The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-08-09

:, WAsHINGToss Jnly 29 1850
Gentlemen-When received your eoulmunica
Iion OF the 9th inst, disapproving. in no measured
terms, OF The opinions advanced by me In nv speech
oon The Compromise Bill in the Senate, on the 22d
May, 1850, determined TO take no notice Of It,
because did not know the subscribers TO IL or
whether il was genuine or a hoax: nor did / con
slider the arguments of sufficient mportance or the
disapprobation of so few persons conched in such
terms, OF sufficient consequence to require an an
sweL. But since, few days afterwards, il was
published In the Southern Press, at your requesi,
no doubt, over not your own signatures. but th
imposing one Of Your constituents = ete bay.
concluded 10 reply TO it. One sentence in il ex-
plains who you are, and the reason why you ad-
dressed me SO courteous and modest letter.
You say: sAlll 3
Ia th: quarter the people are principally emierans from
pGnepsy printed sa a soss ne % DaR % nbssd are
pais pa, % IA and WITH them will they detine their II Or
You are. then, emigrants from South Carolina
ana Oeorgla, read the papers Of those States,
sVmpathlze with them, and will 60 in or out OF the
Union with them Very we'll; you have rghi 10
think for yourselves, sympathize with and 20 out
oi tne Union with " HON you please ]; but would
suggest That II you go out of the Union in Iouis
ana you Will have less company and less sympathy
lhan 10 some other parts, whose newspapers YOU 30
much admire. will not impute to YOU thai q io
nofance which you apply TO me SO freely; but If
were ulsposeu 70 90 so, might inquire whether
you have so much Of it as not to know thar not
only In your own quarter Of the State bus IN many
diners, there are emlgrants from other States he
sides those you mention, to say nothing of the ma
uves, VINO have just as much right to sympathizs
WIN, read tle papers OF, or go out of stay in the
| Union win their former associates as you have
| and Just as much right as YOU TO call home ami
| applaud Or denOunce Senator. What yVonld
ask you, should / do under such circumstances /
You eleven South CarolInans and Georgians dis.
approve oil my course and desire me 10 come home
and learn wisdom-you do not say from whom hut
suppose you mean yourselves while not eIeuen,
but hundreds of Tenesseeans and Kentuekians ~
say nothing of the g Northern Freesoil influences
VI New Oneans, as you call It, and thousands Of
LoHisSGnidRs, both Anglo Saxon and oIhers
approve OF my course. D0you think really oneht
20 go home on your call WE'LL shall think Of n
in the mean time, as you have just as much right
/ 10 appolnt my successor as to recall me- perhaps
you had better send him on, to be here ready, when
conclude 10 obey your summons And as igno-
rance, IN your opinion, seems greatly 10 prevail in
| Louisiana, except among emigrants from vour m.
uve States, perhaps You had better select him from
one OF those States at oncea certain distinguished
charleston orator, for example, who is lust now st
orthodox on Disunion. But, seriously, you oueh
to pardon all my deinqRencies for they arose onl,
from the ignorance of supposing that represented
louisiana and Lousianans, instead Of South Car
oLlnians. AS you have now set me right in thi:
matter, perhaps l may do better in future. III
| With modesty that characterzes vour zhnla
letter, tpity that you have so much of that weak
ness y YOU say:
One, If not the great source of the opinions vou
entertain, seems to be the opinion that the measure
Is approved in your State In this we respecfullv
believe you are in error You probably know that
the NewOrleans Courier newspaper is confined in
Its circulation mainly TO the coast where the
popular sentiment is kept down by the northern free
soil influence of New Orleans. The journals of the
northern and western portions of the State are not
IN situation to assume an independent stand upu
thls subject while the population is generally 30
sparse, and without any means of public commI1ni-
cailon as to have taken no active part in the CON
test''
Well, guess should know something of the
Courier and its circulation What democrat does
not know that able champion of our cause for more
than quarter of century, hearing our banner gal
lanIiy under our great leaders, Jackson, Polk and
Cass, conducted by the veterans in wnr and of the
press, St. Romes and Wagner. You seem TO be
wholly ignorant" " that there are any such papers
IN Louisiana as the Delta, the True Delta Stat =
man, Crescent. Picayune, Bulletin Bee and others :
which are known and read by others in all the
States of the Union, if noI by the g emgrants %
from South Carolina and Georgia in the parish of
Benville, and may, without much presumption on
their part or mine, be presumed TO know as much Of
public sentiment in LOuisianaas the papers Of these
two States.
But the journals in the northern and western nor
tons of the State not in situation to be indie
pendent; and the people there withoutthe means
of information, and take no active part in the con.
test. Pray, them how did you become so wise, so
"cuiuIorIneu !--lOF you i've WltfIn the extreme
northwest and in the newest and most sparsely set
tied and inaccessible portion of the State.
20 e ": wsd a: 3: sSs,l q: sf q.
1t would fra many a trouble free US.
As the character of my reply is to be justified
chiefly by the extraordinary manner of the attack,
will quote from it again:
Can be are so worried with the business of eg
laon to be brought this doorous condition? If 80
come home we enIes home for the sake Of your
state-of all her Amercan-bon citizens of Anglo Saxon
home and learn something of what going
Well if l knew your own regulations, - | could
better judge how far ought to follow your advice.
know enough of you however, to decide who com.
pose this portion of the State-of all her Ameri-
can-born citizens of Angio-Slxun origin,', from
which your letter originated. In the midst of the
pine woods, between the Ouachita and Red Rivers.
in the parish of Bienville, created in lS4S on
some creek, is small settlement Iso have heard
| never saw iD called South Carolina F" from its
first settlement because composed of people from
| that State. Now, some modest and wise gentleman
| in that settlement reading only the Charleston
| Mercury or the Telegraph, or such papers, and Mr.
Rhett's speeches, conceived the noble idea of en-
tightening the world with his lucubFations, wrote
this epistle to me- signed his own name to it, and
others, too-or what is the same thing, got them to
| signit without taking time to read IT, or knowing
what it contained; and hence this great mssiye of
all the American Anglo Saxons in the State
but small portion Of the new parish of Bisnville
| and there are, perhaps, twenty other American
parishes in the State that contain more g Anglo
Saxons than it does, to say nothing of the more
than twenty other parishes on the " coast and
elsewhere, whose population are not exclusively
Anglo-Saxon," but as patriotic and brave. and
as well informed, except in their own estimation,
| this South Carolina settlement have the utmost
respect for my fellow citizens from South Carolina,
residing in Benville, and every where else treat
them as treat all my other constituents, with that
habitual Difference which is due from public ser
want to those whom he represents. Many of my
warmest and most intimate friends ara from that
State and in that parish and shall always be glad
TO hear from, and to be influenced, as am daily,
by them. But do not thi'k that e'eyen persons,
whom do not know-whether hey are wings or
democrats, friends or foes-hzve right to discuss
my !. ignorance !" so freely, or call me home. To
such my letter IS alone directed and 10 such wish
il only TO apply.
As your manner more than your matter called
forth this reply, might well pass over your argu-
nnents However, will notice one or two Of them,
and then say something Of your facts. You sup
pose that now siuee the Nashville Convention has