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90.--opinions of the New Orleans press.
The sectional prejudice among thousands which, until recent events, had laid dormant and inert, has been roused to active demonstration by the fiendish tactics of Black Republican journals.
These have so mingled the most violent denunciation of the
South and its institutions with frantic appeals in behalf of the
Union and the
American flag, as to stir up the ignorant masses to a pitch of uncontrollable excitement, and to fill them with vindictive and malignant hostility.
If these fomenters of strife were permitted to direct the policy of the United States Government, a war of extermination against the
South should be waged.
All their counsels tend to this object; and, as they appear to be gradually obtaining the ascendency with the
Lincoln Administration, it may be that before the lapse of many months the conflict will really assume the hideous character they desire to impart to it.--
N. O. Bee, April 27.
Public sentiment in the
South has become a unit.
Never before was there such unanimity on any question as now exists in the
Confederate States; and in those slave States that are not yet technically within them, almost the same unanimity is manifested.
The coercive policy of the
Black Republican Government has produced what nothing else could have done.
It has obliterated all mere party differences in the
Southern States, and brought all men upon the same platform of resistance to such coercion.
The conservative sentiments of the border slave States are rapidly giving way before the crazy efforts at subjugation of the usurping despotism at
Washington City.
That power seems to have entirely forgotten that there is a legislative body known as Congress, for it is arrogating to itself as much authority as
Louis Napoleon or the
Emperor of
Russia ever exercised.
The Republican Cabinet has been converted into an oligarchy, wielding unlimited authority.
Genuine Republican theory and practice appear to be completely lost sight of. The Lincoln Cabinet, instead of merely carrying into effect the laws.
that Congress passes, makes laws of its own, or rather proceeds to make war upon the
Confederate States without any law. Why don't
Mr. Lincoln fulminate a decree declaring Congress abolished, and himself and his friends in perpetual authority, with power to do just what they like, law or no law?
He might as well do this, as to do what he is doing.--
N. O. Bulletin, April 27.
The
Bulletin also says that while the
South is a unit, public opinion in the
North appears to be settling down into a determination to support the war measures of the
Lincoln Administration.
Among the journals which still resist the tremendous pressure of fanaticism, and denounce the insane policy of the coercionists, the Bulletin mentions the Bangor Union, and the
Argus,
Maine; the New York Daily News and New York Day Book, and the
Greensburg (Pa.) Democrat.
We believe the Boston Courier might be added to the list, and perhaps
Medary's paper, the Crisis, in
Ohio.
Of course the opposition of these journals is utterly incapable of checking or modifying the war current in the
North.
Nothing can do that but some terrible reverse to the
Northern arms.
Nothing but downright force and physical terror can achieve a moral triumph over the brutal instincts of fanaticism.
The
N. O. Crescent, referring to an article in the
Toronto (Canada) Leader, observes:
The Leader says it is “too late now for the
North to adopt the only statesmanlike policy — to recognize secession as a fact, and act accordingly.”
We think not. We think the
North may save itself much of disaster, much of national disgrace and dishonor, millions of money and seas of blood, by promptly recognizing at this time, the independence of the
Confederate States.
It is all that we have ever asked.
We have asked only that we be recognized as a separate nationality, and all questions connected with our future relations and our former joint possession of national property to be settled by peaceable negotiation.
What we demanded at first we will eventually have, just so sure as fate — except that, since this inhuman and unnatural war has been precipitated upon us, the
North will lose much that it might otherwise have preserved.
The
Picayune speaks of the utter contempt and disregard of laws and Constitutional forms manifested in the recent proceedings of the
Lincoln Administration.
With the cry of the
Constitution and the enforcement of the law on its lying lips, it violates both, and proceeds to inaugurate a bitter and bloody war with the. preposterous avowal that it is not making war, but only taking measures to “disperse” a mob and put down a riot.--
N. O. Delta, April 27.
