New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-17
VOLUME XIV. I.
HEN Orleans Dailp Greseeut.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY II, 1862.
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Nem Orleans BaIlg Oresfent.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY II, 1852.
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The humiliations to which the 4iege subjects Of
the Gorilla have been compelled to submit since
the commencement Of the war, have been many
and grievous and the end Of their troubles and dis
graces is not yet. They will be constrained to
drink the bitter waters OF modification until they
withdraw their armies froms outhern soil, acknowl-
edge the independence of the Confederate States,
and accept such equitable terms of peace as we
may see fit to offer.
The greatest humiliation to which they have been
yet subjected is the forced admission that they
never conquer the Confederate States without the
assistance Of our slaves! What an awful let down
for the naughty and arrogant North, with its boast
ed twenty-five millions of white people. What
wretched spectacle they present to the nations of
the earth. The acknowledgment that they cannot
conquer eight millions of Southerners, without the
aid Of their servants, should and will bring upon
them the contempt of Christendom. This state
ment may appear strange, but it is nevertheless
true. The most influential Abolition journals admit
that the slaves must be emancipated, and made to
operate against their masters, or else the "rebel-
on, as they style it, will be successful; and, not
long ago, Thaddens Stevens, Of Pennsylvania, a
prominent leader in the Gorilia's House Of Repre-
sentatiyes, in setspeech, openly avowed that such
was the fact and argued at length, with much force
and clearness that it was utter folly to think of
subjugatiug the South unless the doctrine of
cipation was thoroughly carried oct.
& A condensed paragraph from the speech of this
influential Aboitionist will be interesting to our
readers. Said Mr.. Stevens .a y..m4ay
How, then, and when will this war end? In other
words, how can the South be wholly exhausted :?
Let us not be deceived. Those who talk about
peace in sixty days are shallow statesmen. When,
again ask, will this war be ended? ! can venture
to answer thatit will not end until the Govern
ment shall more fully comprehend the magnitude
of the crisis; until they have discovered that this
is an internecine war, in which one party or the
other must be reduced to hopeless feebleness, and
the power Of further effort shall be utterly annih
lated. This is d sad, but a true alternative. The
South can never be reduced, to that condition SO
long as the war ID prosecuted on its present prn-
ciples. The North, with it's twenty millions Of
freemen with its countless wealth, its industrious
people, and its fertile soil, never conquer the
South until new mode of warfare is adopted.
You may raise larger armies; you may gain battle
after battle; You may overrun much of their ter
ritory; you cannot hold it.. Their soldiers are as
brave as yours. Nor have we abler generals than
they The rebels will retreat to their inaccessible
mountains and their death.bearing swamps it, per-
chance, we should ever defeat them.
When the winter frosts have ceased to purify the
air, and the pours down bis burning rays, your
armies, accustomed to northern climates, must re-
treat or perish before the malaria of their rice fields
and dismal swamps. The enemy will repossess
them to cultivate their elds repenish their grana-
ries, and raise cotton to furnish them the sinews
Of war. So long as they are left the means of
cultiyating their fields through forced labor, you
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freemen and billions of money, year after year,
without being any nearer the end, unless youreach
it by your own submission, the ruin of the nation,
and the destruction OF constitutional freedom.
Their domestic institutions give them great advan-
tages over the free States in time of war. They
need not and do not withdraw single hand from
the cultivation of the SOIL Their freemen never
labor. Every able.bodied white man can be
spared for the army. The aged and infrm can stay
at home and oversee the slaves, and oil their in.
dustrial pursuits be uninterrupted. ~
Very good for Stevens. 1t is not often Lin.
colnte tells SO much truth in so small compass.
And had Stevens gone little further and told the
whole truth while his hand was in, he would have
done himself infinite credit. He should have in
formed his hearers that if there was any class in
the Confederate States which hate the Abolitonists
with an absorbing intensity, it is the slave class.
The animosity which they feel is far greater
than that which animates their masters. He
should also have told his colleagues, in this con-
necton, that the slaves would spurn their eman-
cipation acts and cling closer to their owners than
ever. Their fidelity throughout the war has been
remarkable, and this simple fact should have long
since convinced the Lincolnites of the folly of
attempting to tamper with them.
Consequently, according to Stevens admission,
the Northern Governments is guilty of a most stu
pendous crime against nature in prosecuting this
war. Without the assistance Of the negroes the y
cannot conquer. That assistance they can never
get. Hence, every man killed in the prosecution
of this cohfessedy hopeless war, is actually mur-
dered in cold blood by the Gorillas who rule over
Lincondom.