New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-15
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flle following il from the Boston Advertiser Of
the sth instant:
A PArEn BLOCKADE. southern papers all
seem TO suppose that the blockade of their coast
VIII be 2 mere paper blockade; even Jefferson
Davis his message falls into the prevailing error
They talk about their thousands Of miles Of coast
az # every inch Of shat must be covered hutforset
that after all il a limited number of harbors are
closed the blockade will be perfect as the rest of
Inc coast IS not accessible for vessels Of any
siderable draught
What, if after you have lost ten fifteen thous-
and of your people BY fever after the destruction
i Of your commerce by our prisateersmen; and
perchance d visit or two In Boston harbor or
vicinity (your war ships being all off Southern
coasts your Abolition Government should be
| informed that, as only a limited number of
harbors were closed y that the blockade ,,as not
perfect, and must cease at once You would
feel rather cheap, wouldn't you? Of course you
would. Well, you will have to perfectly close every
Southern port, and patrol seacoast of more than
two thousand miles, or your blockade will be no
more respected by the powers Of Europe than
| though you hadn't attempted anything at all.
The editors of the Boston Advertiser should
have noticed and no doubt have, that the Southern
people, instead Of being alarmed, only laugh at
| their blockading threats and pretensions. The
conductors of that journal know as well as we do
when Lineoln's paper blockade must cease, yet
they have neither the honesty nor the patriotism
to tell their readers the hole truth. We can cal
cnate the time within fifteen days, at the very out
side margin, when, if Lincoln persists, his squad
rons (so called1 will be sunk, and egress and in
gress to and from Southern ports made as free and
clear as was the case twelve months ago. Our
calculations are based upon the e memorable
logic y of figures the absolute requirements of
oircums tanees. and necessities SO vital and allah
sorbing that but this one single result be pos
sibly arrived at, unless the Government at Wash
@iDgton incontinently back down \ and acknowl-
edge the Independence Of the Confederate States
Journals Of the Advertiser class persist in delud
ing their readers with the idea that a blockade of
Southern ports will compel Southern cotton TO
seek Northern markets by river and railroad trans
portation, and felcitate themselves hugely upon
the brilliant prospects thus conjured up. The alb
surdity Of this is manifest. An iron embargo, with
,an instant death penalty attached for violation,
will prevent q pound of cotton from seeking mar
ket that direction and if our ports should con
tinue to be blockaded, it willrernain on the plan
tations where it was raised until radical change
in affairs takes place.
Does' mt the Advertiser think, upon this incontro
vertible showing, that there is more danger of q
blockade Of Boston BY the LIST Of October than
there is Of New Orleans? Ifnot, let it consult the
statistics Boston is Of no earthly value Europe.
The value of New Orleans is enormous. If all New
England should sink thousand fathoms deep
under the waters Of the ocean, Europe would
scarcely BE injured; but il the cotton crop Of
Louisiana and Mississippi alone should fail this
year, England would feel terrible shock in every
fibre Of her body polite.
y Bnt, SO on and cling to your errors. A few
months will eonsign Cd to the lowest depths Of
the a abs tteess humiliation.