New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-03
rHE NORTHERN pRErExr.

The New York World undertakes to explain the
object of the North in making war upon the
Southern Contederacy. Here is the explanation:
The theory of the North, in its struggle for the
continuance of the Union, is that the majority OF
the Southern people are either at heart Union men,
or that they are laboring under gross deiuslons,
which have only to be removed TO make them so.
The war is prosecuted with the expectation that
when the leaders are broken down ana crushed
out by force. the understanding ana heart OF the
people benefited by experience, will again turn to
the old flag and that the reconciliation OF the sec
tons will finally become complete. We must show
practically that plumber and rapine, and social dis
organization are not our objects that neither the
lust of domination nor the indulgence of sectional
hate prompts;us. We must prove that it is love of
the whole Union that constrains Us to strike these
blows for the stars and stripes.
Some Of the people of the North may be de-
ceiyed by such stuff the above but it is evident
that, so far as the leaders are concerned, it is a
mere pretext-a sham and an exhibition of hypo-
critical pretence disgusting in the extreme.
Nobody knows better than the editor OF the
World, that it is utterly untrue that majority OF
the people of the South are al heart Union men,
Proof of the falsty of this assumption IS so cumaa
tive that we shall not attempt to bring II forward.
1t is sufficient to say, that the sentiment OF the
States composing the Southern Contederacy has
been often expressed, and in many different ways;
and that it is entirely unanimous IN opposition 10
the old Union, except in small portion OF len
nessee and the northwestern corner OF Virginia.
He who does not know this, whether he lives at
the North or the South, is either witully blind or
is naturalborn idiot. The politicians Of the
North know it as well as we do, and yet they
resort to this miserable fasehood to keep up the
spirits of the Northern people, and encourage
them in this unrghteous crusade against the lives
and liberties of the people Of the South.
As if conscious that this pretence would not
avail, the World then falls back and takes another
tack. 1t claims that the Southern people are
''laboring under gross delusions.f 1ndeed ! II
this were so, whose business is it but our own?
Why, re have thought for many years that the
North was iaboring under gross decisions, il not
deliberately determined to Cypress and plumber the
South, which is worse than a delus0n. let we
have not for that reason, sent armies to the North
to drive off their citizens from their homes, seize
their property and shoot them down when engaged
in selfdefeuce Is a new rule to be adopted
May any one portion Of political community as
sumo at any time that another portion is "deluded"
merely because they do not think like the Others
and that for that reason, they TO be shot down
and murdered? If SO, there is at once an end of
all order, all stability, all freedom of thought and
action, the Inauguration of anarchy, and species
of tyranny more than despotic. Bat by what
right does the North assume that we deiuded 70
What constitutes that section the Judge and censor!
Have they any more right to call lis deluded set
of beings than we have to apply to them the same
designation? Is not every community, according
to the principles of free government, the best judge
Of its own wrongs and its own rights?
Another false assumption is that the - leaders -
have precptated the people" Of the South into
what is called rebellion, and that as soon as the
leaders are silenced the people will return to the
old flag. Everybody in the South knows that the
people were a long way in advance of the politi-
clans in this movement and that the masses are by
far the most determined and resoute. Many of
the politicians, unable to keep up with the people,
have been left high and dry on the political shore,
and those are now the leaders, and have been
made such, who were the earliest and most active
in resistance. Finally the World declares that it
g love for the whole Union " that constrains the
North to strike these blows for the stars aud stripes
A curious way OF exhibiting Glove" truly! We
suppose citizens of Virginia have been captured
and put in irons, all for ''love.n We suppose
they have been shot down, driven from their
homes, their houses destroyed, their property
stolen, all for Glove" We suppose helpless
women and children have been slaughtered in St.
Louis all for love.n We suppose the Brooklyn
has been sent to blockade the port OF New Orleans
all on account of the deep, undying affection of
the North for this city. If these be exhibitions of
Northern love" for US, or for the Union, we
would prefer their hate rather than such love as
that.