New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-16

,a,s4-s uPt1IrCdIlonR ol the Wllm0t Pr0vlSo, ana,
| therefore, none for an issue. On what other
point can there be serious apprehension, much
| less an issue' If a Union organization should
be perfected what practical aims or ends could
it have Parties, no moro than houses, can be
built in air. @
We have said that this idea of a Union or
ganization, extended into nationality, has
chiefly originated with certain politicians, who
find themselves unforgivingly, and very unjustly,
prescribed for their support of the series of
Compromise measures. In this matter, they
deserved we'll of the country; and the hostility
to them seems to be of the most ruthless and
intolerant character. Such was the spirit of
the anti Compromise men throughout. They
marked every man who did not sign, and every
man who did not support, the celebrated CAL
houn Address; and hurled ~s traitor to the
South" ''slave to the NORTH etc, at all who
announced the sentiments and principles which
have found so proud a vindication in the bril-
liant triumph Of the Compromise measures.
They swept down, they fiercely hunted down, as
though they were blood-hounds upon their path,
all opponents, holding or seeking office They
triumphed for time; the tide changed, and
rolled in heavily and overwhelmingly upon
them. They have nothing left them but memory
hate and political vengeance and these are
with them living always and strong
The Southern ultraists 1--WE state it only as
fact in political history were chiefly in the ranks
Of the democratic party, and it chiefly feels the
disturbing effects of this curiously bitter deter
IMITATION to prescribe certain persons, CONF
what may. We see this in the determination o
the majority of the Mississippi Senate, to leave
Mississippi unrepresented in the u s. Senate
to violate the solemn obligations of the repre-
sentative to the people and the laws, rather
than permit Gen. Foote to be reelected W.
see this in the action of the Alabama Legisla
ture, which has adjourned without electing
U. s. Senator, rather than see the Hon. Jere
Clemens reelected. We see this in the storm
| so plainly gathering in Georgia politics, il
/ which Cobb has no political safety but in the
| maintenance and enlarged organization of tht
| Union party - U-
But, what then? There is no issue but one Of
| the hate and vindctiveness, personal to Foote
among the leading members of the democratic
party. Are great national parties to be organ
lied to act as mere body guards of individuals
| Are we ever to stand, sentineled, in camp and
| under arms, keeping the country agitated by
! unnecessary sectional questions, that Messrs
Cobb, Clemens, FOote and flew others may sleeT
soundly upon unendangered political honors
Is approval of the past to create debt of etcr-
nal personal service in the future?
Besides, we, for the Union and Compromise
first, last, forever, must say that Megsrs Gle
mems and Foote have done much to worry this
opposition to them into existence, with some
thing like an apparent design Of galvanizing a
dead issue of the past into the living creator and
defender of their future political fortunes One
introduced and the other vehemently urged, at
the opening of the present session, some very
unnecessary Compromise resolutions, which were
calculated to drive their opponents to despera-
ton and to reopen dangerous agitation, when
the country was lapsing into perfect repose.
They were the first agitators of the session, and
we must say, that, even in good cause, they
erred grievously. They opened the battle: it is
theirs, not the country's; and we cannot, for
reasons personal to them, re-commence an aei
tation so fatal to peace and to the better inter
ests of the Union. The copntry will not do it.
The only response is d feeble one from Alabama,
winch looks 20 us like very deliberate political
suicide in the wing party of Alabama which
virtually dissolyes itself, at the very moment
when the bitter and irreconcileable division OF
its opponents gives it fair prospect, if united
and firm, of sweeping the whole State and grasp
ing a brilliant triumph.