New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-17
THE s.Ln OF THE SOUTH.

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So far as Kansas is concerned, the South has been
Incidentally sold By the present adminstratlon-by
an administration that went into power on her votes
which votes were cast for Mr. Buchanan on the iatn
of solemn pledges that the rights of the South should
be indicated and respected in case OF his election.
The word Of promise has been kept to the ear, only
to be violently wrenched in pieces to the hope
The Washington Union, Of the It'll, as we learn
from our exchanges mot having received copy OF
that paper of that date-cane out with an eaoora.e
article defending Gov Walkers course in Kansas anu
intiating in plain terms that it met the general ap
proyal Of the administration The Union, Of the 'tn'
in an article headed :. The People OF Kansas anu
their Outside Enemies says: j
The Abotioniss of the North are opposed to the ad
mission of Kansas into the Union upon any other terms
than as free State. The extremists OF the SCUM
viii onnose her admission if slavery is not recognized
Nv her constitution as one Of her domestic lnsttu-
tions The New York Tribune threatens the New
Orleans Delta busters; and the Boston Liberator
and few misguided presses in the South, cordially
and fraternaly unite IN their denunciauons Oh 5ov.
Walker whose chief offences appear to have been
that he has zeaousy endeayored to promote the best
interests Of Kansas by removing, as far as he can
lawfully remove all causes of irritation, jealousy and
complaint, and by attempting to adjust past and
present difficulties in accordance with that great prln-
critics.
The Southern Rights Democrats ought to feel fiat
tered at the company allotted them by the official
organ Of the administration of Mr.. Buchanan 1t is
true, but for their assistance, Mr. Buchanan would
never have been enabled to reach the Presidency 1t
is true but for their eloquent appeals and positive as
surances that Mr. Buchanan was better fitted tor tne
crisis that was approaching than Mr.. Fillmore-the
man who had been tried and never finched, who had
been weighed and not found wanting-the chances
largely preponderate that the Southern people would
have cast their votes for the latter gentleman 1t IS
true they constitute the lfebood and brains OF the
Democratic party South and their withdrawal would
cousjgn it to an mbecile and wretched minority. All
these are patent in the past and
unreasonable in the present. Yet, an administra-
ton thus placed in power and weighed down by such
debt of gratitude, cooly places them by the side OF
the Abotionists of the North,' the editors of the
Boston Liberator and New York Tribune!
Verify here is food for reflection, not only on the
part Of Southern Rights Democrats but of the whole
Southern people. The black game of treachery has
been PLAYED and won. There is no use of repininG
over the past-there is no sense in hoping for thu
present. We have nothing to expect; and all ou
energies, mental and physical, should be employed il
| preparing, as best we may, for the future
| To show our readers how the expose of the deter
mination Of the administration to sustain Walker
treason in Kansas is received by the feesoilers We
/ shall make some extracts from lengthy editora
which appeared in the New York Evening Post, o
the sth inst It is needless to add, we imagine, tina
the Post is one of the ablest most yrulent and nu
entail freesoil organs in the North. We quote a
follows
THE TURN OF THE TlDE.-We presume we do no
attach too much Importance to an article which w
| COPY to-day from the Washington Union, when we in
fer from it determination on the part OF the Fedora
/ Administration to sustain Governor Walker in Kan
sas. and treat it as pledge that the people in tina
Territory shall have an opportunity of passing upol
the Constitution under which they are to live. |
bears internal evidence Of having been written BY
authority and seems to be SO construed uniformly b.
the cognoscenti at Washington.
/ This article, assuming it to be authorized by tn
government, marks in the political history 0
the country it is the first tribute of respect to h
antislayery sentiment OF the Northern States which
| has come from the Federal Executive for the las
| twenty years. After a contest conducted will
great bitterness, and so far as the North was con
| cerned, under every imaginable disadvantage, WI
have to-day to record the very first act any Fedora
Administration wearing an aspect OF resistance to tn
pro-savery policy of the Southern oligarchy.
"Tribute of respect to the antislavery sentiment |!
Did Southern voters place Mr. Buchanan in the Execr
1 tive Office for this