New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-18
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The New York HeFald--a fiery war journal in
INC interest OF the Lincoln despotisnhad the sub
| Joined pronunoisrniento in @ recent number
The Southern journals are deludirg tiler readers
With the idea that the Northern States cannot
4 exist without the South; that they have no re-
sources, and must DO ruined inevitably in the event
i ct their separation. Nothing can be more absurd.
/ Nfe have the varied resources of the West, which
are far greater than those of the South. But what
4 ls more important, we have the commerce of the
world. Cur capital builds the ships which carry
the productions of every cline. We erect and
man The factories which supply articles in univer-
4 sal demand We have the trained skill, the intel
/ Iceland the enterprise which command success.
1t is the South, therefore,, and not the North that
would suffer by q dissolution of the Union.
Well, why do you not content yourselves with
i tsthe varied resources of the West?n Having the
commerce Of the world, Y why do you war upon
the South because she has chosen to separate her.
self from you'll You say you have the 4. capital,i
the 8 ships,'' that you s erect and man the fac
tories which supply articles in universal demand y
that you have the trained skill, the intellect
and the enterprise which command success y and
that the North canot suffer, while the South must
| suffer, by a ssdissoution Of the Union.'i
Why, then, if these statements are true. do you
rafufa to allow The South to separate from you in
peace? According to your own showing, the
disadvantages, Of the situation! Why, then, com
1 mence q war of subjugation upon the South which
/ will costly atleast million of men and a thou
sand million OF dollars, before you can hope to
achieve success and when that impossible event
1 is accomplished, you will only have won d ruined
4 country, somewhat like unto powder maya
zine, ready to explode at any moment, carrying
/ death and destruction oil around
Fnee ,,,,,
the North viii not be damaged, but that the South
would alone ssutfer by dissolution Of the Unionn
| she has ihaugurated, land which she will maintain
| to the utternlost extremity of human hazard?
We can give the true reason, which conviots the
Herald and all other Northern papers which sus-
tain Lincoln's upon the South of duplicity and
Misunderstanding. They know that the South is as
rich as they have represented her to be poor; and
that, consequently, if she stays out of the Union,
| the. commerce of the world will pass from the
control of New York that their boosted capital'1
will dWiude away; that their ships' will never
again be employed in carrying Southern g produc-
tons II that their " factories J, will become silent
and that their & trained skill y etc.. will be obliged
to seek other than Northern quarters for its profit
able exercise, or else starve.
These are afew of the reasons why the North
proposes to wage hideous war upon the South to
keep her people in hated Union. The spirit of
Christianity has no influence over item. No feel
ing Of common honesty animates them. No patri-
otie impulse prompts their action. No glorious
aspiration throbs in their widowed hearts. Moth
ing that has ever been considered brave, generous
Or noble, in Christendom or Heathendom, from the
earliest period Of recorded time down to the
present moment. urges them onward in the fratri-
cidal war they are now prosecuting. The meanest
and most contemplate motives govern them--the
lust oppression and the lust of avarice They
want to plumber the Southern people, for all time
TO come, in regularly augmenting proportions as
heretofore, and to insult and outrage them at
pleasure. And because the Southern people have
taken steps to release themselves from future plum
deFs and insults-have resumed their sovereignty
and the inalienable tight Of govern
ment-the Abolitionists seem determined TO pre-
cipitate amore Internal war than the annals of the
earth bear witness to.
Y Well, they have lost immensely already, and
their prospective losses have naddened them
What are those losses? Why, the loss Of the uso |
OF the products, the patronage and the money, of
the poor, poverty7stricken Soulful! That is all. |
These are gone forever, and with them the mer- |
camille, financial, manufacturing and maritime
supremacy Of the North! Hence their frantic
rage their wild denunciations their insane
threatenngs. But all will avail them naught. No
more Southern trade, of any Kind, goes to the
North.