New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-31
! CONFESSIONS NJ on \ the 5ao Il q

Ist coNFEssIoNssoE THE NORTH.
Only q few months ago Northern leaders ant
Journals proclaimed, with boastful arrogance, tina
| their section possessed nearly all the wealth
sources Of permanent prosperity, enterprise, in
dustry, and productive capital of the continent
| They declared that the South was weak, defcien
in the elements Of national strength, impoverished
rettograding, and ut the best, was almost worth
less appendage TO the Federal concern on accoun
OF the prevalence of the patriarchal institution
And, when the war commenced in downright ear
nest, their Vauntings increased in frequency ant
magnitude, and they seemed embued with thu
belief that their might was irresistible, their means
boundless, their treasury inexhaustible, that they
| only had to wave their hands menacingy to bring
| the Southern rebels to their knees.
| The severe lessons taught them by experience
have not been without effect Having been de.
feated on every battlefield, with two unimportant
| exceptions their great and costly naval expes
ditions having thus far proved ridiculous failures;
having. been foled at5eYery important point-they
now confess that the South has shown tremen-
dous power of resistance, and cannot be overrnn
in thirty, sixty or ninety days, according to the
original programme, although they officially adj
init that they have $50 900 men in the field, fully
armed and equipped-the largest army, numer.
iaally considered, under the control of any Gov.
ernment on earth. Furthermore, they are begin
ming to acknowledge that immense distress exists
among the people-that commerce is PROSTATE,
agriculture unproduetiye, manufactures, except
fortwar purposes, at standstill that hundreds of
thousands are out of employment and on the verge
Of starvation, that their treasury is empty, their
credit impaired and growing worse every day, and
finally, the hnmiating conclusion is arrived at that
all this has been brought about in less than year,
by the withdrawal of the patronage Of the despsed
South, and the bravery and skill Of the condemned
Southern soldiers
Such degrading admissions never emanated from
any nation in Heathendom or Christendom before
II remained for the Lincolnites to sound the ex-
remestidepths Of infamy. Look at poor Mexico,
which has been distracted and torn up by intes.
tine wars for more than quarter of century,
and see what glorious example she presents
when contrasted with the conduct ofLincondom (!
Although the contest is hopeless, she is brayely
preparing to resist as best she may, the combined
armies and fleets of England, France and Spain.
OF course Mexico will be overwhelmed, but her
altitude is better than it has been for years. Here
after, when the Southern people, or any other
brave people, desire to Illustrate the contempt
that animates them towards the Government, that
it is most pusillanimous and abject, they must cite
the Gorilla, not the Mexican, or Central or South
American Governments.
We will mention two or three instances showing
the distress and poverty prevailing at the North,
and then conclude. The Louisville (Kentucky)
Relief and Employment Association have pub
liShpd n n rail- fnp r il, a,
much an Abolition city as Cincinnati, if not
more SO. In the call of the Association the fol
lowing language is used: .tFrom the ku11lssiise;
habitations of the poor to the once happy fire
sides Of the middle classes the same cry is heard
Give US bread! give US work - We have seen
similar calls from Ohio, New York, New Jersey
Indiana and Illinois The cry soon will be:
G Bread or blood I, and then woe to the fanatics.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the Governor of
Ohio, in his recent message to the Legislature, de-
that nothing but the causeless rebel
lion in the South mars the prosperity and rapid ad
OF Ohio in all the elements of civliza-
tion.n Very true. The patronage Of the South
built up and supported Cincinnati and the best
portion Of Ohio. When that patronage is again
bestowed, both city and State may prosper, but
not before. "A long time, we imagine, will elapse
before the Southern States consent to reenrich
wanton and vindictive enemy.
Col. Tansill, recently exchanged, stated in Rich.
nend that the feeling at the North partook Of
despair and that he was begged, on his return
home, to state that Nortberners wanted nothing
mt the union 1.-THE g Union on any terms'' the
south might choose to dictate! There is no doubt
hey would joyously agree to any conditions we
night impose,if they could thereby obtain rel
construction of the old Contederacy, but that is
tterly impossible. The time for that has passed |
nd gone forever!
Never, in the history of the earth, has such,
igantie fall been witnessed-such humiliations
eaehed-snch unutterably disgfaceful depths of |
nfamy sounded. No other nation could have dis
raced itself so Incidentally in so short space of
ime. But the Northern Abolitionists are peerless
practitioners in their peculiar line. That fact
hould not be forgotten