New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-06
REorEN1NG OF THE SLAVE TRADE,

As soon as the message of Gov. Adams, of South
Carolina to the Legislature of that State, recommend
ing areopening of the African slave trade, reached
u.s. we lost no time in arraying ourselves in opposition
to the wild, foolish and impracticable measure We
considered it inudcious, unwise, and injurious to the
last extreme, and so pronounced it. We are truly
grated that our positions have been substantially en-
dorsed by such leading Southern papers as have yet
taken the subject up.
Everybody knows that South Carolina ardently de-
sires dissolution of the Union. Well, suppose the
Union dissolved and Southern Contederacy formed,
Gov. Adams, by this very message would have struck
a blow at South Carolina influence in the South that
no enemy could have inflicted. And, let the Legsla-
ture endorse the Governor, and the Palmetto State
may as well make up hermind to travel solitary and
alone" the painful dangerous aud veXatous paths OF
secession dissolution and agitation. No other State
will consent to follow her into the labyrinth ompac-
liabilities whittier she is tending. The remainder OF
the Southern States possess too much every day COM
mon hard practical sense, for that. AT least such is
our deep-seated conviction.
Speaking of this recommendation of the Executive
of South Carolina the Baton Rouge Advocate, of the
Sd instant has some forcble and judcious remarks,
which we subioin with pleasure, and call the attention
Of our readers thereto:
TIE RESULT OF ABliTY-Thcrc is division in
the Southern mind to the absolute necessity Of the most
Slavery by harmony aud unity alone that the Institution
f sIo % codon tie whe race made by
desire to pepeate it An ANise Providence has or.
race for protection support and Christanaion and is but
Ft FOR the 's %Ssi G o so
ceive and confer ne,s from me relations thus e e3IS
mn h Snn or ofeWen de or dSocy of
pnIrnn tn
the part Of its supporters just as reprehenoe AS similar
Gov Adams Of South Carolina, has thrown freband into
the minds Of the sonsp" t pes Of s s e sn3e
nothing but disaster the cordial nnon
yaa our sqe ne Of the rvy"l Of the slave Trade
already produced its fruits of disagreement and is spoken
| terms.
| After quoting at length from an article which ap
peared in the Crescent on Monday last the Advocate
concludes as follows:
The Crescent is s Sen Gs5q"a @ se e w
diae the leadership of all who do "come down practi
| cal common sense Standard
| We agree in full with our Baton Rouge cotempo
1ary. There is no real division in the Southern
mind respecting the slavery question ; and there
| should lie none. There is no necessity for division
and he who casts a tirebrand to nlame dissenson
should be treated and regarded an enemy, not as
friend. We care not how honest a mans intention
are, if they fraught with evil results and fata
consequences if carried out, as we consider Gov
Adams recommendation to be. The eNigencies o
the times impose upon the Southern people a neces
sy for union and concert in thought and action suc
as has never before existed The eesoi cloud that
darkens the Northern horizon bids fair to spread, III
stead of passing away. We fear it will be densel
gloomier and more porentoas, four years hence tina
it was on the 4th day of last November. If so, Their
must be cordial and heartfelt unon-a union complet
and entire on every important queston-among Oh
people, for if our frecso enemies sustain then
selves nearly four years and then triumph, but on
of two alternatives will be left to the States of til
contedcracy south Of Mason and DiXons line.