New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-25
A wELI.-RauNDED BEt1Er,

| The New York Day Book, in reply to Black
| Republican contemporary, scnsbly observes;
We 90 not believe that one two, Or three OF,
more defeats will subdue the opposition at t'1c
South. The war, if continued, may be kept up for
| years, with alternate defeats and victories upon
both sides; but we do not believe, and shall not
until we see it, that either half of this coultry can
conquer the other half We expect, tho rcfoTe, if
| the Republican programme is carried out, viz
| " no parley with traitors until the Federal flag
| waves over every fort and custonl-noUse in the
| South" war whose cost will tay. the body and
muscles of unborn generations. indeed, we ex-
| pPct to see what is even worse than a national
debt-a military despotIsln IN the place of a free
| constitutional government.
| No possible number of defeats will ever s,E,-
due the opposition at the South WE mean to s
reconstruction of the old Union or to subplissiou
| to the North under any circumstances whatsoever
So far as that end object is concerned or con-
templated the it is put ont of sight the set
| ter for all parties Interested To cultivate that
idea, is to stimulate the progress of war carnage
and inpoverishnleUt-to place the North and the
South farther apart from each other-and to make
the sections sgainst each other with suict of
uunitigated hatred, which, instead of satiating,
will, as it goes on, increase the mutual appetite
| for bloodshed and devastation.
| There are good men at the North. They NAV
| be few in numbers, but they have shown them
selves strong in patriotic resolve. Their numbers
are increasing, and will continue to increase as
| long as the present wicked and unnatural war is
waged against the South. They may do much
good to their section, and to the of humanity
generally, by enlarging upon the patriotic pro.
| gramme they have hitherto advocated ereditably
and zeaousy, which is that. instead of attempting
the hopeless task of snhueatins the South by force
OF arms, the North should recognize independ-
ent existence and enter into mutually advantaeeous
commercial treaties with us. Both sections might
be benefited by such an arrangement, while
neither can hope for aught save injury from pro
tracted war, only that the South will emerge from
Inc conflict with great advantage, even if accom-
panied by heavy national debt that Of direct
trade with hurope-with imports corresponding to
her e8ports-whtch will compensate her for her
losses In a ten.foId ratio in. FIVE years, while the
North IS bound to meet all the disadvantages and
expenses of the war, in face of diminished trade
small manufactures and loss of all the importing
business which previously depended upon the use
OF Southern exports.
The South wars not upon the North. She has
never warred upon the North. She never will war
upon the North, save in her just defence, and in
the Vindcation of her inalenable right to selfgoy-
eminent. The North is warning upon the South
for the purpose of subjugating and despoiling her
all of which is in direct conflict with the Declara
ton of Independence Here is simply the issue