New Orleans daily crescent., 1862-05-03
TO OUR READERS.

Many of our old friends and patrons, doubtless,
look to US for advice and council in this hour of
humiliation and sorrow. They may, also, look to
us for an expression of the eternal enmity which |
animates their hearts, and the hearts OF every cit
zen Of our beloved city, to those who have invaded
and conquered us and not always finding on the |
small sheet we publish matter exactly suited to
their tastes, will sorrowfully conclude that we
have lost the interest and zeal which has always
characterized our abors in their behalf
If such should be the fact, and readers
really experience the dissatisfaction we mention,
we will undeceive them at once. We have lost
none of our former interest in fellow citizens
nor in their concerns, and are prepared to do all
that our moderate ability will allow, as we'll now
as of yore. But, in common with the other
Journals of the city, we environed by diff
cultes which cramp our abilities and nullify ou r
good intentions.
Our friends must not expect us to perform i'm
possibilities, or destroy ourselves in the vain at
tempt to please. We have no mails. nor have we
that liberty which is essential to the satisfactory
publication of q newspaper. Our city is now in
the hands of conqueror, who shuts up as in a
beleaguered fortress, and we have no resources
for editorial matter, except the daily occurrences
in the city, upon which comment is often unneces-
sary unwise. We might please the taste of
some of our patrons by indulgipg in diatrabes
against the Federals-by advising resistance to
their presence and government; but we would
only involve them and ourselves in a ruin which
might include the innocent and unprotected.
If in our opinion, there was use in resistance, or
profit in violent measures at present, we should
certainly say with promptness, clearness, and
disinctness. But we earnestly and sorrowfully
believe there is none, we only act with common
discretion in councing quiet and order, and in ad
vising our people to refrain from conduct which
might infamc the hatred or excuse the brutality of
enemy, who has not as yet initiated any policy;
but who may be lying in wait for an opportunity
to crush us to the earth.
AS we advise our friends, so will we act our.
selves. We shall not while in his power, court
his anger by continued attack, but shall speak of
his acts when they might interest the general
reader. II he however should attack any of the
rights of our fellow -citzens--for although con-
quered people, we have rights guaranteed by the
law of nations, which no power, however strong
dare violate with impunity-we shall let the world
know it and abide the conseq aences.
ssAll Is Lost Save Honor.'
The following article is au imperfect translation
of an able and dignifed editorial in the columns of
L. ksta Jette du Sud- of the goth ult. 1t breathes
tone of pure and lofty patriotism throughout, and
we much regret that it should lose in the transa.
ton greatly of its original beautes and effect
The banner of the couaueror floats over New
Oreans but the colors of the United States are
the less uprooted forever from the heart of the
citizens of proud Louisiana.
Those who had cherished the sad illusion of a
reconstruction. by brutal force, OF the crumbliug
edlice OF the old Union, must now clearly perceive
the pal pabilty of their error.
The reputation is now complete and reunion
impossible. The South has proclaimed through
the voice of New Orleans. that fathomless abyss
separates it forever from the North. Theories a I'D
hypothesis are no more TO be entertained. The
indsputable fact, the naked truth stares US in the
face.
When, for its defense. people has exhausted
every means, has experienced suferings for a
haunted them, when the atrocities of lombard
ment and the horrors of a threatening inundation
have grappled them by the throat, without eXtin-
gushing spark of the paramount thought of
their independence, or in any degree snotherng
the feeling of their honor and dignity--such people
are truly brave and nightly strong, and bound to
conquer sooner or later, for they have the first Of
all strength-the parent of all others--nora{
strength. 1t is, therefore, through moral strength
that the South shall conquer the hydra of tyranny
which is about to encrcle it with its folds Brutal
force must submit to the laws CT time and to poll
teal commOtions. Moral force, on the contrary,
must but increase with time and misfortune. it
will be through humiliation and misfortune
that our people will derive the strength thst shall
finally rend asunder the Chains with which the
North is lettering the South.
In the meanwhile, let us manfully pay, with
patience and courage, the tribute we owe to af-
versty, this sad and painful school We had not
| hsod which the laborious pains of the bringing
forth of revolution required; and who knows
whether Providence, in its inscruable DEGREES, has
not visited us with this calamity to hasten the final
success of our 6 orlous cause.
Let us hope yet, and mediate on the history OF
peoples who have conquered their Independence.
We shall find greater vicissudes, more cruel
losses, more excrucating anguish and humiliatioll,
than those which af1lict us and, Notwithstanding,
the end has justified and confirmed their uncon-
qucrable will and determination of being free yet
this was because they had the moral force and a
solid faith in the justice of their cause. Let us be
like them. let US cluster together, let not eo pard-
| ze the future, either with imprudent denonstra-
| tons with servile submission; let our enemy be
conquered by our cold mien, and their conquest
will be but in words without result and their
presence but a Cossack occupation: We shall see,
| then, whether the North and the European powers
! will still believe in the possibility OF causing the
defunct Union to be revived.
| A WAR WITH ESGLAND-Blackwood Is Magazine,
, for February, deyotes an article OF thirty pages
| and more to " the defence of Canada''-assumes
| the fact Of war with the United States in 1862,
| and welcomes it with satisfaction. The cam.
paign," says Blackwood, is just likely to end by
establishing frontier for Canada, with Port
| land on one flank and Lake Ontario on the other,
as by leaving the enemy in possession of a mile Of
| Canada territory" The writer argues that there
will be no rupture of the peace now existing with
| the United States, until their Government can
place gunboats on the lakes in force adequ ate tc
| the command of the ST. Lawrence and its chain of
| inland seas. The object Of the proposed war with
the United States is to obtain rectication of the
| boundary bringing the line of Canada down to the
! open sea at Portland, and giving symmetry and
| strength to their North American empire.