New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-14
7sSc IasI,osslhniaies q tne An,srican War.

America bring out into strong relief the existence
|pf very great power and very great spirit on both
sides IL The conflict Alter tile Federal iuverses
resolution and unwearied energy of the North,
b which only wanted a little more trairfwr and lsci
plihe to do all it desired. The recent
reyerses have the very Same effect IN sending Us
renewed assurances of the Southern determination
to continue resistance Though all its possible
phases, dowR 10 the guerrla wax fare Of Spain and
Mexico, even Though, as In the latter case, there
should ensae an Intern table iRnarchy.
Al this distance it is useless to discuss The ex.
pected operations, which before this Will have
been commenced With mdse or less effect. & 1T is
prohassy decided by tiEs time whether General
McGlealan could turn the left of the Confederate
forces, and, BY rsinforring Gen. Banks and Stone,
get 10 the rear Of the enemy and obtain possession
Of Richmond. a third Victory in Tennessee will
have secured the Western half ct that State to the
Federal side n q defeat will have rendered fruit
less al tue blooa shed atsForts Henry ana Donel.
son. The sup siority of the North in numbers, in
wealth, and IN the means Of. leeomotien, makes it
probable thet have followed ap their victory,
L and established themselves as thoroughly on the
west OF the chief seeding States as they have BY
means Of Their deet on the East and South. But.
on the NEST suggestions fort the Federal
cause, Ne have, only arrived at the questions,
whetkcr We DO indeed see the beginning Of the
end, md what that end il likely to be-. We seeno@
or prophetic vision OF that end ia any
Ivy tas from eitherside Of the war.
g ne Eederals talk only of present victory, and
seeE TO look no further into the future The Con
sfedeaates advocate talk of devastation and depo-
ton, OF burning cities destroying food tearing
nP rails and reducing the country to astate Of
naSnre. pf guerrilla warfare and mutual extermina,
ton: 81 his is not lookiag to any end, but rather
rwelAng upon the horrld proeess4of war, as if the
spirit that had been reused found satisfac lion more
~ ne means than IN the end These fealfuI anti
5clpatons are probably only too true. The tone on
both sides Is that of bitter and Insulting defiance
North and South rail at one another much as the
Hameric combatants did before the fatal Inter
change of spears. Bat there is this unhappy
dilierence--the poet manages to dispose Of one
combatant, and so gives an instantAanc entire
eject 70 the menaces on at least one side Of the
nuei. ln this case, the buse. the threats n
FENCES, the determina tion, threatens to ~ Il
and from both sides We gather the IT. ~ i5sss
tEuIa thaI, as lar es eye can scan the
horizon, there is notaiBg but war ssE'
N But when both sides see no conclusion of war,
except the exchange OF one form OF war for an.
other, and d transition from order III flisarferl
from methodsto madness, it remains for the by-;
ISLANDERS to speculate on the natural develon-B
msnss g. TIE struggle. 70 show that We are not
refer tn the very able letter of q correspondent.
who undertakes to interpret the Southern pros.
poets and sympathies. The amicable separafinn
which some geea people talk of he asserts to be
not be content with less than all the border States.
leaving 70 the Confederates only the seven original
sseeders But were this their object, they would
SIN nave VI garrison irginia with an army out of
they onld feel the Union at an end. They would
lind II ssibe to get On without the trade 81
the South and slavery would thus be more re-
eognzed Than ever, more odious, and more fertile
ID q1arTeis. Separation, then, he holds TO be
neither possible nor wished for, so long, at least
az the North has any fight left in 1t. But. what
eyer may be SAID ct the difficulty of conquerng the
Southern States there be I'd doubt d the e6iiitv
~ the North to keep up the war in one fashion or
smother What, then, Is the alternative ID Which
We are 10 ssok when conquest is ossble, when
tsepafafonsIs impossible, when union in the form
We hava seen 40, is impossible, when success on
eltheF side as impossible when war itself as If
70 carried on, is Impossible, when everything IN
lmpossible, except something that does not come
present reckoning or reasonable expectation? I'll
l " hat iss this bnt to aYow that The Federation
ITSELF IA The principle been tried
and fonnd wanting. The Southern States viii not
submit to the worst Of all ages tgrant M.
gority The Northern States can neither coponer.t
nor cenclliate, nor win by any method 50 tho |
appea! ~ 70 war, and the war; it Isl admitted ont
both sides, must work itself out To- its iepitmate
results The question is no. longer whether Tho
NORTH will conquer the South, hut What tie war
VIII lead to-. and what statesof things will SUPER
yene nponithe present, The most far.seeing dis
cover thing in the prospect but guerrilla warfare
pioodshed and astation. This is simply to ad.
nlf that. the statesman having failed the cans il
now 10 Me hands OF the soldier. But It's more it
: u t1e nands OF soldier who sees the dark end
instead its bright beginning This
not she age in which al French monarchy is brea
ng upsor:a Republic Is inaugurated, but ID which I
french empire has been restored and reestab. /
ished. W y an age in which strong monarchy is
ne fashions Dig cure for Democratic disorder.
4 Europe has Just congratulated Italy on the ac-
y tch philosophers wanted for her, IN
iead ef The States which lately exist
q, instead Of theocracy which Rome processes to
;ye, insteadso Of Mazini is republic. The Western
tates Of Europe have at least the credit Of offer
ng Aesiieo Constitutional Monarchy instead of
ublican Gons.i tution, which has had no ex.
'tence except IN alternate anarchy and despotisn
ms Is an age Of reaction, for which Democracy +
as te.thank itself the dictator, the emperor. the
lhg, y e7efFWhere superseding thefarces Of the
onsui or the paper scheme of the law. giyer I:
When We are told that everything else is inpos-
ble 10 America and that politics are absorbed IN +
ae chance Of war and the genius Of the command
~ =, t t,s4 We see the beginning to the end
Z South, NOE even BY us who look on 1t cannot III
g ler1 orr Interest that a military adventnrer
lould possess the farest regions of North Ameri.
g, even though that were better than anarchy. j
" y = the haven towards which the great Amerf-
az Commonwealth seems now drifting. 1t ID pos
!, be Impossible. IA - 4 -
1885, /,