Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 April 1861 — Page 1

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This celebrated poem was composed by Theodore Koerncr, lyrist and dramatist, one hour before he fell, gallantly fighting gainst the French, on the plains of Leip sic, August 26, 1813. It was translated from the German by Charley.

Every one understands that in the best translations, a poem losses much of that essence of the spirit of beauty and patriotic sentiment and fervor with which the niceties and vigor of the original invest it.

Nevertheless, the translator has given, in the heroic stanzas below, enough to stir the blood and perpetuate in American hearts the name of the gifted German who died for Faderland

SWORD SONG.

Sword at my left Ride gleaming! Why is thy keen glanco. beaming. So fondly bent on mino?

I love that smile of thino!

Hurrah!

Homo by ft trooper daring.

»v My looks his firo-glance wearing, arm a freeman's hand— This will delight ray brand

Hurrah!

Ay. good sword, free I wear thco A*.id truo heart's love I bear thee. Betrothed one nt my fide.

As my dear, chosen bride!

•.-?.••• Hurrah

To thee, till doath united, Thy steels bright life is plighted Ah, were my love but tried

When wilt thou wed thy bride? llurrah!

Tho trumpot's festal warning,

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....: Shall hail our bridal morning When loud tho cannon ohido. Thon clasp I ray loved bride!

Hurrah!

O, joy, when thino arms hold me! I pino until they fold me. Corao to me! bridegroom, come!

Thino is my maiden bloom.

., Hurrah!

Why. in tliy sheath unsprinping. Thou wild, :lcar steol, art ringing? Why clanging with delight.

So eager for the fight? Hurrah

Well, may tho scabbard rattle: Trooper, I pant for battle Flight eager for the fight,

I clang with wild delight. Hurrah!

Why thus, my love, forth crooping? Slav in thy chamber, sleeping Wait ("till, in the narrow room

Soon for my brido I come. Hurrah

CSsTThc Evansville .Journal is informed by a person just front the South that a negro insurrection was discovered in Hanatobia, Northern Mississippi, on Sunday, April 14th. The ringleader was hung, and on tho scaffold told his oxccutioncrs that they thought the niggers didn't know what was going on, but they all did, and that his death would be revenged.'' Very little has been said about the occurrence in tho Memphis and MistsiSHiJpi papers.

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The following is the correspondence between tho Secretary of State and the 'ommissinners from the Confederate States:

MIIS YTH AND CRAWFORD TO MU. SKWAltn. WASHINGTON CITY, March 12, 18(51. Ih». William IT. Seward, Secretary of

State of the United States: Sin—The undersigned have been duly accredited by the Government of the Confederate Slates of America as Commissioners to the Government of the United States, and in pursuance of their instructions have now the honor to acquaint von with that fact, and to make kuown, through von, to the President of tho United States, the objects of their presence .in this Capital.

Seven States of the late Federal Union having, in the exerciso of the inherent right of every free people to chango or reform their political institutions, and through conventions of their people, withdrawn from the United States and re-as-sumcd tho attributes of sovereign power delegated to it, have formed a Government of their own. Tho Confederate States constitute an independent nation, dc facto and dc jure, and possess a Government perfect in all its parts and endowed with all the means of self-support.

With a view to a speedy adjustment of all questions growing out of this political seperation, upon such terms of amity and good will as the respective interests, georaphical contiguity and future welfare of w.e two nations may render necessary, the nndersigncd are instructed to make to the Government of the United States overtures for the opening of negotiations, assuring tho Government of the United States that the President, Congress, and the people of the Confederate States earnestly desire a peaceful solution of these great questions that it is neither their interest nor their wish to make any demand which is not founded in strictest justice, nor do any act to injure their late confederates.

Tho undersigned have now the honor, in obedience to the instructions of their Government, to request you to appoint as early a day as possible in order that they inay prcsant to the President of the United States the credentials which they bear and the objects of tho mission with which they are charged.

We arc, very respectfully, sir, Your obedient servants, JOHN FORSYTH,

MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.

THE REPLY OF MR. SEWARD. MEMORANDUM. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, W ashington, March 15, 1861. 1 Mr. John Forsyth of the State of Alabama, and Mr. Martin J. Crawford, of the State of Georgia, on the 11th inst., through the kind offices of a distinguished Senator, submitted to tho Secretary of State their desire for an unofficial interview. This request was, on the 12tfi inst., upon exclusively public considerations respectfully deeuned.

