New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-07

We make the following exfractsfrom the speech on
the Kansas question Of the Hon. W. Porcher Miles,
Representative Of the Charleston district in the Con-
gress Of the United States After some remarks
upon the resources Of the slave States, and their
ability to maintain an existence as an independent
nation, the Speaker said
Bat, sir, do not care to dwell on arguments Of this
kind. They have been often aud eaborately set forth
BY FAR ablsr hands tllan mine. They are important
and valuable; bot IL is not On question of d1aars
and cents that the South would dissolve the Union
The history OF long, weary years Of unjust and un
equal legislation has sufficiently proved that point.
Bot when it shall be proved 70 the South not only
that the seeptre has forever departed from her that
she can never. concurreutly with the NORTH rule the
common country. bot that she must forever occupy
an inferior and subordinate position that sfe can
never expand, never occupy her just share Of the
common territory that her institutions and cviiiza
tion are at the mercy OF sectional majority which
toierates them only to the end that her people, a.
hewers Of wood and drawers Of water, = may minis
ter to its prosperity then believe, she will initiate
the example Of revolutionary sires and take her
dessinies into her own hands.
The South Is often accused OF an oversensitirene
the subject Of sayeryof being morbdly irritable
upon IT, And, sir would it be strange II il so7
Is she not perpetuslly tainted reyed, sneered at,
by hundreds Of Northern presses, Northern pulpits
and Northern orators? Is she not held up rdcale
and contempt 70 scorn and execration, in every con-
ceivabe mode and on every possible occasion Bot
think) paEdonable indignation, resents and repsls
with warmth these unqnestionabe attacks, he Is re-
quested ITO keep cool,n and not TO be excited and
dubbed "a reeater," il he cannot practice the in
junction Of philosophical eqnanimityi come here
as new member, just initiated into public fe and
what are some Of the first things that hear on this
| very hoorz hear man, Mr. Giddings venerable
In years. one of the oldest members Of this House.
one who has sat here year after year and heard the
ealumnies against the South exposed and refufed-I
hear him, upon whose hoary head the snows Of many
winters rest and which should have softened his a.
perity and filed his heart with kindness and beney-
| oence-l bear him, man known to be tottering
upon the brink of the grave, denounee his Southern
brethren with bitterness and vehemence that seem
ed almost intended incentive to servile insurrec
ton and to fire the midnight torch Of the ircendiary
Let the South then set her house in order, collect
her strength prepare fol whatever fate has in stors
for her in the future, with faith in herself and calm
selfeonfdence. She is stfSng: let her be wise. Sh,
has many interests, not antagonistc; let her unit'
and harmonze them. She has untried resources; le
her develop them Let her cultivate frateFnal unioz
within her borders. Let her pass dissessons amonl
her sons not to be forgotten Let them ignore petit
issues and stand shoulder to shoulder in her defense
With distracted counses, she is at the mercy of he
enemies. With a united people, she will be invinci
| BILE. Possessing within herself every element o
greatness prosperity and strength with an immeus,
territory and fertile soil, producing staple which
shapes, in no small degree, the commerce of th,
world, which the world can never again do without
and which II is scarcely possible that any othef por
on OF the globe can ever successfully compete witt
her in producing; with such relation between espi
tai and labor gives the lest OF politica
conservatism and social stability she is prepared ;,
fndll her mission and occupy foremost place among
the powers Of the earth. She may DO this in thl
union If allowed her, dae expansion and development
If necessity compels her she can and viii do it indie
pendent and alone