New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-06-21
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IT RIrST NOT RE Dome,


18th inst:
The Cincinnati papers announce that an effort is
being made, by merchants Of that city, who have
been largely engaged in shipping provisions to the
South, to induce the Government to permit the
trade to be reopened. They argue that by it only
the surplus provisions of the Northwest will be dis
posed Of in retrn for which the North will receive
large amounts OF Southern specie, thus heiplng 10
deprive our enemies of the . shews o. war 6y
the same system of argument We mlght beneEt the
North by selling che rebels, for cash, any sur
plus - Rskets, e1tillery, powder and ball though
| we are enable to perceive what advantage an army
| with money, bit without provisions and arms,
would have over an energy we'll provisioned and
/ armed but without money. We presume that, so
far frG1 the effort succeeding, the embargo will be
made more perfect
We have heard of tSis movement or the part of
the Cincinnati prodeoe dealers, but have never
wished that it should be crowned with success.
We do net desire tkat the Ohio and upper Missis-
sippi river blockades should be removed; and are
entirely confident that this desire is felt by nineteen
twentieths of ouV people. The free State towns
and cities, situated on those rivers suffer ten times
as'nEch as Southern towns aud cities do and with
them the damage is irreparable, while with us tie
temporary Inconvenience we nay be put to is
hoGnd to result in large profits ultimately, for We
Will be taught the value and variety of our owE re-
sources, and will learn how to raise for ourselves
without any percePtible dimiGution in our staple
crops-al the necessaries of life. Indeed, at one
single bound as it WERE and with little chance for
| preparation, We have raised and shall reap and
garner enough Of the cereals to support more than
twice the population of the Confederate States for
| the ensUing twelve months In the fall we shall
have abundance of corn, wheat and -four to sell or
give away, instead of buying, as heretofore, i'm
mense quantities from the Western and Middle
States, and in all the minor crops we shall have
plenty and to spare. The immensity of the potato
crop, especially the sweet kind, will almost battle
calculation,
The fact is we should purchase little or nothing
from the West, were the hockades removed.
little pork, bacon and lard would constitute the
sum total of the purchases. Not enough of
g Southern specie " would be disbursed to render
the purses Of Western provision dealers at all
plethoric. Not one single dime would they get
which did not repay us back fourfold compensa-
ton. Save the articles named above, we really
want nothing from the West and we have sutfi-
cheney OF those to meet all necessary requirements,
although at rather high prices This will remedy
itself in due season. Next year we anticipate
being entirely Independent of the North in the
pork line, as we are now in every other line.
We very seldom agree with anything put forth
by an Abolition journal. But we do most de-
cldely agree with the New York Times, according
to the letter and spirit of the foregoing quoted
paragraph. Let the blockade of the Western
rivers remain; and if Lincoln should order his
myrmdons to raise it, we earnestly hope the Con-
federate Government will promptly institute new
and more rigid one. This blockade, so far. has
proved blessing to the Southern people, and the
longer it is continued the greater the advantages
that will be realized. Absolute commercial non
intercourse with the North and West for twelve
months would prove Of incalculabe benefit, and
be worth nntold millions to the South, We should
emerge from it completely independent, in every
essential particular, of the fanatica hordes that
now blaeken the Northern horizon.
So also in regard to the "nuskets, artillery. |
powder and ball y spoken of by the Times. We
Gan get along without these articles from the |
North, just as easily as we are getting along with
out Western provisions or Northern manufactures. |
We are becoming independent in regard to war
like implements. We are fabricating our own
supplies within ourselves. Hundreds of establish
ments, some of them, to be sure, on a small scale
are turning out the best of muskets rifles pistols
and other arms, and the facilities for increase are
improving every day. Our founderies. from Rich |
mond to Texas, and from New Orleans to Charles |
ton, are casting the finest of rifed cannon. the
largest OF Columbiads and the hugest of mortars.
The supply of shot, she'll, etc., IS or can easyby
made illimitabe. As for powder our facilities for
manufacturing it are not equaled anywhere on
earth. In Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas there
are caves of the purest saltpetre, where any
quantity may be obtained We have specimens
from saltpetre cave in Arkansas before us where
we are writing, and they are SO pure that they
would not need refining before use. Besides,
powder mills are springDg up in many eligible
directions. There will be no scarcity of this article
1or indeed Of any other article the South may stand
n need of, whether prosecuting the arts of war or
peace. There never was a country in either hem
'phere, or in any age that possessed so many solid
elements of prosperity, wealth, strength and gran
1eur as the South enjoys in boundless profusion,
I'll OF which will be made plainly manifest to the
World within twelve months after peace is made
ind our independence acknowledged.
Having thrown off the oppressive and degrad-
ng shackles of the old Union, finally and forever,
Ill we now have to do is to fight for our liber-
les straight through to an honorable peace,
Ind then the vastness, variety and boundlessness
II our resources, even under partial development,
will repay US back thousand fold for the incon-
'eniences we have undergone and the losses we
lave incurred