New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-21
NORTHERN FoLEY.

ssS3 NORTHERN FOLLY.
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insanity, according to an old proverb, so otter
quoted that it has become threadbare, is u fpre
paratory visitation Of the gods us on taose waom
they have doomed to destruction. !, II the saying
10 true the people of the Mort 81 ties are In
| fair wsy.of being utterly destroyed and ruined
/ for they are certainly mad -raving mad-mad a
] The inmates of q Lunasic Asylum" mad as /
March hare a-rnad as anything can be which ha.
madness in all It's combinations Of rage and folly
Defeated a their attempt to suhdue the South
I they yet avow their purpose of whipping Grea
Britain. England must be thumbledn is thu
nnafimous cutlery Of the Northern press, accord
ing TO the telegr aphic report. The course which
England may pursue will lin all probability, have
the sympathy, If not the material aid, of France
and Spain, A war with one may lead to wal
with all. Why does not the North at once pro
claim war against all Christendoms 1t could de
feat al just as easily as It can England
and the South, or either one of them, and al
Christendom seems now to be down upon that
perverae and unreasonable people. ii they are
ready to Eight every nation which does not think
well of them, they had better proclaim themselves
e tostes hsasdni gener.is,p and throw down the
glove 70 the whole human races so
n They have been trying for eight months TO sub.
due half their numbers of Southern people, and the
South is more unsubdned and erect than ever. If
they were not thoroughly crazy and demented,
they would see that they have made a miserable
failure of their scheme Of Southern subingation,
as they have been told by outside national specta-
tors of thu contest and would abandon an enters
prise so fruitless thus far and 50 promising OF dis
aster ii the future. Not So, however. They are
going to que the rebellion and, in addition
20 that,a England mast be humbledrs 1t seems
that nothing can teach these people any lesson of
common sense. ~ ~, n S,',5
Tires months Of war with both the South and
England would not pass before the North itself
would be thoroughly BUNDLED, instead Of England.
This b not mere assertion, but is plain thing to
any man with o, grain of sense. The North would
very soon find its own ports blockaded and its
commerce destroyed, and would thus have to
swallow the same physic that it has been minister
ing to MS. The beauties Of a blockade would be
sbrought home to their own ports, and would be a
righteous retribution for what they have done to
us. Men would ponr over the border from Canada,
and lay waste their country, even as our country
has been laid waste by Northern soldiers whereyer
they have gone-and this would be another retrii-
hutton in kind. The British navy Is SO far superior
to the Northern thatno Comparison between them
need be made. In short, the capacities ii the
two nations, as to military and naval resources,
are SO dsproportioned that the South might, if 90
disposed, remain an Idle spectator of the conflict
with no apprehensions Of an nntoward result.
But the South would not remain an idle spectator.
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