New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-04-23
THE LtNE Is DRAWN.

Revolutions, both peaceable and bloody, are
oaickly accomplished in modern times. Two weeks
ago there were plenty of Union men in the fifteen
Slaves States of the South, but to-day there Is
scarcely one to be found. Two weeks ago the
South had, apparently, many true and tried rlenus
in the North. Now there are none-or, II any,
thew are afraid to assert themselves Inc reVoio-
ton. North and South in public opinion, has been
sudden md general. The line is now drawn, ana
two onnosinc nationalities, one OF fifteen states
and the other of nineteen, now confront each other
| in hostile and defiant attitude.
| The North has complained of the "regn of ter
rorr at the South-that men here were not allowed
freely to express their opinions. 1t now appears
that the South has been more tolerant than the
North although the circumstances are such that
we would be justified in being far less so. We
hear now, of innumerabe outrages inflicted upon
Southerners in the Northern cties-and strange
to say, the % city of brotherly love" is eonspicu-
Gus among them for brutality and venom. Medical
students from the South have been, as one account
saws numerically beaten" A mob there, the
other day. paraded the streets and compelled peace
able citizens, by force of arms, to hang out from
their houses the flag of the stars and stripes.
newspaper office, where a paper was published
suspected of sympathy for the Southern cause,
was forciby entered, and the proprietors made to
raise the United States flag. The son Of an eX-
President, Robert Tyler had his dwelling invaded,
and his family insulted by the jeers and gibes of
| an infuriated mob. In New York it has been al
| most as bad. In Pittsburg an association of one
hundred men has been formed, for the purpose of
| expeling from the city those whom they call
traitors that is, every who does not shout
himself hoarse for the Union, and pledge himself
to assist the Lincoln Administration in its bloody
and infamous policy of Southern invasion.
Very well. The South accepts the fact that the
North is unanimous, or nearly so, against u.s.
| Equally unanimous is the South in her own de-
fence The line is now distinctly drawn, and the
war that is going to take place will be war Of
sections
Whether the war shall be a bloody and long
| continued one or not is for the North to decide.
| Arms have been taken up on both sides, and the
| South will never lay them down until her indeped-
| dence has been gained and acknowledged. 1t may
| be desperate struggle, but not doubtful one.
| 1t NAV be repetition of the Roman and Cartha-
| genan wars lasting through ghlong years; but there
is no more doubt of the result than there of any
| event in the future, not absolutely and entirely
| certain.
Other nations will look on and witness this con-
lict with utter surprise. They will ask how it is
that Republic, resting on the power of the
| people, and acknowledging the dogma that all
| governments derive their power from the consent
of those governed, should be destroyed by the
madness and folly of sectional majority, organ
lied upon the single principle, and for the single
object of depriying the minority of their rights and
their property, and subjecting them to every in
| dignity that ingenuity may invent or malice exc
| cute. They will wish to know why the South
which asks nothing from the North except to be
let alone should have to resort to arms to resist
war of conquest and subjugation. Failing to I'M
| derstand, as they WILL what sort of Union that can
be which is to be kept up by force, they will won
der at the folly which could prompt an exhibition
OF arms to people who wish to escape from dis
honor, not by making war upon their enemies,
| but simply by establishing separate nationality.
| But the issue is made up, ard it is to be q
war of sections, the Northern States against the
| Southern. Virtually, every Southern State is to-
| day out of the Union. The formalty of secession
| is not needed in the presence of actual war. The
responses of Tennessee, Missouri and Ken
lucky to the Federal call for troops show that the
South is united and that solid front Of resistance
| is presented The time will come, and come soon,
when the fools and fanatics who have undertaken
the experiment of Southern subjugation will bit
terly rue the hour they first conceived the dia-
bolieal design.