
luton enough 20 exhibit the causs OF its success
Car ot in the oommiitee Of public safety organ sd uc
tory. He organ I'D york Every man bestirred him
self for the republic according to his cunning
lie; our rulers 90 the same. Let them call into re-
quisou all the mechanical forces OF the Contsdsracy
and let hem be rIerted night and DAY. TN there is no
van, Of mu,kes, any hing eis,. S.imuat them to
inc ACTIVITY. Send L need b. brigal les of slaves
- labor 10 The caves Of Arkansas, Teuuessee Georgia
and Al,bam', for Sal'petre. Tipe Is everything in
concs like this No cold Economies Of private enter.
prise should nov be eonsult,d. Let the whole military
force Of the Uon'edsTacy be put upon footing -
II hut de pau1Ace, ct encore de raudAce ct tou.
urs de laud-cen