On tho 18th inst., while tfre Secretary was preoccupied, Sir. A. D. Banks, of Virginia, called at this department and was received by the assistant Secretary, to whom he delivered ft sealed communication, which he had been charged by Messrs-

Forsyth and Crawford to present to the Secretary in person. In that communication, Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford inform the Secretary of State that they have been duly accredited by the Government of the Confederate States of America as Commissioners to the Government of the United States and they set forth the objects of their attendance at Washington. They observe that seven States of the American Union, in the exercise of a right inherent in every free people, have withdrawn, through conventions of their people, from the United States, re-assumed the attributes of sovereign power, and formed a government of their own, and that those Confederate States now constitute an independent nation de facto and dc jure, and possess a government perfect in all its parts, and fully endowed with all the means of selfsupport.

Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, in their aforesaid communication, thereupon proceed to inform the Secretary that, with a view to a 6peedy adjustment of all questions growing out of the political seperation thus assumed, upon such terms of amity and good will as the respective interests, geographical contiguity, and the future welfare of the supposed two nations might render necessary, they are instructed to make to the Government of the United States overtures for the opening of negotiations, assuring this Government that the President, Congress and people of the Confederate States earnestly desire a peaceful solution of these great questions, and that it is neither their interest nor their wish to to make any demand that is not founded in strictest justice, nor do any act to injure their late confederates.

After making these statements, Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford closo their communication, as they say, in obedience to the instructions of their Government, by requesting the Secretary of State to appoint as early a day as possible, in order that they may present to the President of the United States the credentials which they bear and the objects of the mission with which they are charged.

Tho Secretary of State frankly confesses that lie understands the events which have recently occurred, and the condition of political affairs which actually exists in the part of the Union to which his attention has thus been directed, very differently from tho aspect in which they arc presented by Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford. He sees in them not a rightful and accomplished revolution and an independent nation, with an established government, but rather a perversion of a temporary and partisan excitement to the inconsiderate purposes of an unjustifiable and unconstitutional aggression upon the rights and the authority vested in the federal government., and hitherto benignly exercised, as from their very nature they always must bo so exercised, for the maintenance of the Union, the preservation of liberty, and the security, peace, welfare, happiness and aggrandizement of the American people. The Secretary of State, therefore, avows to Messrs. l'orsyth and Crawford that he looks patiently but confidently for the cure of evils which have resulted from proceedings so unnecessary, so unwise, so unusual and so unnatural, not to irregular negotiations, having in view new ami untried relations, with agencies unknown to and acting in derogation of the Constitution and laws, but to regular and considerate action of the people of those States, in co-operation with their brethreu in the other States, through the Congress of the United States, and such extraordinary conventions, if there be need thereof, as the Federal Constitution contemplates and authorizes to be assembled.

It is, however, the purpose of the jSecretary of State on this occasion, not to invite or engage in any discussion of these subjects, but simply to set forth his reasons for declining to comply with the request of Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford.

On the 4th of March inst-., the then newly elected President, in view of all the facts bearing on the present question, assumed the executive administration of the government, first delivering, in accordancc with an early and honored custom, an inaugural address to the people of the United States. The Secretary of State respectfully submits a copy of this address to Messrs Forsyth and Crawford.

A simple reference to it will be sufficient to satisfy those gentlemen that the Secretary of State, guided by the principles therein annouueed, is prevented altogether from admitting or assuming that tho States referred to by them have in law or fact, withdrawn from the Federal Union, or that they could do so in the manner described by Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, or in any other manner than with the consent of the people of the United States, to be given through a national convention, to be assembled in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Of course the Secretary of State canuot act upon the assumption or in any way admit that the so-called Confederate States constitute a forcigu power with whom diplomatic relations ought to be established.

Finally, the Secretary of State would observe that, although he has supposed that he might safely and with propriety have adopted these conclusions without making any reference of the subject to the Executive, yet so strong his been his deaire to practice entire directness and to act in)» spirit of perfect rcspect and candor towards Mesan. Forsyth and Craw-

ford, and that portion of the people of the Union in whose name they present themselves before him, that he has cheerfully submitted this paper to the President who coincides generally in the views it expresses, and sanctions the Secretary's decision declining official intercourse with Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford.

