The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-14


SOUTH CARDINAL Federal Relationship the
House of Representatives of the South Carolina
Legislature, on the 9TH insf Mr.. Huger, from the
Committee on Federal Relations, made the follow
ing report on the Slavery Question, which, it will
be seen, throws cold water on the attempt to OBJ
tain any action on the part of the Legislature:
Pepert Of he Committee Of FEDERAL Re TONS on so much
If The oDeraors Message as relates to the agitation
Ths ~ Com@ttee On Federal Relations 70 whom was re.
fed much Of the Governors Message relates to the
ssTee IN opinion with bis Excellence hat he Srese1t
MOMENT IS NOT PRoPITIobs TO DECISIVE ACTION
the Presidency Of Southern furnishes reasonable
security against any nfngement Of Southern rights the
ton of Southern brethren not be disappointed
VIII only say mat 4 in this respect should oe
then as ever % cooperate in defence Of the rights and honor
The editor of the Columbia Telegraph, in COM
menting on the report, remarks:
Falstaff thought that discretion was the better
part of valor." So seem to think the Committee
of Federal Relations, whose report we give on
another column. They respectfully recommend
the State to recede from the position she has so
long occupied in the can of the Southern States,
and to fall back into line if not actually to bring
the rear up" Gf we do not misunderstood the pur-
port and object Of their report.) Their recommen-
dations certainly do not SAVIOR of rashnesS-for the
most prudent persons cannot find in them a single
spark that could kindle combustion. The post of
honor is the post of safety, it seems This may be
so-but such has not hitherto been deemed the true
Carolina doctrine as expounded by such statesmen
McDufhe and his noble compeers. Are there
no sparks of that old fire smouldering still under
that fatal apathy which now paralyzes the action
of the House? Does it contain no young McDuffie,
from whose lips, touched by the sacred fire of
patriotism might pour forth the truths to which our
Legislators are so fatally and Wilfully deaf!
South Carolina lies like Sampson in slumber,
while all that gives her strengthen readiness TO
meet emergencies shorn away from her, that
she may become spectacle of melancholy pity to
her friends, and of merited derision to her foes.
Will she not awake before it is too late Reso-
luton after resolution is offered in both Houses-al
of which find their way into that gulf profound'-
the Committee on Federal Relations, from which
none have yet been ished up. May we entertain
the hope that the " drowned honor of the State
may be plucked up with them, when they once
more emerge to the light of day We cast no i'm
putations on the motives or the patriotism of
any member of either House-the difference be-
tween us is an honest difference of opnion-but we
would be recreant to truth and honesty did we not
boldly and plainly, without fear, favor or affec-
ton, express our own sentiments, echoing, as we
believe they do, the sentiments of the great mass
of the people of our section and State.
Politicians at the North may promise-and poll
hcians at the South may counsel silent contempt"
as most efficacious remedy for repeated wrong,
insult and injury-but the people of the South
know and feel that they have been already sold to
the North--their honor wounded in the most vuE
nerable point-and they themselves denounced as
tolerated nuisances only in this Republc-and there
fore in such state Of things may well deem silence
to be synonymous with submission.