The country is sick at heart over the necessary withdrawal of Anderson from Fort Sumter. It had better stop crying over what can't be helped, and spend its time in preventing a similar humiliation at Fort Pickens (Pensacola, Florida).
Says the New York Tribune: If not relieved in six weeks from this time, Fort Pickens will have to be abandoned just like Fort Sumter and for the same reason.
If it be not forthwith garrisoned and provisioned for a siege, it cannot be done at all. It must be surrendered without a blow; for the United States must suffer no defeats. If the Government cannot maintain the position, it ought to yield it up without a struggle. If this be done , then the Confederate States will become one of the nations of the world; and the United States of America will cease to be a first-rate power.
The revolutionary States cannot possibly raise, and arm, and support, and concentrate at Pensacola as many as 50,000 men; their whole population is not sufficient; and at least one-half of the population is for the United States, and will refuse to bear arms, and cannot be trusted to bear arms for the purpose of attacking the United States in its own forts.
But no matter how many men the revolutionists can assemble; it is certain the United States can assemble, arm, support and pay, two to every one the revolutionists can concentrate and maintain on the spot. The revolutionists will therefore either be driven to withdraw their military force or to see it destroyed. If they withdraw, their prestige is forever gone, and the people will rise on them and expel them from power, and the Union is maintained. If they fight, their whole military strength will be crushed on the sands of Pensacola, without one act of violence.
THE HOME SQUADRON OF THE UNITED STATES-- It would appear that the Home Squadron is in a much more efficient state and more nearly ready for service, than has been generally supposed, considering the success attending the efforts of Mr. Buchanan (former President) traitorous secretaries to disorganize the naval and military defences of the country in almost every department of the service. The list comprises 26 vessels, carrying 190 guns and 2,757 men, almost all ready for instant service, and all but three or four in the port of New York. This is the largest naval force ever concentrated in one squadron since the organization of the United States Navy. It consists of more ships than the Channel fleet of England. It is obvious that important naval movements are in contemplation by the government.
The Arkansas Convention has decided against Secession by a vote of 39 to 34.
For the first time in many years the President's mansion contains young children.
President Lincoln's Inaugural, consisting of some three thousand words, was telegraphed to New Orleans entire in the short space of three hours after the commencement of its delivery at Washington.
The President of the Confederate States has accepted and drafted into the regular army the Zouave Regiment of New Orleans, numbering 630 men commended by Col. Coppen, formerly of the French Army. A large majority of the regiment have seen real service in Europe and all are French, and the orders are to be given in the French language.
The Confederate States having abolished Yankee Doodle as a national air, it is suggested that they adopt the 'Rogue's March' as a substitute....
The Mississippians are already experiencing the benefits of secession. There is already a special tax levied of 50 percent, and if they get through their career, says a Louisiana paper, without having their taxes increased more than 500 percent, they will come out well indeed.
No man, living or dead, is better adapted to preside over such an organization than Jeff Davis. He is as vain and proud as Cottonocracy itself. He is as weak and imprudent as he is ambitious and unprincipled. He has been producing discontent and teaching treason against the Government ever since he has been in public life. A vile traitor, a trained rebel, and an inflated bigot, he as richly derserves to be hung as ever old John Brown did.
From a Baltimore Newspaper - Over one hundred recruits for the regular army of the Confederate States left here in the Norfolk boat yesterday in route for Charleston, South Carolina--Some few of the party are young men of respectable connections, who have been bitten by a desire for military glory, but the majority of the worst class of our population. If the Confederacy can put them to any serviceable purpose, it will achieve what society has failed to accomplish here.
On Monday (April 11, 1861) General Beauregard issued an order and sent a special messenger to Major Anderson, giving him official notification that all intercourse between Fort Sumter and Charleston with regard to postal facilities and supplies would be prohibited from that date. This is equivalent to a declaration of hostilities.
The course of the Federal Government thus far has been calm but firm; nothing has been nor will be done rashly. The President (Lincoln) has a thorough appreciation of the responsibilities that rest upon him, and will shape his course accordingly--If war comes, it will come from the traitors of the South. A few more days and we will know the worst.
The State Convention of South Carolina on Wednesday (April 6, 1861) ratified the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States by a vote of 149 yeas to 29 nays.
The people of Virginia are daily yielding to the secession feeling. They are as completely impregnated with treason as are the people of South Carolina. They have determined to secess, and for this purpose they have been preparing all their energies. The idea of delay, and the constant appeals of Virginia against coercion, were only so many stratagems to give the secessors opportunity for consultation and time for united action. In Maryland, the same feeling is at work, and the two states, Virginia and Maryland, have been acting in concert on the subject, and our readers will discover that both, before the flowers begin to bloom, will be absorbed in the Southern Confederacy.
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