The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1861, Page 2

_4 THE FLOYD BANQUET. Interesting Developements 0 Cabinet Movements. After Dinner Revelations of the Ex- Secretary of War, | ery Gur Virginia Correspon | 5 Rucumonn, Va, Jam. 12,1861, | Complimentary Banquet to (ow. Mowd, ex-Secretary of War, by his Friends in Richmond—Highly Inter eting Speech of Gon Floyd—Interesting Deveopements of Cabinet Move- ments Relative to South Carolina, do. Gov. Floyd, ex-Secretary of War, was ontortained by ‘his friends in the Legislature and many private citizens toasplendid banquet, at the Exchange Hotel, last night. AsI stated ina despatch to the Hamann, the entertain- ment was given in tokengf the high admiration in which the course of Gov. Floyd is beid in leaving the Cabinet after tho promise to preserve the status quo in South Caro- Hina had been violated. | Among those present at the dinner were the Hon. Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Gilmer, the two commissioners from { Alabama. ‘The first regular toast was read by General A. A. Chap- | man, a member of the House of Delegates, who acted as _ President. It reads:— “ ‘The constitution as our fathers made it. ‘Tho Hon, James A. Seddon replied to this toast in a | fpecch not very oulogistic of the constitution. ‘The President gave the next regular teast:— | Our the Hon. John B. Floyd, the worthy son of 8 noble sire, All hopor to the Virginian, who, spurning the trappings of federal ploce, respects a mother's rights aud ‘@ mother’s wrongs. ‘This toast was reocived with several rounds of applause, | followed by three cheers for Gov. Floyd. When the ap- plause subsided— Governor Fuoyp arose and eaid:—Mr. President and gon" tlomen—If I had all the wealth of language that belonged to the wealthiest of all men in Janguago, I would still lack words to oxprees to you my gratitude for the honor you have conferred upom me to-night. It something ‘of consolation to me, after all I have suffered and gone through since I sepa- rated from you in this very building come four years ago, to be met by anch manifestations of kind ‘appreciation a8 you display here to-night. It is, indeed, ‘a source of the most profound pleasure to me to be thus honored for the discharge of responsible duties, rendered of Late peculiarly deli and embarrassing; but I en- deavored to discharge them to the best of my ability, prompted aione by a solemn sense of what was due to the country and due to myself. Forgive mo, gontiomen, if I handle a little awkwardly a weapon that was familiar to ‘me once, for I must sey to you that I have not opened my mouth before a public assembly since four years ago I met many of the sens of Virginia here, and engaged with them in hearty congratulations upon the happy termination of the conflict which we had thon passed through. Four years ago, house, we congratulated ourselves upon the result of the great battle through which we had passed. If there was a lurking sentiment in the bosom of some that all was not quite as well as it should be—if the demon came up in spite of us, and intimated that the triumph wo achieved was not a triumph of the majority, but @ tri- umph of the minority—that it solved no great principle— ‘that it was alone a quieting of the confederacy for the moment—still there was a gomeral feeling of triumph, and fam abiding hopo in the minds of the people that in the future all would be well. The issue was distinctly made, aad with a feeling of triumph we inducted ino office our chosen leader. He stood upon a platform which was de- servedly esteemed one of safety, one of peace, and one of salvation. Four short years have rolled over, and how stands the account this mght? Where are the proofs of the triumph? Where is the peace that we expected to enjoy? Where is the safety and where the scturity that you bad aright to count upon? Where is the preserva tion of the law which was hopefully looked for? Where the triumph of the constitutions Where the permanency Of this Union? Gone—all gone, gone with last year’s saow, ‘and gone forever. In the history of mankind such 4 revo- | Tution has never boen witneased for such a cause as bas produced this, I will advert for a solitary moment, be- fore I go into a respouse to the toast which has just been oftored, to the causo witich led to this extraordinary con- dition of things. 1s there any ground of complaintagainst you for any aot subversive of the principles upon which this government ts founded? What have you done that is wrong? What constitutional ‘provision have you vio- jated? What law of the land have you trampled under foot? What wrong have you perpetrated’ Net one, 0% one. How came it to pase, en, that this confederacy, this Union, whie*» Uke the gontleman who has just spoken, I jov@ and honor for its purity, has been annibi- lata’? ‘A fanaticism, # religious and moral prejudice, has arisen {n the minds of our Northern brethren, and they have attempted to carry it into effect through the iastru- mentality of the federal government. And see in what it has resulted—in alienation of fecling between the North and South, a total disregard of the constitution and laws of the country, and, finally, in the disr’ tion of a govern. ment the most glorious, the most magnileent that the world ever saw. A short time im the history of nations, gentlemen—thirty years ouly—whon 1 had no gray hair on my head, but when, like many of you here, in the prime af youth, this incident oc ourred, and it is an insignificant ons its appearance called the Liberator, and the Governor of Virginia at that day wrote to a friend of Lis in Boston to know something of this Liberator nowspaper. He stated that the paper bad been sent here through the Post Office to teach insubordination and incite servile insurrection. What, said the Governor, is the meaning of this? Tow is it that the old cradle of liberty allows this paper to ex fet? His friend wrote back and stated:— The paper you have sent me I have carefully examined, and immediate ly made it my business to seek its origin. After a long ‘and tedious search | discovered that it was published by an insignificant and unknown man, aud printed in tho Attic of a waste house in a back streot of the city of Bos- toa. The publisher nobody knows or cares for: his whole concern is a Small, dirty room, containing a press worked by himself once a week to throw out tho issue which he prepares for the public, 1 think the Govorner of Vir ginia—the Governor of that great old Commonwealth which led the van in the Revolytionary war—imay reat content that there is no danger to the liberties of Virginia from this source.’ That was thirty years ago, and at that timo this little indication was but small cloud in the heavens not bigger than a man’s hand. How ts it now? It has grown to be a cloud that covers the whole face of the heaveos—it has grown to bea power that is striking down the bulwark of constitutional liberty and freedom. That waa ite origin. How has it progressed to this colossal proportion It went into the churches of the Lamb of God and created divisions there; and then with impious presumption said, we are more wito in oar generation, than the God of beaven when he gave laws to the children of Israel. We say that slavory is a curse, aud that damnation will attend you who live in the country whore it exists, ‘They say, You connot ait down at the table of the Lord that ia given as the covenant for man’s salvation. But why do I dwell upon this subject? It is quite as familiar to you as it is to me, and it is therefore unnoceswary that Tsbould dwell any longer upon it, What institution in | the country bas this fapaticism not set upon and de stroyed? It bas invaded every fundamental right which | we hold dear, and has finally culminated in the dostric tien of this great apd glorious Union, What is this which they religiously regard as a curse? God in his command. ments wrote with his own fingers upon Mount Sinai, how shalt not covet thy neighbor's slave;"” and if these will doal with tis subject in a. religious I would have thom remember that the firs in the history of the world was an angel o God, pent by God to taco a runaway slave—s negro—and ‘bring him back to bis master, (Applause and laughter, At is & hallowed institution, and it seems that in the Provi dence of God itcame down through the new dispensa tion to be and perpetuated in conformity with the will of divine Providence. With all reverence, allow me to state to those who want « new Bible and an antl slavery God, that if the doctrine of Mower line bom foo old fogy laa for'them, they can refer to tha Nee tons ment ame seek ome furthor light. An angel, ax have said, wae the first slave catcbor. Bt. Poul sustame the institution amd admonished submission on the part » slaves to their masters: and everywhere wo tind it conse crated by the will of God, through which it ia destinn + to