New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-13
MONDAY MORNING, JULY Ii, 1857.
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MONDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1857.
A STRONG LETTEI

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We find in the Richmond South, Of the 7th inst,
long and very able letter from the Hon. Lawrence NJ
Keitt, of South Carolina. 1t is addressed to the
editor of the Richmond Examiner, and is dated Both
of last month. We have only room for the concluding
paragraphs Of it, which recommend to the earnest
| attention of our readers. @
A few words are here necessary to proper under
standing Of the matter. In the Richmond Examiner,
of the 10th ult-the Examiner is, by the way, q
strong Democratic journal, and Mr. Kett has always
been recognized as reliable Democratic statesman
an editorial article appeared severely censaring Mr..
K. because of his denunciations of Gov. Walkers
Kansas treachery and his holding the administration
responsible therefor unless steps at taken
to remove the traitor In short, the Examiner stated
that Mr. Keitt was an enemy to the administration,
aud opposed the National Democratic party.
To these sweeping allegations Mr.. Keitt responded
as follows:
{" contributed my support to Mr.. Buchanan in the
last election and am not iEdisposed to his admins
tration hope that it will be as constitutional and
successful as its most enthusiastic friend could wish
furtherance Of this it shall have grudging sup
port from me. If, however, Mr.. Buchanans admins.
tration should prove false, I shall promptly and
earnestly oppose it. will not PREJUDICE it, or decide
against it for small cause, but will scan its acts with
a friendly though impartial eye."
Ut tHeH stdtes Luat ue mas denounced G0V. W ak
er's policy, and shall continue to denounce it, and
reviews his career in Kansas most scorchingy. At
the close of this review he thus refers to the Pres
dent
Gov. Walker can only urge the right of the inter.
mediate settlers in Kansas in order to make Kansas
freesoil State. will not believe Mr.. Buchanan an
accompce in this policy; without sufficient proof il
there be any completely, however, my denuncations
will be the less earnest. The resolutions of the
Democratic party Of Georgia, in convention at Mil
ledgeville, few days ago, the Kansas policy OF
Gov. Walker, express my own views clearly enough
The administration should absolve itself from Walk.
er's treachery. 1t will do So am sure, unless it
means to be responsible for it.
All, Mr.. Keitt, the administration would have long
since absoved " itself from Walkers treachery, un-
less it meant to be responsible for it from the
start! We would not do injustice to Mr.. Buchanan
but facts, grave and alarming go osnbstantate that
there must have been thorough understanding be-
tween the President and the Governor from the be-
ginning. Notwithstanding the solemn promises made,
the South was to be again sold and quasi Southern
man was employed the instrument to accom-.
plish the unholy work. The scheme of treachery
was deemed absolutely necessary for if Kansas was
allowed to come into the Union as slave State the
leaders at Washington knew, or were fully con.
WINGED, that all hope of carrying single Northern
State in 1860 would be blasted. Hence as the sue
cession had to be provided for the cold selfish plan
of betrayal.
Il But, should the President even now remove Walker
and act boldly and fairly he may absove himself from
/ the charge Of completely. If he does not however
he is and must be held responsible for his acts to the
fullest extent. The agent cannot according to any
rule known to the civilized world, be pronounced
guilty, and his principal still sustaining him. be de
clared innocent. Under such circumstances the prin
cipa is more guilty than it is possible for the agen
to be.
We append the concluding portions of Mr.
Keitt's letter:
The second allegation is, that am hostile to th,
National Democratic party. never have abdicatet
my independence, and put on the collar of the Demo
cratic party, and never mean to do so.
| support the party when l think it right, and
oppose it when | think it wrong. have some but
not absolute confidence in the National Democratic
party: To have absolute confidence in it, must be
eve both in its adherence to the Constitution and
its ability to protect that instrument. pass by
its basis of principles as periodically promulgated
and look for moment to some Of the acts of some
of its leaders and members. | find them ii. e. some
OF the leaders and many of its folowers) for high
protective taritt-for stupendous scheme of nterna
improvement and for the power of Congress to enact
the Wimot Proviso, although its enactment, they
admit, would be unjust and unwise. l find many Of
them voting against the extension of the line Of 36
deg 80 min, to the Pacific in "lS46 and '4S,'' Il
quote the years from memory,) and vote in 1850 u
to dsmember sovereign State, and devote the mu-
tated portion to freesoil and orthe illicit admission
of California into the Union free State and for
stigma upon slavery through the abolition of the
slave trade in the District of Columbia.
In 1884, find also onehalf, minus one, of the De-
mocratc members of the House from the free States
voting against the Kansas Ne ebraska BILL although it
was made test, and voting against it because it was
supposed to be favorable to the South The Governor
of Virginia, and the Cabinet officer from Virginia,
believed the omnibus measures of 1850 to be great
wrong against the South, and I have no doubt but
that Virginia thought likewise And yet the active
advocates and to some extent the authors of these
measures, now wear the garlands and fets of high
priests at the national Democratic altar. Do you not
believe that they would give the same votes again
under the same circumstances? Three members OF
the party from the North, who deserted during the
struggle on the Nebraska Kansas bill suspected
of them are again in full communion with the party
and what q fruits meet for repentance on their
part have the country seen? 1t is not sufficient that
they are no,r in the party They were in it before
reesoilsm carried them against the South. If their
mere connection with the party is sufficient, doubt
not but that many of them would patriotically still
further illustrate their conversion and conservatism,
by the acceptance of office from the party, and pro-
badly think Also that the higher the office the clearer
the demonstration.
The truth is, that the South has been betrayed and
sacrificed in every struggle portions Of the national
Democratic party as welas by other parties be-
betrayed her are now in full communion with the
party. and I do not believe they have repented.
The members of the Democratic party then, have
not always clung to the Constitution as we under
stand it, and if understand it very differently we
cannot belong to the party. Is the party able
to defend the Constitution
| have not delivered it over to Black Republicans,
Gas you intimately but believe that the Black Re-
publcans will capture it in 1860. expect then
however, to be fighting with it, and the same line
with yourself, and that neither of us will be in the
ranks of that division which expect and intend to
submit to the Black Republican fanatics. The great
deep at the North seems to me to be broken up and
the abolition flood rises higher every day. Little
subaern municipal elections and the control of cross
roads, which the opponents of Black Republicanism
have recently, in some instances, torn from them
are not noticeable wrecks upon the waters. They
have the legislative, Judicial and executive power
and these are all thatwe of the South are concerned
about believe, from all the signs, that the Democ-
racy will be defeated in 1850, and while entertain
this belief shall not conceal it. believe that the
safety OF the South is only in herself. The road to
federal honors should not be over her rights nor
should betrayal and treachery be the passport to
federal favor My advice, then, to the South is to
have some, not absolute confidence, in the National
Democratic party, and keep her powder dry. The
latter Is much more likely to save her than the
former. -
LATER FROM MExICo.--The steamship Texas, Capt
Forbes, arrived on Saturday morning from Vera Cruz
bringing papers from that port to the 7th and from
the capital to the Sd inst. "
Our files by this arrival contain intelligence of