New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-14
i Letter from V1rai,aia.

M. ,EasSer-A. few miles from this city there
lives an old man, a farmer, who is blessed with
little wisdom and six daughters Some years ago,
when the chinch bugs were rayaging the country,
a gentleman, while passing by this old mans farm,
discovered these six daughters out In the road,
| stopping down and ,busily engaged in some labor,
which he n as puzzled To understand. It appeared,
| upon inquiry that the chineh bugs, which up to
/ this time had rot disturbed the old mans farm,
had commenced that morning to cross the road;
he had sent bis daughters out to arrest their march
and save his little domain from invasion. nd
there there they were, all six Of them stopping
down middle ofthe dusty road k3 l, Ihe
/ dteir Hti,a6les {. This is an actual fact.
1 Absurd and laughable as it is, am tempted to
make 1T the text Of serious DISCOURSE and to de-
| vote this whole letter to a,dlseusslon OF the de-
| fensye policy Of the Government. See to what
pass the defensive policy has brought us. The
invaders are upon the soil Of half the States Of the
/ Confederaey. Their armies, making all allo vance
for their exaggerations, greatly outnnmoer ours
ours are IL for twelve months The hirelings that
! compose the Yankee regiments are the very ma
terial out Of which OCULAR soldiers are made the
world over while fully 3one.haf OF our soldiers
| are men of property, gentlemen, VINO VIII never
submit to become regulars. .5S-
/ Scores sof lettersSar here in the. newspaper
offices, which the editors do not PRINT, because
they contain :snehs complaints OF the eserbeaflng
IinsoIence and cruel trea tment OF officers, who,
puffad up with little brief take advan.
tage at the articles of war to- insult and abuse
/ gentlemen far superior to themselves IN mind,
education, wealth, and social position simply be-
cause they are priyates. IA have heard an officer
ola commanding general staff relate instances of
naltreatmen that came under his own observation,
which made my blood boil with indignation. The
men are demoralized by inaetion and byt the in-i
tolerable brutality of their snperors. They swear
they will not reenlist, and they are terribly in
earnest. #$48sN J$ 54 s3aS5 no - MI
What has Congress done to meet this great dan
ger staring Us all in the face? II has offered 9
bounty, which every man, Of spirit will reject
With contempt and it has offered a furlough, to
which the soldier is entitled anyhow under the
army regulations furlongh TO be given II the
very months when our men will be most needed IN
the field. But it may be that the commanding
generals who see this danger better than civilians,
are doing something to atone for the wisdom of
Congress. What then, are they doing They. are
leaving the men to the tender mercy OF their
Colonies, and they are trying to force men to re-
when there is no prospect Of battle) except to
those who promise 70 Remission the war This 49,
la plain, unvarnished statement OF the case. mo
wonder that the writer Of Letter, which reached
me this morning ian officer in constant assocla
ton with the highest military authorities of the
most important division in the fielding wonder
he exclaims: Nc C1eaan has only ID t5da TILL ne1t
spring 10 march 70 Richmond .agE, s, ,sfE
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picture additional value by the stale trick Of say
ing 81 am no alarmist.n- am an alarmist when
ever the time comes for an alarm 70 De sounded:
That time has come now. With many others,1
saw this trouble five months ago, and tried to get
an article on raenlisting in the papers, but the
papers refused to insert it, because conveyed
valuable information to the enemy r..
To this strait are we come BY reason OF the un-
reason OF the defensive policy. We have CON
tented ourselves with killing the Yankee chinch
thugs ia small Numbers whenever they crossed the
road, instead Of carrying fire and sword into their
native fields and where their teeming millions
reside. But It'll useless to repine over pasterrors
What is tocbet done no,o2 J. answer: fight, adj
vance, whip invade. 1t is very easy to say that,
but how is the thingFto be done? .'Twere folly
Tor Beauregard to advance on Mcclellan folly for
Sidney Johnston to advance On Buell. How can
we do anything, except wait and wait, until our
armies melt insensiblys aways reply: "where
there is will, there Isl way It may be folly to
advance, but il is suicide to remain idle. The
case is desperate one, and requires desperate
remedies. It will got do for us torely on England
and the doubts and dissensions of the Yankees. We
tiehuckled over the departure of Mason and Sdell.
They were arrested. We chqckled over their
arrest. They we're released. We chuckled over
the division in the Yankee Cabinet about the email
Ecipation question. Now we hear nothing about it.
ohuckied over the attitude taken BY the Louis
vile Journal The journal has eaten its words.
Now we are chnckIing because England grumbles
about. the stone bockade. The dogs who would
surrender Mason and Slidell under threat will
raise the sunken ships for the same cause. Here,
then, is proof enough Of the value Of relying upon
others The past admonishes US to quit chuckling
and 90 to fighting. For my life, a can see no other
way escape from our present difficulties. Moth
ing Is left tofdo butte fight. We must find some
place TO get at the Yankees and hit them a3dev Of
"a lick Whip theIn, invade them, advance to their
great cities and poprlous villages, and thousands
upon thousands will enlist and reenlist, tobe in at
the feast. Upon my soul u, know Of nothing else
that WilLreplenish and maintain our diminishing
armies. q FF s
I lam happy to state that the Government has
consented to an aggressive movement in a small
and $500 militia, have advanced upon Romney
where Reynolds, who has superseded Kelleysis
strongly fortified with l0,0O0men. The expedition
is daring one, and will be bloody one, or even
q failure. Ipray itmay succeed, for we need the
things else. IS :, 6. f.. x. =.