New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-23
The True Cause of the yVar-What the
south Fought to Viudicate.


If we were asked to give the strongest argu-
ment in favor Of the late war, we would point 10
the conduct of the dominant party towards the
South since the close of the war. Such inveterate
hate and such blood hound cruely are not the re-
suit of the conflict of arms, or they would be the
universal feeling of the North. This hatred ex'
isted long before the war-so long, indeed, that Il
has become hereditary traditional, educational,
and only wanted the opportunity TO develop all
the brutality which now characterizes every word
and deed OF that beasty faction which has 80 thor
oughly degraded justice, humanity, christianity
and free government. The South has long been
aware of the character and designs OF the blood
tbirsty Jaoohins and saw. in the rapid growth of
that party that the only security for southern
rights was existence OUTSIDE OF tne Union
However signal the failure to accomplish TINS OBJ
iect the attempt has demonstrated the faGt that
Southern subiectOn to New England domination
had long been the purpose oi the Purftans, and
that war could only have been indefinitely post
poned by an ign0miniOus surrender OF slavery,
trst and then those State rights which were de-
signed to protect the Union against the tyranny OF
consolidation. For years before the bloody CRISIS,
| the people of the North were admOnshed, by the
great men OF both sections, that the consequences
of their radical tanatcisn must be disastrous to
the Union if not to free institutions here and else
| where.
| Those consequences were pointed out with the
logical accuracy of cause and effect and left the
radicals no plea for PERSISTENCE III their mad Ca
| reer except a settled purpose to disseVer tht
/ UnI0n or enslaye the South. Every step in then
| progress brought them nearer to the consumma
| tiOn of the end in vleW aud every legitimate de
ductUn from expressed opinions and parry eVOla
ilns lifted higher the dimsey veil thrown, il
nncke, y the hdeous features of their designs
| The statesmen of the S' nth were not deceived a
tn the motives and objects the North rn tanatic
and endeayoled, by remonstrance, argument att
compromise, to avert the impending crIsfs Al
their efforts were unavailing and now, that II,
evil is upon us, the incarnattH iends, WITH devisl
impudence, would fasten upon the South all Lh'
blame, and infllct upon it all the suffering ma
ought, rghtfully, to be endured by themseVe
alone. Whatever may be the opinions of this gen
neutrality-suspicious. founded upon passion, prejudice
ignorance, corrupton-time will elicit truth an
history will vindicate the character of the Futt
the justice of its cause and the bravery and magnf
nmity of its people. In doing this history mus
disclose, per contra, the baseness, injustice an
cruelty of the Northern fanatics; their diSegar
of constitutional law, their savage system of wa
fare, hostility to free government, and ther aba
donment of every virtue that eleyates the ma
h above the brute. From all which must follow tt
i inference that no people of high type cal live
. peace with selfrighteoTls, medding Pu.itans-
fact well known since the days of CharlesL.