a perpetual exiatencs, to be controlle:| wad governed in conformity with his precepts. Is it thorefore to be pre. sumed this institution i# against religion’ God that thonght not—Moses thought not —Paul thought not—Joana Christ Bot—the conetitution thought not. (Ay plause.) Buthow stands the (uot? Has it ever oocarred to you that the institution of African tlevery to the United Staten was of itself © miracle Itke the deli r of the children of Israel! from the bonds of the Egyptians? Thea the power of God divided the era and let the £0 froe, and the water stood as a wall on eitberside, and the oppressed went free, when Pharaoh with bie chariot was swallowed vp in the seep. Applause.) How came African slavery to be instituted $0 he United tates? What great interest required fir What groat national policy demanded ity What great | religious instinet prompt It What great cootiment of pallantheopy demande! © Not one. licrs were a poopic savage from the voginning—here were & poopie wit (Applanae,) is | Adricans, In acommerci j be A newspaper made | found in a condition the moet deplorable (bat heart can contemplate, who, by some peculiar a: —, bye were brought from ey here to remaio ‘thore pursuits which cadisien And what 2 sat tiaue—from being wavages they cuatent. Was the like ever knownt Was a oolony under such circumstances ~~ Planted, and has any colony | more flourished? If aiPthe combined powors of te com | bined nations ef the earth were to unite to plant such colonies ceeded. God whese isbor did a8 much towards human advancement and refinement ax the African labor. Look tmto the philo- eophy of it. There a map who cap raise cotton, ‘bat man is tho African. What does cotton dot 1 heard the ringing sou fall the other day from the lips of a enator, that “cotton is king,’’ amd I felt the full force of thus remark. I would say it 1s more than king. It is the power that revolves and controls the destinies of civilized man; and the uegro nup is the instrument that produces He isGod Almighty’s instrument aud he is working in God Almighty’s cause, What does cot- ton do for your It regututes the commerce of the United Ftates; it hveps the ships and workshops of Amorica at work; it contributes hundred miliions of dollars every year to the sustaining of the commercial power of the United States government, the affairs of which are no longer sustained by arms in the fold or a powerful navy on theocean. It is pot through ordnance, the Commis- sariat tment, or the Quartermaster’: Department. It ia not with men armed cap-a-me, with helmets glistening in tho sunlight. [t is not to these that it is given now to control the affairs of the world. ‘there be men in the back room of the counting house who pursue their silent vo- cations of ciphering und making enteies, and they are the parties who control the destinies of the affairs of men ia these days, Aud how stands slave labor with themt Slave jabor is essential a8 the basis of their operations. Tt is with the products of slave labor that we settle our balances with Foglind every year, and it ts to this power that we are looking with evere contidence here for concentration of the commerce of the world. That monopoly which once belonged to Tyre—that groat trade which belonged ouce to Sidon and to Amsterdam, aud | which now belongs to Englund, is being transforred to us by a certain decree, and, if the Union holds, will soon be concentrated in the waters of the United States. This is what cotion would do for us if fanaticism did not step in and pervert the good designs of Providence. It keeps thips employed; it puts all the earth under bonds to keep: the peace with the United states, (Lond applause.) If you had one continuovs fortification reaching from the ‘Aroostock to the Rio Grand, frownmg with bayonets, it would not be half so potential as the labor of these Ppowwtof view, in a.national point of view, in 4 roligions point of view, ina Philanthropic point of view, what is (here in this inatitition that autl rizes interfercnce with it? Yot these peupls have advanced ‘and laid thetr unbatlowod hands upon this institution of God Aimighty; nnd they say, you are sinners, tho curse of God adheres to ‘hag ‘ments, we will have no fellowship with you. is has’ been going en for thirty yeurs. "In spite of all these fact, aud of anotber ope which I will aiiude to, they are determined to break down this government; they intend to force the Diessing of liberty upon these people. It is no new idea, ‘This idea of freeing the Africon ia not new, 1t has been tried before, and what has been the result? You have seen England , that great Power, come forward in the days of the prosperity of one of her island ious, proclaiming in the bighways and byways she struck from the slaver, in tho first island that God ever made, the mana- cles which bound them, and aot them free, Yes, air, she elevated the black man’to the possession of freedom, and thus sought to force upon you the belief that he is your brother and your equal. She gavedo bit the finest isle of the ocean, and what has been the result of the experi- ment? Men has freed him and God has declared him to ‘at the electoral dinner in this | be slave, and the experiment of freedom in this in- stanee exhibits the fact that instead of his improving, he goes down, down, down to the depth of savagery and joolatry. What hus become of that island? It is this day 4 wilderness and desert. It did not stop them. God tutended that the examplo should go further, and whon instigated our brethren at the North to an act of humanity, when he turned their eyes away from the burning of witches to the frecing of the American slave, what has been the case? When those men were liberated, after a century of close education, have they advapeed in the schoo! of human civilization: Taoy havo not, but have fallen as aon 28 the aickles of slavery were shaken from their arms—havs fallen through the network of soctety, and gone down to the abyss of degra- dation, tinding their way out from the centre of society through three channela—those of crime, poverty and m- sanity. They have disappeared; and ali the moral suasion andal! the teachings of the Gospel, all the Sunday schoo! and tract societies have been unable to stay their pro- grese. Go invo jalis and hospitals and lunatic asylums, ana there you will find confirmed what I hive already re ferred to a the ehannels through which the depletion of this black element in society wronghty No, the hand of God Almighty is in this thing. It fs like the mrraeia which He performed in bringing the lsraclites through the Red Sea. But these Northern men are wiser in this generation than God; they are holier than the Divine One who died on Calvary; and they come to tell you that you shall liberate these people or you shail bedamned. (Laugh ter.) Ithas gone from one step to another, as you are aware, until new itmay besaid to have attained its climax But, gentiomen, it has been proclaimed that there ia an irrepressible conflict, and now I come to the gist of the thing. It has been proclaimed that thore is an trreprosei- bic cousliet between the region of country whore slavery exists and the region of country where it does not exist, and that there is but one isene, and that is tho liberation of the sia Parties have been organized on this issue. It split the churebes—it has separated nearly ali the churebes—it bas gone on in regular progression, and now turoatens the political rnin of the ovuntry. ‘aud ths bring us down to the point in which we are immosiately ested. Upon the election of Abrahem Lincoln on a embody ing the avowal of a prinviple whick it is ¥, aud still more vain to disregard, these onsed upoa one aide upon the avowed de. lavery 18 a Curse, a sin, and must be abol- come up with banners flaunting in the declared principles upon them. They Lave not consulted yon; they did not condescand to ask you what was your opinion upon the subject. They aevor ibcught you of suilicient importares to ask your upon the subject. That leaven, which thirty ago s small, has grown and increas bow overwheiws the land, and stats forth a giant i its mighty proportions. It comes down from tho North armed cap-a-pie to eoize upon all the power of this mighty coufederacy, to be used aguinst you. ‘The ceciaration has beep made, the principle” hay been avowed, and then the organization is being gotteo | up wearry both into eflect. Why, gentlemen, 1 have | thought, God knows, many a time, that it was an easy matter for a man to surrender his opinions. To surrender | his possessions does not cost aman much; to surrender hia property 18 no very great suerifice; but to surrender his manhood is honor—my God! who can endure it? rs ask of you ve printed upou your foreh sads the «tigma and the insults of ioteriority. ‘They ask you to say to yor wives and little ones, you are inferior to other people—you are not their equals. Go you down to the lowest seats at the feast, be. cxune you are not the equals of thore Solons who rapa diate the constitution. That is what they demand and will have, or they wilt do another thing, Virginians—thoy will have your blood. Which will you giver As God is my judge, they shail have iny blood io the laat drop before ‘consent to (hat monstrous iniquity. (Loud applause.) Is ra ad until it it anything that you can dofer? Geutlemen, I did not come here in any spirit of dictation, tion, J know my posi- have purfect confidence in my manhood, , Who feels that ace of this earth, (immense applause.) 