THE COMMISSIONERS IN REPLT TO MR. W VR- SEWARD. WASHINGTON, April 9, 1891. Hon. Wm. H. Seivard, Secretary of State of the United States, Washington:

The "memorandum" dated Department of State, Washington, March 15, 1861, with postscript under date of 8th instant, has been received through the hands of Mr. J. Pickett, Secretary to this commission, who by the instructions of the undersigned, called for it on yesterday at the department.

In that memorandum you correctly state the purport of the official note addressed to you by the undersigned on the 12th ultimo. Without repeating the contents of that note in full, it is enough to say here that its object was to invite the government of the United States to a friendly consideration of the relations between the United States and the seven States lately of the Federal Union, but now seperated from it by the sovereign will of their people, growing out of the pregnant and undeniable fact that those people have rejected the authority of the United States and established a government of their own. Those relations had to be friendly or hostile. The people of the old and new governments, occupying contiguous territories, had to stand to each other in the relation of good neighbors, each seeking their happiness and pursuing their national destinies in their own way, without interference with the other, or they had to be rival or hostile nations. The government of tho Confederate States had no heshesitation in electing its choice in this alternative. Frankly and unreservedly, seeking the good of the people who had entrusted them with power, in the spirit of humanity, of the Christian civilization of the age, and of that Americanism which regards the true welfare and happiness of the people, the government of the Confederate States, among its first acls, commissioned the undersigned to approach the Government of the United States with the olivo branch of peace, and to ofler to adjust the great questions pending between them in the only way to be justified by the consciences and common sense of good men who had nothing but the welfare of the people of the two confederacies at heart.

Your government has not chosen'to meet the undersigned in the conciliatory and peaceful spirit in which they are commissioned. Persistently wedded to those fatal theories of construction of the Federal Constitution always rejected by the statesmen of the South, and adhered to bv those of the administration school, uuti'l they have produced their natural and often predicted result of the destruction of the Union, uuder which we might have continued to live happily and gloriously together had the spirit of the ancestry who framed the common Constitution aniina-

ted the hearts of all their sons, you now. with a persistence untaught and uncured by

bv the ruin which has been wrought, re- jtion

fuse to recognize the great fact

that their earnest and ceaseless efforts in !ous

Under these circumstances the Secretary of State, whose official duties arc con- State, have no purpose to mvue or en- •, "f„,_ enr fined, subject to the direction of the Pres- gage in discussiou" of the subject on which j^c'0f JlaVch 1°

ident, to the conducting of the foreign their two governments are so irreconcilarelations of the country, and do not at all embrace domestic questions, or questions arising between thc several States and the Federal Government is unable to comply with the request of Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, to appoint a day on which they may present thc evidences of their authority and the objects of their visit to the President of the United States. On the contrary, he is obliged to state to Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford that he has no authority nor is he at liberty to recognize them as diplomatic agents, or hold correspondence or other communication with them.

derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," and who have set naval and laud armaments in motion to subject the people of one portion of this land to the will of another portion. That that can never be done while a freeman survives in the Confederate States to wield a weapon, the undersigned appeal to past history to prove. These military demonstrations against the people of the seceded States are certainly far from being in keeping and consistency with the theory of the Secretary of State, maintained in his memorandum, that these States are still component parts of the late American Union, as the undersigned are not aware 1^1 of any constitutional power in the Presi-j b^n exhausted, and it bcc.-u dent of the United States to levy war,

bly at variance. It is this variance that has broken up the old Union, the disintegration of which has only begun. It is proper, however, to advise you that it were well to dismiss the hopes you seem to entertain that, by any of the modes indicated, the people of the Confederate States will ever be brought to submit to the authority of the government of the United Stages. You are dealing with delusions, too, when you seek to separate our people from our government and to characterize the deliberate, sovereign act of that peopleas a perversion of a temporary and partisan excitement." If you cherish these dreams you will be awakened from them and find them as unreal and unsubstantial as others in which you have recently indulged. The undersigned would omit the performance of an obvious duty were they to fail to make known to the government of the United States that the people of the Confederate States have declared their independence with ft full

'JVEW SERIES-YOL. XII, NO. 41. CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 27, 1861. WHOLE NUMBER 985.

knowledge of all the responsibilities of that act, and with as firm a determination to maintain it by all the means with which nature has endowed them as that which sustained the fathers when they threw off the authority of the British crown.

