New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-06

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lot maze their moral tideoa,n,.s lc's'
We'll, If they cen laugh, let them laugh
while they cen. As the old maudlin catch has 1t;
"s'.h when you n.s,,. but now be g,yi
10 morrow you nay be dying"
being ourseyes Of a gay turn, We admire
ioty IN otLers. 10 be sure, we have though
that the hi. prices Of potibles-fity cents in
specie cash tor one lone,ome cocktall-would
naturally limit conyyiality IN the Crescent
City; but We were. it seems, mistaken. I'VE
,ti1 laugh" says The PicGyune. Laugh
away
AND particularly loud aud reverberant be
the rear. Of those men Of New. Orleans, who
were born Of Northern norther', educated at
Northern schools, aud taught, though TO 10 little
purpose. the value Of human liberty and az
public faith Grin away, gentlemen BE
your exclamation, peal upon peal, constant
and moasureless You ran laugh, it seems.
So can hycuas, We are told, over the bonDy
banquet Of a battlefield. litter, grin, smoker
run through the whole gamut of jolty !
Why shouldn't you They have furnished q
conlagraton in Ciarleston--ltt the little Ne
roe- of Newt Orleans bring out their fddles
Though What there is TO laugh at We do no,
see Being Ourselves, all statements to the
contrary in Southern newspapers not
wlhsianding, human creature, we
think that if, through destiny or by
iustgation of the Devil, we were saveho'd-
ing sugsr-planter in Louisiana, with great
gang OF black goods, We should in these days
be- little disp.rted; for the excellent reason,
that come victory or defeat to the forces Of
revolt, it mus, at las. end in the e1enteratiOn
Of our poo ket- book. This would, indeed, be
selfish: but why should not stakeholder be
selfsh1 Solfshness ID the breath of bis nos
trls, and tho informing quality OF the system
for which be is struggling. So, in the above
indicated predlcoment, knowing that We could
not sell our crops that our niggers would rus
away, OF what might be worse, would not ruu
away; that what the Yankees might spare, our
own tax-ga'hrrers wonld misunderstanding
all this, we think that we should go into some
private apartment, and, as tie only consolation
lett ~, have what The dear women call q
- good cry" But this would be to be out Of
fashion. Tie mode is to brazen il Out Long
faces Indicate Yankee prOclyltles. Abstinence
from gigele proves Northern sentiments. Pock.
et-hankefcbieis are preSUnphye evidence OF
Abolition tendencies N,w-Ofleans is French
city; ard now We remember that there was
something like this IN Paris in the days Of
Danton when any lnciyic scounlrel who was
caught with long face was made shorter by
II head, ald that speedily. On the whole, we
think that If we were IN New-Oreans, what
ever we did IN secrecy we should be uucom.
monty jOyial in publc--running about with our
face wreatAed IN MISUNDERSTANDING pun3 and
cOnuDdrumE-askiu every one to " take some
thing" and "takiDg committing" with every one
who asked us-yelliDg at all Yankees as Abo-
lltion wretcho,-and, in ine conducting our
selves in such hgh-fprited, humorous, ia.
ceious, cornwall ond cGatented way that all
suspicious of our iorebodings would be avertcd,
and no Committee of Vigilance would esteem
il necessary to the Public Safety to hang us
or Danish us or to bring us 10 the tar-pOt.
Bat We think that, as the easiest course. we
should be jolly upon quite general principles
aud Should esteem 1t hard luck 10 be required
30 laugh nt "the saye-cobf,cation, slaye-eman-
" cpatlou, and slaye-insurrccton schemes of
" our Northern enemies" Upon these points,
we believe that our merriment would have Il
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