New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-08
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PERSONAL.
Among the subsequently, far more fat
tering than We can well hope to deserve, except
BY ) constant Observance of courtesy and of
fairness-with which our brethren of the Press
have greeted our accession to the Crescent, we
meet, in the Mobile Register, the following to
the facts Of which we must add some explana-
ton, and to the imputations oppose some cor
rection:
times With the editorial departments OF the Columbia
Teescope thu National Integsncer and the Richmond
Whie has assumed the political management OF the New
rsens Cresoept In the earlier part his career he
A extremist Of the Mobilization school, which be subse
and so champion q Il, the
epstles in the New York Times, with the signature II
6sgretaron will recall his intense hatred for Jefferson,
Jackson and Calhoun, and his fulsome laudations OF
Hamilton Marshall and the other leaders Of the Console
dation faith Mr. Johnston has shown himself the would
suinosities q the old Federal party He is however
ripe classical scholar powerful writer Though somewhat
Of the pompous Johnsoan SCHOOL, and will no doubt rem
The Register says that, in our early day, We
were an extremist of Notification. Apparently,
it intends this for the allegation Of substan-
tive offence Otherwise, it must design to i'm
peach it as an inconsistency. Or, lastly, it must
mean merely to blame us as having been, in our
youth, cxtrsvagant in particular notion, true
orfalse On each of thess points, few words.
The accusations regard not the truth or false
hood Of the mere doctrine spoken of. They are
personal only, therefore. Therefore, they merit
only o personal answer. The Register invites,
49, ID au;stay all have IL
When we adhered to Notification, the Regis
ter stifiiy opposed it. Now, when we have re-
nounced it, the Register sides with it, even. in
its not improved present guise of Disunionism.
We have both changed. Which of us has
changed for the better'
While Notification stood hravely up against
the bullying domination Of Jackson, the sneak
ing and servile intrigues Of Van Buren,, we, il
our warm youth, captivated with its gallan
seeming, fought for it: the Register against it
We took the weak, while it seemed the becomin,
side the Register the strong, which was the ad
vantageous. Which was the more generous
When Notification knuckled to Jacksonisn
which it had villifed as BLACKBOARD tyranny
when it fell into the ranks of those whom its Of
ran, the Telegraph, stigmatized as srogues an
royalists . when it flung itself into the embra,
of that party whom, just before, Mr. Calhor
had, in yet more pleasing ALTERATION, pr
nounced faction only banded and kept t
gether by the cohesive power ofpublic plumber
when ii struck hands with him whom 1t h,
constantly spit upon as the scuryiest little pol
teal knave known in all history; when it e.
allied him as the hope Of all good purposes, Il
refuge of all pure doctrines, and, to sum up a
"a the Northern man with Southern principles
we babe good-by to that Chivalry: the Regi
ter took it to its bosom.
1t was our boy love, the first fair passion Of
heart then but too susceptible to the bland i'll
sions of public life. Well: one day we caug
her going into b usc where she had no businel
and we parted company with her forever. T
Register found her there. Her youth is fled, h
beauty faded, her reputation gone; but the R
gister likes her and we have no sort of objectio
In the severe beauty of her virgin charms, 81
caught our fancy: but as she now walks IL
. Broadway of politics, Haunting along in he
loose attire of thin principles, painted an
patched, fiounoed and fur. beloved, we certainl
do, as the Register says, "ignore" her. Enough
then, of that subject.
But the Register says we have become
champion Of the most Federal doctrines" Now
the most Federal doctrines that ,oe have eve
heard of we're, first, those of the Alien and Sc
dition laws; second, those of General jackson
Proclamation, which we're SO intensely consol
dationist that (as every body knows) not eve
the capacious gullet Of slavery Father Ritchi
could gulp them; while Gas every body know
agaip) all the old infexible Federalism of IL
land rose up and swore that here was the
doctrine Need we remind the Register thu
this glorious old chief Of Republican Sta
Rights men AYERS, in that precious imminent
Strict Construction, LIST, that the States ceu
have no sovereign rights under the Constit
ton. because they had never had any before
existed: ID, that Secession was treason Nc
will the Register be SO good as to point us
some high federal doctrine, " Hamilton's, M
shall's," or any bodys, more directly and
tally subversive of the State Right and Calh'
faiths than these Jscksonian fulminations
ace have not championed either the Alien
Sed;tion laws or the Proclsuation; ours, II
after all, is Federalism, at worst by no me
as flaming as Gen. Jackson's, Or indeed as
Reo;ster's own, if it belongs land surely 1t d
to his party. :.
But, since we are set upon the inquiry lie
zoe what is this Federalism Of ours 1t Is
Federalism of the Old Republican party W
fought the war Of 1872, set up Tariff OF
,oct;on and a Bank in 1916, and founde
great plan of Internal improvements Dare
Register deny that all these were great meas
Of the old and honored Republican party
what magic, then, by what hoeus poe"s'
they made the very essence of Federalism