New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-04
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Inc crescent Was the first paper in the South I'd
suggest and demonstrate the tremendous, in fact.
irrepafable damage, the Confederate States could
| lniiict upon Northern ocean and other commerce.
by issuing letters of marque and reprisal in case
the Black Republicans, under lead Of Lincoln,
shonld venture to add to their long, dark list of
flsdeeds all tending to the injury and oppression
Of the Southern people, the rightful crime of war
In the happening of the latter event, We showed
pretty conclnsfVely thatit quite prohIematical
whether the sails of Northern merchantmen
would whiten the seas ninety days after the com.
sleRcement of hostilities.
The lapse of time has not weakened the belief
then expressed. On the contrary, the impression
then entertained has grown and strengthened.
What was barely doubtful at one time, is now as
positive certainty as anything in the future can
be.
Some OF our friends have appeared dubious in
regard to the likelihood of obtaining proper vessels
to embark on these entirely legal, comparatively
safe, and immensely profitable privateering excur-
sIons. We can tell all those who desire to see the
South protected from wanton invasion to entertain
no doubts in the premises. All the Government of
the Confederate States at Montgomery has to do is
to issue tie appropriate sailing documents This
can be done without involving an expense exceed
lng hye hundred dollars. The vessels, the arma-
ments the crews, and all else necessary for the
utter determination of the ocean trade of the
North, will be furnished promptly, free gratis, for
nothing, All the getters-up of these expeditions
will is 70 be supplied with suitable papers, That
is all-sbsolutely all. They are not only willing,
but extremely anxious, to incur all the expense
and run all the risks only asking to be furnished
With the requisite papers, as aforesaid
But some one may again ask where are these
vessels to come from p, Why from New York,
Boston, Portland from every port in Christendom
me Yankee ship owners would as soon prey upon
the property Of their immediate neghbors, if they
could make money by SO doing, as they would steal
our negroes, and as they do stealour negroes when
ever an opportunity presents itself. The money
god is the only deity they worship. Propositions
having priVateering on extensive scale in view,
have been received from them several weeks since.
and in a recent number Of the Richmond Dispatch
the statements editoriatly made that many South-
ern gentlemen have lately received letters from
Boston ship owners, inquiring as to the prospect
Of privateering being put into commission and
intimatng that any number Of ships could be en-
gagged by the Southern Confederacy if hostilities
should oceur.'
What christian people What fraternal
feeling they exhibit! What spirit of honesty
they manifest! Raying against slavery at home
disciples Of Wilson and devotees of Sumner
yet, seeing prospect Of accumulating money
BY robbing their home neghbors and friends,
they tender their ships to Southern shareholders
for that purpose, and are anxiously soliciting per-
mission to enter the Southern service on terms |
limited at during the progress of this article
The Yankees had better look out. They may
yet be torn into pieces by their own hounds.