New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-18
4 GIl6ANs OF TfaEf EMERY.

The following article from the Cincinnati Times,
y rahid Gorilla paper, will he read with interest
and with confort It is from the Times Of the Cd.
twill be seen from a perusal Of the article that
the writer Is ms very bad way. He has che
grand disgust on him. He Ia Disguised espe-
oially with the inactivity Of the Gorilla army
he IS Disguised with the Mason and Slidell sur.
renders he Is Disguised with the corruption and
thieving going on at Washington, and he is dis
gasted generally with everything and everybody,
Including the virtuons Cameron and the pure
minded Welles. We have seldom known an in
stance Of a mans being 90 loaded down with 3
crushing weight Of grief and sorrow as this un-
happy Cincinnati scribe. His lamentations would
Impress heart Of stone. If any reader has tears
10 shed, prepare to shed them nov. ~ e
We are glad to see that the GofilIas are coming
to So realizing sense of their situation, and We
hope they will continue to improve. When they
got ready to answer airmativeIy the last questio,
asked In me last paragraph Of the Times article
and The editor seems almost ready to thus answer
IN now--fhey Win be in proper frame Of mind to
call of the dogs 81 war and acknowledge the
,inyinoibility Of the South. 70 this complexion
ths Tines man thinks they have almost come
already. Read the article and take comfort:
SHALL We SuRRnsDER 1.-THE dark days 81, the
Repdplic are upon rs, and At no time more than
The present has the lover Of the Union had SO much
cause TO despair Treason yet exults in the South
sern States unchecked. With unlimited means at
its control, and it's calls for men more than fully.
responded e. the War Department has suffered
away without q single decisive movement
+ The people have been asked to- be patient, and
'satlenoe has been exercised until the longing
eaft gfoEs faint, and hope is fast expiring. The
r6k lxnt srndy rdarFIu
advance In Kentucky, where over one hundred
thousand troops are concentrated, and General
Mcclellan, with his army of over three hundred
sthousand men, remains calmly at Washington,
watching the Potomac. The great, naval expe-
dftfons, on whose brilliant exploits we were led to
th0ne so much, have in ameasure proved failures.
Oharleston and Savannah were within orr grsap
when Sherman landed his troops at Port Royae..
He could have marched upon both cities and
taken them with ease. But following the recog-
nized policy Of the Administration, he remained
quiet al Port Royal, until the rebels had fully
prepared to resist his advance. Now be cannot
aaeHna the only fiashing, Amercan-like, and bril-.
liant net Of the war, is about to be fepudated by
the Administration. IL Is said, that trembling be-
fore the awful growls of John Bull, the Admin
iiatratien Will Surrender Mason and Slideli, and
blot sonr history with another page Of infanIy.
God help the nation;if these things are TO- con-
tinue. We mast confess we are losing our pa
tienee. The Congressional reporfs show that the
DeprSssnst y Least j Il he hans of
tration is broken only when itoomes to the plum
sdering ut the treasury. The report of the Con-
gressional Investigating Committee thrills every
honest man With horror It ID the saddest expo
sition Of our national history. ssS
~ aEiibits o. degree of corruption la the War
and Navy Departments not expected in this criti-s
cal hour. Tho public treasury is In the hands Of
thieves. wlaosesonly sollcltnde Y plauder. Con
would hare been hurled from his office in Disgrace
before thiss and Fort Lafayette crowded with the
Weeds, the Gnmmngses, the Morgans, and the 1
Host of plume proysd guilty. by that inyestiga
ts0n. But even this terrible exhibition does not
sssln To haye created sensation ii Congress. 4
Does the plumber conspiracy extend even there?
4 H the Administration, with It's miserable and
alIaost fntolerahl army msinan agemeht, surren.
ders Mason and Slideli, it will be the last hair on
the namel's back. The truth must come, and the
sooner u y spoken the better. The people cannot
and viii not support an Administrator that deies
their confd All that is dear to them home,
freedom, aeeis now at stake. If there
hat soon, they VIII demand a,change in servants,
IND ensorse their demand Once rouse the whirl.
Find e1d Y viii not stop until II sweeps the whole
administration into the Potomac.
The chasm seems to be new opening which. |
without immediate and thorough reform, viii en-.
{if the pinnderefs OF the Government in this hour
# trouble and peril We know what we say, and |
We proclaim IL the feastiDg Belshazzars that the
is on the wall. s3ia r
II our army Of 600 oe0 il today idle il tile border
states; il our naval exped itions are to prove al
nost fruifless; IT, the gallant sons husbands and /
athers. who have nobly marched to the defence Of
be country, are 70 be starved and worried to |
Heath u camps TO crafty official thieves if our
ulegs are 100 cowardly to order an advance !; If I
he rebels are 20 be allowed to hang and murder
Union men All through the South; the friends Of
he Union Id the rebel States are to receive no as
istance Or ecton il We are to be bnllied into |
lisgrace by foreign nations; If ali national honor
md manhood are 70 be sacrificed upon the altar or
snhlic plnnder, why continue the war? Would it I
lot be better to surrender at once, and acknow- |
edge ourselves nation'of towards and thieves /? |
let IA have q war worthy Of our once proud Re. |
public, or at once subside into ruin and eternal |
disgrace. 81 81. !.