1 came here in no spirit of dictation. Teame here aa a trne Virgiuian, to consult with you, and cast my lot in with your lot, and what Virginia in her wisdom may say is right I will'abide by. (Applause) Will you hug the delusion to your borom—will you toll your constituency in the Dighways and Ts toslep iy in the gorges: of the mountains, in the besutiful vaileys and along the aon shore, that there is peace when there is no peaces Will you do te? (Cries of “No,” “No You cannot do it—you dare not do it. Proclaim the truth to the people of the country, and abide the issue of their deci and sion. Is thero ponce ih the future? Is thero @ hope that comes looming up? Lat mo advert to afew facue. ‘There are some hero who were present at the Cincinnati Convention when the Prestdent, Mr. Buchanan, received the nomination. [was at Cincinnati on that occasion, aud T did my best to secure his nomination. Mr. Buchs: ban Was a great and good man—a siatesman of larce ex perince, having served in public life not leas than a quar- ter of a century up to the period of his nomination. Wo on his soundmeas and elected him; whereupon Drought around bim a Cabinet—some dread. | ful things have deen said about them—but, gentlemen, let me tell you that moet of them are lies. (laughter) Look at the facts as they stand, with those trusty servants whom be put in position.” What did ho | dor It would be easier to denou to defend; but i ood the right, and proclaim the truth were I am, aa God is my judge, What did he do? Here ed avuses: le inétituted reforms, he introduced a gid system of esonomy; and when it was declared to you that the govoroment of the United States was epend ing one hundred miidious of dollars a year, it could be seen by e-ferring to the dgures that Mr. Buchanan's plao of economy had reducodithe expenditures to less than etx ty millions of dollars annually. (Applanse.) What could you atk more? He had been irue to the South, he had been true to his country, to his honor and to the consti. tution of the United States, which 19 ll you could ask, ‘That was the administration of Mr. Puchanan, And was that potential onough to exercise this demon of fanatl clam that came knovking at the door of liberty: Waa Uat enough tosatiefy these people at the North who came upon another idea altogether to aténck you’ It was wholly inwufficient, and they stigmatized, siandered and traduced the administration that had dene this much for you, Our foreign relations, which were in :ereat confa- sion when we get there, Imvye been adjusted, Tho financial operations "had been fo man. , and especially crisis, that Goring | the ernment wae safo. Was that suflle to the demon? it was pot, tt had spit the churek ‘This fanaticiem which divided the parties cf the country and the country itself, at last,and I say not the least, entered likewise inte the couneil chamber of your own tried aud trusted President of the United States. There ‘his insidions serpent cams, like the monster that came crawling on its belly imto the garden of Kiton to tomy gar mother hve, tt entered the council chamber of \ hited Stator, and there, too, engendered the same dis {- sions which marked ite career elaewhere. I would vladly pass over thin suljjcet, becange there muat be something Of egotism Buxed up with it, 1 have not boon ignorant of this division. 1 thongint I gaw at a distance When thé nepiring ep of ail the Union were pluiming their wings to perch into the elevator position of the Presideney—I thought I saw ata dirtance that they could not each that point. There wore other intluences at work which would cut off their Might; I saw that there was & groat controversy about to arise, whieh, unless prudence and for vearence shoal characterize th councils of tho cou try, wouid @nd in blood. ly acciden’ beyond my morit and | ass you pad My Wishes nd ney icwtions, for God knows |} weaver wanted to go into he Cabinet to be placed in an | W bat could | feel, and what could I gay? I said, send for labored there to un- | Geveral Scott. Gladly, gratefully 1 the prop a ite responsi- | sition; and as qui as lightning couli carry ll Of significance, | it from the is the great com- for good, and armed with | mercial emporium of the couptry, @ summons Whilst your mes wore aspuing | was sent for vit to come on, and ia wos arg geen 4 d time the old General eanen theeats, ‘The General Answered, I undertook & ides# upon the great question involved very diffecort hands that when the | from mive. General Scott was a soldier. bad not ‘i you, all of you, and each of | thonght of what would be the sentiments of a soidior who zoe, chenumons thie wep bas dogs Wie ame, (land - | had been a seldier wiuning laure’s in the Geld from the Plause.) Pardon me for the egtism. It isGod Almighty’s | time that | was an infant in my swaddling clothes to the truth abd God knows it. Sane 6 Semen te ieohers, eeent time. that ptriod 1 of coming. I knew there was no power between earth — ‘Scott as the laurel victor of a heaven t? at could civert it. I understood, as I under- | battles. I thonght of bim as a cherished and be- ‘stand this moment, that as it had split everything in ite | loved son of Virginia; I thought of him ws a man whose it was destined to split the adminiatration of thé | name had been engraved und inscribed by ed States, I stood firm. Gentlemen, the message | on lasting memori of esteem; I thought the President of the United States seems to be a con- | Soot us a man that Virginia bad elevated and Malden Tatas | tether at i ¢ moc of what I believe to t good old man. wreath 0 ors, laughter.) Was there, since God wade thought of one who had the decorations to your Had bis admin SouthY Had it not been hovest and faithful Union, because it was distiuctly and eggnog or te Ido not come 4, , but 1 will eay, because it is due to the truth in that terrific conflict in which be was engaged Dot 06 well sustained by the Seuth 4s he deserved to be. Perbaps it was intended that this present catast should be precipitated the count If they twken a different course this would, doubtless, uot have come. Bout itis notin baman nature to be as true te another ag to the mother that gave youguci:. (Laughter. Mr. Buchanan could not come to the position of the Sout as asonof the South would. There were two policies embodied in that message. There w the policy had gore ‘anc there is the policy of coercion, However mush they may bo composed—however well they might keep together up and to the meeting of Congress and the for- matiou of committees, there was @ time coming when the roads fork. He bad said and proclaimad—and it was a great consolation to me—we cannot make war and will not make war. Gentlemen, I was contented then, and I will tell you the reason, But, he said, I will execute the laws. That was Mr. Attorney General Black's doo- trino—these lawyers bave a reverential reapect for” lows—a very good thing. 1 don’t know of a bot- ter substitute for the law than a lawyer, —_ in times of great excitement, apeer: Well, they said wo must execute the ws, and I aid, agreed, lemon, But the President said this question of the forts is a question of property. Well I tapped my hand at that, and said, it is @ question of property, nud if it is a question of p operty it can be eusi- ly solved. I said, gravt that this is a question of proper- ty—Mr. President, | am your Seerctary of War, and the property and the army are under iny charge. I have sworn ap oath which is recorded in heaven, and I am de- termined that the responsibility for this prope-ty which Thold pdall be turned over to ny successor, if God gives me power to live and defend it, We agreed about the queetion of property, mark you, in the forts. The mili- tary power displuyed tn the forts, the political signifl- cance expressed ip the forts, biended into each other 80 that it was twilight, ana you could hardly tell where the hgbt stopped and where darkness commenced. T said it wae a question of property. I am with you to the death. I know these people in South Carolina well. It 80 happened that 1 was umongst them. What little I Soow f erned there. Iwas at school there for years, and graduated in their college. I knew the meu who were the operating mon upon the political arena there, and J knew them well. I knew they were no fanatics. Viekens and mony othera who are no le#s promi- neat in South Carolina politics are men to be relied on. They are good men, are great’ mon, and 1 should defend them to the yery last drop of my Diood. (Loud applause ) I said I will not covsent—I cannot conseut—I dare not consent that you shall, under tho guiso of taking care of your property, in- troduce inte this country # power that will rise up pre- sently and probably aim at emanotpation. For having once gained possession under this guise, there is danger of usurpation of a power which could be used, by uad by, with serious detriment to the Southeru people. 