New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-18

caly, morally or socially. Wehave more sons at col
lege in proportion to population than the North /;
we have more wealth in proportion to popu-
lation than the North we have little of the
suualid poverty and unspeakable wretchedness
that prevail at the North. We do not have
palaces on one hand and starvation, cold and
nakedness on the other, as does the North. Our
preachers Of the gospel preach the gospel and not
politics. as do great number Of the Northern preach
ers. Our women are sensible enough to be satisfied
with the sphere in which COP has placed them, and
have no desire to unsex themselves put on masculine
garments or render themselves ungentle and disgust
inc BY spoutng from the forum or declaiming that
they should be allowed to engage in election rows and
disturbances as do many of the women of the North
We might proceed further, but we opine we have
gone far enough to make the editors of the Times re-
greet they ventured upon comparison of the relative
condition. religious mental or physical Of the South
ern and Northern people.
1t is true Northern thieves do trouble us somewhat
but we are able to bear complacenty the loss of the
few foolish or rascally negroes they manage to alb
duct Those stolen negroes will yet return to plague
the thieves or else are much mistaken in the signs
| of the times.
We don't like to render the editors of the Times I'M
easy by asking impairment questions; but we really
would like to know what would become of the q ma
teral prosperity Or the commercial prosperity "
of the North if the protection ofthe government and
the supply Of cotton were withdrawn for single
year What would become of your importing mer'
chants, your banks, your manufacturers, your ship
ping interests? AS you import vastly more than you
export, how could you liquidate the excess against
you if deprived Of Southern exports exclusively, as
you undoubtedly will be in few years if you don't
reform, radically and altogether? The means ofpay
ing for your imports having passed finally into Other
hands, would not the imports be very apt to take
another direction
| The braggarts about Northern material prosper
ity would do well to ponder these interrogatories
profoundly before they indulge in vangorious boast
ings Pride goeth before prosperity, and naughty
spirit before fall" -....
| Further along, in the same article the Times has
the following observations, which quote at length
in order that readers may properly appreciate the
ideas of this important Freesoil organ
The New Orleans Crescent, and other Southern pa
pers profess to have discovered menacing danger t
their institutions in Virginia and other border States
which must inevitably be compelled, from the impos
sibility of keeping their slaves, to sell of all their live
property and then join the great free States OF the
North and West. The effect of such a movement a:
this would be to convert the adjoining slave States
into border States, which would in time be compelled
| to follow the example of their immediate leighbors
and so the process of converting interior States int
border States and border States into free States unit
slavery would extingush itself by natural and in
eyiable law. We must confess that there is shadow
OF reality in these border chimeras of Louisiana ant
South Carolina.
To prevent slavery from committing telo de Sc, tht
Crescent has suggested that the only effective course
Al, IL To,
hibting the Importation Of slaves from the borde
States. 1t being presumed that Virginia and the
other breeding States being denied market for the
great staple, will never feel themselves able to beal
so great loss as the emancipation of their slaves
would entail upon them, and that they wouldcontnue
to FORM as they do now, Gordon OF border States tc
prevent the escape of slaves from the interior States
The objection to this ingenious plan is that the
slaves of Virginia absolutely necessary to the States
further SOUTH which do not breed laborers enough fol-
In the meantime, while these points are in process
of discussion by Louisiana and South Carolina Vir
ginia must look with very singular sensations tc
lind herself regarded as inevitably taking her natura
position as free State unless she can be coerced int
the permanent condition of slave breeder Perhap:
she may come to the conclusion that her only safety
lies in taking time by the foreock, and selling OIL al
her slave property while there is yet market oper
| to her
| As we have noticed the main points in the above
extract already we have nothing further to add, eX
cept to recommend our readers to perse it attentve
Still we cannot refrain from remarking that the quasi
Recommendation to Virginia to take =" time by tn
forelock" and sell :" off all her slave property Will
there is yet market open to her" sounds very quee
from the mouths of phanthropists whose only stool
in trade is protested sympathy for the ensave'
African But they as honest as the rest for Their
is no real honesty in any of them.
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