New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-18
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CEN. QuITMANs SPEECH.

GEN. QUITMANs SPEECH.
The ballroom of Odd Fellows Hall was filled but moi
uncomfortahly crowded last evening to hear Gen John
a. Qaitman, Of Mississippi make Democratic address
upon the topics of the day The General introduced
o the audience by his honor the Mayor with few appro
pirate remarks. ~ 5sA
His voice very weak and husky from his recent la
aors he said and 1t probably from the dncuy Of
hearing him that third Of the audience left before he
was half done.
He began by auding to great and imposing dangers
that looming up in tho political horizon, and urging
the Importance Of people not being blinded and led away
by issues Such issues he said have beea raised by
wary politicians in in remote parts Of the
Union. i. 5ltl4 4a =a ..ye
He spoke Of the relations existing between the two
races which Providence in Its wisdom has placed In This
country namely the white Caucasian and the African
who in the relation of master say benefit the whoe
country and the world .
He srgued that nearly all that ID great glorious and
beneficial in Republic 1T stands sprsng from the
slavehoding States and this not in prejudice to the
North but to show that Of the South underrate onr
selves, and bend too much to Northern opinions.
He said that If the alien and ssdition laws of John
Adams time WHICH the result Of just such Masss
chusstts sm drawing lines between native and foreign
born cizsns has recently been revived in that State
would be the subjects of military despos.
The community of interest that the aborer, merchant
planter in protecting the institutions of the
sonth which h.ys b,e wnrred upon for twenty wears BY
Northern Abotionism was iwels upon at some length
rh osrior;, and nraorass,vensss Of the white race
the Of the black race were touched upon
He said that of all the territory achieved by the joint
battlipgs Of the North aid SOUTH the South does NOS
own foot shat she poured forth hr blood as peace
Offering to Northern rapaoity explained the fugitive slave
law cited Mr. Benjamins letter. and took that gentle
-, ;a ~ the troub. to be spprchsnded from Adolf
iar,s, Il N, next Congress Our domestic institutions
~ .;.ht, =, tho soutb he said are oaaket of jewels
h.tbed tn ma bv our ancestors or our predecessors
rbch wa woud be towards and traitors ever srrsn-
, rhe trus issue that exists the great danger thst
tbrsasus us he asserted 10 tho of Northern Adolf
torsm upon the institutions of the South before which
ali otbsr questions and issues are utterly insignificant
We have lodged the question till we can dodge it no
longer We are now situated like the soldier who meets
h,a apsmv In narrow pass-we must either nght or run
he said that the fusion Of the different European ma
tonsties in this country had produced the nest spec
ara of the mental and physical man ever known and
.ca which fit aoud be thrown against Sebsstopo would
the eve Of Europe to looked before
We all trace our lineage to some foreign country he
said can trace mine back to Rrussian of,ser" He
hoped the tide of foreign immigration would continue
He reiterated the great issue be the Northern pse
cuon of Southern institutions Thegsat study of abo
about native and foreign BIRTH the Pope of Rome etc.,
he kened to the religious quarrsls in Jerusalem when
Ttus WINS under its walls
Fa introduced Cuba Spoke Of European interference
about guha AS an ans-savery move Described the at
fractions 81 the island and asserted TINT she belongs to
MS nv reason of both proximity and necessity Showed
nm England and her craft her fear her dependence
mon the United States Asserted the right all reemen
to ympathiss with people struggling freedom in other
Tad Tndv
belly the action be took against him. in this city, which
He then took up the Know Nothing question Denied
that the Pope exercised any authority In this country
that America ID not ruled by Americansthat foreigners
exist in the country in greater proportion to natives
than to nine or ten Who is the true American?
Is it the wild Indian who roams the praires or the
scrouoas Mexcanthas race Of hybrids and mongres2"
He defined Americana to be those who were born here
the so end those who came from other Lands and
undergo tho ordeal Of naturalization. The American
party he said could not grapps wsh the great
the slavery question The moment 1t undertook to do So
it exploded like bubble and as national party
does not now exist.
lie SAID IL mao oesn mas coca fortune TO nave rich riah
Dooo spurted upon nina WhAe patthng for MS country
applsusel tnas TO deprive tue foreign born
czen OF fghs conferred upon him by the constitution,
oy means q secret ana eoWaroy eompnaons would BE-
70 ann sao as our OWE hDertes ana thas tne man who
IN citizen Oh foregn birth the true material
FOR hing pubic ONCE, and yes votes Tor some person
whom ne KNOWS 70 DO haefof' eIey Va accauns 81 hs
spoAe as soAs .sAsn ". ~, eaA'
h. Frequently been benefited b Il and denied strongly
that foreign Immigration svss the ranks of Aboton
ism, aa
Here the General took occasion to that bis remarks