New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-03
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VI Ysfsssts FAsHaEEa or WAR.
since the sudden conversion Of the New York |
Herald its tome IS as warlike and trueuent as that
of any Of the regular old chronic Abolition organs
which have fought the fight from the beginning.
Esyen fha, bnld warrior and fierce fighter, Horace
Greeley, now pales his Intellectual fires before the
rev accession to the Abolition ranks, bent on
dresdfu deeds and destructive enterprises for the
conquest and subjugation of the Rnofending
South, \.
Here is the Herald's latest proclamation and
programme of war:
To dispense the revolutionary forces threatening
Washington, Maryland and Virginia should at once
be made to feel the pressure of two hundred thou
sand loys men, and the tirstday of the North is to
open all our highways to Washington by land ana
water. The Administration should not stop to
ehaHer upon nice panctifos of courtesy and sub
mission to insolent traitors but, driven to war, it
should push forward all its resources to crush this
gigantic rebellion
Tie above is good. We like to hear the enemy
talk that way. Admiring bravery and boldness, it
is eonsolatory to us to hear brave words even
though they be not followed by brave deeds
Let US suppose, however, that this programme
is carried out and that Old Abe marches his two
hundred thousand men into Maryland and Virginia.
# it were possible to conquer and subdue those
States, which it is not, what then? Is the United
States Government Government of force? Is it a
military despotism? Are States to be compelled to
acknowledge allegiance, when they are disloyal
and dscontented2 Is that the theory of the Gov
| eminent, or was such q thing ever contemplated
in practicea
The Herald will not be guilty the absurdity of
asserting such thing, because it knows better and
has frequently so declared We would like to know
what sort Of Government that would be, which had
to keep guard all the time over the people OF all
the Southern States, to prevent them from rising at
any moment in rebellion against the central au-
thority. We would like to know if the Northern
people desire a Union with fourteen States, know
ing all the time that the people of those States re-
garded the Union as an engine Of oppression and
tyranny, and were ready at any moment TO free
| themselves from the calling yokei
This attempt TO put down the South by fire and
the sword is one of the most curious and incem.
prehensible things that occurred in the history
of the world. II the case were reyersedif itwere
| the North which had seeded from the Union, and
set up Government for ITSELF the South, so far
from Directing, would have hailed it as an immeas
urable blessing and relief. They would have said
to the North, f if You want to go, go in peace, and
Heaven speed you.n When ace propose to 60,
however, it is all different. The North wishes to
keep us, unwilling and reluctant though we be, in
q Union which we have repadiated, and to compel
allegiance and tribute from a people known to be
CALLED and almost maddened by the association.
There is no justice in this, no liberty ne human
itg, Christianity It is the silliest and
most ridiculous enterprise ever undertaken by a
Government protesting to be founded on the con-
sent Of the governed II is not only senseless, but
i wicked, cruel, inhuman and barbarous.
| The Northern programme comprehends the sub
lection of not Maryland and Virginia alone, but
tevery other Southern State. Eight millions of
people are to be put down by tile sword and kept
down. Assuming that the yalor of each section is
equal, it will require eight millions of Northern
troops, permanently stationed all through the
Southern States, to prevent fresh uprisings. The
South being united, to man, and always ripe for
resistance, the necessities of the case would re-
quire as we said above a permanent military force
of eight millions of Northern men in the South to
keep us down. How long could the North keep
such force in the field The very statement of
the proposition is enough to illustrate its absurdity
and folly. Let not the North deceive ITSELF either,
with the idea that there would be any party in the
South in favor of submission to this military die
tatorai rule. The mere passage of Northern troops
through Baltimore, strong Union city in q strong
Union State, has put Maryland in an attitude Of
armed defiance, and made her ready for resistance
and secession. If the North believes that eight
millions Of people can be conquered and Kept con
quered, or that it would be desirable to have o
union with 50 large hostile element in it, let it
go ahead with this wicked war. But unless it is
given over to utter madness it will cease at once
from the vain and preposterous effort.