The undersigned clearly understand that you have declined to appoint a day to enable them to lay the objects of the mission with which they are charged before the President of the United States, because so to do would be to recognize the independence and separate nationality of the Confederate States. This is the vein of thought that pervades the memorandum before us. The truth of history requires that it should distinctly appear upon the record that the undersigned did not ask the Government of the United States to recognize the independence of the Confederate States. They only asked audience to adjust, in a spirit of amity aud peace, the new relations springing from a manifest and accomplished revolution in the Government of the late Federal Union. Your refusal to entertain these overtures for a peaceful solution, tho active naval and military preparation of this Government, and a formal notice to the commanding General of the Confederate forces in the harbor of Charleston that the President intends to provision Fort Sumter by forcible means, if necessary, are viewed by the undersigned, and can only be received by the world, as a declaration of war against the Confederate states for the President of the United States knows that Fort Sumter can not be provisioned without the effusion of blood. The undersigned, in behalf of their Government and people, accept the gage of battle thus thrown down to them and, appealing to God and the judgment of mankind for the righteousness of their cause, the people of the Confederate States will defend their liberties to the last against this flagrant and opou attempt at their subjugation to sectional power.

This communication can not be properly closed without adverting to the date of your memorandum. The official note of the undersigned, of the 12th March, wa3 delivered to the Assistant Secretary of State on the 13th of that month, the gentleman who delivered it informing him that the Secretary of this Commission would call at twelve o'clock noon, on the next day for an answer. At the appointed hour Mr. Pickett did call, and was informed by the Assistant Secretary of State that the engagements of the Secretary of State had prevented him from giving the note his attention. The Assistant Secretary of State then asked for the address of Messrs. Crawford and Forsyth, the members of the Commission then present in this city, took uote of the address on a card, aud engaged to send whatever reply might be made to their lodgings. Why this was not done it is proper should be here explained. The memorandum is dated March 15, and was not delivered until April 8. Why was it withheld during the intervening twenty-three days In the postscript to your memorandum you say it was delayed, as was understood, with their (Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford's) consent." This is true but it is also true that on tho 15th of March, Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford were assured

person occupying a high official posi-

in thc

presented

to vou of a completed and successful rev olution you close your eyes to the existence of the government founded upon it, and ignore tho high duties of moderation and humanity which attach to you in dealing with this great fact. Had you met these issues with thc frankness and manliness with which thc undersigned were instructed to present them to you and treat them, the undersigned had not now the melancholy duty to return home and tell their government and their countrymen

government, and who as they

I believed was speaking by authority, that

In toil nn.l sn-eessfnl rev. *ort Sumter would be evacuated within a very few days, and that no measure changing the existing status prejudicially to the

Confederate States, as respects Fort Pickens, was then contemplated, and those assurances were subsequently repeated, with the addition that any contemplated change as respects Pickens would be notified to us. On the 1st of April we were again informed that their might be an attempt to supply Fort Sumter with provisions, but that Governor Pickens should have prcvi-

notlC2 of t!lls

behalf of pcacc had been futile, and that I suggestion o! any reimorcement. the government of the United States! lhe undersigned did not hesitate to bemeant to subjugate them by force of arms. I }ieve tjmt these assurances expressed the Whatever may be the result, impartial his- intentions ot the administration at the torv will record the innocence of thc gov-|t'mc'°r "tall events of prominent inemernmcntof the Confederate States, and

bers of

place the responsibility of the blood and!™3 assented to for the express purpose of mourning that may ensue upon those who attaining the great end of the mission of have denied thc great fundamental doctrine the undersigned, to-wit. A Pacific solution of American liberty, that "governments of existing complications.

