New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-23
THE DAILY CRESCENT.
THURSDAY MORNING. FEB'Y %, IS
otnIayD Y0EvG LIMERICK.

NJ ,.ass u ,,a,vs- n after denied us, yesterday,
s,.ce far treating with due attention the re-
,,,ay,,s o tbe Delta Of the preceding evening, as
ID certain questions which are at issue between
us. Those remarks are as follows;
The Crescent states its argument on the Cuba
question thus;
;ts ,louainions cannot be set aside at pleasure,
nv another, which is bound to it by the faith OF
sreaties, not pretended to have been broken by
the nation Of the first part. We will argue the
matter no further than by thus stating 1t The
Delta has objected to our logic; we'll we will
use none but that of q clear statement. 5t
Cannot be set aside by another Who said
that it could But people who, like those of
this republic, maintain that Governments OBJ
Y tain their power from the consent of the gov
erned, may justly disregard the rights of ma
ton over a people who repudiate its control.
Here is International law against national law
Now the doctrine of filibusterism is, that people
who are socially equal should not be made the
serfs of others, by force, power, and violence
and that others who may aid them to resist
such illegal control, are justified therein pY na7
,tural law, by philanthropy, and humanity,
whose are higher law than interna tlonai Jaw.
nj Thus the Delta not only does not attempt to
controyert, but distinctly admits the proposition
we had laid down e Who says our .s. TREND,
g has denied it l'ssa Well we answer that the
Delta s own proposition Was just opposite and
that. of course, in asserting to ours, 1t laban-l
doned its own. For the Delta wants US to be
lopioal: and we believe it is an axiom of logic
that it. of two opposite principles, either be true,
it follows that the other must be false. The
Delta has, in this case, accepted, as true, ours
We need not say, then, what becomes of its own.
But the Delta's admission does not hinder it
from forthwith re-asserting what it had just
given up 1t instantly contradicts the very
proposition of which it just now asked, s.wlip
pretends to dispute it p 1t gets rid of its own
admission, its own broad conclusion, by falling
into the sophism or mistake Of setting up q dis
tinction. y HE H
& Now, if such distinction is to be made, the
Delta's admission should not have been made.
It has admitted too much; a general PROPOSE
tion which mustsbe false, fit does not cover the
whole ground and exclude all exceptions For
though we say in Grammar and other irregular
Sciences that e there is no general rule without
an exception yet this is any thing but true in
logic of which the propositions are absolute
truths or nothing; they are false, if they have
afterwards to be corrected BY distinction
which says they are true in this case; they
are false in that .5s,=5-
Either, then, the Delta should have altogether
denied our proposition, or it should have re-
stated it in this, as its true form ga nations
! faith towards another, in treaties not violated
by the latter, does not bind, unless this latter
holds its existence from the consent of all its
citizens, subjects, or even sojourners. For an
Instruction, sedition, or any attempt against a
government releases all other governments from
their faith towards it" This is really the Del
ta's proposition, plainly put. The Delta cannot
deny that it is so. Now, let us examine it 8
little, in its consequences, and see what mus
flow from it.
ireland hates the British yoke; Algeria that
Of France; Poland that of Russia; Hungary
that Of Austria; and (not to iengthen need
less enumeration) in every state of the Old
World or the New, there is large body Of men
who would willingly pull down the Government,
either because they dsapprove its acts or dislike
it's form or are ambitious, or are desperate in
their fortunes or are dreamers of some new plan
OF course, then. we have no treaty with any
ing the consequence. 1t is the directest appli.
cation Of the Delta's own principles.
But again: the Secessionists want Southern
Republic; their friends, the Ultra Abolitionists
rave for q Northern one; the Democracy (neyel
wrong) has always asserted that the Federalistt
designed to change this Government into mon
archy; the Democracy now asserts that th,
Wings (about half this nation) are Federalst
and have the same design; the Negroes and In
dams would like to be rid of all white mans
rule: consequently no nation can be bound by
any faith to us. Here you have what such no,
tions inevitably bring about, We got, by
treaty with an usurper and despot, the very
soil on which stands the pleasant Office where
our friend pens these beautiful doctrines
Nor is that all; at the moment when we ar.
concluding treaty with Mexico, there is
Revolution on foot in Sonora, set up by GU
own people, ayowedly upon the Delta's owl
grounds that the sonorans were oppressed an
only wanted assistance, in order to throw O
the Government of Santa Anna. The pending
treaty is made in the face of a fact, then, whic
according to the Delta) renders it void db I'M
ito: nay, it stipulates our aid to Mexico 70
putting down the very fact, which of itsel
makes null and void all compact with thos
with whom we are contracting Why does tn
Delta not denounce those entering into such
laWless engagement? Or does it pass the thin
by, as a diplomatic swindle, in which there
nc intention to keep the sacred pledges given !
This brings US to the necessary point Of con
sidering decisively the question that lies at til
bottom of the whole matter: g Is our nationa
faith, knowingly and Voluntarily given =
solemn treaty to a Government not founded 0
principles of popular freedom, to be set asid.
at cur pleasure, on the allegation that it (tha
Government) mis-uses not US, but some of i
subjects?" The Delta's principles must sa
s'yes:'' ours must say 'tno," Which III
right?
Is it not ludicrous to say that it is permitte
to the honest, the free, the happy, but not I
the wicked, the enslaved, the wretehed, |
break their solemn and voluntary engage
ments, where no wrong has been done them
Surely, if the good are not to keep faith, til
bad cannot be expected to do it; but, by til
Delta's plan, the virtuous alone have /. right
be rogues; and desrets are bound to hay
public morals but freemen, none These nj
Young Americas discoveries in national ethics
and very brilliant ones they certainly are
IT faith is to heeyaded at ALL it will surely /