New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-21

does not dissimilate the difficulties of the situation
nor the grave nature of the repnses which the
Confederates have sustained. But at the side of
the danger he sees the resources. Il the enemy is
powerful there is, he says, no want Of the ee-
ments of resistance.
But are the people of the South determined to
employ all these resources2 Here is the whole
question: Definitely, success depends a good deal
less on material force than on morat energy. The
GoYernment at Washington has made great efforts;
it has called formidable army into the field; the
recent victories at Springfield, Roanoke, Donelscn,
ard the capture of Nashville and Charleston (this
latter city has not yet been captured-news later9
Bun and Balls Bluff; but the public debt has as.
snmed uneasy proportions; the expenses of the
war such that the Northern States will exhaust
their credit, i the struggle be continued for an
other year. The Confederate States know this
well.
We now know that the capital of Tennessee has
finally fallen into the hands of the Federal Govern
msnt, and that Governor Harris has dsbanded the
acquisition5t to the Federals Ten
nessee s therefore, lost to the Southern Confede.
racy but there are still eleven States to submit.
We know that Virginia and the two Caronas are
threatened. The navy of the Union has seized the
seaports, and the Federal troops have gained
some successes in Missouri and Arkansas; but
| they are not completely masters of those States
nor Of Kentucky. IN admitting that they have
| succeeded in driving into the South the armies
which defend those States, it is plain tEat they
must leave q sufficiently important force to re-
strain the population and it still remains to con
squer Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Lonisiaaa, Mis-
| sissippi and Texas. There must be a squadron Of
sufficient strength to blockade the coasts to the
far vest limits Of the Gulf of Mexico. What will
the Federal Government say to the powers of Eu-
rope on that day when, involving the fourth article
Of the treaty of Paris they shall place the Federal
Governments under the necessity of proving an
effective blockade or to suffer Neutral vessels to
enter freely into the Southern ports? In such
case, according to the rights of nations the seiz-
ure of a vessel would become an act Of hostility
| against the nation whose flag it carried.
The strategic situation is very graFe, but
It IS not absolutely hopeless Masters of the outer
line, the Federal forces have before them an i'm
mense country to conquer, with one part of their
forces, the other being indispensable to keep the
territory already conquered, and to maintain COM
munieation. They VIII have to traverse vast
countries, endure a burning climate, and igt fire.
quently at points where their navy cannot come to
their assistance. To these difficulties we may add
the embarrassment Of financial crisis. The
Northern States have vainly appealed to fereign
capitalists; they have been unable to inspire any
confidence abroad; and at present all the scrip
issued by the government j. now in the hands OF
American citizens. Some of these are voluntary
creditors, being subscribers to the loaus; the
others, and these form the great majority are the
holders Ct paper money, which the recent law Of
Congress has made legal tender. Here is one
cause OF the evils and ruin which we pointed out
yesterday. Is @5s
The Southern States Iisve nothing of the kind to
fear, and President Davis has good reason to re-.
finances Of his enemy as an auxiliary OF his cause.
" Such is an important resume Of the state of az.
fairs. " is melancholy for the Northern States,
which are in danger of ruin and bankruptcy; it is
mournful for the people Of the South, who, infe
rorin numbers and in military resources, will have
to oppose to their adversaries an indomitable en-
ergy; it is deplorable to the European nations,
whose commerce has lost the most lucrative out
let's Of their exports. The American crisis has its 4
Victims at Manchester and Liverpool, at Lyons and
Roubaix, as well as OF Doneson and Springfield.
There IS no use in dissmilating and exaggeratidg3
anything. We must weigh the chances which may
praiong the struggle. SO as thoroughly to UNDER
stand the necessity of seeking solution as promptly
as possible. The first step towards discovering a
remedy is to measure the eXtant and the gravity
of the disease.
5OPHIoNs OF THE LONDON STANpARD-We take the
following from the London Standard Of the llth
sult:l
Itwould seem that the Confederate States are
much more closely blockaded by land than by sea-
They can import arms; they could if they would
export cotton and tobacco. But that which used
to come to Us overland, through the United States
post oifice, has not vet found safe channel for
itself. Letters and newspapers seem but rarely to
run the blockade, and we are left with compara.
lively little information as to the condition of
Southern affairs. What we receive through the
North is 50 untruthful and 50 wlfuy perverted as
TO be worse than none Strict precautions have
Sbeen taken to prevent unpleasant truths from
reaching the ears of the Northern people Or Of
foreign readers OF Northern newspapers. Nothing
can be published by those organs without the ner.
mission Of MI. Seward, who has caused military
to be taken Of the vafaus lines of tela
graph, and has made use of every effective means
~ Iefrorlsm, exclusive from the mails, prosecu
club law in order to check the publication Of any
obnoxious reports which the editors NAV receive
through such channels as cannot be closed in a
similar manner. Consequently the Northern press
has q monopoly Of falsehood, and the independent
Journals are wholly stopped from contradiction.
We may not, therefore, place the least reliance on
any statement relative to the situation of the Con-
States the policy Of their Government or
tue feelings of their people, which rest on the
authority OF the Northern journals, or the parti
sans OF the Federal Government ia this country
me utmost pains are taken first to preclude them
from Knowing the. truth and, secondly to deter
them from speaking it. On the other hand. we re-
celse very little intelligence direct from the South
out what we do receive seems to be thorouphlv
trustworthy. The exigencies of the struggle had
Y soperlng eject upon the Journals and statesmen
OF the Confederacy and they are too hard at work
docio. ,'ttN - So
And, moreover, they do not Write or sneak FIR
an audience like that to which Mr.. Seward and the
N. y. Herald or Tribune address themselves, Their
appeal IS TO men of property and education, com
msandlng The confidence and guarding the destnies
y tner citizens not to the alien rabble Of
New York or the fanatcal ahotionists of Boston.
Ihere mas always been remarkable difference
between the political systems of the two sections
ol Inc late Union; the institutions of both have
been absolutely democratic, but the Northern
democracy has been governed by its tail, the
Southern by its head. The Senators Of the Norlh
generally, Its Representatives invariably. have
oeeE demagogues, intriguers, or nobodies: those
g, me South have been more frequently statesmen
nv a gentlemen. The same difference still exists
aha while the bewildered men who administer The
;S ~ OF Washington are obliged to conci
~ ana manage as best they can by falsehood
ihtl,naidation or caoery Congress of
Mr. Davis ia surrounded Nv the ~ n
W and statestnansiip of the Snntl, ~
whom ne can and must speak the truth With,nnt
posing him to be an honester man .ba,, NJ
Line0in or an ADLER man than Ne stan.s, w y
quite clear thai far higher value attaebes = LIS
assertions aud to his language than he;s " WIS as
taey may say signifies istle; ii il sno,ar, A ~
bankum we know that it affords no real nroof
ether OF what they have done or what thew msan
q 90. MI Davis tone, as well as his poaition
ohef g teierable guarantee for the sincerity and I
sarnestness of his meaning III. - ''Au
me standard then eulogizes the resolute tone of |
sne message, and concludes thus
. me n ortherners have shown themselves as in. /
yapape OF bearing success as of enduring adyer
Ivy Iner triumph at Fort Donelson has made +
, is Inad with glory. We believe, with some II
IL Dest informed and most thotehtful Of thosa
X personal interests are deeply involved. thai
nj q peace is, for the present as remote
y rta ~, Y rom the I.cnden Herald