1 will not convent to this occupation. It is not fair, and I wilinot consent to tt. Thus did the matter terminate then. I bad frequent interviews with the President of the United States, and 1 take pleasure in bearing testimo- ny to you, gertieman, who do not like him quite as wall as ‘ou Gia four years so, that his whole aud entire solici- ace was upon the question of property. We made the compact. I believe there bas been sometting in the newspapers about it, All that ay in the newspapers I found out is not true. Some things in them are true. The Presiuent said to me—and I 1 t Lnever saw him in my life lock ap mueh like what comes up tomy idea of a President of the United States as he looked that even ing—he faid, “Mr. Floyd, are you going to avad recruits to Charleston to strengthen the ‘orts? What about sending reinforcements to Charleston?” I was taken very much by surprise to fiud the President making this inquiry, indicating, to my mind, a change of policy on bis part.” T said, ‘Mr. President, nothing about sending recruits toCharleston.”’ ‘Don’t you,” said he, “in- tend to strengthen the forts at Charleston?’ ‘io not in- tend to strengthen the forts at Charleston.” (Tremencous applause.) Says he, “Mr. Floyd, I would rather be ic the bottom ot the Potomac to-morrow than that these forts in Charleston ebotid fit iit tite. tisanty ve stveos we on tend to take them. It will destroy me, sir.” Anu, said he, “Mr. Floyd, if that thing occnrs it will cover ‘your name—and ft is an honorable naine, sir—-with an infamy that all time can never efface, because it fs in vain that you will attempt to show that you have not some corm- plicity in banding over these forts to those whe take them.”’ That is what the l’resident said to me. Gentle- mon, if you stood in tho presence of the President, and conversed with ® man you respectad aud loved, these words would have brought ponderous sigui‘icance. What hadi todo, and what had to say? Teay!, “Mr. President, there is no danger; trust m9, sir, trust me, sir, there is no danger. I will willingly risk my roputation, whatevor that may be—T will trost my life-—that the forts at Charleston are safe under the deel ations of the geatle~ men of Charleston—that they cannot Le touched." (Loud .) 1 said, and felt it, aud na God is my judge, ve given the blood of my life as soon as a chew of tobacco to a stranger 1p the wilderness to make that good. (Tremendous appiense.) Ho said to me, “that ts ail very well; bat. parton for asking you, doog that secure the forts?!” 1 saul, No, sir; Dut it is a guaranty that I am in earnest ih the beltef that I ox- pressed to you that the fort# are seoure.”” Said he, am not satisied.”” I gaid, “1 am sorry for it, Now, sir, it is for you to order; you are the President and can order. You can say to this man, ‘come, and he comoth; gv, and hegoeth, you have a right to order that thege forts shal? be strencthened. When you make that or- dor, then T will cor your orders; but | would be re- you if I Bot toll you that this policy of gurivdning the forss will load to certain conflicts; it is the Inauguration of civil war and the beginning of the edusion of blood. It it is @ question o: property, why not pot an ordnance serveant—a man who goes about with a sort of worsted epauiette upon his shoul ter and stripes down bis breeches—be 1 a representative man—he is a signifleant porsonage—be tells with peculiar emphasis, (I am the representative of the ‘Stars and Stripes,’’ of ‘Hail, Columbia,’ and ‘Yankee Doodie,’ and in’ the name of all—in the. name of that great shibbo- leth—I stand hore the representative of — the property of the United States” (Laughter.) T said that this would be enough to secure the forts. If it 8a ques: tion of property he represepte it, and let us wait until the issue is made by South Carolina. She goes out of the Union, and sends Commissioners here. She sends them ‘to the Executive. Up to this point the action is insignificant, Action after this demands the attention of the great couneil of the mution, Let us sub: mit the qaestion to Congrosa, and let Congress say what be the issue upon the aet of South Carolina, When she saye 1 eball mot continue ia the Union any longer, but shall take buck the powers I delegated to the general government—when that period comes, it ts not for you, sir, mueb leas for me, vo sa how that shall be decided, it is for Congress to deal wit the matter. And when you submit it to Congross, thore is another great question which follows asa corollary. Congress must then say, we adrait the right of the Suate to withdraw— we admit the power to resume her sove- reign rights, and because sho has withdrawn and resumed her sover rights everything within her borders belongs to This will give a peaceful solution of the aifficulty, if it ie so decided, if wot, Congress will havo to say ‘wo deny the right of ’ secession the resumption by you of sovereign power, and in case you do reauine such power, we will send down our armies and our fleets to coerce you to obedience. That is the ievue, Iwill stay with you, sir; 1 will sustain you, sir, until that issue comes; ond may God Almighty in providence decree that aay be on the side of the States. (Applause.) I stcod there, gentlemen, Loan'tsay how—1 won't say with what doubis—1 will never declare ‘with what fears and with what trepidity—with what pain and with whet suspense I stood there. 1 wanted help, and Tcallod for help. called for help from. the bloswe old mother that gave me birth. Lealled for help from that bright Saluddin of the South, Jem Davis, of Missis- sippi—(applause)—and | said come to my Tescue—tho tHe ise litte more than my weak heart can support come to me, 4 came. Then come that oli, jovial looking, mobile hearted represent from Virginia James M. Mason. (Appliuae.) Here came that snomnly of modern times, the youthful Nestor--here camo Hunter. (Appiause.) From the North, the South, the Kast and the West, thero came up tho patriots of the country, the champions of covstitattonal Wberty, and they tatked with the President of the United States, and they quieted his fears, and assured him in the lino of duty. They waid, let there be no force, and there was wo furco; and the President wid to me, T am content with your policy; and then it was that wo determined thag we Would send ne more troopa lo the harbor tu Chastostam (Applanse.) So it wont on, and, gentlemen, for the fnv tine in three and three « re—dtoary years dreary years—I bad a real an agreeable thrill of hippiness. felt in my ht tho question then capable of peaceable solution, and I earnestly re turned my thanks to Ged in prayer. it bring: mo how toa point that I feel unspeakable pain in telling. Tho Secretory of State, General Ciss—allow me, gentiomen, to 8 noble a apecimen of God's handiwork aa ever Yet lias been made—an honest maa, atrne man, a good Tean, @ Wise man, a great man, that We all ooce took de light in honoring—he differed in the poliey, and he said this will never do; these forts must be strengthened € nd He 1 demand that they shall be etrangthoned men, it is a Northern sentiment. Let ime insist thet you remembor the remark; there is @ signifi. cance “in it beyond what General Cass caid—it ta @ Northern sentiment. It is the conviction of our brethren force, and thes The President said to him in reply, witha beautiful countenanes and with a horoie de. clvion that | shall never forget, in the council chamber, “T have considered this qu: Tam sorry to differ from the Socretary of Staie—I have made ap my mind. The interests of the vonutry do not demand a reinforce. mont of the forces in Charleston. | cannot do it—1 will not do it—and I take the reeponsibility of it upon my veif.”’ That is what he ani’, and the next day, thie glo rons ofa Premier pent in his resignation. Thon, gouti en, | elapped my | vida again. Twas sorry to part from him, God knows, because bo has done what bus seldom been done: he har inepired during four yeare # fooling affection in my heart: but when he left, 1 co cocking my eye Abd sx God speed you, old man, tothe North.” (Lgdyicr and applause.) ‘Thus stood the controversy. the meantime another had beea called upon the (apis, Another man made bie appear Seen There was proposition made to me by the Pro- sideot to end fer Genera Scott un this omergeacy. not help hat was | call an ‘Abracadabra it ible end pg Cor oper Reg hee ord. br srord rapplause.) What could 1 say but to send | camie. Gen, Scott is a soldier, he is a general, | he has fought our batues everywh ie a great eneral, the captain of the age beyond a doubt. Gen. | ory it wos what 1 might wo allay all disagreement and bring ce to the country. He laid it before me, a8 the Secretary of War, a8 his superior. I did not iike it. (Applause and laughter.) I told him I did not like it in very unmisiakeabie language. He wont iinmediately be- fore the President and sabmitted it to him, and he did not very much hke it at that time. I will tell you what it was, apd why I did pot like it. Gentlemen, Fort Sum- ter was to be taken possession of, also Castle Pinckney, and Fort Moultrie was to be vd. ‘the forte Georgia were to be occupied and held; the forts of Florida were to be taken possession of und manned; the forte in Alubama were to be dealt with in like manner; the forts im Louisiana were to be cecupied by the troops of the United States; and, in aidition to this, ships-of-war and revenue cutters were to be stationed 1m the waters of the South, There was the Lay ange and there was the lan. ) Ihave beep nearly four years Secretary of War, Fa it was not Songs necessary to occupy any of these forts. Here, in a fine from Chesapeake bay up to the border line, were numerous forts, much more numerous than those South, aad it was pot in the ‘ramme that any ope of these Northern forts was to be ocsupied. More than that, the troops frcm the Northern forts wore to be removed and semt to Southern forts. Now what was this to me, whatever it may be in a military point of view. I gave him the credit of looking ‘at it in this view. As a Virginian, as a Sout man, could T shut my eyes to the fact that there was this significancy in it? You are maintaining particular prin- ciples, and these priciples being based upon pure maili- tary ideas, are 10 exclude all protentions to rights, and I put my foot down and declared while 1 was Secretary of War it never should be done. (Applause) Now, gentlemen, I beg you to consider this thing, be- cause it is of great significance and importance w Vir- ginin and the whole South, Horo was the corollary that I deduced from ali this. However right it may be in @ military point of view, it presupy ‘a state of facts that I nover will consent to. It is, that this government of the United States shail bave the power to step forward and say you sbalj demean yourself in a particular man- ner; otherwise, we shall seize the Power you put into cor hands toeurse you. If Genoral Scott was as good a politician as he ls a@ soldier, he never would have done this. But that was his that was the Northern plan. There is another plan, and let us see how they come ther. There are men who have a policy, and I maintained that policy up to that pvint. re was the coercive policy, which is General Scott's policy, On the other hapd, the North, when Congress ussciabled, bad been for pacitication. They acknow- ledged the proposition of the right of property, and that alone. When General Scott came and revealed bis plan of coercion, presto, change—instantly the whole North rallied upon another and # counter proposition, which was @ proposition of force, The plan of agreement in the administration bad been up to the point when the Commissioners from South Carolina should come and fail. ‘Ihen we would take care of the question of pro- perty. Geutlernen, I never supposed that I could stay in the Cabinet after that; but to stay init up to that point I thought would be well. As soon as this was understocd the whole North chan, front. Mr. Dixon, of pomoneger | feos Sr of conciliation. Be hates pressure of home influences, took grounds in to conciliation. The New York Trane, oe the election of Liveoln, declared more than once that coer- cen fi ‘and the black party cee Taare i thie banner until this Proposition ly they spectres of trou! were rallying un of Scott's began to got wind, and then instant! changed the front to the rear, and they demanded yewer, they demanded military reinforcements, und thus ‘demanded coercion to break up the Southern movement. Then this unfortunate ir of Major Ancerson precipitated the decision at once with the administration. Major Anderson is «man of honor, and truth, and courage. Isolected him myself, not oaly for that, but other services that were high and honorable. You have seen publiehed the correspondence between the President and Commiseioners, and you have seen there the instructions | gave to Major Anderson; and if I had to the correspondence. This 15 very signifvant. I know that they areattempting to say that the instructions of the Secretary of War authorized Major Anderson to charge his position. The President in his communication to the Commissioners from South Carolina states that be did vot authorize the chauge of position. But there is « higher authority than the President, and that is Major Anderson, for aft sr receiving these instructions he wrote to the Secretary of War, “I could not change my position, for | Bave no authority to do so.” And why he no authority? Because I had said tothe men ofSouth Carolina 1 pledge to you my honor, and I'ke some of you, they knew me, geptiemen, they took my honor and pledged them- selves that the status im the port of Charleston should not be chenged. [am not certain, I will not swear it on the Bible, but I believe the President said the same. They could have gone to Fort Sumter any bright, supabiny evening and taken possession of it; it was open, the portais were wide spread, and they had nothing to do but to march the troops into Fort Sumter, when the harbor of Charleston would be impregnable to the world, the flesh avd the devil. (Laughter and applause.) But there was a barrier in the way, and what was it? The simple declaration of these gentlemen shat they would not do it. (Applause.) But Major Anderson from some cause determined one night to swap forts, and he seized Fort Sumter, and thus precipitated this necessity. ‘That brings me to the point which I left. The status which we pledged our honor to have main- tained had been violated and broken. The con- dition of the has been cl ed, aud these geutiemen said to me, Mr. Secretary 6f War, word that the condition of things there should served, we forebore any action on our part in conformity with our pledge, Contrary to your guaranty, the condi- tion of thi in Charleston harbor has been changed. Well, T said to these gentiemen, you have my pledge, and ail | cau do to show tbat I was sincere 18 to go out of the Cabinet, and L accordingly resigned my position into the hands of the Presiient. (Loud appiaase.) And here I am. Now, this brings us to the consideration of the last question, andi the ouly one to which I shall refer. I am sure you bave grown weary of this prolix address. (Cries of “No, no”—"*Go on.””) Now, this fiesure which commenced in the iceberg has gone'on, splitting tu its progress whatever came tn contact. It split the church in two, and the next disaster which it threatens is the breaking up of our whole political system. What is the only igsue now presented? It is the éssue of coer. cion op 73 One Side, and — the other, That is the iseue, Ti my proposition of ‘ceenting the power of the property of ‘the United Staten vy ry ordnance ‘ser: geant hav been adopted, then how wovld have stood the matter? We have said the forte throughout the South are within the power ef the South, not the possession of the South; but we rely on their honor that they will not steal thom and capture the cannon. must de cide tho question. The North are called upon to say whether it shall be peace or war. [f the forces had been Withdrawn no collision need be apprchanded; but tho troops have not been withdrawn, and this wseue comes up and you must consxter it;—shall the pretext of holding the Lend of the United States be made the grounds upon which the arms and the armaments of the United States are to be introduced into the forts of the South for the purpose of coarcing them and making them to submit toan unwilling tyranoy? You are unwilling to do that, I think, and a power greater than your powor comes Up aud seizes that point which you ars unwilling to seize, You must do it, as coercion is the policy an- | nounced; that is the principle avowed. I tell you to- night that that is the pian on foot. You have got to roeet it. It is invain, altogether in vain, that the dect ded aad intensified manifestations of feeling are so ex- tensively made throughout (be Commonwealth. Tt is in vain thats timid man, thet a coward may hug the delusion to his bosom that no coercive policy will bo enforced, and that the times will be better. There are no better tines; that is the ixsue you have got to meet now. (Loud applause.) Let you inen of Virginia and of the South