New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-30

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We unhesitatingly state that our correspond
ent IL" is the strongest kind of compromise
man. We have no doubt of his entire fidelity
to Southern interests and Southern rights. We
know him to be jealous, unfinching and con-
sisten whig. We esteem him as useful, intelli-
gent and patriotic citizen. We cheerfully pub
fish his communication as per request, and we
believe that he is sufficiently tolerant and indie
pendent to appreciate respectful expressions Of
dissent
We have fully expressed our disapprobation
OF the revival Of agitation on the part of Messrs
Foote and Clemens. We so expressed ourselves,
as the honest friend of the compromise measures.
We thought the resolutions of Mr. Foote calcu-
lated to exasperate Northern and Southern ex-
tremists, who, if permitted to pursue the quiet
tenor Of their ways, might have silently forborne
agitation, and permitted the compromise mea-
sures to stand as an established fnality. We
were rot and We are not, filled with the true
spirit Of compromise, willing to drive our oppo-
anents to the wall. We desired that their sur
render should be graceful, not humilating. OF
such men as Butler, we are nationally proud.
We would raise no tempest which would strip
such man Of the evergreen honors of fair
minded patriot and an intelligent legislator,
We respect even his prejudices We make no
unnecessary censure Of his errors.
& But our correspondent confounds entirely dis
similar issues. Messrs. Marshall, Cabell, Gen
try and Dawson, acted in no spirit Of agitation
when they claimed Of the wing Congressional
caucus the full re-affrmation of the compromise
measures. It is true that the country is at
peace, but it is no less true, as every intelligent
man fully appreciates, that the ultraists of the
North claim that in the next Presidential con-
test, th prejudices shall be conciliated, and
to that end they threaten to hold themselves in
reserve as a. balance power. If their views be
met-if temporizing candidate be nominated
and supported by either Of the great national
parties, they will gather strength, be embold-
ened, andre-open sectional agitation. Congress
had already passed upon the compromise mea-
sures, when General Foote's resolutions were
Drought forward, and therefore they did not
1airiy Or logically offer legislative issue They
were only, in point of fact, vote of censure
upon the opponents Of the compromise measures
They were virtually proposal to reopen Sec
tional agitation. The friends of Southern and
Constitutional rights should have held them
selves aloof from SO aggressive and yindictiye
procedure.
Z But it does not therefore follow that we should
have full confidence in every statesman who NAV
be proposed for national suffrage. That laws
are laws may be true, but that does not make
them as unalterable as the edicts of the Medes
and Persians. The election Of President at all
doubtful on the subject of the compromise mea-
sures would embolden fanaticism to renew its
efforts, and we much fear that in a tempest
which would ensue, broad and deep as are the
foundations Of our Union, it would not stand
intact Is
It is not asked that Presidential candidates
should do more than avow their fealty to meas
ures which have saved the Union; the remein-
brance is essential to national harmony 1t is
not asked, it is not possible, that the Compro-
mise measures should be made an issue in the
next Presidential campaign. 1t is claimed, and
justly, that the two great national parties shall
efectually extinguish fanaticism by bringing
forward candidates Individually unsectional,
and ayowedly national in feeling. No ultraism