New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-24

The recent progress of events at the North
since the capture of Fort Sumter proves incon.
testibly that dissolution of the Union was not
only necessity, but that the separation should
nave taken place quarter of century ago.
Had 1t taken place at that time, the cause of
Christianity, morals, liberty, progress and imrove
ment would have been vastly benefited; for then
there would have been no long, bloody war, such
| as Lincoln and his myrmidons seem determined to
inaugurate.
Since the surrender of Fort Sumter, the great
fact has become clearly apparent that the North
ern people, as mass, hate the Southern people
with vindictiveness and magnity unparalleled
in the history of the earth All parties in that sec
ton of country have united, and are preparing to
wage war upon us. Hence, it is evident that what
we have been accustomed to call the conservative
element of the North, has only tolerated us hereto
fore because the Constitution and the laws re.
quired it, and because they made immense sums
OF money out of us annually as long as we re-
manned in the Union. At all events, they have Sc
iected the first opportunity that presented itself to
suIpass radical Abolitienists in the unreasonable
bitterness of their denunciation
They eciN have war. So their newspapers say,
They scout the very idea of peace-will not enter
tain it for an instant. To "preserve the Union
and protect themselves to use their own Ian
guage they repudiate the Declaration of indie
pendence, trample the spirit of the Constitution
under which they profess to act beneath their
feet, ignore the letter of the laws of their own
Congress, and propose to set up an unlimited
military dictatorship for the purpose of subugatipg
the South. What a law-abidng people, How
loving, traterna and patriotic. They would "pre-
serve the Union" by pinning the various parts
together with bayonets, and by cementing the
whole fabric with blood
The South has done the North no harm. The
South has never wroDged the North, or sought to
wrong the North. On the contrary, the South has
been tie long suffering, the forbearing pary-and
only resumed her sovereignty and declared her in.
dependence when Northern outrage and spolia- |
ton became unbearable. Then she rendered the |
North the olive branch of peaCe--then she was |
ready to enter into equitable commercial arrange |
ments but every proposition she made has been |
spurned, and the Lincoln Administration has form
ally proclaimed that war of subjugation is the
only alternative they will consent to offer And
the Lincoln Administration is sustained throughout
the whole North, according to our latest advices
When people hate each other, as the Northern
people hate the Southern people, it is as plain as
demonstration itself that they can never live to-
gether in amity, and the quicker they separate the
better. As distinct natonalities, they NAV carry
on friendly and mutually profitable commercial
but as members of the same Coufede-
racy they will always be at war; and the result
VIII be that the two sections will soon learn to alb
hor each other with depth and ferocty of abhor-
renee unexampled in the annals of nations which |
will inevitably lead to constantly recurring and
devastating conflicts, that will parayze trade in
iustry and commerce. Even if the Lincoln Gov |
srnment should be able to accomplish what ia | !
bsolutely imposslble-the subjugaton of the South
it would be in the condition of the man who won I
ne elephant at rattle, completely ruined. t
But, the South is uncOnquerable, and while she q
eeks for peace on fair terms-whie she acts solely
the defensive-she is prepared the moment the
bohtlon foe pcutes her soil, to enter upon such :
war as will right speedily make our wanton, @
licked enemies, feel and know their utter limo r
nee. OF course, we do not expect TO mass e
trough the ordeal unscathed. We expect to snf .
# much inconvenience and loss but we know 3
lat we shall emerge from the struggle yicto 5
ously. a