New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-01
N0RphERN SENTIMENT.

A paper with which we do not exchange the
g Pittsburg Evening Chronicle" came to this Office
some days since with the leading editorial heavily
marked around with red pencil lines. We don't
know whether it was sent by the editor or some
one else. We are under no professional obligation
to take notice of the article to which our attention
is thus specially directed, but willing to accom-
m0date the enterprisng individual who thrusts the
article before u.s. we proceed to make brief reply.
The main purpose of it seems to be to remove
| any impression that may exist at the South that
there is division of sentiment in the North in Ie-
gard to the war; To this effect the Chronicle de-
clares as follows:
II the Secessionists think they arc to fight men Of
straw that they may count on divisions and dis
sensi0n in the North they will be most awtully
mistaken. We can at any rate speak for our own
State, She is unit in the cause, and although
seventy five thousand Of her best men are now en-
rolled and clamoring for active service, yet she is
ready, when necessary, to send out alone 4 hun
bred and fifty thousand men. As is Pennsylvania,
so is every Northern State anG it is time that the
South should know it. We have no desire to sub
due the South, but we will not if it can be helped,
be subdued by her. Even civil war is better than
anarchy. The stars and stripes must continue to
wave. 1t is an memorable necessity.
Now, We have, for some time past admitted and
accepted the fact that the North is to all intents
and purposes, solidly against in this fight True,
for long time we refused to believe it. The CON
viction, at last, reluctantly forced upon US.
We had heard so much Of Northern c0nserva-
tism," our admiration and sympathy had been so
often challenged by our Northern i" friends " for
the gallant manner in which they were, as they
| sad breasting the storms of fanatiCsm,'' that
| VIC thought there really some truth and sin
cerity in it. We did not suppose until recently
that all their professions were false and hvDO-
cfiocai. NO" that we nave asceftalAea that such
Is leA'!y IHe case only SHOWS 'Dat we were not
Gay TOO soon IN separating from theni' 1t We
n"o Thought 'nal We Ha0 no IEIeho5 III Inc North'
lne 0outh "o"'u nave separator from mat section
long ago IL was because we believed the TIDE
would turn there-thatreasonW would eventually re
sumo It's sWay-that tanatlcIsm and sectional All
mostly would die out-that we held on and pleaded
and eXpostulated and hoped for change. The
election OF Lincoln, by purely sectional vote, de-
stroyed the last lingering feeling OF fraternity, and
from the fatal 9th OF November the old Union was
as every southern man knew hopeIessy de-
sToyeo' "esa" that the North was unit against
US.
We do not, therefore, as the Chronicle supposos
make any calculations upon any friends we may
have there, or any diversity of sentiment touching
the fact that a United North is making war upon
MS. Here and there, to be Sure, brave spirit like
vALLANDIGHAM of Ohio and CHARLES O'CoNNoR of
New York, has the manliness to refuse to egg on
the Infatuated hordes by whom they are surrounded
painting and bowling for Southern blood. But the
South knows that such bright exceptions a. these
are few and far between. She knows, moreover
that she has enemies strong and influential even in
souri, Yet for all this, her spirit does not quail
nor her cheek banch. She nerves herself onlv the
more firmly for the contest and her determination
only becomes the more rigid and unyieldipg,
The Chronicle then saws that the North has e M
desire to subdue the South but does not intend to
be subdued by her." This is an assumption not
only unwarranted but fatty contradicted bv the
facts of the case The South has no intention. M
wish to ''subdue y the North. This the Chronicle
knows or is criminally ignorant if it does not. We
do not propose to interfere with the North in any
shape or form whatever. We propose that
the North shall have its own territory, its own in
sttutons, its ewn form Of government, its own
laws, all unmoIested. We ask the same for orr
own section. That is all. We never have desired |
to subdue the North, and we never mean to do it.
Let each section go along with its own, is all that
any SOUTHERN man uFSLreH ana IL Is what the South
intends most assured'y to have, for herself. The
North is not satisfied with this but does intend to
subdue as if it can Else, why are Northern troops
marched upon Firginia-polluting the sacred soil
of the Old Dominion, invading the historic ground |
of Nirgin1, and driving her citizens in terror from
their hahitations? Why is it that the church in
Alexandria in which WASHINGTON worsAipped is |
defled by sacrilegious rabble from the Five |
Points OF New York, and its sacred walls eChoing |
the tread of an armed soldiery and the clank of