attempt, lliere was no

that administration. This delay

The inference

deducible from the date of your memorandum, that the undersigned had, of their own volition and without cause, consented to this long hiatus in the grave duties with which they were charged, is therefore not consistent with a just exposition of the facts of the case. The intervening twentythree days were employed in active unof- g.ilnca

fieial efforts, the object, of which was to

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distinguished personage to »'OP"

perating with the undersigned, and every

step 0 a or is

and now in possession of the undersigned aud of their government. It was only when all these anxious efforts for jieace clear

tnat

without the conseut of Congress, upon a|Pea^

to swor 0

The undersigned, like the Secretary of jthat J. tTn 1 nora 1rended° ^11

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foreign power, much less upon auy portion confederate states ie vn tie operations, it is easy to soe the of the people of the United States. section or part) T\.IOSC resi en ie

rcp

It is proper to add that, during these twenty-three days, two gentlemen of official distinction as high as that of the personage hitherto alluded to aided the un-1

thus made answer to all they deem mater-

ial in the memorandum filed in the De-j

thc honor to be, JOHN FORSYTH, MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.1

A. B. ROMAN.

MR. SEWARD, IN REPLY TO THE COMMISSIONERS, ACKNOWLEDGES THE RECEIPT OF THEIR LETTER, BUT DECLINES TO ANSWER

IT. ...

is presumed, expect no notice from him of the new communication which they have addressed to him under date of the 9th inst., beyond the simple acknowledgment of the receipt thereof, which he hereby very cheerfully gives.

A true copy of the original received by the Commissioners of the Confederate States, this 10th day of April, 1861. Attest, J. T. PICKETT,

RPEEGII BY MK. DOIIGLAM.

Mr. Douglas arrived in the city last eveuingon his way to Illinois. The fact becoming known a large crowd assembled in front of the Bates House to welcome him. and in response to repeated calls he appeared upon the balcony and was received with enthusiastic applause. A shower of' rain commenced falling soon after he made his appearance, which cut short his remarks. He spoke in substance as follows:

I call'upon you all, Democrats and Rejmb-!t,!C

Anai'T 11 iv.in.

thc ions of

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ho]d

re^0^

IDS'|]y

^r- Lincoln had determined to ap-

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haustef] in iSe

g.,stopoL

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Secretary, &c.

tSf Secession does not seem to have taken a very deep root in some portions of Kentucky, judging from the following incident related by the Louisville Courier, a Secession sheet:

While the cars were at the Frankfort depot, a crowd gathered around, and assailed the volunteers with taunts and epithets, and other offensive language, and finally insultingly called them to display the Southern Confederacy flag, which had been presented to the company by the ladies of Cynthiana. Under these circumstances the flag was hoisted, when it was assailed with a volley of stones, which soon were directed at those on the platform and in the cars. A number of the volunteers were struck with stones, when some of them fired into the crowd with their pistols, and the fire was returned. A dozen shots were probably fired on either side. As far as we can learn, no one was seriously injured. The cars were in the act of leaving, when the aggressive act was committed, and they soon moved off.

FELLOW CITIZENS :—I do not feel at liberty to dccliuc responding to your call.— Our county is in danger. Our Federal Capital is beseiged by the enemy. It is time to rally to its rescue. This is no time to indulge in crimination or recrimination in regard to the causes which produced the crisis. It is enough to know that our government is in danger—that our liberties are assailed, to require every patriotic citizen to rally to its rcscue.— Seven States of the Federal Union, not. content with defying the authority of the Federal Government, have blockaded the mouth of thc Mississippi, established impost duties, and not satisfied with that, the Montgomery Government has embarked in piracy, for the manifesto of Jeff. Davis is nothing but piracy, and every man engaged under it is a pirate and should be hung higher than Hainan. [Cheers.] I will sanction no war upon the constitutional rights or domestic institutions of the Southern States, and in case of a servile insurrection, I would fly to their rcscue. While I would not invade the rights of others, I will never cease to fight in defense of our own liberties. We in thc great Mississippi valley, can never consent to the mouth of the Mississippi being closed or blockaded. I will never consent to ... pay taxes where we have not the benefit

^aC1ii 4 °jUiI0D' If Virginia has seceded she must make write privateers are doubtless putting to

attempt on Norfolk ot Washingten, and sea from .ill tl.ese ports.

,f,ie =, spc,lli..

ie poop 1 ,nnst become demoralized by content with

CN( 0

troas-m in the Confederate Htatc-.

