New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-03
WORDS OF CHEER.

The following is nom one Of the letters of John
Mitchell to the Charleston Mercury. Mitchell has
heerl iii Paris for year or two, and is as warm Q
friend ss ever If tie South. When he first came
Is this countr VI III will be- recollected, he estab-
/ isbsd himself 3in New York, and commenced the
qualification of paper. Happening, on one occa-
sipn.s Id express desire to be the owner of a
Southern plantation, well stocked With negroes, he
spsaae u many seusmies BY the remark that the
lsSrslf abandonsd him, and he had to abandon the
I'LL then came South, and lived for several
wears al Knoxvills II Tennessee Finally, he went
g. aris, where he now Is. With his career, pre-
ssscus ID coming ID this country. Whereby he ac-
uuired the title Of the Irish Patriotn every one
q familiar man % great abilities, phiIoso-
cher and d atatesman there Is one defect only in
bis chat and that ii m nyeterate hatred Of
ever. thing British. His prejudices against Eng
land aFe bitter, relentless, and t6s very great
extent unreasonable. Hscan see nothing good in
ahst nation, and can approve Of nothing that she
doea. Excellent al his Judgment is on all other
subjects, ii fails him when he comes ito speak of
british deeds Of policy. But We are OBTAINING the
reader from The eloquent words Of cheer and en-
enlargement which he sends to us from across the
stlsntic N
on the whole, the spectacle now presented to
the world BIZ tho Southern States is noble and
inapifing one. Shut up within their borders BY sea
and land asking no loans, demanding NJ Z SYM
patty Y until they have earned il by success tor
that's the price Of sympathy in these days,l de-.
prEed even Of the ordinary conlmunica tons with
fheir kind and hidden from mankind for the mo-
rsent by thick fauE cloud Of falsehood and cant
there they stand On their own ground, preparing,
Il b stern silence for the last extremity looking to
themselves alone firmly anchored upon their own
strong hearts within. Here is b new exemplar and
munimant Of title TO our race. proving that, even
s This sleek nineteenth century, man has not alto;
Eetherg lost his manhood; that his virtue and his
pluck have not yet gone out Of him. The Confed-
crate States will be day, with the blessing Of
Heaven great and gioFioue CONFERENCE.-The. They
have rescued and saved harmless the true Amfri-
can principle Of society and Of government and to
diem not to the sinpntated rumps of the dismen1
B bsred Union men will hereafter look for the
conservation Of the old tradition of the fathers.
God knoWs how earnestly have longed to be with
You these last three months! How proudly and
fondIy, BIZ aid DIT map and Of memory and insignia
sica have dwelt upon the mighty territory of the
new Cnnfederacy, and traced its grand lines Of
empira from the high central Alleg hanies, where,
1 among laurel thickets, the deer comes down to
drink of the bright waters u Tuscalnehee down to
the rice grounds Of GArolia and the sea Islands of
Georgia, the purple tides of the Southern Gulf all
i round to where the guarded hills Of Kentucky Will
4 ere long frown across the Ohio d terror and q
warming 10 pork butchers Of Cincinnati and when
4 tslihk of s1eha soil and sky, such men and such
women, ask myself whether the world may not
sshape to see once more q Republic OF more than
antique majesty and might