New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-18
rsIsIspABlNes ANoTHEN c0aIpla MISE.

South will emerge the oseft n0g oay IL ptaetiea1 ~
suits, but in prestige, moral influence and in that
status which dignifes a powerful and intelligent
people ana commands respect everywhere. As the
south has lost by every compromise she has ever en-
tered into with the Northas it appears impossible
for her to gain anything under any circumstances
AS she is usually hoodwinked on the one hand and de-
ceived on the other-and as a few more compromises
will directly affect the integrity of the institution of
slavery and drive her TO the VALVE hope the
masses Of her people, without distinction of party
will arouse themselves and peremptorily forbid their
Representatives and Senators from compromising
their rights, interest and safety, any further.
When the bill FOR the admission of Kansas-com.
monty called the EngishC onfere Jee bill - passed
through Congress last winter, it was universally uu
derstood and preached throughout the South, that
if the people Of Kansas rejected the conditions pre-
scribed in that instrument, they were to remain in
state of Territorial pnpilage until their population
had augmented to ninety-three thousand-a namber
sufficient to eutitle them to Representative in the
lower branch of the National Legislature This
was the consideration which induced many
Southern men to vote for the English bill. Bat
for it, and it Alone the bill would have been re-
jeeted and plain, unmstakable issue, forced upon
Congress and the country. That issue would have
been Shall the application of Territory for I'D
mission as a State be rejected simply because its
Constitution permits slavery? It would have been
better ia our deliberately considered belief that the
issue should have been made then. It will force
itself upon us sooner later, and then separation
from the North, seryitude to the North, will be
the only alternatives for the Southern people to
adopt or accept. We shall never be better pre-
pared for the former than we are now, and as for
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But, the issue was not presented, or compelled as
it should have been, and everything material at
stake was lodged and postponed
Well, the people of Kansas rejected the English
bill by an overwhelming majority, and thus killed
the Lecompton Constitution dead as a mackerel
which had been packed in the center of barrel for
a decade. As soon as the telegraph communicated
this welcome intelligence throughout Black Repub-
licandom, the journals in the interest of Seward,
after chuakling heartily and joyously, commenced
saying that the restriction in the English bill the
consideration" which caused many unsophisticated
Southern members to vote for it-did'nt amount to
much that the action of one Congress could not
bind the action Of another Congress that if Kansas
made application for admission with pure anti
slavery Constitution serious obstacles would in
terpose themselves to prevent her getting into the
;
the requisite population, if her people only demon
stnted that they were sufficiently hostile to the
South AS we expected this and as we f0ret0d it on
several occasions, we were not surprised although
we confess to some slight degree of establishment
at what has occurred since. The journals which
were loudest in the English bill interest-wbich
chanted its praises night aud day-which proclaimed
that it was a measure of peace and safety to the
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were deserving of the everlasting gratitude of their
countrymen-ha been comparatively silent since
the Kansas vote destr yed all their calculations gave
thele to all theirp prophecies and placed themina dis
agreeable position generally. They seem astomded
aad if not astounded, are only waiting to see how
the current flows, in order ia be on the safe and win.
ming side if possible. So they win they don't care
who or what loses We incline to think they are
waiting, and that they are not ast0unded. They are
preparing to spring another compromise old one
hlvng served its purposeanl to obtain another con
cession from the 5outh-another surrender of right
and principle from the saveholdng States Of the
confederacy.
That this latter impression is well founded, the
antiSOuthern course Of the Richmond (Va) Enquirer
quite amply proves. The Enquirer supported Gov.
Walker in his Kansas treachery, and supports Sena-
tor Dougasi his struggle against the Administration
Of Mr.. Buchanan. 1t maintained that the English
bill was safe and honorable for the South that it was
inst the thing that it would put an end TO sectional
agitation and that if the people Of Kansas wouldn't
accept it, they would have 10 remain out Of the
Union until their population entitled them to adms
sion. But since the people have voted against accent
ance, the Enquirer's tone is changed. 1t now advo.
Gates what opposed not long Since as witness the