New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-29
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4 according to their own admissions the Nofther,
1people are sufeting awfully. They want grea
many things they do NOT possess and cannot get
They want honesty, money, credit and character
In money and credit they confess they are bank
It rppt. They want the respect Of Christendorn
which they have forfeited. They want their bro
/ veFbiai buster and braraae 10 he taken ss III
true metal of bravery when the world has decide,
tis "a bethe hasest coin ever put forth from til
mint q cdwardice. They want mankind to rerar,
1 their load-sounding professions as gospel truth
and to take no note Of the ridiculous su,alluess
/ the performances. They want TO be locked upor
tas Christian nation, when the universal senti
ment Of Ghristendom Is that they are acting worse
than savsges, They want intelligent nations to
i take them ct the inflated valuation they have
placed upon themselves, instead of their real
worth, And, TO use the words of the Cincinnati
Commercial of the 27th ult., they acknowledge TO
another vital want, III regard to which they have
appeared perfectly oliyious heretofore, although
the outside Rorid mas fully enlightened in the
lpremises. The Commercial says they want a
ss.nsw stock Of sreat mem That's So. But, hear
The Commercial: rs .S.gs sssi asSgss e,
Wkwfsh something more Of dignity Of speech
Were compatible with the intellectual calibra aud
iIsaoge Ct Judgment Of the majority Of American
nadeds the other day iu Washington, ana made a
ErSnfilk speech, in which he talked of the ira
dttionAl enEify Of France To England and of the
sass with which We could make I available, quite
ate, yesterday made d WARMTH England speech, !,
IN which be had the excessive bad taste to talk Of
the Hnxiety Of Louis Napoleon to avenge Water
100. the present state Of our national affairs,
jufioua. Our country ii Id fact bettled 81 them
u the eyes Of European atatesnen The iInpfes.
sion, already widely entertained that We have a
stock Of very small politicians on hand, win be,
exhih Of himself ID Paris, where
he made an absurd speech. and twaddled about
sRtat France would do with England. We must
sFyso breed q new stock of great men III this
The Cincinnati Commercial speaks plainly and
trpthfully in the above quotation. The North is in
mont wofnl want Of honest great men. But, the
Commercial ought W possess common sense enough
20 know that no # new stock Of great men, can
spring from the corrupt loins of the vile rulers of
its bsnighfed section. Bad trees bring forth bad
fruit and good trees good fruit, according 10 the
unreasonable authority OF Holy Writ. Hence, ii
follows, asaa natural consequence, that an good
cannot come cut Of evil, tia North must extermius
ste cut down and utterly extinguish, iss brood Of
fools end fanatics, before good and great men can
be peesed prominently appear ithe stage of
Iacton.s When this Il mplished, the Worth NAV
gradually work ~ way into the Of mankind;
and the speakable wickednesses tt has been
guilty Of, IN the wantontwaritisn now waging upon
re South, may be generally forgotten in tie lapse
of tine, although there are aome wounds that
never, never, will heal. The dire account wiz be-
from father to son, and vengeance viii
be taken whenever opportunity permits.
Resides, while the Commercial was speaking
boldly to the people of its own section sit should
have reminded them that the men who gave tone
and dignity Id the United States CONGRESS- il years
gone BY now live South of the Potomac; that the |
military glory which once sanetifed the Old faeI
belonged almost exclusively to the South; tl,at
ne statesma nsEip which made the country re.
elnanated from the South thai the great
ndges, grand old Statesmen, and illustrious mill
ary ieaders from the peerless w asflsGroS down,
lad Their origin ia what is now known as the
ionthern Confederacy! Had the Commercial
honght OF these facts, the reason for its present
sreats wants would have become apparent to- its
mental vision; and had II probedsthe subject a
lsfle deeper, the other truth would have become
manifest that the prevailing poverty ana distress
Z the North have been brought about by the
7ithdrawa Of Southern patronage. s'asi
Vel, the North is being learned severe lesson.
he South u y stern teachef But, Hhea The lesson
thoroughly learned, ii viii never be fsrgotten,
nd may eventuate, in great deal Of good. let
Y Cincinnati Commercial keep on pitching in
ith exceeding vim. Il does US good to.witness ii.