New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-06-20

battles of the revolution. Our forefathers framed
the Constitution, fashioned the Government, and
set It in motion, of the late United States. Almost
every victory was won by Southern skill and yalor
and almost every element of craftsmanship and
grandeur which our institutions ever manifested,
was the fruit of Southern intellect The principal
battles won during the war of l776 were won by
Southerners, led on and directed by WASHINGTON.
The North never produced a general of ability,
save Benedict Arnod-Arnold, the traitor who
sought to betray WASHINGTON and the revolution
ary cause for gold! In the war Of 1872, nearly all
the fighting was done, and most of the victories
were gained, by Southern officers and troops. And
such also was the case in the late war with Mexico
The South furnished the generals and soldiers,
and achieved the victories. Scarcely anywhere
on the muster-roll of glory does the name Of
Northerner appear. And even now, when to the
long black list of outrages, plumbers, insults and
contumees, practiced by the North upon the
South for thirty years. is added the frghtful crime
of war, the North has to depend upon the brains
and skill of Snulherner for tie prosecution of the
campaign-upon the infamous renegade, Winfield
scott-who has stamped his hoary-headed old age
with everlasting intamy by attempting to strike
his mother, Virginia, to the earth.
The South cung to the Union because it was the
work of their ancestors. They patiently submitted
to robberes and expressions, which would have
caused revolution in almost any country, for the
sake of peace and unity. Long after forbearance
had ceased to be virtue, they strove for harmony
vainly hoping that a sense of common justice
might again reanimate the North. In all things
they were disappointed. The Northern people
grew more insolent, overbearng and exacting
President by purely sectional vote, on platform
which, if carried ont, involved the ruin and dis
grace Of the Southern people. This last evidence
of malignant hate broke the back of Southern en-
durance, and the establishment of powerful Con-.
federacy Of eleven Southern States has been the
result And for doing what they compelled us to
do to save our liberties and honor, they have de-
clared war of determination against us, which
they proclaim in advance shall be unmarked by
the usages of civilization.
The latest European journals which have come
to hand are full Of articles on the American war.
All take the sensible position that the subjugation
Of the South is impossible, and many of them in
weigh bitterly against Lincoln for inaugurating a
war which, while it is calculated to interfere mate
rally with the great commercial interests of the
world, is alike cruel, unchrstian, and bound to be,
in the very nature of things, prolific of evil and
barren of good. The London Economist Of the
25th ult., says &c Neither marty, therefore can
subdue or TGembraca the other probably by no.
means; certainly not by fighting. But each may
indict upon its antagonist such fearful injury and
suffering as will leave legacy of undying hatred
to their children aud their children's children"
After stating that victory eXef to the North
would bring no success worth achieving" the
Economist sensibly observes: Why should the
Federal Government fight TO prevent the slave
States doing that which they will do just as GER
tainly after defeat after victory as before the
battle may, which is already done and which not
the most sanguine abolitionst believes can be un-
done?n
The London Tablet, the conservative Catholic
organ, of the same date, says:
Hundreds and thousands of Northerners are fly
ing TO arms in order to compel their Southern
brethren to live with them on terms OF perfect
| equality, brotherly love, and indiVisible Union.
| The prospect OF a war between the Northern and
Southern States is the most horrible that can be
| imagined. Ten millions of men occupying an i'm.
| mense territory, and fighting for their freedom are
| n6t to be reduced to subsection by armies of in.
| vaders who will be withdrawn from immense ter.
| ritories, in which they were probably employed
| to do the unprOttabe work OF slaughter and de.
| structon, in lands which they will be unable to
| retain.
When the news first reached Europe that the
| election to the Presidency of Mr.. Abraham Lincoln
| had been hailed by South Carolina as a sufficient
cause for seeding from the Union at the risk OF
civil war our first hasty Judgment inclined in favor
| of the North, though our sympathieS were with the
| South. But as further information came, and as
we found leisure to retrace the history Of the
United States, and the conflicts between North and
| South, which have been carried on for so many
years. we found that the election of Mr.. Abraham
| Lincoln, so far from being the cause of Secession
Eif
tGe a resolution long formed on other valit
grounds.
LIE Monde, Paris journal, says:
| What attitude will our commercial or diplomatic
| relations assume towards the belligerent parties
! England has already decided that she will main
tain a neutral position, and consider the war a.
one between two sovereign powers. In France i
has been asked whether the Southern States Wer
not rebels? It is difficult to admit this uterpreta
ton, when we reflect that the United States form
a federation. Sovereignty belongs to each State
The Union is a contract, Il treaty and when vic
lated. either with or without cause, it is and cal
| be only violation of the agreement entered into
1t is not rebellion it is a war between soVeTeig
States.
The question in relation to letters of marqu
| issued by the President of the Southern Cuufede
racy is thus settled
President Lincoln has promised to hang til
| cOrsairs Of President Davis. This is simply nor
sense. If the corsairs of the South are treated a
pirateB, the prisoners of war from the North ma
be regarded as brigands, and shot. But we beev
that the laws of nations will be better observe
| by both sides.
The Liverpool Advertiser after scoring Lincoln
war policy numerically, and stating that a " Fec
eral Union, accomplished By the sword, is as in
possible as the quadratuge of the CIRCLE" de
clares that England should maintain neutrs
position and thus aludes to the issuance Of letter
of marque and reprisal:
England has done all that she can do as matter
now stand. She has recognized the Snnth as
hellgerent Power. and she UW respect h3e letters
1norqhe iSSaed by ats "GOUel7tHent, just sh
W"ulh those Of the universally acknowledged Gov
efnmeut4f the United States. Thus tar ard n
fnrther Wnl we go, unswayod by considerations G
interest," Or expedieHey, Or by any motives ihcou
! patoe with our hgh sense of national honor.
These extracts are sufficient for the object W
have in view, which is to show tho tendency G
popular sentiment in England and France. Al
the Confederate States will ever ask from thos
Governments is to recognize their national ex
istence, and to "respect the letters of marque
they may putforth, One of these things Englau
has already done, and the others will speedily 70
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