New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-18
Col. Wil1ia1nl ID. Lewis.

A We call tile attention of the editors Of the New
Orleans Courier, and other Buchanan papers in the
State to the following card from Col. Lewis, which
appeared in the Alexandria American Of the 18th
inst It speaks for itselfexplains itselfand needs
no comment. Therefore, we shall not venture upon
any.
Col Lewis has. been slandeled. That is q fact
apparent. Will those who have, unintentionaly no
doubt, done him gross injustice make q manly re-
traction and explanation? We pause for, and shall
wait the response to this application:
by tie election G. Fremont BY the election Of James
becue at Alesai!dra, August 10Th 1851
Yon rather 1ppoE J1hn y h nn James u
p pn"an t9F : eS'' '"s same ''S anu
Editor Anlerican-The above paragraphs, found
in the Louisiana Democrat of I'd inst, met my eye
yesterday for the first time, although | am sub
scriber to the paper and am told it has occupied
conspicuous place in that veiGcous journal for several
weeks past THE paper, / presume, is still sent to
Bayou Chicot, where formerly resided, and hence
the cause Of its escaping my notlee until now.
agiphs now but for the fact that other papers, en-
ioying, and no doubt deserving, greater credit for
yeraeity than the Democrat, have copied them, and
by remaining silent greater weight might attach to
their credit than they would otherwise enjoy.
i now state to the Democrat that never uttered
the language imputed to aboYe-neVer entertained
the sentiments contained in the para graphs quoted
and that if the conductors of that journal can derive
any satisfaction from publishing falsehoods on me,
fully authorize them to continue the system adopted
by their predecessor in the conduct OF that aeseca
bepaper, and which on the first opportunity they
havesfooWed up.
For the satisfaction of my friends now state, as
nearly as can recoect, the remarks made relative
to Nj. Buchanans election. do not give the precise
language for do not pretend to so great accuracy
as the Louisiana Democrat
I laid down as a proposition to be argued, " that
the South would gain hut little, if anything, by the
election Of Mr.. Buchanan over Mr. Fremont Here
was the proposition. ! then endeayored to prove,
and think successfully, that the Squatter Sove.
reignty doctrine ofthe Cincinnati platform adopted
and explained by him (Buchanan,) was as injurious
to the rights of the South as were the Freeso doc
trines of Freonts party, and concluded this portion
Of nv argument by the remark that the election of
Fremont would produce the immediate severance Of
our Union, whereas that Of Mr.. Buchanan could at
best only delay that greatest of evils for few years.
wish it distinctly understood that there are no cir
cumstances which could be presented that would in
duce me to vote for John c. Fremont, because Of his
Aboltionisnl nor for James Buchanan because of his
Squatter Sovereigntysm-bo equally tending'to q
dissolution of the Union, the former Immediately and
the latter by slower but equally certain process,
| have too great a reverence for that Union under
which we have lived so long and so happily, ever to
vote for any man or any measure that tends in the
remotest degree to destroy it,, and will cling to the
last plank Of the great American Union of States SC
long as it shall float above the waves Of fanatcism on
| the one hand, and hot headed secessionism on the
| other.
| BY inserting the above you will serve the cause O.
| truth and justice, and oblige
Your Sbedent servant, w.B. LEWIS.