But t,J insi,re tilis

negotiation temporarily suspended, and hurried by thousands to the capital. Let

resnlt'

nicn

*hould,be

e.r reveille be sounded in the streets of

WAS AT-

FORT SmHPTBR TACKED.

The New Orleans Bulletin publishes the extract below from a private letter from a distinguished citizen of Kentucky:"

If secession will bring good times here, I pray its speedy coming. We have never had such stringency in money. Nothing commands it. Failures are frequent among men heretofore regarded wealthy and safe. Property has depreciated immensely in value, owing to the large quantity of land, &c., thrown into market by failures, executions, &c. I try to convince everybody that if Kentucky will plant herself by the side of the Confederate States—that is go with them, she will insure peace to the country, restore confidence and bring back prosperity. Thc Union sentiment is still strong here, fostered by the non-action policy of Lincoln, and promoted by his judicious dispensation of Federal patronage, by this and the other Border States. He is fast bringing the Unionists to his faithful support. From being apologists, they arc becoming defenders and adherents. Unless something is done by the Confederate States to confirm their position as an independent and powerful republic, their friends in the Border States will be crushed, nnd there will be a powerful Lincoln party here, which will irrevocably seal the destiny of the remaining Southern States now in thc Union as part of the Northern Confederacy. My daily wish is that Sumptcr or Pickens may be attacked or gotten possession of in a manner which will be the result of the rightful claim of your confederacy, and not on the grounds of policy or military necessity on the part of Lincoln.

On tho Wednesday preceding the Friday on which Sumptcr was attacked, Uoger A. Pryor said at Charleston in response to a complimentary demonstration

For this demonstration of your regard, I beg to return my grateful acknowledgments. I am here in Charleston in pursuance of a pledge, voluntarily given, that so soon as 1 might be able to release myself from certain very imperative engagements in Virginia, that 1 would come hither, and upon the soil of South Carolina ofjfer iu person the tribute of 1113' infinite adI miration.

As sure as to-morrow's sun will rise upon us, just so sure will Old Virginia be a member of this Southern Confederation. (A. plausc.) And I will tell you, gentlemen, what will put her in the Southern Confederation in less than an hour, by Shrewsbury clock. Strike a blow! (Tremendous ajiplau.se.) I do not mean to say anything for cffect upon military operations. I am but a poor civilian, who never set a squadron in the field—

Nor Ihc division of a battle knows

More tliann spinster.

But I was speaking with resjiect to the political effects of revolution. The very moment that blood is shed, Old Virginia will make common cause with her sisters of the South. (Applause.) It is impossible that she should do otherwise. In conclusion accept my word for it, the moment thc conflict begins, Old Virginia will dispute with South Carolina thc precedence iu this great combat.

AVe might fill our columns with like once of the fact that

nn„

confirmatory

h,1,11I'tcr

was riUaekud

of the revenue. Consent to this, it will wicked purpose of precipitating tin: Unr-

establish a precedent for thc Eastern and Pacific States to cut off our coinmcrce and we will be isolated. Wc, iu this great valley, can never consent to be so isolated. Our very existence as a free people depends upon resisting it. Those are our constitutional and inalienable rights.— They are being invaded by the Gulf States.

,lcllbcra,e1y

for tho

der States into secession. Jut further evidence is unnecessary. The fact is in general freely confessed by the secessionists themselves.

I*it Kl*.4 It.t 1IOSS S'OR i'lKK V.

TSxtraet from the commercial article of

Xcw York Hcr!l!(1

licans, to rally in defense of your own It is idle to doubt that Mr. Davis can rijrhts, but not against, the rights of others, obtain men both South and North to man I have done ail 1 could to avert this war, piratical exjicditions under the. guise of but the Disunionists arc intent ujion fore-' letters oi marque. .1 he .Matagorda, a wcli ing it upon us. I auain call ujion you to, armed steamer has already sailed irom take uji arms and never lav them down I exas to intercept tnc California treasure while your rights are invaded.—State|shijis. 'Hie Star of the West has been

Lfici. taken 111 oX e\v Oilcan.-, a pi to the South. Other ships and steamers are be-

