New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-10
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Gal Northern brethren aud friends are much
elafef at The prospect oil starving Hs out here in
the s4uth. Atshrst it was tmidiy suggested in
only few quarters; but now, since their rage has
reachkd its highest pitch, the whole Black Repub-
hcan press comes out III full chorus, and gloats
over 1he spectacle which they think they viii soon
see, of millions of men, women and children
three ghout the whole South, perishing from
famine.
In case the starvation process should not work
to their satisfaction in the States on the Lower
Mississippi. then they are to fall back upon another
expddient--that of cutting the evees Of the river,
| and browning as ont, in the elegant language of
the d1levalier Webb of the New York Courier and
| Enquirer, 4 like rats in hole" Some Of them
| advocate both prescriptions simultaneously. Our
supplies of bread are TO be cut off, but our supply
ofWater is to be inconvenently increased. It is
consplatory to know that thirst is not to be add
ed I'd famine, and that however short we are to
be oil rations, our drink will be more abundant
than ever.
Bit We have the satisfaction of informing our
humane and Christian friends at the North that
thei kind intentions towards us, in respect of star
vatidn, can never be realized. They may stop
SUPPLIES Of breadstufs to us from the States North
of tie Ohio, but in SO doing they will only inure
themselves. The South has heretofore bought
from the Northwestern States some of the provis-
ionswe have used; but it was not because they
con1d not be raised upon own soil, but because
| we 1ound it more convenient to employ all our
\ labor in producing cotton and sugar, rather than
corn and potatoes This year, being forewarned, we
are forearmed. In the Gulf States, by proper man
4 agenent two crops of corn can be raised IN one
4 yeaE.from the same soil. In Southern Texas the
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cause q oenel,eene - eatoi has oiaeieu osnel "tse
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lsn mas ateehpeea % thha. ane ueefees u neaseii
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eYeEy thlng eise.
of uo We heileVe u VIII inlufe u.s. N an eeonot
mig point OF view, 70 cut OH IRON US the supphes
oifsoiLi"ostohh Piofisioii'' " . ho'' eutso 09s
Southern planters consider IT cheaper 10 deYote all
| the|r labor to cotton and sugar, and buy bread
stuEfs in the market. But the chances are that If
they make more corn and less cotton, the supply
Of bottom will fall SO far short OF the usual produc
hoh that the demand Tor It VIII put up the price,
and thus bring 10 as mneh money as q larger crop
wonid nave done under the old system. Leu oid
4 Ane, theretofe, 81 aheaa With his embargo, ana
sto2 preadstnhs rom coming GOWN 70 us as inach
as 70 chooses he IS only lnJurlng ms own people
thereby, and not hurting 10. He is lnJurlng his
oW F people, because breadstufs and salt-proVl-
SLOWS consume ali that the Northwest mas 10 sell,
ant Il tnelr n1arkess are taken away from Ihem'
ny aoilar q money can get ihto theif pookets
Ahis question, arse, NE most others' mas Two
siafs 70 it 1he 4Ne" hpsta otates iioI ohlS uo
noH. ". pan NOV, plouuce lroln tneir own SOL
y tssu ,Ieif asiise poplia.oh' iieS !laYe
Puy any esEs y iafse quaiitisles'
lnEt prinoipa1 piouuesto!is peiag oiil0.s, pump
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li1s ~ uepsiiusnt WV othel otaees lef eofh
mioa' anu ineas Anu liosS =. shelr suppiles Of
sagse afe ,oW anu nave peell s .ne 'lme' derived
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