New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-03
Hotv to Bring the Abolitionssts to Their
Senses. 4=


humorous publication, some years ago, gave
nreceipt orbringng fainting persons TO conscious
ness. 1t was somewhat after this fashion; ,eJf an
Engishman, broil steak under Ills nose; if a
Frenchman, pour glass of good claret down i,is
throat; u Yankee. thrust yo,r hand III his
pocket ~
We think we discover timely lesson In the
anove satire. The Northern people have grown
beside themselyesupon The wealth they have drawn
prlheipaliy from Southern people and Southern
anor. ihey are drunk with conceit and self
righteousness And after becoming dazzed viii,
gazing upon the resplendent image of their own
imaginary perfection. their brethren Of tl1e
SCUM covered by biotcles and foulness, that ex
ciss III thef bosoms insane desires after an ire
pfessipie conflict" In very truth, the Yankee
phafisces are in ia condition Of mental hancipa.
ueh, and ail hopes Of maintenance Of The Con-
iedoracy, II peace and happiness, rest in the suc-
cess OF the ciiorts that are 10 be made 10 restore
them to health and reason. The puritancaI, hypo-
critical Abolition admirers Of Old Brown, the mar
Tyr, must be brought to their Senses
How is tito be done? "Thrust your hand. into
iheir poekets.s Some of our readers may have
noticed caterpillar crawling along over a leaf IN
all tile ostenation Of his bright tiiits in green ana
yellow Suddenly he is touched on the back with
straw in the hands Of risclIieyoi,s urchin What
y change takes place. Our struttine caterpillar
'ofeets his fine coors, and the bright sunlight III
lify-and before one can breathe, contracts him
sell INTO half his uxariant dimensions and rolls
up into ball, without beauty or animation Sc
with the canting, ranscendental class OF Yankee
lovers OF Southern negroes. They will weep pals
ot tears, deliver any quantity of orations', give
bushels OF ddrice to Southern 1nasters-but their
pockets must be respected. That sacred spot il
the seat Of their sensibites And as We 81 tbe
South have SO largely contributed to make their
pockets plcthoric, ne should not wonder At tAe
excess Of their morbid susceptibility.
But how are we Of the South to apply tte rem.
edy to the right place How can We reach tbsir
pockets. Let every true Southerner who loves
and respects his section, ana desires the pcrma.
nence of the Federal Union, look around him and
see. In how many thousand WAYS Wa hermit
our labor, and the products of cur fields to enrich
our worse than nDgrateful Northern brothers. that
with enterprise and energy might be prevented we
need not specify. This must be ralnadied. IL tha
North declares herself our inevitable enemy. We
should not give strength to the North to be used
in the conflict against us. we must not build M
her manufacturing towns, where abolitionism is
taught as part Of the Sunday deYotions. and Ola
John Brown Is deified as martyr. Rather let ,,s
encourage our own manufacturer and me- eisTirs.-
And when the mischief Of abolitiorism has been
demonstrated practically 10 these people, by loss
OF profits, loss Of employment, starvation and
coid--wien, in other words. their pHfled Up self
esteem has been lessened by deplction--we may
expect to see them go back to reason justice and
common sense. Let us bring our Yankee To his
senses by shocking his pocket nerve.