New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-02
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4 The following paragraph appeared In late
number Of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which ran the
blockade successfully, with the assistance Of a
. eontraband., II Is bas d repetition Of q tale
now told daily by Northern journals: ~.
The cheerful whiz Of The machinery Of the cotton
factory Oh Third street is hnshed, and the lights,
which in the early portion of the night shone forth
from every easement, are no more seen. The hum
Of the hundreds or girls, as they swarmed from
the industrial hive after each busy day, more
heard, and the life of the establishment has de-
parted. The irrepressible conclusion of lack
Of cotton has caused the lack of employment.
This simple narrative tells comprehensive
story In itself it would be nothing, but as it
is an illustration Of numerous incidents, it be-
comes worthy of consideration. Scores upon
scores of factories throughout the North have
been closed by the came cause to which the Gin
cinnai Enquirer refers, and the suspension of the
balance is merely question Of time. In few
weeks OF months, just as the case may be, all must
stop operations, owing to two plain and unavoid-
able reasons. In the FIRST place, the supply of raw
material from which to fabrieate will be cut off
with an memorable hand and in the second place,
the best customers these factories have ever had
have become implacakle enemies. BY their own
inexcusable conduet--because of their wanton-
ness, rapine and wickedness- are their manufac-
turing institutions brought to naught and their
operative industry paralgzed! Their punishment
eis just fand cannot be gaiusayed.
And, while our Northern enemies have brought
these disastrous consequences upon themselves,
their intended victim, innoeenttof wrong towards
them, is cQrrespondingly benefited; and as their
sky becomes gloomier and more unpromising,
ours becomes brighter and more suspicious. In
no event can they escape the punishment they
merit. Victory will not bring them what they are
$contending for-ner win the defeat they are des-
tined TO encounter especially injure then-for if
they triumph, there will neither be products nor
markets in the South, ash twill be axalueess waste
of country after they march over it as conquerors
and If they are whipped, The luminosity they have
and fostered will not pass away be-
fore the lapse Of generations, which will utterly
destroy the trade upon which they have grown
rich from the formation Of the Government of the
United States. In other words, if they gain the
struggle, our destruction involves their CONNER
cial and manufacturing ruin, and if we defeat
them, as we shall, their future will depend upon
the patronage we may forbearingly aud gener-s
onsly extend to them The ways Of Providence
are frequently inscrutable, but always just, and
stronger exemph6eation cannot be found in an
eient or modern history than the present war be-
tween the North and the South affords. Insolently
and hatefuly the Abolitionsts commenced the war
by preclaiming that they would crush, grind, OPP
press and Stay US, without regard to the rules Of
civilized warfare. For their self-suficieney and
moral tnrpitade they have been soundly thrashed,
and now, just as they are beginning to discover
that their discontinue is inevitable they are ascer
tanning that, in any contingency they have lost the
support Of the section from which they have de-
rived three fourths Of their wealth May such ever
be the fate of national and individual trans
gressorsl 3 Z;