New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-09


: come; and, sinking down, remained in semi
III conscious state several hours.
When fully recovered, Grant and the overjoyed
negroes held me up, and pointed out the boa, who
4 was still writing in his death agonies. l shud-
deied as looked upon the effects Of his tremen.
aoas dying strength. For yards around where he
lay, grass, and bushes and saniings, and in fact
everything, except the more fully grown trees;
were cut clean of, as though they had been trimmed
4 with an immense scythe.
This monster, when measured, was ffty lone feet
Two inches and half in extreme ieng ~ WILL WIZ
round the thickest portion of his body. tne sissn
Yves nearly three feet thus provingI beifeYe, y
be largest serpent that was ever autlien'ecahs
; heard Of. 5.-s II
! We extract from the Teche Courier Of she 18th
! instant the following lofty and chiyaross senti
merits. which we can attribute only to the incisive
It men of Col. A. Dsblanc, whose initials it bears:
|, Ibeve this very moment read that Congress.
b sional gentlemen, hailing from tfs State OF
i Ohio, has in substance, proposed that the Hon
# Jefferson Davis be tried, convicted and hanged!
vi Whys Beoeuse Of course, he is a ttaitor-in the
a estination Of the Congressional . gentleman" He
> ass that, not in his generous nane but in the
n great name Of the United States They it e that
oag to erect the scafoid TO pinion the hands and
Teet Of the illustrious pzsaoner, aad with vepe,
II to strangie him to DEATH and his carcass to
n the birds of prey or to feon's grave. eTz.s
i, Whosare they that hase instructed that Repre-.
III sentatve to urge the murder Of the Confederate
IA President? Is it those who wore Federal swords,
thoseswhose shoulders bear the marks of Federal
lnusket? No! they wauld not thus disgrace their
s ~ Or their mashes Is i the nasien? No!
die Of the rising generation, drop of that pure
ana innocent blood. Isit the slave of yesterday !?
Ne They would not be guilty of that most in
famous deed Who, then, are they? Count them,
and you will soon ascertain that they are poltroons
Il who were hidden during the war, and who, as they
had not the Coinage to kill the Confederates with
a musket, now petition the American republic to
taa oil fnla r,vuffh q
4 When to the. cross and expiring the last
i prayer fallen from the lips Ct the Christ vas !:
q hundred years after king of England, the mo-
eagerly whispered to the prelate who accompa nied
! him, tie toaching word, n Remember What did
: he ask him 10 remember? 1t was that he had fire.
quenty charged hiEa to inculoate on his son
federate prisoner, in the hands, not of the people,
), but of an amplacable party; he knew that he was
to be killed, not by England, but BY that party rs,
cended the throne Of his ancestors, what was his
! first actg He pardoned the nation that had been
" the unwilling accomplice Of regcide, and pun
ished bet those who had been guilty of those at
!; rocites which in war or in cannot be for
wi given The lords even those who had been at first
excluded on account Of their pretended delin-
J, qaency, were all admitted. They were rebels,
!: sir-We are not, and never were!
Have those lessons been forgotten and lost Z
! Has the Angel Of Justice fed from and deserted
:, the American shores? is44 s755s#s ~ E5tF
4 The State Of Louisiana, as her sisters, has sub
y mt,ea. and despite the false, stupid and criminal
: allegations to the contrary, OF the emissaries at
Washington. of a little more than dozen scoun-
!. dres, who stink the ignoble and salaried treason
4 wherewith they stand charged There is not in
history, ancient or modern. solitary instance of
l. as rapid and AS complete submission as ours !!
