New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-24


The Lincoln despotiam is fast descending to the
lowest and blacklist depths of tyranny that ever
disgraced the name OF Government.
1t has suspended the writ OF ha6edS corpus, and
subjected the persons and property of citizens to
arrest and imprisonment by military subordinates
under circumstances and on scale which the
most despOtic rulers of European absolatism would
not have been permitted to do with IMMUNITY and
which the most down trodden serfs of Russia, Aus
tria or Turkey would not have tamely submitted to
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Had the Queen of England or the Emperor OF
| France or any other crowned heads in Europe
usurped power and prostituted government to
half the extent OF lawess oppression and injustice
which Lincoln has done, they would have been
driven from their thrones, or been beheaded the
subverters of the laws OF their country, and the
enemies of mankind. 4 'j ssl7t x
Under the horrible despotism which now reigns
triumphant wherever the Lincoln power prevails,
freedom of the press and of speech is suppressed
as absolutely as it ever has been since the dark
ages, and equalled only in those dark ages by the
Roman 1nquisition in the times and under the rule
of its most corrupt and perfdious judges. Men
hayeread with shuddering and horror of the cruel
deeds of tyranny and despotsm as practiced in the
dark ages. But Lincoln has surpassed the blacklist
of these deeds of iawless oppression and yindctve
outrage upon all rights, human and divine.
He has had ministers of the gospel arrested and
imprisoned for praying to God for mercy. He has
had the officers of State and local Governments ar
rested and imprisoned without charges or aecusers,
and has denied them consultation with their friends
or allowed them to communicate with their fami-
les
! He has given his military officers authority to
steal the servants of citizens Of our States and to
plumber houses and farms of every species of pro-
perry they could use or carry off, and to burn kill
and destroy all they could not use or remove.
He has bombarded private houses along the
rivers and coasts in reach of his ornaments with
out warning to the families which occupied them
and has thus murdered helpless women, innocent
oh mfr in thair
houses, and on their own couches, from which thew
i could not be removed. <.-. B4sl- :
He has arrested honorable women and made
them prisoners in their own houses and subjected
them to the most Infamous outrages by the brutal
soidiery to whom he has committed them 49,
I He has refused to recognize the principles or
observe the usages of civilized warfare in his inya
sion of our States. 4.-ze -- --Fa
He treats the prisoners which have fallen into
hispower as pirates and felons, loading them with
irons and thrusting them into dungeons, and
threatens to execute them as maifactors. B
He has forbidden his officers to listen to auy
terms, or to enter into any arrangement for the
removal or care of his wounded, or the burial of
his dead on the battle fields; thus leaving them to
die and rot, or become the prey Of carbon birds
where they fall unless they should be cared for bv
their enemies, to whom they were taught to give
\ no quarter OF show no mercy. .- sr
aS He has attempted to fill up the channels of
rivers end inlets as to obstruCt forever the high
ways of commerce, and the public roads of ma
tons. 81 s=- 7e .-.4-ss.l =.
Bat we cannot enumerate now all the infamous
deeds of Abraham Lincoln. His conduct has been
such as the yilest and basest monsters of nauity
only have been guilty of, are capable of perpe-
trating, on the persons and rights of human be-
ingss ..-.,.. s....,.--
But lincoln could not thus outrage the laws of
God and man with impunity if he were not sus-
tanned by the Northern people. Without their
sancuon and aequescence he would be pOWeriess,
We therefore hold the Northern people as willing
parties and the ready agents of Lincoln in all his
WlcRedness. And hence the people of the North
have sunken into vassalage to the rule of the most
detestabie despotism. They have succumbed like
serfs to the mandates Of their masters; They have
made themselves the contemplate minions and the
supple tools OF british, ignorant old rufiau, who
deseerates the office and disgraces the place in
Washington City, to which he was elevated BY the
fanatical hordes Of the North. =
Its, therefore, a fact that the Northern people
are the authors and abettors of this savage war
fare upon US; and they are Responsible to God and
man for the deeds of their Government hence as
they have thus made themselves aliens and enc
mics to US, we are not only justiiable, but it is
high andimperatye duty Of selt;defence, dictated
by every sense, and demanded by the strong law
OF self prese rVaton, that We shall hold the North
ern people as aliens and enemies, and treat them
as they treat us. E g ''@ ~. nv
As they have resorted to modes of warfare re,
voting TO humanity, aud reprobated by civilized
and Christian nations, we can have no remedy
against these outrages but in acts OF retaliation,
rendered necessary on our part by the modes of
warfare which they have adopted. We have been
slow TO resort to measures of severity and retatia
ton. Indeed, thecominon war feeling !" anger
Of nations has not yet possessed the minds of
our people,
Hence, while the Lincoln Government is exer
oisipg its dFtestable daspotism on all men, and
even women, in the North, who are suspected of
Sherishing the slightest sympathy with the cause
Of the sonth-@hlle it has filled dungeons with its
best cit,zens, suspended tho habeas corpus act,
suppressed the freedom OF the press and Of Speech
proclaimed martial law. and carried into effect
generally the most malignant spirit of tyrann the
Southern Government and people have done none
of these things and hence our country Is yet open
to the adherents OF the Ncrthern Government.
Some Of these niiens are nnraning LhR evan