New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-26
A NORTHERN acoNsaRyATIyE,o

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II The word CONSERVATIVE y NAV be 4 very gcod
! word, but We dislike 10 employ ii Oh account OF
the bad uses to which 1t has been put from time
tmmemoriak 1t, and the sentiments it implies,
have ever beenused by tyrants, foes to liberty and
4 traitors 10 humanity, from the beginning Of or.
4 ganized governments down to the present mo.
naent, as cloaks to every species of governmental
enormity and as pleas for the most monstrous
/ expressions. Good men have used it, but here.
after II should be dropped, especially in the South
Benedict Arnold was the most notorious 9. CON.
serYative /" IN the revolutionary era, and GEORGE
/ WASHINGTON the greatest radical and traitor Had
WAsHrNGToS been conservative" the war of
independence would never have been fought, and
| the North American Continent might still have
remained attached to the crewn of Great Britain.
And, had conservatism prexailed, tile Confederate
States would now be subject to the grinding and
degrading despotism of Abraham lincoln, instead
Of being great, glorious and free. Confound the
word. Let IL pass into oblivion.
Thanks be to Providence, there are few eopssrv.
atives in the South. Andy johnson and some
hundreds of tories in East Tennessee and Carlile.
Pierpont, and some scores of ingrates in Western
virginia, constitute the main stay of conservatism
IN me Confederate States. For the rest, from
5sh. Davis down, we are all radicals and revolu-
tionists. In the United States, Lincoln, Seward,
Greeley, Sumner, Chase & Co., ere the very EN-.
bodiments Of conservatism. They invade onr
country, murder our people, outrage our women,
stimulate servile instructions, burn, ravage and
desolate wherever they 60, all to carry out their
noble and grand conservative u principles!
The Hon. John Cochrane, of New York, is a
member of hinooln's Congress, and is also Colonel
of one Of Eineoln's regiments. Mr.. Cochrane was
once considered great friend of the South d true
supporter of the Federal Gonstitution-ir1 fact he
was regarded conservative, of the strictest
sect. On the 18th inst COL fCochrane made a
speech to lis regiment in the city Of Washington.
Here is what this Northern g conservative said
We should use every means in our power To spb
due the rebellion We should take Their cotton
and sell it er burnit; might be best and seize
their arms and munitions of war, confseate their
property. and when necessary, take their lives,
and as their slaves are used as an element OF
strength against u.s. we should not hesitate to take
them, and, II necessary, to place arms in their
hands, that they might assist in establishing the
rights Of common humanity.
Here is Northern conservatism in ali its heghth
depth, length and breadth. 1T amounts to subiu.
CATION. burning Of property, eoniscation, murder
and armed serTiie insurrection It furnishes an |
example which will delight the Austrian tyrant |
and the Russian Gear. 1t is precisely the way I
they have consesUntiuely conducted themselves id |
Poland, Hungary and Venice. They ought to be
delighted, and torejoice with unbounded joy over |
The fact that the secalled Republican conserya.
tiyes of the Northern States have, by unmistakabe
acts justified all the atrocities they have perpe-
rated upon the unfortunate European peoples
within their respective Internal jurisdictions
Be this as it may, the ontgivings Of Col. Coch-
'ane taken in connection with other circumstances,
prove eonciusvely that the Administration Of Lin
solns have determined to wage their unholy war
upon the South, in defiance of all civilized rules
and 90 resort to means to accomplish their objects
which even harbarians would blush to employ
4incoin's Secretary Of War, Cameron and other
prominent Abolition officials, were present during
he delivery of the speech, and applauded it en-
Enthusiastically! Well, We of the South, foreW armed
re forearmed. They have hoisted the black flag.
We may hoist it, too, and bitterly may they be
nade to regret the consequences which their IN
afalleled wickedness may bring upon them in the
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