New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-01
co rTtsN AND TOBACCO.

l5s vi .------se 49, 81 81 ~
The expectation 81 cotton and tobacco provided
some means can be discovered whereby those pro-
ducts may be transported to Europe, despite the
embargo and the Lincoln blockade, or BY the con-
sent of the sGoriflan Government, in order 70
propitiate the good will Of France and England, by
supplying their manufacturing and financial re-
duirements, is being somewhat extensively dis
oussed in many journals published along the Al
lantie seaboard We have seen no lack Of pa
trfotism among those who appear to favor Illicit
traffic. On the contrary, we doubt not thsff mo-
lives ere entirely pure; while their poverty in
practical sense is wonderful 1t is depiorable.
When nation is struggling for life, as is now the
case with the Southern Gonfederaey, matters ofthe
utmost moment. in ordinary times, become com
paratiyely unimportant. n we win, as we believe
We assuredly shall, we will have ample leisure to
properly attend to our commercial and financial
agairs. after our Independence is acknowledged
and peace is declared, leaving, as q matter oil
course, no material local interests ancared for
Ia the meantime. If the Aboiitionists triumph,
there viii be nothing to take care Of, as universal
eonscation will be the rule of the conquerors, and
general bankruptcy the fate of the conquered.
This is the mode of warfare the Lincolnites have
determined upon waging; and we must whip them
of or accept the consequences. The alternatives
are liberty or slavery prosperity or ruin--and re
are forced to depend upon our own sensible heads
and strong arms for the achievement of the one
and deligerance from the other Brains are often
times more Yalnable than bravery on the battle
field; and the statesman frequently wins mere
victories for his country in the secluson of his
cabinet than does the soldier in the glitter SPLEEN
4 dor and shock Of eontending legions. sstli
So far as the South is concerned, brains and
bravery are absolutely essential to the achieve
nentsof our Independence. So far they have been
admirably communicable victories of the soldier
only being equaled by the astuteness of the
statesman. The passage of the cotton embargo
law was q stroke of mastery policy, and if ex-
tended to other products and enforced with a
sleepIess eye and iron hand will be worth more to
the South than the triumph at Manassas grand
and magnificent as it undoubtedly was-and over
which we are SO full of exultation that We have
not yet found words to adequately express our
feelings. & s5;ss,. s5ssS ii W. &
i Hence, we are considerably surprised at seeing
in some influential and unquestionabiy patriotic
quarters, an advocacy Of shipping cotton to Europe
through every channel that can be employed
The argument in favor of this plausible although
superficial TO the last degree. 1t is thatwe must
have money-that we can't get money unless we
sell cotton therefore, we must sell cotton, nolens
uolens. Such does not happen to be the case. The
South can live within herself-sapport herself
upon her own resources until she eonquers her
Independence for the simple but sufficient reason
that she is engaged ia death struggle for all that
men hold dear If she wins, she can afford to
stand the Inconvenience, losses and annoyances
and IL she loses she will have neither people, nor
property, nor anything else worth possessing and
enjoying.
Therefore, we regard any proposed abrogatfon
or even slight evasion of the cotton embargo,
with displeasure. England and France, especially
the former, owing to the peculiar commercial,
manufacturing and financial eifcumstane es by
which they are surrounded, must have their usual
supplies of Southern slave produced cotton within
a short time. They maybe able to wait five or
ak weeks, and they may be able to wait three or
four onths--but the time will come, and II is not
far of. Were II not forthis insurmountable cotton
necessity, II is not likely they would offend the
North, and probably get & war on their hands by
the national existence Of the South
for years to come. As long as they could feed
their factories with cotton, freight their ships with
cotton, and keep their Industrial machines in
healthful operation, they would be fools to bring
troubles upon themselves by Ineddling with diff
fcnltes this side the water, either directly or in
directly. 1t was, in view Of these necessities we
presume that the,export of cotton was forbidden
BY the Confederate Congress, and we look upon
any man who would attempt to violate it as being
no better than desefter who would tbetray us, if
he could, into the hands Of the enemy, The reeog.
milton Of the powers named is very important to
re fan Ralio
can carve our way through the world without
their friendship and in face Of their ennlity-but,
s they would not in all probability, have any par
ticnlar egard fer without they had 10 have our
cotton, we must irrevocably enforce the cotton
embargo law, and let them know that they shall
NOT have solitary flake until they do recognize u.s.
# they want our cotton more than we do their
conntenanee, they will be sure to tell u.s.. /, S9-s
There is another article--tobaceo- which should
have been included in the embargo law, and in re.
gard to the expectation Of which we are per-
suadedl President Davis will pay proper attention.
The monopoly of tobacco is source of many
millions Of dollars annual revenue to the French
Government. This tobacco is largely procured
from the South. The onttingsof of the Southern
supply would materially interfere with very i'm
portant branch of the revenues of that great ma
biV4---Wo 1pS EQ6prlYa-i
ton Of cotton. Now, until those nations do unto
The Confederate States what they have often done
to peoples Of infinitely less pretensions, we hope
that nota single bale Of cotton leaf Of tobacco
will be permitted to find its way into their ports
II they don't want to know us, we don't want to
trade with them--least Of oil, clandestinely.
The proposition in favor of illicit trade is a bad
one--fraught with disaster and dishonor, in every
conceivable respect and if sought to be carried
out, even on the most dininutige scale, we trust
that the iron hand of the Government will be un-
sparingly exercised. This is no time for, fnawkish
sensibiiity or halfway measures.
y II TALK oN CHANCE NJ W r
The gatherings on the flags yesterday were nu.
merons, that is, there were squads here and there
and varied was the talk. There were many inqu
ries and a good deal Of talk aboutthe seauesration
act. Who are TO suffer is greatlysfalkeh of There
Is one thing settled and that u.s. debtors will not be
pressed for what they may owe in the Northern
States. To meet this question, we suggest that
parties who are indebted North go direct to the
Receiver and give full and explicit statement of
what they owe Northward, and then state nwhat,
time they can pay the amount say six, twelve,
eighteen or twenty -four months, or longer. Under