New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-05
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Tie people Of PittsbuFg. Pennsylvania, rose in a
Inoba few days since to prevent the transportation
South Of certain pieces Of ordnance which had
been cast and finished there, pursuant to the Or
ders of the Secretary of War This ordnance was
intended for certain Southern FORTS constructed in
accordance with the laws of Congress- and which
needed their ornaments to equip and complete
them.
This was open rebellion on the part of the Pitts
burgers. It was plain infraction of the laws.
Their conduct and their violence subjected them to
severe punishment By the laws Of the land They
were local insurreconists to all intents and pur-
poses. They Ind not been aggrieved, nor was
there any intention Of aggrieying them. Their
whole course was utterly without pretext or iustif
cation, immediate contingent or remote. Yet we
find the whole Abolition press Of the North APP
proving their acts, while al the same time they de-
nounce in the bitterest terms the policy of South
Carolina, which has simply moved as a sovereign
Estate and withdrawn from the Union by taking
back unto herself the powers delegated to the Fed
era Government, and all in purely constitute Gal
| and legal manner.
1 Had such q mob occurred in the Southern States
| there would have been no limit TO Northern de-
nunciation, and the President would have been in
/ voked to bring the whole power of the Govern.
ment 10 bear upon the people Of the offending To-
caltyto exterminate them by fire and sword, if
necessary, But, as the scene Of the disturbance
was in 4 free State and in an Abolition community,
nothing of the SORTS advocated, and what would
! have been utterly wrong here is entirely right
there This is the justice of Abolition logic and il
foreshodows the treatment the South will receive
| when the fanatics are once installed in power.
/ The Chicago Tribune is the most prominent Lin.
4 coin organ in the State of Illinois, 1t is supposed
| to have more influence with the President elect
than any other journal Published. II is as ably
edited as it is rathlessy fanatcal and its hostility
to the South is apparent in almost every line Of its
/ ample 5coiumns. The Tribune freely justifes the
Pittshurgers, and in its issue of the 2Sth ult the
/ following paragraph appeared:
The PlrTsRuRG Row -pE-po.--Tt is time for the
i people to indicate their desire to have peace. and
i by the exercise Of their sovereignty, to prevent
treanherous= Conspirators at Washington Promising
thepoWer of the Republic in aiding and comforting
i their confedegates Of the cotton States. With
such views of the necessities Of the crisis,
ready to Justify the action of the people Of Pitts
4 burg in preventing the shipment TO Texas of the
arms and munitions of war now in that city, and
under order for removal tolocalties where, through
i Che completely of the President and his associate
Villains, they would fall into the hands Of the
mics of the Government within thirty days. The
Pistsbnrgers have proper appreciation of the
duties which devole upon them as citizens of the
Republic, and we beg to assure them, that if war
i to be begun by those who plot aganst the peace
OF the country, it can begin in better place thar
u Allegheny county. Let them stand to their posi-
ton; and let Springfield, Mass, follow their pa
triottc example.
The virtual seizure of the Pittshurg Arsenal be
ing Justified, the seizure Of tie Springfield Arnory
being recommended the Tribune should go little