New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-19
WHAT is THH oBJECTe


The note of preparation for active bostiities
against the South is now sounding thronobon.
every Northern State Companies and Regiments
of troops are everywhere organizing. and money!
ii we may believe the Geographic reports is freely
rendered the Northern President to aid him in his
infamous design. Unless all this is mere brayado
ana buster, we are at the beginning of sharp
ana severe struggle of arms between the two sec
| uons 1t may be, we trust it will be- of short
duration 1t may continue for many years. It
seems that the South has now but few friends in
the North. The Southern victory at Charleston,
while it has united all the South by the common
tie of resistance, seems also to have united all
the North by the common sentiment of aggression.
No friendly voice from the North has thus far
been heard, and there are now those in the South
who believe it would have been better if this
movement had taken place ten years ago instead
of at the present time.
But let enquire what is the object of the
North in waging this aggressive warfare upon us.
What do they hope to effect by it? What object
do they expect to accomplish?
Some of them, not familiar with the spirit and
the temper of the South, and the unanimity of
Southern feeling, propose to stop at nothing short
of our entire subjugaion. They believe it can be
done. They oppose to the fact of their supe-
rority in numbers, forgetting the lesson that all
history teaches, from the days of the Spartans at
| Thermopylae down to the splendid campaign of
| Napoleon in the South of Europe, that superior
numbers don't always win-forgettng even the
scriptural maxim that the race is not ALWAYS to
the swift nor the battle to the strong. But let us
| suppose, for the sake of argument what is impos-
slbIe in point of fact that the South can be sub
dued and subiugated-What then?
Does the North wish to have Union of force
Does it desire a Union between two antagonistic
sections, each hating the other, and the one con-
stantly ripe for revolution at any favorable mo-
ment? Does it desire TO maintain the Federal |
authority in the Southern States by an immense |
standing army-an army which, to be effective, |
must be at least as strong, in point of numbers as
the whole white adult male population of our |
sectlon-an army which it would cost millions Of |
dollars annually to sustain, and the employment Of
which would make the Government military des-
potism instead of free Republic?
Such, undoubtedly, would be the result, if this
enterprise of our subjugation should be successful
which, however, nobody not a fool believes vii,
be the case But, supposng it to be so, the Union
would be one of force instead of affection The
reverence for the Union which was formerly felt
in the South is dead and buried 1t has been
eradicated from every heart. If there were anv
lingering remnant of love for the Union among ms.
it would be forever destroyed by an aggressive
war upon us. The Union, then, in the event we
have supposed would be but mockery of the old
union forced and unnatural union between con-
querors and conquered, union Of mutual hate and
dlstrust, union to which one of the parties bore
no other feelings than those of disloyaIty and re-
bellion, and a union which all must know wopld
be broken up at the very first moment of favor
able opportunity? Can the North be guilty. of the
folly of preparing for such a Union as that?
The necessity of an immense standing army to s
'eep the South in subsection is enough, of itself
0 show the North how foolish is the enterprise If
las undertaken. Has the calculation ever been !
made how many soldiers it would take. and how r
1uch money would be the cost? We think not. s
We tell the North that if it thinks there is now anv
MON sentiment here, waiting for an opportunitv G
expression, it makes fatal error. The South S
lands as one man, and if there should be traitor J
our midst, short would be his shrift when dis q
0vered. II
BY no possibility can the South be subdred and "
nder no circumstances would the North reap any l
dvantage from it if it could be done. On the con- a,
Fary, it would be the source of unnumhered voes Fl
} that section The North would suffer vastly mora Il
ian ourselves; 1t would be victory in which the q
onquerer would be the sufferer Is there no u
atesmanship in the North-no common sense a
hich is the first and highest attribute of states
anship-that will interpose to prevent this m :,
Ltufal and ru!nous undertaking.? "
Sooner or LATER just sure as the sun shines in
e heavens, the independence and the separate
ionality of the Southern States will be secured
is question of time only, and the extent of that
ne 1t remains for the North to determine. IF
sdom shall guide the Northern people, it will he
ne at once If madness shall RUE the hour, if To
lred' malice, and all uncharitableress, revenge
wounded pride, shall precipitate the North in pr
an aggressive war policy the result will only be Co
same at more remote period. For any and Isl
cry event the South is ready. in,