Year: 1861




The Northern Congress meets in Washington
City to-day and as this Is what is called y the
long session, . 1t will probably remain there until
April or May, unless in the meantime, as we de.
vonty hope may be the case, it Is driven OF to the
North by the victorious arms of our Confederate
oldiers. ~
Accompanying the members OF. Congress there
will probably be more than the usual number OF
hangers,on, contractors, peculators, adyenturers
and thieves generally, who will find the Federal
city even richer placer to work in than usual,
notorious as it was for such things under the old
Government There. has never been "season
In Washington in which rogues have held higher
carnival than they will do in the one which com
mences to-day. a.s>


Among the many other proofs of the utter IN
capacity Of the Yankee race for self-government,
one of the strongest is the proaigal waste and
squaAder of the public money which they indulge
in whenever they have the power, and are not
Immediately responsible to public sentiment. In
the old Union 1t was almost certain thing that
Northerners vote could be easily gotten for an
appropriation, no matter what its character or
what amount of fraud upon the Governmen! it
involved. In this way they doubled the expenses
Of the Government in few years and they lay-





ton City thick with thieves, but the Pactolian
stream Of Government gold penetrated all parts of
the North to that extent that many of the people
regarded the Government as a great eleemoaynary
institution, established mainly for the purpose of
diflsing benefits and largesses among the masses.
With degree of folly for which no parallel can
be found these people have already ,plunged'their
Government into q debt which they can never pay,
and their Congress meets to-day for the purpose of
still further swelling its enormous proportions. All
ordinary legislation will be suspended in the pres
of " the great rebellion" and all their ener
gies will be bent to the purpose Of raising men and
money with the diabolica design of invading the
homes of Southern people, shedding their blood,
and crushing out their rights and their liberties.


Next to this, the principal business Of this con-
cave will be to denounce, traduce and villify the
people of the South. An equal number of the Sc
lectest spirits from the regions of the damned
would hardly contain more of venom, of malice
and all uncharitableness, and Of nextnguishable
hatred of everything Southern, than will this nest
of unclean birds who flock together to-day to de-
file the chambers of the Federal capitol.


The result of their deliberations will prove, If
there any necessity for further proof OF it. the
ncapaciy of these people to manage the affairs of





sibilities of empire. 1t was with difficulty in the
old Union, when the South was fully represented
in both Houses of Congress- that even some sem
bIance of respect for Constitutions and laws was
maintained With the departure Of Southern rep.
resentatives, there went out Of the Federal Con.
gress nearly all that there was of craftsmanship,
of respect for law, of regard for right and Justice,
and of all else that kept the MON from being a
wreck years ago.


The whirlwhd of popular passion and frenzied
madness which has swept over the Northha car
red away the last vestige Of friendly feeling for
the South, and the Representatives who meet in
Washington to-day will be animated by one COM
mon impulse of vindictive hatred. Let us not
think that voice will be raised there in our be-
half or that, if raised, it would fail TO be drowned
by the hootngs and howlings of this infuriated
mob Of Northern legislators. The South, happily,
can resist the sh0Ck-and her enemies will find
that her courage and determination will only rise
the higher in the presence of all the preparations
that are made to subdue her.