New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-12
THE TNAUeuRAL ADDRESS.

Inaugural address delivered BY President Buchanan On
he III, taken from the Washington Union Of the 5th
Instant We 60 into this particularly for three rea
sons ID the first place, the inaugural address OF
new President is usually looked upon as an impor-
tant document In the second place. important docu-
ments should always be printed correctly. And in
the third place. in order to obtain the absolute cor
rectness required, where could we go with as much
certainty as to the columns of the journal that is
understood to be the official organ Of his admnistras
ton for the next four years :? n S .sssagats ~,
We have read the inaugural address of Mr.. Buchan
an carefully, from beginning to end, with a pre-
termination to be pleased with it if possible. So far
as the document itself is concerned, separated from
all other considerations, there is little to urge against
it and much that will meet the general appreciation.
But when we come to apply it to the actual condi-
ton Of the country, to look at it with eye single to
the practical events of the past few months and years
between the North and the South and compare it in
connection with the constitutional advisers he has
drawn around him, we are forced to the conclusion
that his administration will prove failure and utterly
fall short Of bringing about reconciliation between
the antagonistic sections Of our now common Union
This address and the Cabinet would have answered
well enough for the times that existed fifhof CEN
fury ago but we much fear will be wholly inadequate
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to the contingencies of the present era.
We feryently, with all our hearts, hope we may be
mistaken in our anticpatons, but we have been
strained to say thus much in justice to the truth and
to the importance Of the subject under consideration.
The address is beautifully and ably written,
to have been expected from gentleman of Mr..
Buehanan;s ability and experience. Before taking
the solemn oath that he would, to the best of his
ability, preserve protect and defend the Constitu
ton Of the United States be appropriately invoked
the Almighty for wisdom and frmness to enable him
to discharge the high and responsible duties devoving
upon him :" in such manner as to restore harmony
and ancient friendship among the people of the
several States and to preserve free institutions
throughout many generations That h. may sue
coed is our earnest prayer, although confidence
amounts to but little. 80 ss6,2 adi
Mi. Buchanan then announces his conviction that
he owes his election to the inherent love for the
Constitution and the Union which still annates the
hearts Of the American people, We don't share in
his convictions In his portion Of the Union "nhe.
rent, hate seems to have been substituted for the
inherent love- he speaks Of. With single excep-
ton, all the Southern States voted for him while in
his own section of country, amid most malignant,
bitter and unjst6abe crusade upon the rights char
fourteen Independent sovereignties all of the North
ern States save three, eoted against him We are
unable to discover, as we ntinlated before, where
that inherent love- OR any other sort of "love" for
the Union which Mr. Buchanan alludes to, finds rest
ing place 1.-THE North We hold that it is more of a
myth than a tangible idea-more Of deuson than
an actaty The result Of the late election strength
ened and confirmed what some months of travel and
practical observation last summer led to infer We
are as good Union the President any Of the
members Of his Cabinet; but, as Southern men, we
are unable to saywe wish continuance Of this Union
under the presidency of VIM. H. Seward and the
domination of Abolitionism, both of which we look
upon as absolutely certain at the close of Mr. Btehan
ans administration unless Providence specially in
tervenes on behalf of a wicked and ungratefnl
try. And to express our opinions Enthusiastically we
can neither common sense nor sound policy in the
Souths waiting until she is as powerless in the Sen
ate-which will be tile case in two or three yearsa
she Is in the House, before taking some steps which
will command the boon of security for her in future
The Presidents references to slavery in the Terri
tories to the powers Of the Supreme Court to the
slavery question generally, will command the respect
FIJI attention of all readers. We might interpose
some objection to his views here, but it is not neces
sary in an article of this kind or at the present
ment. And, the remarks which follow through sew
eral succeeding paragraphs amount to only what has
been as well said million times before, and would
be entitled to the respect were they as loty
4 endorsed That's all. Were there no pestilent fana
tics in the country dishonest agitators Or unscu
pulous demagogues, aud were all disposed to act
towards each other as the golden mean directs, the
observations of the President would be applicable
as they are now practically inapplicable. We write
these words down with profound regret-not with
the slightest desire to be captious or sectional.
| MIR. Buchanan thinks it "an evil omen of the
times that calculations to the material value Of
the Union " have been undertaken. We agree with
him on one point, and differ from him another.
is an evil omen !" for the Union ; but we are not
prepared to say it would not have been a trorse
omen for the South if such calculations had been
ignored. These calculations have not been confined
exclusively to Southern men. BY no means. North
ern men, without cause, justification provocation
have proceeded to calculate, cooly and deliberately
how they could bring immedicable ruin upon the
South with the least loss to themselves Witness the
speech Of Mr.. Speaker Banks, delivered from the
4 steps Of the Merchants Exchange, New York, las
summer Under such circumstances, it is not at al
wonderful the OF the section proposed to be wan
tonly destroyed, essayed to make some calculation
their own account to ascertain how they could ge
along after dissolving partnership with those VIII
appeared to be actuated by demoniac desire to &C
oomplish their destruction, nolens polens. The wor
der would have been if such calculations had bee
omitted. If they had been omitted, the Souther
people would have deserved all the contemplation
epithets ferocious and fanateal enemies could hav
hurled at their imbece heads. We say this with a
much deiberation and certainty as we do say tn
calculations haue been made, and that those calculi
tons demonstrate beyond the possibility of mistake
, that the South can get along happily and prospe
ously without the North, provided the North will M
allow the continuance Of this Union only at the e.
pense and degradation Of the South.
4 !" Inherent love for the Constitution and Union
, forsooth For our part we spurn such "loye,H an
I loathe the lovers. The fang of the viper the goo
fool warmed into life in his bosom was not more fat
to him than will be the +" inherent love Of Northel
fanatics so placidiy mentioned by Mr.. Buchanan. "
. wonder if the President had Senator Wilson,
! Massachusetts,, in his eye when he r,ade the abo
very patriotic observation. Senator Wilson on
stated his g inherent love Z" in this wise in pub
crowd, and there is not the smallest doubt MAORI
I Of the people of Massachusetts coincide with him
opinion-for have they not recently elected the can