prepare. I know that 1 will bo allowed to indulve a litte borore a Virginia audience in something of eulogy upon Virginia and of her acts, however distasteful it may be to those beyond our bor- ders. You who have done so much—you who have done | so jong. There are a few of us here who know how long we have been doing for this Jntom. You, L say, showld be active iu the work of maintaining your own rights in | this cris, But do you know that the Virginia forces, the Virginia carcasses, the Virginia blood, were alone the forces, the carcasses and the blood that was strewn ail cover this continent, from Quebec to Utah—(applause) to establish our pregent and seoure our liberties? @Bat in thie age of material considerations, praétical apphancea aud monetary pursui4, you find still here in the school somo wonderfe! exeelicnces, Since God Almighty, with hie own right red hand, marched the childron of Lerael through the desert, and said to them here is the ised. lund, whieh I give you, there has not been er such magoiticent tract of territory as has been given by Virginia to free soil principles that are now turuing upoo you t destroy and annihilate you; you gave to them Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, & good part of lowe and the whole of Wisconsin. That you gave to them asa propitiation to this Union, aud this powor is now turned upon yon—this powor which says we demand that yon shall submit to tho laws, the oxactions and the fanaticiam of the North. We demand this at your handa, or we will coerce yon into obedience. Gen- te |, the principle of coercion is no new one, aod in Gor's blewsed ame are we standing here in Virginia at this hour and thia day considering not the right but the poesibility of submitsing to coercion? Look a little back to the history of the Sat prey poe, cae then answer me the question, who have we been taught to look upon n# the arch enemy of popular rights in the United Statest Alexander Hamdton. Who next? Joba Quincy Adams. And yet Alexander Hamilton and John Quincy Adams have declared that the right of coercion was monstrous and untenable, and now we are told that the doctrine of coercwn i* a doctrine that you shall have to submit Joho Quincy Adams was President of the United States, and the reposition was made to him, in a contiiet between the federal authorities tho authorities of the State of Georgin, to exereixe com agninet the latter; but he refused, saying, “1 cannot undertake to crush a State." thas been pto- mulgated and deolared everywhere that there is no such power exteting om Uhe face of the earth; and now it ts not only proclaimed, but it i# carried into actual opera. tion, Are you the gons of the men who put themselves and NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1861. | im battle array sgaimst King George upon the mere as- war Io the sumption of s power op bis part w over Btate Po chay veldom mawacup of tea Whoa they eprang to arma in these dayeto resist the imposition Of thus trifling tax, how much more reatily should deecendante of those men resist the accumulated griev- ances Leaped upon them. Patrick Henry stood within the very echoes of Le ac) proclaiming, “‘zive me luber*y, or give me the " (Applanse ) If it was & Violated pledge of a law tram under foot, if it was & copsuiot infruction, I would say that there was ground fur hesitation ana delay; but when you come bare, Standing (or the rights granted by the constitution the United States, staudi tor the rights solemuized and embalmed in the laws of the United Sates, slanding for the rights conseorated under the decision the Supreme Court when you usk for that and no more, if you hesitate, Toan say, be who dailies is a dastard, he who dovbte is damped. (immense applause. Mr. Fley¢ copeiuded witha few briet remarks tn vindi- estion of his official carcer in connection with the War He was very warmly applauded throug!. pecches were delivered by John Randolph Tucker, } Feq., Attorney General for tho State, and two or threo other, which, for want of time before the departuro of the mail, { am unable to transcribe. TAKING OF THE LOUISIANA FORTS. Capture of the Forts on the Mississippi Fell and Interestii Particulurs, (From the New Orleans at, Jan. 11.) Under orders of Governor Muore, received several days ago, the New Orleans military companies prepared for departure, and between twelve o'clock night before inst and last evening nearly the entire militia of the city bad ieft, oe part up the river, another part down the river, abd a third part by way of Lake Pontchartrain. We might aebrger gd the moreeter. and en es di ture in our issue of yesterday, but we pri wating, ‘until the departure of the troopa should become ry tive aud fixed fuct. . ‘nder the Goveruor’s orders aforesaid the olen companies assembied at thoir arsenals, with bagy xe, Cul equipments, wunitions, &., and marched down, vne company «iter another, to the toot of Canal street, where they bourded the steamer National, weich had been char- Rifles, Capt. Gladden, Liouteuant Com- i— Crescent City manding Wm. A. Moteult, forty-nine mea. Washington | Artillery, Lioutenant Commanding James, seventy-two men. ‘Second company Chasseurs-a-Pied, Captain 5. Meilieur, forty moa. Orleans Ca/ots, Captain Charles D. Droux, thirty-une men. Louisiana’ Guard, Captain & M. Todd, Lieutenant Commanding Girardey, forty-five men. Sarofeld Guard, Cuptain O'Hara, sixteen men. ‘Total, 261 mon. ‘The National did not get off till two o'clock yee 4 morning. Her destination was Baton Rouge, and thou! the Governor's orders were kept secret, it was well understood thet the errand of the soldiery was to assist their brethren of Dovaldsonvillo and Baton Roago in seizing and ocevpying the United States Arsenal and ‘Darracks »t the bat lace, there beiug in the Arscual at Joast 15,000 stand of arms—a set of tovls vers desira- dle to the State just uow. The expedition from this city was under the command of Capt. Waitoa, of the Wash- ington Artillery. A great crowd of people assembled to see Lhe sol: off, staid till they left and cheered them Polsterously when they did leave, notwithstanding ihe bour was two in the morning. Yesterday forenoon the public excitement knew no abatement, for towards n000 170 members of the down town companice assembled under arms, fully equipped for campaign service, and fnarched ou board the towboat Yankee, at the foot of St. Philip street. This expedition was under command of General Palfrey, and was composed as follows:- ‘Two companies of the Orleans Artillery battalion, un- der Captains Gomez apd Hebrard—total, 67 mon; Firat company of the Chussours-a.Pied, Captain St. Paul, 44 men (this company left a reserve of 27 men, to march when called upon); Chasseur a’Orleans of 1314-15, 15 men; the German i ye 23 men; the Lafayette Guards, German company, 27 men. im This expedition waa for forts St. Philip and Jackson; down the river. The Yankee left early in the afternoon, amidst the cheers of a great and enthusiastic crowd of people. Later in the afternoon a third expedition left on the Mobile mail boat, the errand of this detachment being to geize and ocoupy Fort Pike, at the Rigolots, or outlet of ake Pontchartrain. The Continental Guard, Captain George Clark; a detachment of the Louisiana Grays, Sap- tam Dean, and the Chalmette Guard, Captain Shaw— about eighty men in all—com| this expedition. It ‘was pol apprebended that there would be any difficulty in seizing any of the government property at any one of the places above naiod, but the sudden ‘ture of the principal part of our citizen soldiery to occupy the forts and other places for an indefinite ‘period, and to defeud these places to the last, was felt throughout the city as a decided step in the direction of war, and had the effuct of infusing into the population more of the spirit of war than we have yot seen in this city. The nature of the orders issued to the several expedi- tions may be judged by the following, under which the down town detachment loft for Forts Jackson aud St. Pbilip:— INSTRUCTIONS TO MAJOR PAUL K. THuARD. You will proceed with your detachment on board of the eet ‘ankee, and go down to Forts St. Philip and Jackson, where yeu will demand ¢f the pergons in charge of the furts to surrender them; and you will take possey son of the same in the uame of the State of Louisiana. Haul down the United States flags, if floating there, and howt the Pelican flag from Fort Jackson. Place Capt. St. Pant, with the first company of Chasseurs-a-Pied, in pus- session of Fort st. Philip, and take possession ‘of Fort Jackson with the balance of the detachment. You will hold tbe forts, and defend therm against any and all at- tacks to the last. Strict discipline and order mest be exacted by you. By order of his Excellency, Thomas 0. Moore, Govern- or of the State of Louisiana. M. GRIVOT, Adjutant General. Last evening some remaining members of the