New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-03
NUMBER 275.
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the country jasties golicitede nos only for the
well being batfer the very existence of the Rerb.
jic IT is notfrom abroad that our real dangers will
ever To the fastdious and ariatocrate taste
+ Of foreign courts We may nov be very reapecsa-
bic, but We are respected. Their powers will be
slow to engage in contest with us. The speek Of /
in the East viii pass away; if it does not there
can be no doubt Of the result We invineibIe to
any force thatEurope canFfmg against US; but it is
not Europes policy to fight with us-for sucE con-
test would re-cemcnt our weakened Union, collect
and purify the diverted and 1eentous energies Of
this people. No-her policy speace, gentle annoyfH
ance diplomatic interference and oDstruction to sas
ter the scmblance Of public amity and secretly faf
the embers Of internal discord, until a victim to
its oTyn dscords this haed Republic falls amid the
exusations Of the few and grief the many all over
the world. 1t seems ID the we are doing
all in cur power to commend t,a sagacty and verify
the predictions of the enemies III republican govern
ment As has been intmated, this country is in dan
/ ger from itself. It's at home must look for the
enemy. Rome fell by her own hand. The arrogance
of universal dominion, the corruptions Of prosperity
fostered the parasites that undermined her walls Let
i us be wise in time, and rather take lesson from the
past than furnish warning gtofthe future. e,hage
many domestic enemies, but the most formidable and
threatening is the abolition and free-soil opinions of
the Northdoubly formidable because favored by the
mischievous sentiment that if in error it is an
on the side Of humanity..sLet me say few words,
Messrs Editors, on this subject reserving for some
4 future time aluson to- other subjects.
The graduates of this set of opinions have pro
ceeded with admirable speed and ercenes. They lay
claim to the territories of the Republic prang about
the land purchased by the blood of their ancestors in
terms of ignorant and frothy ydeeamaton and igno
rant of the fact that not afootof our present terri
torial domain was in contest during the revolution.
They march to the assault Of the capital itself, and
would lay their hands on the ark of the constitu-
ton. Their pretended moderation toward the slave
holding States and their admitted rights may amuse,
# if.such. things should amuse but cannot deceive
b Opportunity and power alone does limit their
usurpations and it does not need the di7ner art
to predict the fate of Union If this class of men
enforcing their opinions, shall continue az heretofore
( to increase in strength and influence. Time was and
0, that until recently when he heda bold man
and not only traitor, who should venture to speaf
ID of or soberly contemplate disunion. Now these bot
a schismatcs dare the country to such step The
y public mind has become familiar with the possibility
lie and many good men have begun seriously to calcu
late the value Of the Union. There this subjec
present quiet, that is omnous. Time for argumen
or expostuation has passed. A little more endu
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ed ncredulous of such result. So was Great Britain
and thus she lost the Colonies. Their credulity k
.y hers, may be rudely broken
d. The causes that provoked the revolutionary contes
were in some respects singuarly alike. The acts o
to usurpaton pressed upon the South with Yio
d lence of language and action to which the strongest
parliamentary discussions pending the revolutionary
is contest mild and courteous. That which, when
4 weak and subject, they would not endure, shall they
tolerate now, when strong and sovereign? ~ !
Brethren of the North, pause-infsrm yourselves
consult the records of the past. You have forgotten
a from whence you sprung. This is no consolidated
lie government with unlimited powers to which you can
le dictate Learn the history Of the Colones-the pro-
he cetuinss ofteir committees of safety Deelara
Is, ton of Independence-the Confederation of ITS
lid the Constitution and the history of the Territories
rs. 1851 Know something more than Northern com
NJ mentaries the hansas-Nebraska bill learn ths
ed traditions of the country; visit her batteeds-the
thicky strewn you cannot fail to find them
he learn of the suffering and endurance of the waste
y fields the dcsoated homes, and of the brave devote
at dead-ther bones bleach the soil Of every Stat
from Maine TO Georgia. But many of you, mos
ri ignorant Of what you most assured to thn
re that New England that fought the revolution
Or The writer is Northern man, and takes pride in tn
raj revolutionary performances Of New England H
has learned something-the history of the Colonia
TIL war--and unless history is untrue. in portions
mt the country was that war more nobly fought and
Ter greater cost than in the States Of North and Soutl
mt Carolina and of our armies, distinguished
themselves soldiers than the Contnentals from
b, Maryland and Virginia.
lis Those who thus fought have passed away; but h
NO spirit of the sires animate the hearts of the
Listen to the voice of truth and earnestnesscease
ng urge on extremities that, should you gain then
would offer but barren triumph over the ruins
1 F; the Republic. LENEx.
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