New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-14
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Ia speech delivered at Louisville not long
since, the Hon. Humphrey Marshall, member
Of Congress elect from that district, remarked
in substance as follows.
In reference to the slavery question were his counsels
to be followed no Southern man would bs uraWh OF
entrapped into the discussion They would listen 20 the
Trades OF the aboitionsts and meet them Win tne
votes He would NOT countenance the discussion and
he would not afford 1t bis countensnce under any crcon
But there would bs V .e al s
struggle of Northern Abotonists with sonthern Demo
cratic fusion Col Msrshal expressed bis determination
to uphold the doctrines and principles Of the American
party--which he had adopted mature reflection, and
believed them be the doctrines and sentiments Of the
founders of the Republic
The advice given BY this distinguished Ken
tuckian, if generally followed, would, We are
persuaded, work out benefcent results. IF the
Aboltionists were unreplied to, they would soon
tire Of their fanatical Trades; their ingenuity
in wrong doing would speedily fail; and their
power for mischief would quickly subside to o
condition Of comparative harmlessness. The
sharp retort and scornful replies Of Southern
editors, legislators, Governors and Congress
men, furnish nine tenths Of the naateriel in the
magazine Of the Abolition fortress. We're the
subject entirely ignored BY our friends except
when grave emergencies peremptorily call for
an expression Of opinion and an argument sus-
tanning it--and even then no allusion to Adolf
ton agitators should be made--a large amount
IF good would follow as natural consequence.
Silent contempt would do more to bring Adolf
ton into disrepute, even in quarters where the
pernicious doctrine is most popular, than any
other course we can imagine. The silence, like
this darkness in Egypt during the times Of
Noses, would be felt and feared. Already, in
many portions Of the North, the ru.hlessness,
violence and wickedness Of Abolitionism, has
produced wholesome reaction, which is des-
tined, we firmly believe, to spread and widen
until return of the old patriotic and fraternal
feeling Of yore, is brought about. For our part
we are Ut the conscientious opinion that such a
desirable contamination would be fastened by
following the excellent advice given by Judge
Marshall
We have our apprehsnsions, however, that the
policy Of Judge NJ. will not obtain to as great
an extent as could be wished. There are par
ties South as well as North whose whole stock
in trade would vanish were the word negro
stricken from the political vocabulary and
there is a!party South, small at present, it is
true, but intelligent. active and determined,
which desires dissolution of the Union just as
strongly as the Abolition leaders of the North
The consequence is that both parties, although
antipodal in character and interests, are work
ing to accomplish the same end. They travel
different routes and employ different measures,
but should they succeed, will come together at
the same goal-disunion. This is fact unmis-
taxable to the careful watcher Of the signs of
the .times-of the under currents and upper
currents which control the movements of the
parties alluded to.
The slave, then, and the question of slavery,
IS Indispensable to the existence of these two
parties. Without the negro, neither would
know vitality in three months. Hence, the
negro must be kept on the stage continually,
and the people of the United States harrassed
and annoyed, and their dearest rights and in
terests imperilled--for WHAT Why, either to
keep the leaders Of antagonistic parties North
and South, in office, or to rend asunder the
noblest. freest and best government that has
ever blessed mankind, from the earliest period
Of recorded time down to the present moment !!
This, we apprehend, is the true solution of the
riddle, incomprehensible to those whose ayoca-
tions or tastes do not incline them to an investi-
cation Of the secrets that lie below the political
surface.
If our differences be not well founded, how is
it that the Abolitionists and Secessionists, pro-
Tossing to be as wide apart as the poles actually
conduct themselves in manner to produce the
same result The Abolitionists demand what
we would sooner see the Union shiyered into ten
thousand fragments than grant. The ultra
State Rights men, or in other words the Seces-
sionists are. just about as ultra and impractica-
BILE in their requirements. Neither side will
recognize medium--or the golden rule--and
both stoutly affirm that the Constitution has
been perverted and outraged by the different
Congresses Of late years, until it has become an
engine Of fraud and tyranny. They won't be
satisfied with any arrangement and won't agree
to any compromise, unless it squares exactly
with their own peculiar views.
The negro slave is the lever that moves and
vitalizes each Of these parties, which seem OBJ
iyious to an important fact that the happiness,
well being and prosperity of twenty millions of
white men, women and children, are of more
moment than the condition, present or pros
pectiye, Of three millions Of Africans, upon
whoge degraded brows the signet Of the Al
MIGHTY's displeasure has been distinctly trace
able from time immemoriali In brief, the
question may be summed up in this wise The
Abolitionist would dissolve the Union Cor keep
his friends in oficel because he alleges that ter
rible expressions are practiced upon the slave
which is as foul lie as ever blistered the tongue
of man, because all history and truth prove that
the slave vastly improves under the system of
domestic serqitude, while he deteriorates when
free, and becomes almost as degraded as when
roaming his native wilds. And the Secessonist
would dissolve the Union because Of wrongs and
oppressions--in which there is much poetry and
some truth-practiced upon the South by the
North. Neither party has as yet, SO far as we
have been able to learn, taken the trouble to
enquire into the probable condition of either
section after the separation takes place, or of
the probable fate Of the slave! These small
matters appear to have escaped consideration.
For long period of years the slave has made
and nnmade politicians in both sections of the
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