New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-17
THE NEW ExpEpIENr.

Ssts w A1NAN ~ ~ 49, No. AAs - -. " 1
The New York Tribune announces that the only
way to put down the rebellion isto put down
slavery, whichis the cause Of it Tie declaration
shows al once the desperation and The loose logic
Of the Yankee leaders. Slavery is not the cause
Of the rebellion, nor can tsbe put. down until the
rebels themselves are put down first. How is it
possible to be done?
We see from debate in the Federal House of
Representatives that lhey are discussing this point
there. Lovejoy has declared that slavery and the
Union cannot exist together, and is calling on
members from Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland
TO say which they would the sooner give mp.
Strange to say, there was one Kentucky member
his name ia Mallory-who declared that he would
sewipe out y The peculiar Institution to save the
Union. He spoke, too, not for himself, but ior
Kentucky. 8 Presuming, said Mr.. Mallory, /" that
hs knew the feeling ID Kentucky, if We copsidered
slavery standing in the way Of the Constitution, ne
would wipe it out; 3, md tie declaration was
greeted with yociferous applause.
If Rus I.oysioy, BIZ process. q. reasoning We are
unaha to keeu ID with, holds THAI slavery il the
scxnse Dr. thasdefeats Of the Federal army. He de.
iclares that .swherever we Che Federals) have
" ,nade Al adyanee, we have been outnnmbered and
irnominiouly defeated IAN assertion strictly true
except Is to the outnumbering. He further admits
that the Government is spending two millions of
dollars Is day, has over six hundred thousand men
n the feld, ana vet can do nothing The troops
ore tignominiously defeated = whenever they ad-
vance. Casting about fog an excuse for this, he
sezes upon slavery. He declares that slavery
gives strength to the rebellon-whic is true
enough but that does not account for the Federals
To ta1 oh
destroying slavery before putting down the re-
beIion, behind which slavery is entrenched, as if
MI. ELoEejoy were to propose cutting down q tree
on the Virginia side Of the Potomac, without first
crossing theiriyer.
Amid the variety Of excuses which the Federals
have put forward for their failure TO suppress the
rebellion they have, strange to say, never yet
stumbled upon the rightone. They cannot plead
that they have not the men, for they have too often
hoasted, and with truth, that they have double as
many as we have They cannot say they have not
munitions ofwar, for the markets Of the world
have been open to them, besides starting out with
more than We had, while we have been able to get
supplies from abroad only by running the block
sade. y They have not, up to- this time, lacked
lnoneY-being able to spend two millions 8 day,
since the war commenced. They are forced, then,
to hunt up all sorts Of excuses for their defeats
some alleging one thing and some another, and at
last attributing 1t to- Southern slavery mot that
they really believe it TO be so, but merely to en-
bitter the Northern people still more against the
Z institntion That this is Lovejoy's object, and
that he does not believe his theory Of account
ing for Northern defeats, is plain enough.
After awhile they will find ont the true secret
the real reason why they have not whipped the
South, and never can do it. II they were to look
closely into it. they might be able itnow bnt
they choose to purchase the information at cost
Of two millions day, let them 80 ahead. Mean
time, we echo the wish of the Cincinnati Com
mercial that the Federal Government would
I EITHER make peace or make war; It's present
attitude is certainly ridiculous, and many Of
the Northern people are themselves feeling it. II
they will make PEACE well and good. If they
iatend to make war, we viii take it as q favor if
they will hurry up. Qnapadn nostra patientia,
etc? " Efs 354ss :f aa} y. q II GS
Instead Of discussing these different expe1ients
to reduce the South to subsection, how would it do
for some Northern member to get up in Congress
and tell the representatives there, as Chatham said
about America, that the South cannot be CON
quered--that the experiment has been made
effectuaIy, and the North has thrown away mil
lions Of dollars without any visible results It
/ Is a mistake that there is any. loyalty to the
Union in the South that it is folly to talk about
5subduing rebellion of twelve millions of people,
scattered over SO vast territory that even if it
could be done, would be wrong in morals and con-
rary to the spirit free Institutions to hold in sub
lection, by force Of arms, people who Ioathed
and seorned the connection and association that,
even surprising the South to be oyerrun, millions
would have to be spent every year in the support
Of standing army all through the Southern States
TO keep the people from taking up arms that no
cornpulsion could make the Southern people vote
for Representatives to a Northern Congress- that
no officer Of the law, except backed by an army,
could compel the payment Of taxes and duties Sin
short, that it would be an outrageous exercise Of
mere brute force over reluctant and disloyal
peope2 Would it be any satisfaction to the North
to hold its sway over US under snch conditions and
circumstances as those? We hope the man may
yet show himselfin the Federal Congress with the
nerve and the honesty to tell the Northern people
these things. He may be booted at at first, but il
| the end he will win enduring fame for himself
even among bis'own people. +
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TALK ON .CHANGE. vi 3..
There was considerable talk on the flags yester
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