New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-04
A MISTAKE,
The New York Tribune, in its issue of the 26th
DC Inst n1nnfh holds the fnlinnrinr lanr11ar De

fatAs EAEhtLs
The New York Tribune, in It's issue of the 26th |
81 last month, holds the following language
The predominant the only South pos
sessed of voice, or courage, or purposes ami
mated by the deepest hate of the North and the
most desperate determination to subdue it. The
simple fact is, we are to fight for existence.
This war is one in which one party or the other is
to be utterly subdued. The distinction of North
and So,tdt when this war is finished, will be rec
ognized no longer as describing two peoples. The
Union will be one of fact-.ali Northern or all
Southern.
Now, the Tribune is mistaken in every one of the
five statements which are made in the above ex-
tract. We do not question the sincerity of the
Tribune's belief, but we assert without hesitation
that it is mistaken in every single respect
We have told the North the truth, and nothing
but the truth, from the very beginning of these
difficulties between the two sections They did
not believe Us at first, but now they reluctantly
admit that there has been no deception When we
told them that the South was nearly unanimous in
opposition to the Union and in favor of secession,
they hooted at the idea. After South Carolina Sc
eeded they said that she would be the only State'
| ans even she would soon ttreturn to her allie
glance. We told them that other Southern States
would seeede soon, and eventually the whole
South, but they would not believe it. Especially
| would they not believe il Of Louisiana, because
/ of the duty on sugar, and because they supposed
Louisiana reckoned pelf above patriotism. But
| every statement, and every predictions made by
Il the organs of public sentiment in the South, have
been literally verified while the reverse has been
the case with the predictions and statements of
II the press of the North. Amid the shower of false
hoods which has been poured out by the Northern
press, the press of this section, with few eXeep-
tons, has confined itself strictly to well-knoWn
/ facts.
/ We, therefore, claim some credit for candor and
veracity, and fair and just representation of
| Southern feeling and sentiment. Aud we know
that we express the opinion and determination of
the South when we say that it is the reverse of
4 that attributed to it by the Tribune.
We are not animated BY the deepest hate Of
i the North and most desperate determination to
/ subdue it, We have never proposed to subdue
the North 1t is the determination of the North to
i suhdue u.s. that has given rise to the trouble In
the exercise of an inalienable right we proceeded
to organize a separate Government of our own,
feeling that it was impossible for US to get along
1 WithIthe North in peace and harmony, in the old
| Union. We contemplated no aggression upon the
/ North, and merely asked for ourselves that we be
4 let alone.
What we now desire, and what we have all the
time desired, is that our Confederation be not dis
turbed, and that we have our Government to our
Selves without interfering with the Northern Gov
| eminent or the Northern Government interfering
with u.s. What we desireis that the line of demarca
ton be drawn that all the States which choose Il
4 join the Southern Confederacy and uphold and res
pect its Constitution shall do so and that all the
other States that choose shall remain in the Ole
i Union-and that it be done peaceably and quietly
all questions in issue between the two Confederacie
to be settled by fair negotiation. This is what VIZ
have heretofore wished, and what we now wish
and we do not believe there ought to be any figh
/ about it, though if that be determined on we are
i ready to fight to the bitter end
Cannot the Tribune--cannot the Northern peo
ple--coneeve of two friendly Confederacies, lying
side by side living in peace with each other, and
each one with the institutions and form Of Govern
ment which best suit them? That is simply what
we propose, and that is all that we propose. It is
the case all over the world that friendly nations
4 live with common boundary to their territories
i and to the mutual advantage of each other; and
Il yet the Northern States Of this country seem en-
4 tirely incapable Of comprehendng that such
thing possible with u.s. much less that it is proper
and best.
i We conclude by informing the Tribune that thi
is not "a war in which one party the other is tt
| be utterly subdued.n The moment that the Souti
/ becomes peaceably established with separate
! Government Of its own, and the North lays down
its arms, that moment the war will cease. We have
no intention to ''subdue" the North. We do not
propose to interfere with the North in any shape
| or form Let the Free States have their own Gov
eminent to themselves, and the Slave States Meirs
without interruption or molestation- this is what
the South desires. Is there anything in it unrea-
sonable