New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-04
THE COTTON CROP.
Under the foregoing caption the Boston ADV

Under the foregoing caption the Boston Adyer-
tiser, of the 10Th ult, says:
The New Orleans papers discuss the route of
the new cotton CROP in case it takes any route ut
ALL and decide peremptorily that it shall never
come through the Northern States. They say that
an embargo, with death and contisCation as the
penalties for disregardng IT, will prevent any trail
tors from sending out bale of cotton by the over
land route, to aid and comfort the Abolition
lists. "
The New Orleans Crescent, we observe. gives
another reason for keeping the cotton at home on
the pantatousthe danger Of fire in case it issut-
fered to accumulate in the commercial cities. If
large fires should occur, says the Crescent the
insurance companies of the earth would not be
able to make good the policies on so vast pro
perty,"
We presume the Advertiser has seen the law of
the Confederate Congress- in relation to the expor
tation of cotton Northward as long as our ports
are blockaded, ere this. After reading that law,
and duly considering its letter and spirit, the edi-
tors Of the Advertiser will probably arrive at the
conclusion that an iron embargo prohibits the ex-
portatioR of cotton in Northern direction at this
time. Whether that embargo will ever be removed
the future must determine. The Northern people
must exhibit less of a fendish, and more of a
Christian spirit, than they now manifest, before
they will be allowed one solitary pound of our
cotton.
Except that portion of the cotton We wish TO
spin and manufacture into cloth for home clothing
purposes, the South can afford to destroy the bal
ance of the growing crop-wil destroy that bal
ance before it shall be allowed to fall into the
hands of ruthless enemies-and will not raise a
bale, or fractional part of bale, next year, fur
Their than is necessary to supply home wants--if
we think proper. or until peace is declared and
"a will trrn
cur attention to cereal crops, and if Europe
should need either wheat, corn, barley, oats,
or anything of the sort, our prolific soil will yield
such enormous quantities that we will gladly give
it away to our European neighbors, they only pay
ing the expenses of transporting it from the fields
where it was grown and garnered, to the seaports.
In such an event as this what would become of the
cereal crops of the West? Why, they would be-
come worthless, and while we do not underyaIue
either the wealth or the productiveness of their
section of country, tell the Western people that
when our labor is used for the production of the
staff of life exclusively, that we will be so super
abundantly endowed, that we will be able to feed
free gratis for nothing all the world saving and
excepting the North
This would entail great sacrifices upon us. Well,
we are prepared for those sacrifices. We have
calculated them, coolly ana deliberately, all in ad
vance. Our women and children can wear home
spun as well as our men. They can do without
Injuries, and will be happy to subsist on neces-
saries of which glorious soil furnishes super
abundance-in order that they may achieve their
independence, and a full, complete and final de-
liverance from the vilest despotsm that ever
sought to rob and crush, for the most detestable
of purposes, free, honest and intelligent people,
Gentlemen of the Advertiser, we do not wish to
sell anything to you or your section we only ask
to be let alone in the enjoyment of the Just and in
alienable rights COP has bestowed upon us; and
which we are determined to maintain at the cost of
the life of every Southern man capable of bearing
arms, if necessary, before we will submit to your
foul and unutterabIy degrading Abo-
ition domination.
We prize liberty more than we do trade, freedom
more than we do cotton, and upon none of the ma |
ions of Europe do we desire to thrust either our
'ustom or our cotton; and, as the highest evidence
If our truth and sincerity, the whole precious
Hood, trade and cotton of the South is already
pledged to secure an everlasting release from the
Infamous thraldom of Abolition cut-throats and |
)lunderers,