New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-18
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q asa hard matter to keep up with the thousands
" fasehoods that are uttered respecting the South
and to correct them as they appear. 1t seems III
deed, as if there were concerted agreement
among The whole Abolition party to resort to a
wholesale system of lying about the South and the
people Of the South, with the view Of keeping the
animosity Of the North up to fever heat instead Of
assuaging it by telling tie naked, simple truth.
One day they publish to the world that the peo-
Pic Of the South are starving, when the truth is
never had more TO eat, or more money to buy it
with and never before had so many Northern beg
gars in our midst, running away from starvation at
home to subsist upon Southern CHARITY. The next
day, the word is passed around that the slaves of
the South are on the point Of insurrecion, when
the truth is they are alarmed only at vague idea
that some harm is impending over themselves and
their masters, and are ready, with scarcely an eS-
ception, to fight need be, as they did at the battle
Of this city in 1916 by the side OF their masters and
owners. Then, again, it is asserted that the non.
Shareholders of the South are ready to unite with
the North ia putting down the insttution-an asser-
ton whiehis oontradcted the next day by an orac-
uar declaration that the great planters of the South
are all !. conservative and the agitation here is
confined only to d few politicians and adventures
withoutproperty, who hope to be benefited in some
way by q popular revolution. But the greatest
mistake Of all they make, is the expectation that
this quarrel can under any circumstances be adj
justed, except by a dissolution of the Union, and
the segregation of the free and slave States into
two distinct and independent Confederacies
One of the most enormous of the misrepresenta-
tons made respecting the South we find in a re.
of q oil oil ta pn,1
caucus in Washington City by one John Hickman,
Member Of Congress from Pennsylvania. Hick-
man, it will be recnlleeted, is the same who last
year threatened to subdue the South with his
eighteen millions Of Northern men. Although
himself one Of the eighteen millions, lie soon after
wards permitted himself to be whipped down the
Avenue Of the Capitol grounds in Washington by q
Virginian, without even as much as yelping out d
word ofremonstrance. Here is what he has lately
said, as reported by one Of his own friends, the
correspondent Of tile Chicago Tribune.
John Hickman said that no man MISUNDERSTOOD
tho nature Of the slave poser had any reason to
suppose that the Oligarehy would surrender the
power they had so long yielded without a fierce
Struggle Perhaps blood would flow and civil war
ensue but popular rights never gained a trirnnnh
over tyranny and aristocracy save at the point Of
the baganet. The tree Of Liberty had often to be
watefed with blood. But he believed that the
friends of the Union and the Constitution we're
strong enough and patriotic enough to preserve
both. Ihe strength of the slavepewer for phys-
cal conflict has been greatly overrated The sin
gle Stnte of Pennsylvania could keep in the field
larger army and for longer time than tile whole
slave power. The Cotton States were barely able
to preserve their own domestic peace, and could
scarcely dare send abroad a regiment of men.
Here are some more Of the boasts Of the valiant
Hickman! Here are some more of his assertions
regarding the helplessness of the South that are
SO utterly false and ridiculous it is wonder that
the man had the sublime impudence and effrontery
to give them utteranee. That the single State Of
Pennsylvania could keep in the field larger army,
and for longer time, than the whole slave
power" that 4 the Cotton States are barely able
to preserve their own domestic peacen.-and that
they could scarcely dare send abroad regiment
of men, are assertions 80 stupendousy false that
we do not understand how any man could insult |
the intelligence Of his audience by making them.
The Cotton States, we suppose, did not & dare
send abroad regiment Of menn to Mexico. OF |
course not. They did not do any fighting when
they got there. Certainly not. The Cotton States
did not send any regiments to Mexico, in the first
plaee--and, il the second place, they did not do
any fighting after they got there, but ran away like
whipped ours. This is the character at least,
Whlch ME- onn hickman would af1ix to the South
err people. Can it be wondered at that the South
ern heart is SO deeply stirred and the Southern will
80 tirmand strong, to cut loose from people who
thus SANDER and belle US, and falsely claim for
themselves the very virtues which they falsely
deny to the people Of the South?
And thus it il, to greater or less extent all
over the Northern States. The truth about the
South is sedulously kept from the honest people
by corrupt politicians and preachers and the false
az constantly distilled into their ears by the same
classes. And thus has been brought about the
disruption of a Union which we had all hoped
would be perpetual, but which We would rather
see broken into thousand fragments than con
tinued upon principles of sectional hostility, hate,
aud aggression
TALK ON CHANGE.