New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-24
UNBLUsnING rALsEHooDs.

The Louisville Journal, erst-while a paper of re-
spectability, is becoming as mendacous and IN.
truthful as the most infamous among the leading
Abolition organs of the North. AS it is published
in slave State and as it has derived all its conse-
quence from the patronage of Shareholders, we are
forced to consider the motives that govern its pol
icy as infinitely more detestabe, corrupt and vile,
than the motives which animate the Greeleys,
Weeds. Raynonds, Webbs, ETC., who have recon-
mended the cutting Of levees and consequent muir
ders, emancipation Of slaves. the stirring up of scr
vie Instructions and all the horrid incidents which
mark the course Of n brutal and barbarous war,
unreheved by the observance of any Of the usages
of civilization.
In the Louisville Journal Of the 18th inst,
lengthy editorial article leads OF in this wise:
The dsunoa leaders in the South finding that
the war is pressing with an almost ip8uftcrable
weight upon the people there, and fearing that
thay may, if left to their own rehectonupo facts
rise up in rebellion against its continuance, are
Publishing III regard to it the most scandaous false
hoods and misrepresentation that ever were in
vented by Enscrupulous men.
The above is false alike in statement and infer
ence. There is not particle of truth about it. 1t
is all unmixed untruth, no matter in what light it
may be viewed. The Scsthern people are a unit
in the prosecution of the present war to honorable
peace and absolute independence There is no dis
content of any kind among them. They have full
confidence in their great and patriotic leaders, and
are prepared to submit cheerfully to whatever in
convenieDces and losses the circumstances of the
| times may impose upon them. They counted the
cost carefully before they enforced the solemn act
Of separation and it makes no difference to them,
so far as their struggle for liberty is concerned
whether it costs them hundred millions or one
thousand millions. They regard the possession Of
liberty-the inestimable heritage of freemen-as
cheap at any price. They would willingly sacrifice
their staple crops and wage bloody war for the
next ten years, before they would agree 10 a re-
construction of the old Union on any terms what
EVERGREEN if the abolition hordes of the North
would unanimously ratify any draft of new Con
stitution the South might present.
Then the Louisville journal proceeds to stigma
tie the Mobile Register, in terms alike bitter and
disgracetul to the uterer, on the ground that the
latter journal had SAID that "the armies of the
United States are invading the South for the
avowed purpose of putting instantly and indis.
crminatey to death all the slaves who shall fall into
their hands, We have been a regular reader of
the Register for long time, and have never no.
ticed anything of the kind in its editorial columns
The editors of that paper are fully competent to
take care of themselves. At all events thew were
not very far from the mark, even if they did use
the language imputed to them. The New York
Tribune proposed " TO spike the negroes" Unless
this means numbering them, we cannot make out
what it does mean. The New York Courier and
Enquirer, Cincinnati Gazette, and numerous lead
ing Abolition journals, proposed a great many
times, and, strenuously insisted upon the propos
ton, that the levees of the Lower Mississippi
should be cut at night by Abolition emissaries,
with the view of drowning several hundred thou
sand blacks and whites. We are not aware that
the Louisville Journal has ever charged that these
propositions were as base, as infamous as afro.
cious as any the arch spirit of evil ever prompt
ed" In the eyes Of the Journal it is all right for
Abolition papers to urge DISSOLUTION and murder
upon Southern homes, but when Southerners de-
feRd those threatened homes, it becomes treason.
" base, Infamous, ." atrocious y
MOI satshed with general Justification of affairs
at the South, special attack upon the Mobile |
Register, the Louisville journal proceeds to pitch
into Gen. Beauregard with ferocity only eoualed
by its indecency:
His proclamation to the Virginians issued on |
the 9TH 1nst is scarcely better than the Mobile |
annunclation that the L. S. troops pro-
Giallh an lndlscrlmlnate massacre of all slaves.
yen. Beauregard. speaking of the IT, s armies in
Virginia, says: All rules Of civilized y aTf5Tsr
aoandohed, and they proclaim by their acts, if not
py ther banners, that their warCry is BedutJ and
booty" Gen. Beauregard, in saying this is guilty |
OF falsehood. He shows that he is mscreant
Further along, after passing most fulsome COM
plment upon Gems. Scott, Mansfield Butler and |
Mcclellan, the Journal says: To charge officers |
like them with invading section of this country |
Tor the purposes implied in the motto of Beauty |
and Booty IS a crime Of the deepest dae.n
Neither Gen. Beauregard nor his friends will pay |
much attention to the BLACKBOARD assault of the |
Louisville journal. Indeed, it is not likely it will
attract any other notice than smile of contempt |
AS man OF truth, lofty character and rreproach-
able integrity, Gen. B. is far beyond the reach of
the shafts of the Journal, no matter how deeply |
stepped their points may be in poison of the most
venomous description. As Major Anderson said in |
reply to an interrogatory, we say: 60 Gen. Beau |
regard is a gentleman, and cannot lie" We once
thought thus of the chief editor of the Louisville |
Journal. We do not think SO now Would that
We could
But was Gen. Beauregard mistaken in regard to
his booty and beauty business? We think
lot. The Westchester (Pa } Democrat encouraged
regiment of Pennsylvania ragamuffius to march
pon Maryland, by telling them that the women
# Baltimore were renowned for their beauty.n
Another journal said that the "Whoe South was
ull of beautiful women" and another journal.
With more decency of language, but equal in
trocity of sentiment, remarked: "None but the
rave deserve the fair" For these Internal utter
noes no rebuke was heard throughout the realms
Abolitionism A large number of Abolition
'urnals, anticipating an easy subugatio1rof the
outh, proposed to divide the property of private
4I,n |