The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-27

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The phantom Of disuniop is retiring before an
awakened hsslthful public sentiment. The skies
are already bright; and brighter they win become
until there shall mot remain above the horizon ain
&c rpeck Of the vanished ssOfm-cloud.
There is now no mistaking the evidence which
comes to us from every quarter Of the country
The sentiment Of liberty and a'stc'', one and an
spass6ie." is at length thoroughly aroused in the
capitol Of the nation and is springing mp with 81
ant force from the body of the people in every por
ton Of the country. Theaihnatcs Of the North
asas n the South, led BY Seward and Calhoun,
stand rsbuked. Their power Is gone. Our blood
bought GLORIOUS Union is not in danger when it has
such champions in the North, East, South and
West, as sCass, Dickinson, Webster, Houston,
Fooie, Ben, Clay, Douglass and Benton. The
patriot may dismiss his alarms-doubt has given
way to certainty. The Ussion is safe
Before the assembling Of the present Congress,
and for some weeks after it had been in session, the
fears entertained by the country, as to the result Of
the slavery question, were not unreasonable. The
wild, fanatical obstinacy ofthe Proyisosts and alb
oltionists Of the North the equally determined
titude Of the South, shut out almost all hope of
compromise; and it was not until the venerable
patriot and statesman Of Kentucky introduced, in
the United States Senate, his plan of compro.
mise, and we witnessed the effect Of his great
speech on the minds of members Of Congress and
Of the people in every section Of the country that
our fears gave way to hope-gladness to gloom.
Contemporaneous with the introduction of Mr..
Clay's resolutions and the delivery Of his great
speech in the Senate, we noticed, on two success
sive occasions, an empathic refusal by the House
Of Representatives to act in any manner, upon
resolutions embracing the principle Of the Wilmot
Provisohus plainly preparing the way for the free
admission Of California, State, as recommend
by the President. These occurrences were suf-
fciently indicative to our mind that the crisis had
passed Subsequent events-the elevated and pat
riotic positions assumed BY Senators Houston and
Rnsk, from Texas, by the elear-head, practical
Bell, OF Tennessee, by Douglas, Benton and Cass,
Of Ohio, Missouri and Michigan, and by Dickin-
son and Webster, of New York and Massachu-
-setts--haye been but conirmatory Of our previously
formed. opinion.
The fears, at first entertained were not the result
Of. any want Of confidence in the patriotism and
devotion to the Union Of very large majority Of
the American people, but Of an apprehension that
some fanatical, rash and designing men, from the
North and the South, might preeipitate Congress
INTO the enactment oil some measure whose evils
might prove rreparable, before the conservative,
patriotic, Union-loving portion of the peoples and
States representatives should be fully aroused to
prevent an act so direful in its consequences The
past history of the country should have quieted our
fears. The Union has repeatedly survived shocks,
which. at the time, were equally portentous but it
is difficult entirely to cast away fears to the
consequence Of evils which threaten the existence
of objects we love. And should we endeavor to
cast from our minds such fears? Because the
Union has gloriously survived the shocks which its
enemies have heretofore prepared for it,-are we,
therefore, to conclude that it is impregnable-that
nothing can move it from its firm foundation
There have been governments, whose histories
furnish melancholy and forcible warning to the
contrary. A statesman cannot be too vigilant a
true patriot cannot too sedulousy guard the inst-
tutions of his country from every evil from what
ever'quarteF it-may approach 1t is this sentiment
Of vigilance, this care for the Union, its perma-
hence and prosperity, which has now aroused the
great minds Of the nation to come to its rescue.
They are aroused the tide of disunion is rolling
back tho, Union IS safe.