New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-16
N&h Orleuns 4uilg Grestent,
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL l6, 1861.
THE DECLARATION OF WAR.

Abraham Lincoln has formally declared war
of invasion against and upon the Confederate
States of the South. His proclamation appears in
another column. 1t is not dated, in the telegraphc
dispatch, but we presume it was issued on Satur
day, the 18th, Immediately after the news OF the
unconditional surrender of Fort Sumter was made
known at Washington. 1t, with other dispatches
will be found in the appropriate column
For our part VIC read the news with unaffected
satisfaction. 1t was just what we wanted ; and i
the author of the rrepressible conflict doctrine
mad asked us to designate the moment when wal
should bepin we could not have selected more
auspicious day than he has. We deprccate war as
strongly as any one can, but believing it to be in
eyitable- seeing prosperity, and unparalleled com
mercial maritime agricultural and manufacturing
greatness ahead, Immediately subsequent to its
glorious close so far as the Confederate States arc
concerned-we desired it to commence at once, SC
that the speediest sort of a termination might be
arrived at.
For thirty years we have been wronged, out
ragged and plundered by the Abotionists, all with
out the smallest cause provocation. In the
meantime, they reared and educated generation
to hate us. That hatred eliminated last Novem
Der in the election of MAJ, platform, pledged
to crush out every Independent instinct in the
breasts of the Southern people. But, while this
ruthless, wanton and wicked thirty years was
going on, a generation was sprngiug up in the
South, who could, as honestly trained youths, only
learn to hate the AbOlitionists Of the North-those
miserable towards and dctestable traitors, who
have caused the fabric of freedom, which WASH
lNGTOH erected to crumbe to pieces long before
its hundredth birthday.
Thnv Withdraw from TTnioD which had failed
to answer the purposes of its creation, in strict
compliance with the fundamental principles of the
Constitution which bound the various parts to.
gether-that all governments derived their just
powers from the consent of the governed.
We never could, or will, consent to Abolition
domination. Abolition rule destroys the spirit Of
the Constitution, and seeks to reduce us to the con
dition Of slaves to be abused and robbed at will.
Therefore, we will have none oft and having set
up for ourselves, will vndicate and defend our in
aenable rights to the last extremity of human sac
riice.
For exercising these high, holy, and purely con
stitutOnal prerogatives of frecmcn, Abraham Lin
coin has declared war upon us, and threatens us
with the vengeance of seventy five thousand SOL
ders. Well, let him come on. We will welcome
him and his myrmidons to the bIoodiest banquet
to- As the hart panteth for the water brook, .
so do the Southern people, in the full conscious
ness of right, long to grappe with LincoIns robber
Abolition hordes Let them come. The quicker
they come the better-the quicker the DEGREES in
eXorable justice will mete out will be visited upon
the heads of the leaders of the vest organization
the earth has known in any Of her history.
But seventy-ftve thousand Ab0litioni5ts will not
,F
will be swept away as chat is swept before the
wind. Half a million of men, thoroughly armed
knowing that they have done no wrong to the
Northern pcople-knowng that they are positively
and absolutely right in the course they have
opted-tighting for their personal honor, their
pecuniary interests, and for their wives, mothers,
daughters, sisters and all that is sacred-stand
ready to confront them! Lincoln should send
along million of Aboitionsts, and even then
they would not win the wreath of conquerors-
and if they did, it would be over desert, ruined
devastated, uninhabited. save where their accursed
presence nsulted the smiling skies that now bend
above as noble people as the sun Of COP ever
shone upon.
The people of the Confederate States may be
destroyed - bnt they never can be conquered.
Ncver Mark it, ye Abolitionists.
Lincoln's proclamation is the most contemplate
document that has appeared in print within the
present century. The dirty Abolitionst the special
peadcr. the suppresser of facts well known to the
civilized wOrId-gnOres every truth and principle
involved in the great controversy pending, and
proceeds to speak of millions Of people as gentle
man would of an ordinary mob. However, we
must excuse Lincoln as he has never known, and
never will know, how to feel a gentleman, or act
like gentleman. Nature has denied him that in
estimable privilege, for which denial there is no
earthly reCompense.
As the warke Rasplitter gives us twenty
days. to " disperse" dlay down our arms and sub
nit to his sway, perhaps ought to be thankful.
But, strange as it may appear, not the least
bit grateful. We did not, and do not want, an in
stant's peace. We want him to come on at once; and
if we are not very much mistaken in the Montgom
cry Government the aforesaid miserable Rail-split
ter will have more than he possibly attend to
on land and sea, before a fourth of his Abolition
legions will be ready to march.