New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-06

FALSE CGL0NS,

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The New York Herald, we are somewhat in
clined to believe, = friend Of the South in dis.
guise. Tie story that the Tribune tells : that
Bennett keeps Confederate flag concealed in h.
Office, ready to hang tout at the first opportunity
may be q true story after all. &taS5tSF
Certainly, no sr-er means could be adopted to
cause the ruin, banl uptcy and d'sgraceful defeat
OF the North in this attempt to subdue the South,
than those which the Herald daily suggests II the
Federal Government follow its counsels it must
assuredly go speedily to wreck. And it seems
prebabe that this really what Bennett is driving
at that unprincipied and degraded man having
neither conscience nor patriotism, and being all
ready rich enough to satisfy the ambition of the
most coveteus.s Is s@E%g
There are two circumstances that lead to this
conclusion, and the FIST is the continual attempts
Of the Herald to provoke war between the North
and Great Britain. Day by day 1t attempts to ircite
the people to bitter hostility to wards that nation
while 1t openly defes its power, puts insults upon
its statesmen, encourages the idea Of fight, and
proclaims that the North can defeat a Transatlan.
tic enemy as easily as it proposes to defeat
Southern one. In one of its late issues it cooly
announces that " there is little probability that
England will care to risk hostilities with us b.
has too little to gain,v continues the Herald,
" and too much to lose by fighting with the United
States = which is hint that England cares so
little for her honor and her national pride that she
will tamely submit to taunts and insults, and i'm
putations upon her courage and outrages upon
her flag, rather than do anything to endanger the
solyency of the Northern bonds that she holds, or
expose her commerce to the rapacty of Northern
the Trent upon the high seas, the Herald does not
anticipate anything more than much hustle and
ostentatioas parade of wrath on the part of the
Government and press Of Great Britain.n All Of
which shows contempt for the power and re-
sources, as well as the national spirit of Great
Britain; and we cannot see what can be the object
Of it, except to stir up war between that power
and the North. a'Si ast HE
For the editor of the Herald knows better Of
course. All his boasts are empty and all his con
fdence of success in ouch d war is affected. As
long as the North and the South are at war,
Canada alone, which the Herald, in addition to Its
other provocatiyes, is constantly threatening to
Wrest from Great Britain, would be able to pu.
down and defeat any Northern force likely to be
encountered. The navy of the North, were it
altogether Withdrawn from the South, is no match
for that Of Britain. Unless the Herald editor is
secret enemy of his section and desires to get up
9 war with England, for the purpose of having the
North thoroughly whipped and disgraced, it is diff
cult to account for his course. sra. smsJ
His other project for utterly running the North
consists in involving it in debt under which the
strongest power On earth would sink. He is not
satisfied with the two millions of dollars day that
the war is now costing them. He wishes the sum
to be made still larger, SO that insolvency may be
reached more quickly. The credit and resources
oths North are not disappearing quite fast enough
for him, and he isdaily urging schemes by which
the thing may be accelerated. Thus, in the same
article from which we have quoted, he says that
the President, in his message, should call for five
hundred Thousand more men, and appropriations to
build ssUerdt handre vessels of war; This would
double the present establishment, and make the |
cost four millions of dollars aday instead Of two
Besides this, there are sixty thousand g New Eng
land Mariners and six thousand fishermen who
ought also to be employed In short, Bennett is in
favor ofmeasures which would make the war cost
the North about five millions of dollars day, and
we are forced to the conclusion that he is doing all
this in the interest Of the South. A man in Ken |
tucky Of very bad character, said that he married
into q certain family, against which he had |
grudge, Tor the purpose Of running its reputation
and in like manner Bennett seems to be adyoca.
ting the cause of the North for the purpose of doing
# all the damage in his power. Il r. s;sg