Wash- ington Artillery, Orleans Cadets, and Sarsfeld Guard, thirty or forty in all, under Sergeant Savage of the Artil: lery, took passage on the steamer Vicksburg to join their companies at Buton Rouge. To the honor of the patriotic commander of the Vicksburg, Captain J. M. White, wo must mention one thing, The soldiers wont prepared to pay their passage, but the Captain refused to take pay, aud gave them the bospitalities of the boat to Baton Rouge. So much the soldiers who have left. Now for the remaining excitement in the city. Lieutenant Jobn A. Jaquess Gaegeenr pen of Police, but an old soldier) yesterday recruited and orgauized a com- pany of one hundred men, Last evening the company elected him Captain, Chas. C, Culbertson as First Liea- tenant, and A. B. Dickinson second. The company was organized under the law of the late Legislature; and im mediately after the election, the captain tendered the services of the omen to Adjutant General Grivot. Great crowds of peop! cked all day around the First district lock up, where the rceruiting was going on. At this same place another comynay was forming to go to the forte at Pensacola, Florida, being the most ‘exposed of Southern ports, and word having come to the city that the Floridians needed aid in oceuping the forts. Late last night we heard that the company would not be neeied in Florida, If this beso, the company will still organize and tender themselves to Governor Moore. At the corner of St. Charles and Common streets yes- terday, was another crowd; the excitemont being the formation of another volunteer company by District At- torney Bradford, his office being there, We hear rumors of other companies to be formed speedily. Louisiana sees the tight coming, and is getting ready for it. Capt. Jaquess and bis new company marched around last night, not forgetting to halt and cheer theCrescont 4s they pase! c by. It is difficult to describe the excitement which now provails iu this city. But there is only one sentiment {io be diseovered—ani! that is, to got ready for the fight apd meet it to the death when it comes. ENTHUSIASM OF THE SOLDTERS. [Special Despatch to the Now Orleans Beo.] Baroy Rover, Jan. 10, 1861. We arrived at thie place on the National, at ten minutes before eight o'clock to-night. On the way up, our boat, crowded as it was with uniformed mon, attracted the at tention of every voat we paseed and the people ail along the shore, after daylight this morning. Most of them ap- peared to be tx to understand what it meant, and stared at us ns lank astonishment, but at a great many points the peuple appeared to understand the move- ment and cheered siferously barracks are still hold by the d it # rumored that they aro de- termined to fortify themselves as strongly as the place will permit of, and offer all the resistance practicable be. fore they fiod themectves overpowerod and forced to surrender, as they doubtless will be some tine on Friday ar’ Saturday. It is the talk among our men that the federal troops will probably give up the place in the morning, and that if they do not wo are to commence active operatioms against them at daylight, or shortly after. It Ja impossible for me to make you know by telegraph the intense enthusiasm thet prevails among our ranks. ‘be New Orleans boys fool almost as if it would be a dis. appointment to thom to march into the arsenal without having to fire agnn, The members of the Washington Artillery,” Crescent Rifles, Louisiana Guards, Sarsfield Guards, Chassours-a-Pied and Orloans Cadete ard all in the enjoyment of excellent health and unusually buoyant spirits. We send our regards to all of our fricads in New Orleans. With a strong and abiding confidence in the Ability and gallantry of our officors, wo are confitent of the result of future oventa, whether they be sanguinary or peaceful in their nature. A PATRIOTIC MAJOR. The New Orleans True Delia publishos the annexed telo- phic deapateh from the major in command of Fort ike. Perhaps the troops which left New Orleans on tho 10th to seiae that fort may find that they have not gone ona pleasure trip:— Fort Prax, Jan, 6—A, M. J.B. Mon, Now Orleans:— The fort is now surrounded by fishing smacks turned into armed gunboats, and filles! with armed men, the flog boat of the squadron having hoisted at the peak the Pal- metto and Pelican flags. A peremptory order has beon sent me by the commander of the exhibition to surrender the fort at disoretion, or an immediate attack would be made, My reply was prompt—that until I received orders from headquarters i would defend the fort while a man remained to apply a match to the guns or spring » mine; and, as a last resort, that I would blow up the fort an perish = the ra spangied ay in its ruins. Pos. terity, I trust, wi my momory justice. “4 is B. ROSWORTH. REGULAR TROOPS FOR THE STATE. ‘The Louisiana Hoard of Military Commissioners ap- pane by the recent special session of the Legislature Wing considered it advirable to call into service about five hundred regular soldiers to be ready im case of emor they authorized yesterday the enrollment of that number of volunteers for the term of fowr months, the pay and rations to be the same as those im tho United States Army. Before their det public the whole even thea hundreds of men being necersari away. ‘The first company mination conld be made gonerally orce waa rained or ho sad Epoa, iy tarnod of Louisiana Volunteers ts, we be lieve, commanded hy Captain Charloe M. Bradford, with Dr. Batchelor as Firet Lientorant, We withhold, hy re quest, certain particulars concerning the company untih our issue of toxmorrow. ‘The second company i# that of Cal. Joh a. eplendid organigation of first rate ixbting mam Foun citizas. ol Jacque i, i @kperienoed ofio, Laying served as Liewtenau: i the vi '* ib the Mexican war, ubder Genoral 00tt, and ween service in two Newraguan us, as CONG, under General Walker. The Farat Lisutensnt is Our gallant amg young friewd, Charles W. Culbertson, “The Secon@ jeutensnt is Allen ©. Dickiusom, & brave and udopted citia.n and a native of Virgiuia, having also uated from the Miunaoy Tustitute of that state. 1 Orderly sergeaut will bo Wiliams, a veteran of the Moxi- cup war, and ut present tno olficient sorgeant of the Fiat district police, The third company, like the second, is composed ef picked men takou from «mong some tive or six hundred who applicd for aumussion into Col. Jacques’ company. It will be commandea by Capt. Mark L. Moore, and the ‘officers will be vivoted to-day. Vhe for ch com, ary the Montgomery Guards, Capt, Mal Wate toon on pasado: Mak selgtir ate, ng, and found them a fue body of stalwaré mp.ay we have not beon able to learn muela gu we bear they are 4 selock organi: with capecu! view Wo bos formidable fighting c: "7 we aro correctly informed, Mayor W. C. Capors is to take the captaincy, 4d Mr. Guorge L. Boud will be dret lear tenant, VIRACY BECOMMENDED. ‘The Now Orleaus 7rue da, which sevms to be seta‘ ated by the policy of Labtte says:--Pde brig Tornado, trom New York for this port, aud now Cully due, has aa Dourd some (ou (housaud packages of powdor, destined for Bt. Lous As We are now tairly into tha war, would thet be well for tue Goverver, who is com:nender-im- hict, w take measures to secure ths powder? Such @ cupply may not be had for the west twelve months, THE SINEWS OF WAR FORTHCOMING The New Orleaus Pyayune, of the Ltn inst, saya>— | We bave been hanced the following copy of « leuer, ad- dressed yesterday. by the Southern Bauk, of this city, | the Governor of the State of Louisiana.” It speaks for | Sourary Bank, New ORGRASS, Jan. 10, 1861. To his Exoelleury Troas ‘0. Mooxs, Governor of the state of Louisiana, Baton Ronge:— Drak Sun—AC the requesi of the President and Directors. of this mstitution, T have the pleasure to iaterm you that, impelled ouly by esire to promote aud sustate the welfare aud honor of our State, they are prepared te place at its disposal, should the present public exigencies | Fequire the sume, a loan of tifty thousand dollars, fhe | hovor and welfare of Louisiana being, as bofure observed, . | the only object in view by the proffer of tais Loan, t will i merely add that, in cuse you think proper © accept thy | snob terme for its reimbursement a8 you miy deem | lable, or as may be agreed upom with ovber parties for similar loans, will be entirely acceptable to the directors of the Southern Bank. I take advantage of this cecasion to subscribe myself, with the greatest consideration amd respect, dear sir, your invst obedient servant, THOS. LAYTON, Cashier. SEIZURE OF FORT MACOMB. The New Orleans /icayune ‘of the 12th instant states that two companies of the Racachas, about ony hundred men strong, have received orders to proceed to Fort: Ma- ‘comb, situated twenty miles from the vity, on the Bayou Chef Meptear, whi links Lake Borgne with Lake Pontchartrain, and has for its