A slight solace to
one's anxieties about home is found in the circumstances brought by successive
steamers during the week. 1. The proposition of Mr. Crittenden, or "The
Border States," seems growing into favour. 2. There was a large minority
on the question of secession before next 4th of March in the Georgia
Convention. 3. The Alabama members of Congress have been instructed not to
quit, but to wait further advices. 4. The South Carolina Commissioner, Colonel
Hayne, has suspended his demand for the evacuation of Fort Sumter. 5.
Charleston is suffering greatly from want of supplies. 6. Major Anderson is
universally applauded. 7. Virginia has adopted as satisfactory the compromise
of Crittenden. 8. Financial affairs are improving; the United States stock rose
one per cent.
There would seem to
be a most extraordinary departure from the chivalric honour in public life
which has heretofore characterized Southern gentlemen in the disloyal treachery
with which Cobb, Floyd, Thomson, Thomas, and Trescott have pursued secession in
the very penetralia of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. Nothing can relieve them from
the charge of deceit and treachery but their having apprised the President, on
entering his counsels, that, instead of recognizing as paramount their
allegiance to the Union, they were governed by "a higher law" of duty
to Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, Maryland, and South Carolina respectively.
Persigny, recently
appointed to the Ministry of the Interior in Paris, made a popularity-seeking
plunge at his outset in relaxing restrictions on the Press. Suddenly he has
turned a corner; giving, three days ago, an "avertissement" to the
Courrier de Dimanche, and arbitrarily ordering the offensive writer, Ganeseo,
out of the Kingdom! He says that Ganeseo is a foreigner, and cannot be allowed
to criticise the principle of the Imperial Government.
SOURCE: George
Mifflin Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States
Minister to Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p.
432-3
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