New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-09-10
ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

ADDRESS OF THE DEaIoCR ALTO STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
This long expected document made its appearance
yesterday in the columns of the Courier. 1t occu-
pies nearly three columns and half Of that Journal
So far language is concerned it is well written and
is more moderate in its tone than similar maniestoes
have usually been of late years.
The Address is general in its expressions and pre-
sents few salient points In argument it is extremely
feeble, fine spun sentences being almost altogether
unsupported by fact and its rather ingenious sophis
try, which wholly ignores the past and present perls
of the South, the Kansas perfdy Of Walker in which
he ls appreciated by Mr. Buchanan, etc, being unsus
tanned by the proof Of history the actuates of the
times that are pressing upon US, or the probabilities
which loom up grimly in an ominous future. The
political organization known as the Democracy is
sufficiently eu1ogzed but scarcely any attention is
vouchsafed questions of vast moment vitality affecting
the safety, rights interests honor of the Southern
people, as wound up and ineStricably involved in the
success and perpetuity of the institution Of domestic
slavery. Indeed, the question Of slavery is not ad.
verified to at ALL Whether this omission was caused
by lack OF interest the part of the writers of the
address in the institution whether they foand it
| impossible to touch it without sanctoning the
Buchanan Walker treachery in Kansas or denouncing
the aforesaid reachery and their loyalty to the South
gave way before an overwhelming wish to secure a
mere party triumph at all hazards, is matter which
does not within province to determine. Suf-
flee it to say, then, to the saveholdng constituency
| of the commonwealth of Louisiana, that formal ad-
| dress, presumed to have been prepared with much
/ care and deliberation, put forth by the Executive
! Committee of the Democratic party, pursuant to a
resolution of their State Convention fails to discuss
and hardly refers to, even incidentally subjects OF
4 immediate and overwhelming Importance to the
Southern people The sin of omission, under certain
circumstances is said to be bad as the sin OF COM
mission. Let our people judge accordingly, then, OF
/ this significant, wonderful omisson-an omission
that must have been the fruit of careful deiberation
Passing over the preliminary observations, usual in
such addresses, as well as the averments that the
American and old Wing parties have gone to sleep
forever in the tomb Of the Copulets or some other
place of retiracy similar thereto, and that matter
how well disposed, they could do nothing for the
South or the Union neither being essential to the
object we have in view, and neither of which do we
| hold to be well founded, we come down to what we
consider the first positive statement regarding the
nationality of the socalled Democracy and its ability
to preserve either the South or the Union We quotes
The Democratic party alone can bring an assured
strength from every quarter OF the Republic to the
support of principles which are true to the Consttu
ton and to the Union, principles which are historic
in her political creed principles which recognized
4 by her people in the remote North and the remote
South, on the shores of the Atlantic ocean and by
the gentle murmur of the Pacific. In every quarter
of the Union where the doctrines and principles of
the Democratic party prevail, her statesmen are eH
pected to carry them into practical operation Every
abandonment of principle on the part of her states
4 neT has
trine, but by an abandonment of the men who have
| proved delinquent in their trust.
Here we take direct issue against the verify of the
above statements and shall, by bringing the crucibe
of truth to bear upon them, demonstrate that they
are unfounded and unreliable. The past with its
undisputed and indspuable data, supplies the first
| want; and the present, teemng with Democratic
treacheries to the South forfeiture of pledges and
Southern sacrifices, made on the altar Of deuson,
furnishes the second. The portion of the Address
quoted above says The Democratic party alone
can bring an assured strength from every quarter of
the Republic to the support of principles which are
true to the Constitution and to the Union" etc. Is
this SO, to any practical extent? No! James Bu-
chanan is the head of the so-styled National Demo
cracy. As its candidate he ran for the Presidency
and, last November, majority of the votes in ere1u
| free State save one, was cast against him! What,
then, becomes Of that assured strength to which
the address proudly refers Test it by the touch
stone of fact, and it at once becomes yalueess " In
the remote North, along the shores of the Atlantic
ocean, and by the gentle murmur of the Pacific
the National Democracy, under the lead of Mr.. Bu-
chanan, received minority of the votes cast saving
and excepting the single State of Pennsylvania.
Generally the Black Republicans carried all before
them and the probabilities are that in 1860 every
free State will range itself under the banner of Black
Republicanism and assisted by four newly admitted
! Freesoil States-kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and
Oregon-will trample the rights and honor of the
South still further in the dust than they have been
heretofore tramped, notwithstanding the redoubtable
assistance of the puissant National Democracy !
| What then, becomes of the assurance of strength
vauntngly set forth in the Address of the Central
Committee! 1t is of no more substantial worth to
the people of the South than was the assurance of
the Father Of Evil to Saviour after he had taken
| him to the summit of high mountain shown him
| all the riches and gories of the kingdoms of the
earth, and assured them all to him if he would fall
/ down and worship at the feet of his Satanic Ma
jesty. The Devil had no right to proffer any such
assurance and was refused. No committee of any
party in the South has any right to lead the Southern
people astray by seeking to assure to them sefev
dent impossihtes, and whenever such audacious
assurance is ventuied it should be promptly rcbuked
Having disposed of the first proposition we will
/ now take up the second States the Address " In
every quarter of the Union where the doctrines and
principles the Democratic party prevail her states
men are expected to carry them into practical opera
ton," etc. This too is contradicted by the events of
the past few MONTHS and as facts speak louder than
words, we propose to appeal to facts. In the Con-
yention that nominated Mr. Buchanan for the Presi-
dency the doctrine of nonintervention in regard to
slavery was proclaimed, and published to the world
as cardinal Democratic principle yet Mr. Buchanan
had been but few months in office before he an
| pointed Governor of Kansas, who Immediately pro-
ceeded to intervene in the most offensive manner and
there's hardly shadow of doubt but that his con-
tinued, unceasng intervention in behalf of the North
and against the South will result in the transfer of
that Territory into the hands of our Freeso enemies
Further: and although Democratic Southern State
Conventions, Democratic statesmen and orators and
Democratic presses have condemned Gov Walker
with unparalleled unanimity, and demanded that the
President should recall him, the President has re-
fused to recall him. and continues him in Office,
| thereby endorsing his course and sanctoninc his
antiSouthern policy! Democratic" statesmen,
may be "erpected' to carry Democratic principles
into operation, and fulfil Democratic promises but in
this instance Democratic President has heIied all