New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-11
FROM GEN. BANKs's DEPARTMENT
Condition Of the Deparinent-The Plant
ere, Conventional Traitors Declare
,ion-Gen. RnnLs's specCh-ascucrni
Rnnk.'- Opposition 10 Negro Enlist
n,cnis-IIis Oppression Of the Negroes
a Rebel Mob Discomfort Of the sol
di.r.-Proba biIifies Of " Rebel Attach.


Correspondence Of The n y Tribune
baye lust read THr TKibCsE OF Feb. II. In it
find this paragraph from Washington;
$50 far from there being any disaiection in the
command Of Gen. Banks as reported by the Rebels,
authentic information received here shows directly
contrary state OF affairs.
nm not able to affirm or deny this precise state
mcnt for in these regions, inaccessible by any i'll
telligence except such as comes by steam over the
waves, the Rebel reports OF dissatisfaction are I'M
known 10 u.s. But sIate OF feeling and affairs
exists in this department, which ought to he known
to Government and a people who solace them
selv., with the belief that every thing IL satisfactory
to officers and soldiers and tho loyal popuece.
l came into these regions indulgng that belief.
walked the streets Of New Orleans for some hours
with il. But further investigation and inquiry
made me doubt. | came up TO this city, paus-
ing among the soldiers and citizens that live upon
the river. aud giving On understanding but no
tongue 10 what / heard and saw. l have here
been favored with abundant opportunities of finding
what the officer In bis quarters the soldier III his
tent and the seaman in the fleet think of the pres
emf state of affairs In this department. IL You will
.pars me a column will briefly set down the i'm.
pressions have thus received.
In the first place. planters convention beheld
at the ST. Charles, met to criticize and reform the
lorders OF the commanding general. Under whatever
bormless pretext that coDvocaton came together II
NAV be charitable to believe that it met for no
worse purpose than that; yet If it were sgmatized
by meeting Of cowardly Secessionsts, who to a
large extent and perhaps quite generally, have per.
iured themselves by an oath Of allegiance, it 10 ap
prehended the exact truth would DO stated. infer
az much from what actually passed at the meeting.
Tho most malignant hre-eater spoke under the
terrors inspired by martial law, for New-Orleans,
lust now. 'bristles with bayonets, and Its streets
tremble under tho wheels of cannon. He, here
fore, was obliged to mask his treason in at least
decent and considerable forms Of speech. But this
restraint was impatiently borne, for at the
very fret session leading orator All;
nouncsd that they must be satisfied
with such concessions as they should be able to
wiring from the military rule under which they
were, "for." said he, in moment Of generous
franknees, "it is well known to rs all that what
we really want is, that their officers and soldiers
should 20 North, where they came from, and leave
us TO manage our affairs here in our own way"
This, you perceive, is an announcement Of the Sc
cession doctrine In very unequivocal phrase, IL
wss declaration that these very men, on whom
the freshly taken oath Of allegiance hangs, like
giants robe upon dwariish thief" were in reality
anxious to turn this valley over to the Southern
Confederacy. The orator spoke the feeling VI the