t That has been testified to by the leaders OF the
. Federal armies and the President believes it. But
they are not poweress against the current which
tlfeas rs to sweep away the last vestige of the
r most sacred rights }ss iasssg 1'1 b 2
r By whom are we most bitterly denounceds By
' those who, after they had leveed and shot their
i loaded guus ut the soldiers who marched under
the flag Of the United States, deserted our ranks
and fred at our fag-by those who, hounds in hui
: man FORM bark at the imposing shadow of a guilt
i less prisoner. Alas Have the Americans become
SO degraded by their victory that they would listen
to those renegades who, for half an ounce of sill
!, yer, would sell that amount of human fiesh-woud
n sell their country as Judas the Christ? No! that
], cannot be. Ng5 gtl sec3s CIV aafs1fs AL
The representative of Ohio proposes to try the
Hon. Jefferson Davis! How, and by whom shall
he be tried? Will it be by an g impartial y jury
Of Aboiitonists, presided over by that son of Mas
sachusetts who exhibited in the Courts of Europe
It the anavenged prints Of a Southern cane? by
Q those infamous wretrhes whose doctrines have
Q precipitated this country into the revoution-who
are now continuing the revolution they alone have
, commenced, and who, too cowardly to give their
blood to their countrys cause, would battle their
J hands and their country's banner in the blood
fallen from the platform of scaffold? No---that
n cannot be 4f " s.gs f4tg7I
We have given all the dearest of our hopes
the lives Of those who charmed our fresides; the
broad veil Of a national mourning darkens our land
our property is lost; the wish of the Wilson's and
the Greeleys has been granted the hyena, of dis
tress sits at the threshold of every Southern home
II To crafty the hatred of the fanatics of the North
there are our barren fields, our desolate hearths
the graves of our children, the tears of their
j, mothers. To ask more would be folly. If you
d 30 step further, how. will you dare claim the
IN tVhn haxra lonia
i right. n MI 7r1
4 The cloud that predicts an approaching contest
with the powers of Europe is already high in the
political skies, and they insane those who laugh
at and scorn it ominous predictions. Before that
inevitable war comes, the Southern States must be
1 reconciled Reconciled 1t is less-far less than
4 they expect! They merely expect that the North
\ will not hearken to the voice Of those who would
sacrifice their country to their animosity and their
specnlations, and that they will understand that
i a great republic cannot forever be governed by
Il passion, fraud and injustice. 'T I#f@a eA
The price of our surrender could not be- it assn
redly was not, less than - our existence and our
liberty; - and that promised price is still withheld
from our leader-the Washington Of . departed
II cause--from Raphael Semmes, the equal at least
Of our Paul Jones! That is not just, that is not
right The honor and the interest of the republic
,nperioasly command that they should be re-
i leased. Hasten then, mandatares of the people
hasten to release them; or, degenerated sons of 4
the most ilustrious rebels, break open the cofins
q your ancestors, scatter their glorious ashes to
VIE luuT WINGS OF LnlS word, write ON the tomb OF
your Washington that he was traitor and on the
marble which covers his respected remains, en-
graye-in large characters-that your Paul Jones
was pirate
1 Tell me not, vile courtiers Of every power, that
my language Is seditious that poisoned arrow will
fall harmless ut my feet. Tell me not that in our
flesh or in our souls there is grain of rebellion
that would be an arrant falschood. and you know
IT. You know that there is not at this hour in the
Southern heart, that spirit of opposition to the
government, which could produce a riot that |
might not be queled by q town constable. Cast
away, then, the puslenimous weapons which you |
have been holding directed against our breast /! |
Cease to raise the hue and cry" against muir
derers, when you are numbering, and allow at /
least, to your victims the privilege OF hnmbly pro-
testing against those acts which are in violation of
the laws Of nations-of States and of God.
Pretended republicans Of America initiate the
Christ, initiate the English prince; the Christ and
the prince torgave those who were committing al
decide and murder, and you--what an easy
task lyon would only have to forgive the victims
of the crimes for which you will be accountable
to posterity and to God Remember that, of the
perishable things of this world, there is one and
hnt1ne which rsises man OF nation above an
other man or another nation, and that is. to be
jast! Remember, il we are abandoned by those
whose sacred duty it is protect us, that, above
you, your ipiquities, your bayonets, your ambi-
ton. your scaifods and yonr leaders, there is the
American nation: that if drunken by your mon