mai fork Boyou Gentilly, or Sauvage. Bayou Chef Menteur, though narrow, i vory deep, and might be chosen by an enemy com through Lake Borgue to reach Lake Pontchartrain. with Forts Pike and Macomb in our possession, our forces ‘can commund the ingress to our lake. FORT PIKE. ‘This important fortification, commanding the eatranee | to the Lake Pontchartrain and the approaches to the rear of our city was cecupied by the troops of Louisiana last evening. Capt. George Clark, of the Continentals, is im command, and no truer or more prudent officer could have charge of an important fortification. Fort Pike is a very strong fortification, has forty large cannon, and 1s ip good condition, The officer who has had charge of it for many years is the gonial Colonel Bosworth, whose hospitable intents and tastes could nos be more highly gratilied than by the entertainment of the jody Continentals. NAVIGATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI. (From the New Orleans Delta} Somo of our Western friends are much disturbed with apprehensions as to the manner in which we may use the advantage of our position in comman:ing the mouth of | the Mississippi. Some of them oveu go se far as to get up this ,eographical fact as au insurmountable cbsta- cle ta the division of the Union. Thero is much biuster about the West not permitting the South to coutrol the pavigation of the river, and prevent the free exit and entry of ships owned by citizens of other States, and the deposit of thes produce to our port, Ou theso points we think the difficulties greatly exaggerated. ‘The s.cesium of Louisiana, her reaumption of her sovereignty, will, of course, carry with it all the powers and’ rights which accrue w sovereign and inde pondent nations. There will be no difticulty in maintaia- ing those rights whenever they may be questioned or as- sailed. But there is little reason to apprehend that they ever will be uasa.ed. Louisiana will bever claim er ax- orcise any more power over the usvigation of that por- Mississippi which flows through ber torri- tory, than has been exercised by the United states and her ewn State authority. ‘The ships and steamboats of the citizens of other States v ho are friendly to us will be lowed the same free entry and exit which they have always cujoyed. Nay, more; the commerce between them and us, under the tree trade poticy—which will be one of the leading features of the political system of the South——will be far greater than it ever has been uader the New Engiand policy which has controlled the admi- nistratios of this government for the last forty years, As tho West largely produces what we of the South largely consume, it will be to our interest to invite and enoourage the free importation of Western produce inte ur porta. To enable our Western neighbors to sell thew products to ua on the cheapest terms, we intend to give them another advantage which they do not pow enjoy. We intend to open our porta free to those articles of for- eign growth and mapufacture upon which the Weatera apie are new compelled to pay dutics of twonty and wenty-five per cent, to bolster up Eastern capitalists nd manutacturers. ‘Wo intend at ono blow to release them from this burthen. We intend to make trade frees ind one of the greatest bleseings of that system will be, ‘hat it will create ties and relations of mutual interest and Tiendehip between the South and grvat Woat which no pe- litical revolution can destroy. ‘The Valley of the Mis- tesippt is one and indivisible in interest, and no :olitical divisions or relations which ignore this identity will ever be permanent. Whether we are members of the same or different political communities, commerotal relations of the closcat character will evor be maintained Dotween the states that lie along this great arwery af trade. Sueh, at least, will be the policy of the South. Woe to the reckless fanatic and madman who shall seek te change these rolations into those of conflict and has- tility. New Orleans is the natural and yhical depot of the trade of the Mississippi valley. e rhe artivolal peti of protective taritis and other facilities and aids of the federal government have diverted § that trade to the Eastern ports, and imposed upon it the burden of a more expensive transportation to those ports. It will be the aim of the new policy of the South to abolish these im- terferences and obstacles, and to make trade as free ae the current of the Mississippi. If our Western frieads cannot perceive the operation and advantages of this change, they bave far lesa shrewdness and sagacity tham wo have given them crouit for. THE CLERGY AND THE CRISIS. Circalar Letter. New Yore, Jan. 1, 1861. To mr Cumcr anp Larry or Crowsnan Chor oN tm Sours Sratms oF ‘ni Uxtox:— Wo would salute you, brethren, in the spirit of the apostotic formula: “Grace, merey ‘and posce.'’ As fol low heirs of @ kingdom that “endureth for ever,” we have common interests and relations superior to all political bonda, furnishing the basie of (rateraal inter- course even in seasons of greatest civil comme tion. Faith in God would seem to be the only alternative in acrisis which reveals the impotence and short sighted- peas of man. It ig with a profound conviction of the imminence of national perils, and wita a deep sense af the solemnity and delicacy of this humble attempt te avert them, that we ventiire a few suggestions w our dear brethren, touching somo of the immediate causes of our danger, and the probable consequences to great moral and religiops interests of the threetoned disruption of our civil ties. A dispassionate view of public affairs constrains the beitef that a system of gross avd persistent imisrepresen- tation has had much to do with leading tho nation to the verge of revolution. The South has been slandered at the North, and the North as grossly misreprosented at the South. The extreme sentiuaents of unworthy acts of tn- dividuala, and the passionate utterances of incousider able bodies, political or ecclesiastical, have been he- ralded through the land aa the deliberate expression af opinion of great parties, denominations or sections of country; whereas chey merely represented tho extrave- gance of their authors, and should have been consigned to tho oblivion they merited. Too much of this fateici- dal work has undeniably been done by the pulpit, bus far more by the press. A distinguished Senator, whan recently asserting in his place that “nine-tenths of the complaints’ as to a supposed grievance “are un- founded,’’ added this deserved rebake of am unsera- pulous prees:— Where thore is sectional strife and ex- citemeut there secmns to be a pronenees on the part of the newspaper press in both sections to collect aud give every: foct which would inflame the possions aud prejudices at one section against another, Iu tliat way partial and um- fair statements are given, which make each sectioa agt under aa apprebenmion of the other.”* If this view of the question be accepted, does it net Vitally aflect our relations and the duty of good citi North and South? Po not truth, justice and self-req demand oxtreme deliberation in the adoption of measures or the Tedtoms of stiovances, whiah, on tole may prove to be partly unreal, and, at best, are greally oxng Mutual misundorstanding haa Boon ottae «nough the occasion of domeatic or national calamity te induce the utmost patience and forbearance before irre. yooable action Involving the honor aud the interests of thirty millions of souls, In our judgment, dear brethren, tho timo has come fer ‘impending perils, and for manly, Christan olor andor ff perila, ’ ian under Gone eeert theta. Th ts Dok 'irce tat. inte Christian petrictiem haa eucoumbed to fanaticism and a jam. It may be disheartencd or stitied for the timo by the misguided pagstons of men ip one locality er nother, but it lives and glows in millions of hearts all ever the land, and in them all it Is loyal to the constitu- tion, the Unjon and the Bible, . Weshould hazard nothing in thus piadging the great body of the people in these Northern States; we do not, will no: distrust the groag body of the people in thie behalf in the Southern State. Why then shouid we not seek to put an end to the oxtst- ing spirit of mistrust and alfenation, to stay the pre of groundless criminationa and rectimination, and joim hands, accord ing to the grace and wisdom God inay “be etow, in the blessed office of peacemakers for our dig- tracted country? Is our Spproprate wort mon to all oftizene, we have a vital take in the perpetaa- ton of our federal Uniow on other and higher "Sreanan ode. rhe honor and prosperity of Protestant Obristianity are involved in the iene, A fw lare ip onr great exporiment of self rovernment, besides affivrdtiag sad proof of re- eraeney on the prtof Amerionn Ohricting, would be inter- preted in ail land: 98 cvideage of the poworlgumess of Besides the interests oom.