New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-03
THE DAILY CIR ESCENT.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, MAI ;, 1864
y M d .g,EBRasR.a QUESTION.

Upon The speedy or the tsrdy, che amicapie'
~ no tl,a rationa vi or the violent solution
Of the question which paltry PRESIDENTIAL as
pirant has started, merely to make for himself
marty. Ia obviously about to depend not merely
The General tranquility Of this confederacy, du
RING tbe next three years, but the possibility d
the country j not losing sight, In that worse thar
bodies contest Of nearly every other great pub
licgooa that is really within its reach.
Either there Is tohe q struggle which shall di
vide, distraet, and possibly in its final issue,
permanently disaffeot towards each other the
great sections Of this union; or that unhappy
consequence, utterly unwise as it would be, and
fruitless Of everything but ill--but bitter ca
lamity must be averted, while yet ii is time
by simply refusing any farther to disturb what
has been settled.
Such o struggle, as political speculation, the
arts of party amongst US that always -four
ishes the most whenit can provoke the most dan
gerous public discussions, has been, for above
year, busiy fomenting Dipide e. irapera--
Y fisunite, and you shall domineer, is their fa-
vorte, their only successful rule Of party-poioy
if they can run the country mad. they Gan gov
ernit: when it RECEIVERS it's senses, there - aD
end to their dominion.
y From the first, therefore, they have, to raise
crop Of power, sown decisions and dissensions,
beginning, for the earliest, with opposition to
the present Federal Constitution, and alarms
against ii as a scheme of monarchy and central
ization. When g a more perfect Union /" and
powers without which the government was utter
ly inefficient for its own ends were the vital wan
of our system and it lay for defect Of them or
the verge Of dissolution, to Withstand such an
infusion Of active and healthful yigor was moth,
ingishort of insanity yetthat insanity this par
ty, for their own purposes, cultivated. Fooled
of this, they next bent themselves TO preventing
the new government from going into successful
operation they all set themselves against the
efforts OF General Washington--the wisess, most
moderate, and most patriotic man to whom the
good fortune Of nation ever committed the Diff
fcult task Of forming infant institutions-to give
order. authority, stability, organization under
safe rules and with an enlightened policy, to the
system which they had done their utmost to pre-
admirably given the measure Of their (thatpar
tys) fitness to be our public guides. They
ssroye to thwart every measure of Gen. Wash
ington's administration, no matter how good o.
necessary: they opposed, with infinite clamor
that assumption and funding Of our Public Deb
of the Revolution, from which credit and or
der 10 our finances atonce sprang up, to -four
ish ever since; against the exercise Of that pow
err of Direct Taxation, which many Of them nov
advocate as the only legitimate form OF raising
Revenue they got up d Whisky Insurrection
they disturbed the entire land against the Brit
ish known as Jay's") Treaty. compac
the Brightness of which time has every way ap
proved they denounced as reasonable, as cor
rupt, as anti -repu biican, as prompted by mon
archical feeling and monarchical designs, tina
able, right policy Of President Washington
Neutrality in the European wars of the French
Revolution--a policy not only highly good and
just, but the most beneficial ever adopted by this
country; for it was the foundation Of allits sub
sequent commercial prosperity and naval pow
err. They took part with Adet and Genet, in all
their insolent attempts to dictate to our govern
ment within its own borders and as to its do
mestic duties; getting up wide machinery o
SO called g Democratic . but really Jacobin So
oieties, for the purpose of spreading Frcncl
principles and French revolutionary ideas fol
by the frenzy Of these, they hoped to overture
the Administration Of Washington, or even, j
needfui to that end, the Government
As, in that early state of our system, thes'
auen the 20 .oalled Democracy, the pretended
Ss,slots Of the popular rights contravened thu
noss necessary laws, and did their utmost tt
kindle up resistance against not merely ths
wholesemest measures but every effort to give
our young Government the organization and
authority without which it would have persisted
at once, d miscarriage and an abortion as Their
when the country, rescued from the disorder
the discredit aud the utter political ineficiency
Of the old Confederation, was under the sagest
Of heroes shaping out the justest and most pa,
triotic Of Governments, they put the whole being
of the nation at hazard to thwart him and stFovs
to stir up an initiated Sansculottism, an insane
copy Of exotic disorders in land where instead
Of tyranny not even the simplest authority and
the most Indispensable civil organization yei
existed; in like manner have they been doing
and are still ready to do, ever since.
They thus mixed and have ever since CON
tinued to mix with the Missouri question; agitat-
ing it, At the time, for purposes of mere sectional
dissension, to heat one region of the country
against the other, and. by playing upon tbs
sincere, weaken and divide all that could have
opposed them; while by thorough party drill
they kept.their own forces together for every
real question of politics It is the curse ofques.
tons merely ideal, like that of the Missouri
controversy or this present enc Of Nebraska
that they only help the bad, distract the good
aud break up the general combination of tn,
sincere in practical objects, while they strength
en- the combination of the insincere SO that il
proportion as honest men permit their attention
and their zeal to be diverted to such questions
they leave all the others at the mercy of tn
party that makes mere handle of such dis
pntes; Of which, in this manner, the good alon
become the dupes and victims, the bad the ben
efciaries
II is in the calm of the public mind, in tn
stillness Of the public passions, in the unexcite
and balanced state Of the public feelings, whe
each interest, each object of the many whic
claim the care Of an enlightened people receive
only itsdue proportion of the public thought;
is when no concern, however real, is permitte
to usurp supreme place in the popular affec
tions and lord it over every other consideration
and it is, of course, still more when no mer
artificial impulse impressed upon the unquiS
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