New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-25
So WHY DO WE MEDDLE WITH sLA-
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..t;ssaeorily answered. but have been disappointed
like ali Freesol efforts is full of esuitism and spe-
oaI peading and falls short goes beyond the prac-
tical issues in controversy. "Why do we {the Ahoi-
tionists) NEEDLE with slavery is question of all
others now agtating the country, or likely to agtate
the country for e,v years to come, we would like to
see honestly faithfully and practically answered.
For our part, we are free to say that are igno-
rant Of the wishes or designs of the Black Republic
cans, Judging from their public demonstrations We
| do not know what Seward wants; it IS lmpos-
sble to tell what the leading Freeso journals want
it is difficult to understand what the prominent men
of that party in out of Congress- are driving at so
far as their ultimate intentions are concerned 1t IS
only from their general policy, combined with the
causeless abuse and vndicve persecution they con-
tnuay visit upon the heads of the Southern people,
without regard to time, proprety, truth or JUSTICE
that we are able to arrive at an idea OF what they
would do provided they had the power. II they had
the power there is doubt they would like to bring
immedcable ruin upon the white Southern people,
without respect to age sex or condition. If such ruin
would not affect detrmentally their lecuniary inter
ess. They utter sehoods with greater facility than
the Father of Lies himself if that is not their design
as soon they get their dabolical arrangements in
proper train. They are lying, and have been lying
blythe year. literally for nothing if that is not their
intention.
Rnt for ono no;nt in the article Of the Times
which wa shall nresentlv bring forward we should
have laid the naner down with a feeling akin to that
| e,ner;enced bv man who bos been searching for
| somatbino without finding It our New York eotem-
norerv asserts that We of the Soutb are 3. sadly
oned and nuzzed Nv the interest which the North
| takes in slavery, IF the Times had said that we
wave d;srrsted and outraged Mt the imnertnence.
ondocit,, ond Xv;ckadpess of Northern interference
with that which Concerns none hut ourselves. it
,von,d have come nearer the truth,
Tho T;mes then proceeds to commitment Massacbu-
ott. and Nav York in a manner that ,rould make an
ascetic smile II saws that "publc affairs do not
the controlling interest of life in those
tvo commonwealths- that the vast majority of the
L oi+;von - !. loot mon not;cs as trade to ba mr.
sned nv those who have no other calling to o,cupy
their time and pnon ,noticians os a somewhat dis
rapptabla class of naon,eu This is certainly NOT
vrv attarno either IN the intelligence or natriot,sm
| of the voters of New York or Massachusetts, Be-
s;des If contradicts the history of the mast For
the neon,e of those States have eected
nnb,;c officers thew should he ashamed witness the
aisorscefrl nroceednes of tbe Hiss Investigating
| nunnery committee the Mattesop bribery case at
| WASHINGTON etc etc. Init as the whole peonle az.
sisted in eectinr these disreputabe men with their
eyes and ears omen. and as there was no falling
off in the vote it is quite evident the masses should
share enualy the blame with the politicians "The
receiver is as bad as the thief.r and when people
choose to elect to high positions individuals alike
characterless and inscriptions, they should not at
tempt to escape the odium which is Justly their nor
\ finn Then again il is a fact known to the whole
world that the electors of the commonwealth named
take five times as mucb interest and make ten times
as much noise. and tell twenty times as MANY lies
during election canyasses as do the electors of any
/ IT,, c+to =; +,,o I7n;o ,o,,or ,,t,,o1; ro
! o'ueh ''a'e III sne on'on 'sia' "'uinai'" pie
Vas from the opening 10 the close OF every important
| political campaign
But. to prove how little their home people care
about ,,bio oeirs to r;nos loons ,,or tho ,;tpsss
"o'" P'Di' "n'' Wy A''->' iInP' "f'i 'A. .
stand ana testhes as follows: Here or instance IN
the wealthest and most populous city of the Union,
we find SO little time to attend to public affairs that
we suffer all sorts of knaves and idiots to Chamber
into civic places and to revel in the sweets of mu-
nicipal patronage
II the foregoing testimony be founded in truth, it
/ is certain all decent men throughout the earth will
agree with us in opinion that is high time the Times
all its free soil compeers and all the christian men, or
unchristan men having any pretensons to civilization
now living and moving on the island of Manhattan
should cease talking about the sinfulness of slavery
stop pang about the evils that beset their neghbor
quit carping at the imperfections of contemporary
cities or adjacent States no matter how dcplorabe
| their condition. and go resoutely to work to remove
the fearful moral disease under which they are labor
ing. We may be very bad off down South, but we
have not sunk low in the scale of respectable being
to allow all sorts Of knaves and idiots to rule
over us.
Immediately after the above humating confession
comes the following NEEDLE with slavery
Nevertheless, we do give ourselves great and in
creasng concern about the existence OF slavery u
ga Is, NJ ,,b % 70 a~oa @ anvil botove NJ
ertheless. we do feel, and the feeling is growing
deeper in the Northern heart with every passing
year. that onr character our PROSPERITY and our des
W.: nr s,nction Of saTsr IN hos
States
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~ .nAes 'nAee VI '''' %. " pom - wa"
That " increasing concern consists some poftiohs
the explanation really amusing. 1t is admitted tina
the slayehodiup States of the Union are independep
sovare;gntias Int further aonp it Significantly so
do,rn as trnis,, ,bot atbose stot.s which axoct
-, az, r,,os,r, of rosnoot for thar ;ndono,do,c,
must remember that the object of those who frame
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