Mo,"1 ,.v-

inir fitted out. as jirivatcr :crn ports. Of course

Successful wars arc usually decided on a given point, and in a single day. It is the greatest error to suppose a campaign extends to every village 111 a state, and is comjiosed of a scries of little combats.— mean time, many peaceful merchant ships

rs at other Souththese jirivateers

due course of time, be seized by

our cruisers, and their officers and crews 'hanged at the yard arm. Hut, in the lerchant

il'lussia was overwhelmed at Austerlitz and will probably have been seized by them, •„]{,'0"..cr ],js present jiosition, as it is only Fricdland by troops that never bad seen and their cargoes sold at some Wet India ,|3

her soil Napoleon was hurled from bis or South American j:rt. The Adminis-:

throne at Waterloo Austria was humbled 1 tratiou lias proclaimed a blockade of South-. })l2 },as neither °endorsed nor at Solforino, nnd the victory of Wolfe, at crn ports. But no steps have yet been aou.sulto".! any jiartictilar mcasQuebec won Canada for England. In the taken to render thc blockade effectual at

were ex- Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Apalach- ,jat

iwujicu iu i.xunniujiyi. icola. Savannah or Charleston. hile wc no'icv of Mr Lincoln Nevertheless

reinforcc cither of those places, and the WHAT IS PATRIOTISM?—Not Deinocramorc men the secessionists accumulate the cv. Not I'epublicanism. It has no symj.Teater will be the effects of their defeat. pathy with traitors. It is careless of peWithout credit or money, destitute of a

niary interest. It is reckless of personal

navy, or resources of any kind except cot-: safety. It abhors lukewarmness. It icas

ton, nnd with a servile population that the spiritof 1776. 11 is the spirit of 1 *01.

i,m. ...v ..j n.v workinginen of every class, and citizens

every city, and every man that can be sidcr what a gj»irit unites the

spared enroll his name among thc defenders of his country.—^Yeic York World.

VIRGINIA.

dersigned as intermediaries in these un- Virginia has a public debt hanging over official negotiatiens for peace. jjer

somc

The undersigned, Commissioners of the 1 without credit. The number of her citiConfederate States of America, having'

one

partment on the 15th of March last, have Jy in debt, without credit, and with an in

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, April 10,1861. Messrs. Forsyth, Crawford and Roman, having been apprised by a memorandum which has been delivered to them, will, it

f)jrty.Sve millions, and is now

zens capable

cec(} one

of bearing arm3 does not ex-

hundred and fifty thousand, about

.half what Ohio can turn out. Deep-

different military force, she can not be expected to accomplish much, if any thing, of an aggressive character. She will have to confine herself to protecting herself from invasion, which the topography of her territory will greatly aid her to do effectively. Nothing but insanity or insufferable oppression and wrong, which we all know do not exist, can make her people vote her out of the Union. But whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad, and that may be the case with Virginia.— We wish her a better fate.—Cin. Eng.

•IOW A SOLDIER'S WIFE OIK II*. The Boston Courier details this incident as having happened there—as patriotic as it is amusing^

On Tuesday morning, the anxious wife of a Marblehcad volunteer who had received marching orders refused to get his thing together tor him, suphosing by that means to prevent his going with his company but her husband was not made of any such soft material, aud started off without a change of under garments of any kind. She "could not believe he could g» off so," but thought he would stoji short of the railroad depot, and return to her fond bosom. In this she was mistaken. Hubby joined his companions in arms, unprovided for a campaign as he was, aud in a few minutes the train had put miles between himself and the wife he had left behind, lie did not feel altogother right about her conduct, but his condition was that of perfect bliss compared to the state of her mind and affections, when she came to a realizing sense of thc fearful fact that she had sont her gallant husband ofi' to the wars without a second shirt to his back, or any of the little "goodies" which foud wives usually put up for their husbands when they start on a journey. It soon occurred to her that she might roach Boston before thc regiment started for Washington in thc afternoon, and she set right to work to fill the largest valise she could find with whutover she could lay her hands ou which might contribute to his inward or outward comfort- Thus heavily laden, she made her way through thc drenching rain to the depot. Upon arriving at Boston she was informed that the regiment was to form on the Common, and thither she proceeded but no soldiers were there and despair almost overcame her. With a heart heavier than even thc valise she carried, she wended her way to a stable kept by an acquaintance, from whom sho hoped to obtain some information as to the probable whereabouts of her much-abused spouse. In taking this step she was fortunate, and ascertained that lie was at Faueuil Hall. Away she dashed, regardless of the wind and rain, "walking thc water like a tiling of life," until she reached the old Cradle of Liberty. Her valise performed the office of a "free jiass" fur her with tho sentinels, and in less than a minute she was the most delighted of wives and he was the most surprised of husbands. Sho remained in the city until the regiment left for the South yesterday.

