New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27
THE rmAno1pArIoy eunsrros.

Under the foregoing head the New York Evening
Post, Of the 18th instant, observes: A1|
Besides those which have been witnessed in the re-
cent Missouri elections there are other important in
dicatons Of restless state of public opinion in the
Southern States in regard to the subject which
underlies all political organizations
The Post then cites the act of the last Legislature of
Louisiana prohibiting the future emancipation of
slaves.
An abolition editor cannot write even short SEN
tence without intimatng falsehood or making a con-
esson Of shame-the gangrene of fanaticism SO rots
the hearts, blghts the minds and mildews the souls
of its votaries.
The "recent Missouri elections +" are nothing but
the St. Louis municipal election, in which the Free
soilers trumphed by a pluraty-nota majority as we
enormously stated few days SINCE in an article of
considerable length. We do not consider that triumph
as matter for especial wonderment. The Freesoi-
ers were victorious at the Congressional election last
August, and there is little no doubt to mind
that they will carry the day at the ensuing elections
But st. Louis is not the State Of Missouri and we
much at fault if the next Legislature of Missouri does
not attend to the city of ST. Louis in pretty efectua
manner.
Outside of this we know of no 'restless state of
public opinion in the slaveholdng States in regard
to the question in controversy In all Of the Southern
States those in which the people desire to sell
their slaves to the highest bidder in order to become
overwhelmingly pous at the earliest practicable mo-
ment, public opinion" is made up so concusively as
to preclude the idea of resessness Some Virginia pol
cians have made judies Of themselves by discussing
the Thayer emancipation scheme !; but, further than
this, all is the veriest moonshine.
There is doubt the subject of slavery q now un-
derlies all political organizations, of abolition
fanatical character. Without the "nigger' there
would be no abolition party. Without lies and liars
there would be no abotonists. Without evil-speak-
king, envy, ranking hate and all observation-disclosures,
the diabocal spirit of fanaticsm would soon be
driven to the darksome and horrid caves in which it
originated.
Further along, speaking of the Louisiana law, the
Evening Post says:
The arbitrary denial of the right of individuals to
renounce the property in their fellow creatures with
which the customs of the slave States invest them is
full of significance in two important respects 1t i'm.
plies, in the first place, that there persons in Lou
siana who are uneasy in their present relations to
their bondmen, and are DESTROYS of queting their
sciences by giving those people their freedom The
disposition to do this is so strong that law is called
in to repress it, In the second place. the rksome and
severe restraint, admitting of no exception which it
imposes on the stakeholder, cannot be patiently borne
for long time. People will soon begin to ask why
please. The enactment of such laws will soon hasten
the time when the question OF emancipation will be
freely discussed throughout the South as it is now
discussed at st. Louis. The Inconvenience the
law connects with the institution of slavery the
it will be abolished.
large amount Of artful fasehood, without any re-
deeming qualification, is set forth in the above ex-
tract 1t censures without foundation, and suppresses
the truth in order to give publication to a calumny.
The very first sentence is obnoxious to both these
charges. The Louisiana law does not deny the right
of individuals to manumit their slaves. 1t does not
prevent them from renOuncing their property in
slaves They can carry their negroes to the North,
or elsewhere and free them, but cannot free them
here with the chances that they will become burdens
upon the general community.
The idea of the abolition editors of the Post talking
about conscience in connection with the manu-
mission OF slaves is supremacy rich, especially when
it is directed against the shareholders of Louisiana
The preaching of scripture by the Devil could not be
more ridiculous. Lessons chastity from the mouth
Of strumpet could not be more absurd Why
under the act of 1866 it is almost certain-we are not
sure as to the precise numberthree thousand slaves
were emancipated in this State. Their aggregate
value may be fairly set down at three millions OF dol
lars Have all the abolition States of the North, or
all the abotonlsts of the North since abolition be-
came rife either by theft purchase otherwise freed
that number of the African race? MOI With all
their wealth, with all their numbers with all their
Wanted philanthropy and with all their pretensions
to superior righteousness they have all failed in doing
as much for the cause of emancipation single,
small sayehoding State, in the remote Southwest !
They affect to believe that freedom to the slave is
priceless boon. They lie, steal and acknowledgement
treason and toment dstulbances--to carry out their
objects, but studiously withhold material add and
keep their fingers tightly cutched on their breeches
pockets when there is an opportunity of honestly
serving the African. We, possessed of practical
knowledge in the premises, entertain grave doubts
| to whether freedom does not injure, mentally and
physically the entranchseG African instead of adva-
tagging him, and yet despite these doubts have done
more for emancipation than all the aboltionsts in
| the Union combined! One word on this point: From
our own personal observation we know that emanci-
patton has utterly demorazed and ruined many
negroes, and have yet to learn wherein it has i'm
proved one
| In conclusion the Post says: " The more inconye-
nence the law connects with the institution of slave.
ry, the sooner it will be abolished ~ On this branch
| OF the subject we do not agree with our New York
contemporary, but as it is minor one, and can never
affect the main question at issue, We will pass over it.
But, has the Post reelected the sure inevta-
BILE consequences of abolition? We cannot believe
that it has The feest tend of hell would reco from
the picture those consequences present. Suppose the
Abotionists of the North had the power positive and
irrevocable and should decree the abolition of slavery
in thirty days. What would be the result Why
there would be abolition, with vengeance-aud that
abolition would amount to the determination of the
white or the black We shall express no opinion
as to which race would be exterminated. We leave
the solution of that question with the phlanthropsts
The white and the black when the numbers of each
approximate equality, cannot exist together except on
terms of nferiority and superiority. This one of the
panest laws of nature, and the who denies is
false to himself, false to his countrymen and false to
| his God.
| silver Sifings-RY CREsCENrA.
| Fable is a torch borne in the hand of truth.