New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-06
Uep Orlears Duilg Grssfsnt.
MONDAY MORNING. MAY 8, 1861.
FANArIo1sm RUN MAD.

more apparent than in the recent efforts to pro-
hibt tie transportation Of provisions to the Con-
federate States of the South. During the last
week or two the leading Abolition journals of the
West have been sedulously engaged in this sense
less work. apparently unconscious of the fact
that they were benefiting US to their own serious
disadvantage.
In the folly and wickedness of their abomnabIe
fanaticism, these people seem to have lost utterly
the faculty OF reflection, and as natural conse-
%sdence ignore statistics, facts, the laws of pro-
ducton, the rules Of legitimate trade, and all the
wholesome regulations which common sense die.
tates. In their wild phrensy they seek to weaken
themseYes-deprive themselves of Southern money
in the vain hope starving us out, when if they
would devote moment to practical thinking, they
would discover the righteousness of their under
taking, and the injurious consequences to them
selves sure to follow.
Instead Of being able to starve the South, they
X cannot even inconvenience us, by Withholding every
article they have produced heretofore or can pro-
duce hereafter. II the dews fall and the rains
descend, according to the natural ordering of the
seasons, in few weeks the South will have a sup
ply Of good food on hand, not only sufficient, but
with large spare margin, to feed three times the
number Of persons she will be called on to support.
Al luz Iiphutllue, we nave oil Inc
necessaries as well as the luxuries of life.
For our part, as we observed a few days since,
we hope that not another kernel of corn, grain of
wheat ounce Of pork or bacon, pound of four or
anything else, will ever be bought for our market
from the free States Of the West and North West.
five had the power, we would interpose an iron
prohibition. Why? The experience of single
year, such as the Cncinnatans ETC., foolishly pro-
~,
ers-Qndergo, nolens uoenS, will learn them how
they can render themselves perfectly independent
of the West in every respect, and make huge
annual profits thereby. If the Western Abolition
lists will keep on as they have commenced six
months longer we believe it will be worth fully
one hundred millions Of dollars, clear profits to the
Southern people in the next five years. The value
of the lesson titus acquired cannot be over
estimated. ,".u
Thus every move they make tends to our ad-
vantage and their confusion. The old saying is a
true one: :" Whom the Gods wish to destroy they
first make madn This is especially the case with
Abolitionists at this moment. If they conquer
u.s. there will be no cotton crop, and their COM
mercal ruin will exceed our agricultural disasters
If we whip them, as we certainly shall every
field where we have anything approximating
fair chance, their disasters will be accumulated
for not another bale of cotton shall they ever have
PEEstbESr DAVIS MEssAGE.-This truly able
document appears on our second page. The ver-
sion by telegraph which we published is SO very
imperfect, when compared with the correct copy
taken from the Montgomery Advertiser, that we
this morning reproduce it entire Justice to our
cause, less than to the distinguished author, re-
quires this at our hands, and we now invite our
readers to carefully peruse the message in all its
bearings, satisfied of the salutary effects it must
have upon every candid and rejecting mind.
MISSISSIPPI STUDENTS OFF TO WAE.-Messrs. Rea
Brothers printers have placed at our disposal the
following note:
UNIVERSITY OF MlssssPrr2
=. April %, 1851.
Dear 6irs-Your kind communication, containing
several specimens of programmes, was duly re-
ceived.
Owing to the war excitement the students have
formed themselves into company, and will be OIL
to C0rinth day after tomorrow. am in it, SO we
defer getting the programmes. If we need them,
ne will remember your establishment.
Yours, very respectfully, ~ = ~ ~
The NEW York TEiBUNE.-The following, taken
from the New York News, shows how Greeley
stands on the war question. No one has been
more loud-mouthed in his cry for boodshed, nor
has any paper shown greater enmity against the
South than the Tribune.
We always believed that all Greeley would do,
would be to bay at us, and the following figures
support us in that opinion:
NUMBER OF TRIBUNE VOLUNTEERS.
For the 10 + 'r GOnsnships
For protecting the flag 90 For Foreign offices
FE FSE s is S8 % FSf FoF a%er p2 ham Gs
from the Tribune wants to ego down and give lem
Dixie
Observation-Disclosures James Semple, of the U.
S. Navy, has resigned. He was appointed from
s Virginia by President TYLER, in 1912.
\ A HARD CAsE.-A man named George w. Ellis
was arrested in Cincinnati on Sunday, the 29h ult.
on charge of being secessionist and traitor, ant
put in jail. Ellis complained bitterly of this, as ht
says he is just from Arkansas, which State he was
oJa4 bostn noPta acilf