8©* Where on earth can Jeff. Davis be? He is not at Moutgoinory, and we cannot learn that a word has readied this scction* in regard to his movements, either by let-: tcr, by newspaper, or by telegraph, within the last eight or ten days. Wc suppose he is still a dweller upon our planet, but his locality appears to be a public aud a private mystery. He seems to have put 011.Jack the Giant Killer's coat of air ami to be moving about, if lie moves at. all, as viewless as the wind. No doubt he is making secret hut vigorous preparations to strike somewhere, vigilantly watching his dversarv whilst invisible and inaudiblo himself. Very possibly he has shaved off iiis moustaches put 011 a wig, a false beard: md a false nose, changed his voice by keejiing jiebblea iu his mouth, aud is stealing about in mendicant's clothes through the streets of Washington, examining the defences, calculating the number of troops,and occasionally peejiing curiously in upon old Abe himself.

And it seems as impossible to get any. thing about Fort Picketc as about lelf. Davis. Wo have heard nothing from Pickens within the last ten days except one vague rumor supposed to lie a fiction. We can only conjecture whether

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It anyone doubts it, let him walk our thintr short of this involves moral treason streets, enter our stores and marts of bu.-i-' least,1 and anything beyond it is a base ncss, talk with our merchants, brokers, surrender of the rights of a fr^pman. bankers, clergymen, eartmen, liremen,

every rank and condition. Let him con-

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one man. It is not anger, nor revenge, nor mere excitcmcnt. It is the united uprising of a great people.— Ncic York WorUl.

PIjESTV OF Ait.TIf*.

We understand that a letter was recciv-

fort as Pickens or such a President us .loll. Davis exists. The Cotton Government has certainly got all possible channels of communication with the rest of the world in rigorous and vigorous subjection. A great, deal has been said about Abe roficencc, but the Cotton functionaries can beat him two to one at that game.

OP ji'imjk i»oi a,AN.

The Chicago Times, a pajicr believed to be in thc confidence of Judge Douglas,.. says: A good deal has been said about tho 'position of Judge Douglas in the {present. civil war, and 1111 effort has been made as usual to exult over it. Now, we undertake

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Colonel Thomas II. Nelso: arrivtd direct from Washington yesterday afternoon, and reports everything quiet at tne Inderal (J vpita3. and that 110 tear of invasion is now felt by the public authorities. He states thai thore are plenty ot troops now there to prot-et thc city that there i- no necessity for the service- of any of th"

Western

ed in thi3 city on Saturdav, from a mem- there is no intention ot moving them thithber of the Cabinet, which stated thatjer. Provisions arc scarce, and command within a few davs after the inauguration high prices, flour selliug at twelve dollars an ageut was sent to .Europe with orders and a half jer oarrel. Au exultant an 1 to purchase five hundred thousand staud hopeful fcciing prevail.', among the puoiic of arms, and that these arms would now officials in regard to thc abilitj of J10 be arriving by every steamer at New York, iovernment to maintain its integrity, and —Cincinnati Enquirer. I the honor of the flag.—State Sentinel.

S&~ The telegraph offices of New Or-1 IS?" The Mobile Tribune says the anleanshave, ia compliance with the request ticipated blockade of that port has lately of the State authorities, declined to trans-jled to a very brisk business in loading mit any dispatches in cypher. It is also'vessels with cotton and other freights instated that no dispatches whatever in re- tended for foreign ports. Cotton was ference to military operations in the Con- being loaded at the rate ot 376 bales a federate States will be transmitted except day, about

by order of the proper authorities. (daily rate.

volunteers in that quarter, and

126

bales over th» Oidin*r