New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-01

deGIded. IN fact utri Southern Rights ground He
doesn't mince his words in the smallest degree, but
marches straight to the point-to an unn1istakable
ultimatum. Heragrets that the actual operation of
the oyelshad lowing poWerof the General Government
should divert 50 much Of the attention Of the people
from the local wants of the various States; that in
the struggles, on either hand to enlarge and limit
the power Of Congress, domestic interests are too
gotten; that Congress has proceeded to ex.
tend its power BY and to control or mod
interests 4 which were left5by the Constitution to
the operation of natural sharp rivalry Of
enterprise and the wisdom Of State legs-
lation, The Governor, then without reviewing the
history Of what is termed the 81 usurpations Of Con
gress, proceeds to use blowing emphatic Ian
guage:
M % The rights Ct haze not only
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# He then disaFows any wish to speak lightly Of
the Union and says cannot have escaped otserva-
ton that the hold which this Union had upon The
affections Of the South has been materially weaken
and that its dissolution now spoken
positive Indifference, and dis de-
sirabe. Further along he states good md wise
men calculate the value Of the Union without pro-
ducing any outhursts Of popular and that
"A !" mis- government has produced this lamentable
change The Governor argues that one false inter
probation leads TO another and SO the process will go
on until the States become mere dependencies and
life liberty and property shall lie at the mercy Of
naked 1naoriies sof Congress, Such is the tendency
Of federal legislation, cues His Excellency. Again
Dsregarding the rights Of the States Congress
to have looked TO the interest Of a favored section
tthe North until that section begins to consider the
Constitution not only made for its advantage, but
as means Of aggression upon tile rights and honor
Of the South Not that Southern institutions are
hurtfuI to Northern institutions, g because they
are in conflict with one of the forms of fanaticisn
at. the North ssss #s.5553 q
The Governor then says
Unless progress this checked the
be history Unity Of action the part Of The
these States that Union worth preservation
of South be necessarily cut of
grsss in defending ourselves the those who use
state distinctly declare tlat
ss e. assaat oss sas a a. s soao
The Governor then states the South is satisfied with
the Nebraska Kansas bill that the Territories should
remain free and open to the emigration of all the
world and when they become States, to adopt what
ever constitution they please, with the single restrc
ton to be republican, that the party cry of no more
SWEEPSTAKES is not only an insult to the South, but
directly vioatiye Of the Constitution and that to use
his own language M 5e845g ss55 {i@5s5 ,B
hold be certain that If The time shaleye
South ssll b Il ssar iRet Senate i + j. The
VIII direct the Legislation es 80 that The South
3S.s The following are the concluding remarks Of his
Excelency on this subject; 55s.,ss .s g. ss y 4
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lis only hope Of safety Is in party let US aim ct higher
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where TO protect ourselves The North demands
hseore Il shall made appear that are not 70 per-
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the Union the time for separation will have arrived.
The following synopsis and quotations give clear,
condensed view, Of the Governors ideas respecting
the issues between the North and the South. In the
main--there are Objectionable points-we coincide in
opinion with Gov. Wickiffe. The conservative, pa
riote Of the North must say to the fanatics,
thus far you may 60, but farther, else dissolu
ton Of national partnership cannot be postponed any
longer than the pecunialy interests Of the various
members Of the concern renderit necessary. Astis,
the tie of sefintelest is the strongest assurance we
have Of the continuance of the Union. The fervent
devotion to the Union that prevailed throughout the
South five or six years ago. does not prevail now.
The deep-seated malignty, the undyngs hate and
ceaseless rancor, with which the Southern people
have been pursued, hunted down, by large portion
Of the Northern people, has cooled, chilled and alien
ated the hearts Of thousands and hundreds Of thous-
anda who, erewhle would have freely sacrificed their
lives to have preserved that very Union! These are
facts-lamentabe facts, it is trne-but they may as
well be laid before the public first as last It is said
continual dropping Of water will wear away the
hardest stone So will continual abuse and ersecu-
ton make cold and turn aside the warrnes devotion
A that ever animated the hearts of men.
But GOV, Wicklife, like every Southern Rights
leader whose productions have come under our obser-
walton, is guilty of an omission Of the gravest most
important, in fact, vital character He tells the PEG
pie Of the wrongs practiced upon them; predicts
unbealable wrongs in the future which will result in
q dissolution Of the Unon-yet ,choly fails to tht
people sohat they must do to be prepared for such
a,omentous contingency as the violent disruption OF
the contederacy for violent it must be- when takes
/ place. the arguments Of mere theorists to the con
traly notwithstanding. He fails to tell them in what
they are dependent. He oms telling them wherein
they are 5helpess-the most helpless people on the
surface Of Cons footstool He neglects enumeratng
9ment Of an independent Southern Republic, without
which we would have no means Of offence ordefence
and would fall an easy prey either to the North to
England or France This may sound strange, but it
is nevertheless true. We have yet to see or hear Of
Southern Rights statesman who, while eloquenty
painting the wrongs Of, the South and pointing to
the severance of the Union, did not fail to tel the
people tie ,choe truth the other side Of the pic
tre, and to omit describing their Deficiencies, as well
as the urgent necessity that existed for supplying
! them at the earliest possible moment.
We will endeayor to supply a few of Gov. Wick
liies omissions, keeping in view probability of the
dissolution Of the Union at early day. as foreshad
4 owed in his inaugural. 51 =
1t is an ineontroYerted fact that the independence
4 Of nation as such, rests upon two main pointsits
power to inure its enemies and defend itself-and its
capacity as a sefsustaining country, agricultural,
4 manufacturing, commercial and marine. The Incl
dents to these attributes leave out as not neces
sary to our argument. 52t
Now, in case of sudden dissolution of the Union,
what could Louisiana do for the common defence and
common snstainment? Nothing. On the contrary.
4 she would be compelled to call upon her Southern
sisters for help. when they would have more to do
than they could attend to- take care of themselves
Louisiana does not produce enough by seyeneiehths,
i meat and bread TO feed her nonulation Che 10