New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-06
SENTIMENTS or GEN. HOUSTON AND
myrys WASHINGTON UNION.


barbecue was recently given at Washington,
/ Texas, to which Gen, Sam Houston was invited He
gos eyerted to address the people on the subject Of
tbe MEXICAN protectorate and the doctrine Of States
Rights at least SO say they who extended the invi
tation. Letter writer's say he paid attention to the
first but ignored the latter. But in private CONVEX
satfon lie is reported to have remarked that the time
for the South to act had gone by-that the North
had the South BY the throat-that she was poweress
and hopeless, and that her only reliance was upon the
magnanimity Of the North and not upon her power
Of defence,
For the utterance Of these sentiments the demo.
cratic press Of Texas are belaboring the old Gen
eral without stint or mercy. Gen. Houston is not
alone in entertaining these sentiments. There are
number of prominent men in the South who hold the
same opinions, and act upon them, but lack the
independence and honesty to express them as Gen.
Houston is reported to have done Not only do lead
ing democrats entertain and practise these senti-
ments but they have been publicly proclaimed by
the national Democratic organ the Washington
Union. That paper recommended tame submission
on the part of the South Was that not equivalent
10 admitting that the time for the South to act was
past? 1t appears so to us.
The Union gave as reason for this course, that
the North was the majority section that it bad
| preponderauoe in all the branches OF the Federal
| Government that possessed greater aggregate
of wealth of capital material and industrial re-
sources; that these gave the North the poser -
creasing its preponderance by the admission 81
States and that it had only TO elect fsds;
ecatiye actuated BY sectional amnesty 70 rea5t
work Of aggression one Of deeds instead Of Wahds.
Taking this view Of the relative positions q The two
sections the Union said +" the security Of the South
is no longer in her power to enforce bat n The VIII
ingness of the North TO obey the Constitution.
This is much stronger admission of the hepessness
of the South than that reported to have been made
by Gen. Houston. He spoke in an individual ca.
pacity. The Union is the organ Of the National
Democracy We would not be understood as endors-
ing the sentiments attributed to Gen. Houston; on
the contrary we repudiate them. Our object was to
point out the fact that while the Democratic press
assails Cen Houston it has not word to say against
the course of the Union Why is this Is it because
that paper put in the saving clause The Demo.
cratic party-It must be preseryed?" 1t would
seem 50.
Gen. Houston says the North has her fingers upon
throlts and that the only reliance Of the South
for her rights is upon the magnanmity of the North.
The Union said that aggression upon the South had
only been war of cords and that it only required
the election Of sectional executeto render Of
sss and that the only reliance of the South was in
I sentiment of peperons an5 fraternal forbearance
m tia mart Of tbe North Are these sentiments not
IL same II sntstorca2 ID tbev not each admit that
M limo for the south to- act il nast? And vet
Con uonston i taken severelv to tasl, for renarI,
nade 4 nryote conversation. while TIE Union gets
off without 4 word Of rebuke or condemnation, This
or,neorg It. q Ill., H. variast inronsstnpcv
W. sbonld lilte verv much 10 know what nositiou
fbs nar,ocrac, Of the snntb ocennv in regard to az
;sting stata u tbiroa between ta tvo sections A.
WHAT roint orbearance on te mart of the south will
cease "a Re- virtne. Some Of the LEADING journals
nrocaim tbe doctrine~tbat the Soptb sbonid remain
II the Union 80 long # can do SO with honor Bnt