New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-20
RIGHT SORT OF TAX.

The Mobile Register is one of the strongest and
abiest Democratic journals in Alabama, but notwth
standing the nhexbity of its party fealty, it oeca
sionalB speaks but regarding the aggessiens Of the
North upon the constitutional rights OF the South in
I q Mariner not 10 be mistaken nor misunderstood.
And, whenever it breaks loose from the trammels i'm
posed by mere name which now means nothing nor
conveys an idea as did in the days of JACKSON and
his predecessors it takes noble and patriotic ground
which should meet with the appreciation of every tue
Southerner.
The Register of the 18th contained an elaborate
article setting forth the present political tendency of
the age from which we extract the subjoined para
graphs ~
Some effort or movement of this sort with the
North must be made at the North, or something else
take place to reform the Of the Northern opin
ion and action in connection with the question of
slavery otherwise, the Union is doomed, and to a
speedy fate The South must be rid of this continual
and vexatous worrying about slavery. She has been
patiently waiting to see it that fnalty Of slavery
agitation, which has been talked oil and promised and
strive1 for so long, is likely to be reality She
cannot wait much longer Her hopes are pretty well
exhausted We do not sDpplicate or mpl0re, but adj
monisA, warn and advise the rejecting and Union
loving people Of the North to take this matter in
hand ana TO give speedy quieus to the antislavery
crusade in their section for surely as this is not
DONE and that at once the Southern people walk out
of the Union. We will not be satisfied with even OBJ
tanning our rights in connection with slavery by
struggle on every occasion when it is in ISSUE We
must be rid of the annoyance and vexation of the
continual clamor against slavery. It is right TO
be unfisturbed altogether in the enjoyment of our in
stitutipns and also of our peace and composure and
have right to interfere in any way with US in
connection with domestic affairs. II is an act of
ins0lepce and hostility in any stranger to open his
mouth regarding these affairs. We demand of the
Northern people TO lei US alone entirely on the subject
nf aia (fafH and haNr gf do
Weare Of the deliberate and well and long consid.
cred dpiuon-would that we could conscientiousy
think otherwise that no efforts or movements can
be successful at the North to reform the course of
the Northern opinion and action in connection with
the question of slavery We fear as well as believe
that the period in which such reform lasting,
final and permanent reform could have been effected
has passed and gone forever The tide of Adolf
ton aggression upon the South still flows with
broader, deeper and mightier current if less noisy
and tumultuous, than ever before and he has been
poor reader of history and wretehed observer of
events, who does not know that fanatcisms like re-
voutibns never march backwards. They must reach
certain height before they explode, and cover ma
tion Of nations with disaster just as certain diseases
to which unfortunate flesh is heir, must run their
course, attain their maximum before they abate, or
kill the patient
We have no hope that the abolition disease with !
which the Northern people are afflicted has abated so
that II is likely to abate We believe it will increase
IN viralence and intensity, grow stronger and more
deadly until it forces dissolution of the confederacy,
unless indeed, the South is prepared to submit to a
more contemplate serdom than exists on the face Of
the civilized globe.
There is no evidence of any abatement of this moral
pestilence-ths Northern leprosy. On the contrary,
the evidence goes to show that the disease is spreading
that ii is becoming more and more formdabe--that |
it is attacking what have heretofore been termed the
elassesthat it has well nigh annihilated
the 4 National Democracy of the North-that it |
has extended its influence into the balls of Congress
to subj extent that the application of Kansas for
admission into the Union is likely to be rejected
simply because it contains clause permitting slavery
Notwithstanding it is said that President Buchanan is
bringing the whole influence of bis Office to bear to
secure the of the new Constitution Douglas
he whilom :" National Democratic giant of the
North, has virtually thrown himself into the arms Of
he Black Republicans Many have followed him,
md many Others preparing to follow, 10 order to
pc on the safe and strong side when the Senators
ind Representatives from the three or four new free
oil States shall take their seats in Congress- which
hey will in year or two. Black Republicanism,
which is but another for the rankest abolition
sm, IS at this moment stronger in the Northern States
than It was in 1856, when It very near eecting
Col Fremont President. He who doubts, doubts in |
the face of fact, reason and probability.
Sd far as the Southern people are concerned there
is but one safe policy for them. They must effect
Union of the South for the sake Of the South, dis
card all political eaouses and rvalries, and present
m Undivided impregnable front to their enemies If
they will only do this-and they can do t,-they at /
least will be safe even if the Union is shattered into
fragments on the rocks Of abohtionism.