New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-17
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE II, 1857.
Significant Occurrences.

Significant Occurrences. sa
The following, from the Charleston Mercury Of the
18th inst should be read with care and attention.
We quote:
THREE EvKxrs.-In one short month, three events
have occurred which apparently have attracted little
or no notice in the South and in certain presses
at all. The slavery question has broken up the Young
Mems Christian Association in New York, it has
separated the New School Presbyterian Church, and
has entered into the American Tract Society, for
future discussion in its circulations.
Men can become used TO almost any endurance.
Some of the ancient Asatcs wore horse-har shirts,
filled with vermin with but little annoyance Although
periodically overwhelmed by its eruption, the popu-
ation about Mount Vesuvius continue to build within
the reach of its terrible lava But few years ago,
the first breach between the North and South, in the
Methodist Church, produced profound sensation Of
indignation in every home in the South. But where
we now Church after church separates; religious
associations are broken upand even the streams OF
religious literature looking to the salvation of mems
souls, its high and holy aims are to be polluted
with abolition incendiarism, and we hear it with
scarcely an emotion. Some Southern presses pass
over these events without notice. and others advert
to them as they might do to the breaking up Of q
county meeting, or paltry street riot. As great
the confederacy in their sure Developments they are
treated as unworthy OF regard Aured by the patron
age OF the Government, or paralyZed BY an abJect
spirit Of submission, they turn their insensate ndig
will not and cannot remain passive under the mighty
meanings these events show forth. They call them
ultra dsturbers of the peace OF the South, and enc
mics to it's prosperity and safety; and thus it has
BEEN from the first beginning Of the abolition agita-
tion in Congress in 1884. Under the passive inac.
tivity of the South how vast has been the progress
Of things since that day? But there they still
shouting peace and denouncing action.
Great changes in the political as in the physical
world in the order of Providence, often brought
about by regular series of events. A people ripen
| to independence like the fruits OF the eartb Rain
and sunshine, clouds and tempests, pass over them
And often those things which to be obstructive
only hasten the final catastrophe, like bars in
river, which lifts higher by their impediments The
| mighty flood in its progress to the ocean. a4.
! The rebuke to the mere party press Of the South
that persists in vociferatng peace! peace" wheI
there is peace, and when every indication of thu
times foreshadows more determined aggression ant
more relentless hostility the part of our freesoi
enemies, comes with peculiarly good grace from
| the Mercury, the editors of which have ever beel
distinguished for their advocacy Of oldfashionet
Democratic; principles. If anything could dissuad
the pensionares from their suicidal work. this scath
| ing lecture assuredly would.
But if the press Of the dominant party, for tn
sake of few contemplate ,spoils, will endeavor
sacrifice the South for the benefit of their own inter
ests it will make little or difference in the Ion
run. The people are gradually but surely awaker
ing to sense Of their actual condition, and whe
they do become fully aroused, they will in two
three years the wles of selfish politicians will infl
ence them no more than the idle winds, and th
shackles imposed by antiquated and useless politics
organizations will become as void Of strength an
cohesion as ropes of sand.