New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-12
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Oh the 10th inst, according to the telegraph,
bfr, Trunfull Of Illinois, ii reply to speech de.
lYered BY Senator Davis Of Mississippi, on the
state Of the Union, said e / am informed that
Major Anderson selR shell Charleston and burn Il
Il re ground il another gun Is fired at the Star
Of the West.n
llr, Trumbull is one of the Senators from Hi.
roisis high in the confidence of Abraham Lin
coin and is his mouth-piece on the floor Of the
Federal Senate. Few men stand higher in the
Black Republican ranks, and none can speak with
greater authority as to the objects of that party
thaa himself Yet, in such place, and under such
circumstances, Mr.. Trumbull made use Of the brutal
and sanguinary remarks above quoted, and was
not rebuked by any Senator present! Of course
the southern Senators would not notice him: and
the Black Republican Senators were evidently
pleased with The heilish observation; and gloated,
in anticipation, over the ruin Of fair and great
city, and the wanton killing Of some tens Of thou
sands of men, women and children.
If Major Anderson should attempt to do this,
and should destroy forty or fifty millions Of dollars
Of property, and kill ten or fifteen thousand peo-
pie Of all ages, sexes and conditions, the Black
Republicans Wonld go into ecstacies of rejoicing,
and defy him alongside the patriot and martyr
John Brown, who tried to do the same thing on q
larger scale, and failed That Is the spirit that
animates them--that is the feeling they entertain
towards the people of the Southland were their
power equal to their saYagery, the blood of mil
lions would not satate their Internal appetites.
But, we are persuaded, Major Anderson will do
nothing of the sort. He is too much Of a man to
engage in Hanton, wholesale slaughter, even were
it in his power to do So which does not happen to
be the case, in our opinion. Besides the lombard.
nent of city, by fortress constructed expressly
for its protection, would cover his name with ever
lasting infamy, and would arouse spirit Of retail
alton ercer than the tornado and fully as irresisti
BILE.
The first Northern or Federal gun fred against
South Carolina, or any other Southern State, will
be signal of widespread destruction to Northern
commerce. Let them s shell Charleston and burn
il to the ground, if they dare and can, and four
weeks viii not eapse before hundreds prvateers,
bearing papers Of marque and reprfsal, carrying
from two to four heavy guns, which can outsail
tue swiftest steamer With fair wind, will be
afoat on the ocean, seeking out and preying upon
Northern merchantmen and Northern commerce.
Not any portion of the seas will De left unvisited
by them, and the chances are that in very few
m0nths the ocean trade of the North will be
utterly destroyed. This would inlct hundreds of
millions Of dollars damage upon them, and would
SO cripple them, that decade of peace and
would not begin to suffice to restore
them to their present position. The calculating
men Of the North, and especially the G solid mem
of Boston, would do well to take these facts into
eonside ration-deep and profound consideration
before they add to the long, black catalogue of
expressions upon the South, the frightfuI crime
of war. They should bear in mind that there are
blows to be given as well as received, and that
they are wholly defenceess in one vital particular.
The question with them should be, as it no
ioubt will be, upon reelection: Is it better TO let
he South peaeeably Withdraw from a Union which
las become distasteful to them, or shall we risk
he almost certain destruction Of our ocean com
neree, and hazard the chances of terrible
Internal war, BY attempting to prevent them, by
dopting foreible means Northern men wonld |
10 well to reflect upon this interrogatory deeply |
they will not, and in blind fury and fanatical
latred, attempt to destroy the South, let them
axe the Consequences.