New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-30

document; and that recognition has afforded us any
thing but pleasure. The name belongs to an indi-
yidual for whom we entertain feelings of warm per-
sonal regard and friendship. Prof. Alexander Dimi
trys name has business at the bottom of any such
production. Although man Of splendid intellect
and vast erudtion, he is no politician. Although
fitted to adorn the highest positions, the smallest
twile-worker ever admitted to the purlieus Of a
Washington /" Kitchen Cabinet 7 woul out-general
him ninety-nne times in a hundred. He can write
paper that would do honor toa statesman yet does
not understand how to manage the machinery of an
ordinary primary meeting.
Prof. D., in our opinion, had nothing to do with
the connection of the above circular, and only
asked to sign it because Of the weight it was supposed
his signature would have upon those to whom it was
addressed. II ta#
So much by the way of preliminary. "The Lou
isianians temporarily residing in Washington, can
put their hands to much better business than that in
dcated in the above erpose In fact so far as the
welfare of the South, the interests Of Louisiana and
the perpetuy of the Union concerned, the
they abandon the use of secret political circulars to
effect purely partisan purposes, the better
The foregoing circular is not particularly imporant
in itself, further than that it unveils the system of
tactics by which the Buchanan leaders hope to sue
ceedthe means they are willing to adopt to secure
successand gives assurance to the belief very widely
entertained that they rely more upon secret, under
hand agencies, than anything else -.-
4 The above is but sample Of numerous private cir
cars that have been put forth since the adjournment
of the Cincinnati Convention Most of these circulars
are sent directly from Washington under of the
franks Of members Of Congress. Many Of them are
accompanied by notes on the back fly page of the
circular enforcing the faaces set forth in the printed
portion which are intended to incllcate the idea
among the Southern people that Mr.. Fillmore has
little or no strength at the North-that the contest
is really between Fremont and Buchanan-an that
it is indispensable the South should go unanimously
for the latter to defeat Fremont.
Here are confessions Of weakness it would not do
to publish in the newspapers, promulgate from the
stump. Hence the result to secret circulars. What
do they amount to? Let US calmly consider. Why
that Mr.. Buchanan is SO weak at the North that his
chances are wholly desperate, unless he carries the
undivided south-the struggle in that section being
mainly between Fillmore and Fremont-not between
Buchanan and Fremont! With the achole South Mr.
B. might succeed in picking up sufficient number
of Northern votes to secure his election but, with
divided South, the authors of these circulars know
the prospects to be utterly hopeless.
Therefore, they have cunningly and deliberately
set themselves to work to deceive the Southern PEG
pie BY representing Buchanan as the only man who
could defeat Fremont in the North when the expo
sure of the very means they used proves concusYeJ
that Mr.. Buchanan is hardly known in the Northern
race at all, and that he must receive the unanimous
support of the South to render his chances pro
bable! ss, 5E 20
Let the conservative men of the land bear thest
facts in mind, and govern themselves accordingly
Let them stand by the Union and the champion o
the Union-by the Constitution and the inexiblesup
porter Of the Constitution-by sound republican con
seryatis, and the Leading exponent Of that conserva
tism now alive-Millard Fillmore-and all will b.
| well.
We had intended to criteise the circular alluded tt
when we commenced, but it is not necessary; and
besides this article has already attained sufIicen
/ length. l.'s~"