New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-29
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COMING DOWN.

The organs of public sentiment in the United
States are evidently lowering their tone The
terrible threats and lofty assumptions with which
they attempted to frighten the South in the begin
ming are giving way before the march of events
and the their arms and even the heroest
of them are becoming q little mild hammered.
q Sweet are the uses of adversely
We published, yesterday, an article from the
New York Times, wherein that journal expressed
the opinion that Lincoln would be compelled to
recognize the South as behgerent power, and
the Times even intimated that it would be the cor
rect thing to do so. So, also, the Herald is calling
upon the North 6 never to despair Of the Repub-
lic,'' thereby suggesting the idea that the Re-
public y is in rather blue way. The same paper
has also named a condition upon which peace may
be made. and that condition does not involve the
return and the submission of the South to the
Union We congratulate those journals, originally
so belicose, upon their dawnipg reformation.
They believed, at first, that the South could
never raise All army-that the people would be
compelled to stay at home for fear of domestic
trouble. That delusion has been dspelled, and the
mist removed from their eyes. They believed that
we had no money and could not get any without
selling cotton. They have found out that that was
all mistake too. For their further satisfaction
we tell them that we would have fought them
whether we had money or not. They believed
there was strong Union party in the South They
now find out that united, as people never
were united before. They believed the blockade
of our ports would ruin us but they now see, as
we do that it has been a blessing to us. They be-
leved that their threat to hang our pri2ateersmen
| as pirates would deter US from sending out armed
ships-instead Of which they are sswarmng owe:
| the ocean and. emitting Northern commerce all ID
pieces. They believed foreign nations, from hos
tity to slavery, would help them to put us down.,
But foreign nations like outsiders at free fight
are standing off as amused spectators, shouting
:" fair play, and so far as their sympathies are in.
Vplyed at ALL giving them to the Southern side.
They believed, finally, that the rebels would not
fight, but would run the first demonstration from
theii: grand armies. Bethel, Bull Run, Manassas,
Oak Hill have convinced them that there was
slight mistake about this, and that the rebels on,
the, whole, are tolerably fair fighters.
Thus, one by one, the scales of ignorance and
prejudice are falling from Northern eyes, and the
South begins to be understood. II the lesson had
been taught them by rational argument they
might very soon have forgotten it, or lied about it.
But, being taught them by bullets aud bayonets,
it is likely they will have lively remembrance of
it for some time to come and We think it will do
them good. ~ a. 4
1t is gunpoWder, not returning reason, that has
wrought all these salutary changes in Northern
sentiment, and dispelled many of their false I'M
pressons. Its the logic of lead. We reasoned
With Them in other ways, for forty years, and in
stead of making them better it made them worse.
Since we have delivered to them arguments in the
shape Of shot and SHE'LL they begin to see the
point much more clearly. .
If three or four threshings have produced such
good results, three or four will probably pnt
them in a frame Of mind in which they will listen
to a little common sense When they reach this
stage, they will then be Prepared to hear from us
that we have never proposed to interfere with their
Government in any shape Or form, that they are
welcome to their stars and stripes, welcome to
every foot of their territory welcome to the ale
glance of every man who chooses to owe allegiance
to them on their own SOIL and welcome to go
ahead on their own hook, SO far as we are con-
cerned without let OF hindranee. All we desire is
that we have a separate Government Of our own
and Manassas and Oak Hill will be repeated, again
and again, until we get it. That's all.