The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-27
what May Happen.

what May Happen.
The insinuation of the Courier of last evening,
| that our remarks upon the strange and mysterious
course of the Bulletin in lacking about suddenly
and falling into the wake of that journal and the
| Delta. were the result Of Northern influence the
desire to secure patronage is wholly gratuitous and
| contemplate. Il is little beneath any thing we
| had a right to expect from that quarter. But Of
course it measures others by its own Standard and
regarding this attack in this light it to
| be offensive.
We not surprised that the Courier should
entertain crude ideas Of the proper course to be
pursued by an Independent press. In the exercise
of those rights which, in our humble judgment,
clearly belong to paper owing allegiance to
any party clique faction Of men, and controlled
by no influence or motive, but sincere desire to
| promote the public veal we ventured to dissent
from the views and opinions expressed by the Bull
letin. We applied language of menace" to
| our "proverbially conservative and circumspeet"
contemporary We have no desire to put the
| gag " upon it, In the true spirit of an indepen-
dent journal, as we understand it, we admit the
right of all express fully and freely their opinions
on all subjects, and claim for ourselves the privilege
of animadverting upon them, in courteous and res
| peciful language, with equal freedom, and to
approve condemn may Judge proper.
We were born and reared in the South All our
interests and sympathies are with her We are
prepared now, we have been, to stand firmly
by her rights and her institutions. We contend
now, we have ever contended, that if slavery be
admitted to be all that the Northern fanatics saw it
is-a great moral, social, and political evil it is oar
evil and we have right to submit to it, or get rid
OF it in our own way. The people of the North
have no right to interfere with our affairs but il
they should do so to any serious or alarming extent
we repeat, what we have heretofore urged upon our
brethren of the South that our greatest safeguard
is the Union.
The Courier, the Delta, and the Bulletin, are
sgitating the public mind and attempting to excite
the people, by declaiming, in most eloquent and
pathetic strains, against evils which they have
become convinced may happen to uS some day
They have become satisfied that the fugitive slave
law will not be enforced, and that majority of the
| people of the North will urge its repeal How
| unphosophical it is thus to be taking trouble
on interest" and going into spasms about what
may neUer happen Let us quiet our nerves, and
not " cross the riekety and dangerous bridge until
we get to it." What we insist upon is, that it is
unjust to the people of the North to PREJUDICE them
in this way. We have not travelled among them,
and Of course we do not speak from "ocular" or
auricular" evidences, but we repeat that we have
conversed with many highly intelligent and reliable
| Southern gentleman who have, and they all differ
| most widely from our respected neighbor of the
Bulletin. We are satisfied that he, and the journals
| he quotes, have been mised by the noisy clamors
| OF the crazy abotionists and free negroes The
great body of the people of the North, we are
assured are as much disguised with their move
| ments and proceedings are. The intelligent
and rejecting portion of the Northern people must
| know that the safety Of the Union depends on the
faithful execution of the fugitive slave law, and
upon rigid adherence to all the measures embraced
| in the Compromise They love the Union and
| appreciate its blessings and benefits, and though
| they are silent when compared to the brawling
free-soilers and free negroes, we cannot and will
not for moment doubt that they will be true to
| themselves and to the high character they have
| sustained from the days of the Revolution down to
the present moment. So thought the editor Of
the Bulletin only few days since but by some
strange influence,
&c A change came DER the spirit of his dream"
On the 18th instant, article appeared in that
paper headed Public Sentiment at tile North, y
phatic language:
aod that the hostility 70 the fugitive slave law /. being
exhausted Wisdom and prudence will prevail folly and
render nugaoy and poweress the wicked attempts OF
vsGna iShadcs and se'h demagogues' to destroy this
The respectable portion of the press in the Northern
cities which may be considered the organs of nubic
opinion have assumed an uneqvyOca and manly stand aud
ae eNpp 30 her e taken FREQUENT
enforced. ms n looks well, and favorable augury Of
Now, confess it is rather puzzle to us to &C.
count for the above when considered in connection
with the late demonstration of the gallant Colonel
His last opinion, he says, is based upon ocular
and auricuIar evidences" He had been among
the people of the North and had seen and heard
Them, to speak in plain English, and thereby hs
became convinced that there was danger ahead,
and he felt bound, as faithful sentinel, to sound
the tocsin of alarm! But when we come to com.
pare dates, we find it had only been ten DAYS be-
fore, when he had just returned :" fresh from among
The people, Of the North, that he lifted up his syren
voice and uttered the soothing song of peace copied
above!
We do not know whether that Conservative
JOURNAL the N. Y. Express, which he last quotes
was included among the " respectable portion Of
| press in the Northern cities " which had taken sc
l
| We have made up our minds to believe oul
neighbours first story, when the scenes through
which he had just passed were fresh in his recol
lection. We shall wait patiently and give on
Northern brethren an opportunity to do their dutl
70 the South before we make war upon them, o
even distrust them. We have always noticed tina
those who are the most fidgetty and boisterous il
anticipation of dangers, when they do come, arr
generally not on hand. We refer the Courier, the
Delta, and their new ally, TO the eloquent patriotic
and soul-stirrng peroration of the speech of Sena
or Clemens of ALBANIA, in another column HI
opposed the Compromise measures as whole anC
in detail, but now that they have become the law
of the land, he urges upon the people of the Soul
cheerfnlly to acquiesce, and to stand by them ant
by the Union above all things, and to the last, un
less these measures be actually set at naught an,
disregarded by the people of the North.
| Views OF n Southern Senator.
Senator Clemens, of Alabama distinguished him
| self in the last Conurass for a., Al