New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-01
wAsHINeroN CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. as, 1858.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s, 1858.
Cslmness follows the storm and precedes 1t. p
tically, all has been quite still during the week.
COPY Of the Lecompton Constitution has reached tf
President, shortly to be followed by the original
the hands Of Calhoun, who will submit ii directly |
Congress The fight is near at hand, and the drill
sergeants are mastering their forces to battle.
which party win be victorious, nobody knows
and, II we except the ohiceholders, nobody cares
This almost universal apathy is quite accountable
the susceptibility 10 excitement upon the Kansa
question has been utterly exhausted. The bad boz
has been bleeding at the rather too often thu
trick il stale the scboolmsster has found him out
he must come in now and attend to his lessons.
Bat, for the South, what does IL matter how the
fight ends Kansas IL lost inevitably lost. All the
constitutions on earth could not save il to slavery
Under the Lecompton Constitution we get the shell
under either constitution the North gets the kernel
Kansas Is the first burnt offering the altar Of that
hideous idol, popular sovereignty Missouri will be
the next, and Texas not the last. The Kansas-Ne-
brasks bi was but bin Of sale Of our entire terri
torial domain to the emigmnt aid societies. Even
Democrats begin to see this. II the South was in
earnest II the South was not fool, who loves 10
be patfed on the back and called generous, just hon
orsbIe. and other Ike pretty names II the South
had not fallen into the bad habit Of coacedng every
thing for the sake OF the Unonthat u.s. the National
Democracy il the South had not man in her
borders who desired to be President in short, If the
South had the first particle Of political common
sense, the South would make this Kansas issue a
final one--as thus Kansas shall forever be slave
State, else It shall never enter this Union
And why should not this bold ground be assumed
and maintained The argument against slavery is
over the world Is beginning to acknowledge what
Hammond long ago proclaimed in bis letters to Clark
son the slave trade is being resumed by the very
powers who initiated the compact against it, and yet
in the very hour Of our speculative triumph we are
called upon to yield all the material benefits OF the
conquest Where now can Southern institutions
penetrste Admitted to be just they are met in the
North by Sharp's rides admitted to be absolutely
essential they are driven from Nicaragua by the com
bncd fleets Of England, France and America.
This folly should be ended. Bat 1t never can be,
for Ephram Joined to his popular soveregnties and
we must let him alone. The National Democracy are
hopeIessly committed to the doctrine Of nonnterfe-
renee, its Southern wing is paralyzed by it, nor is
there a man Of them who dare raise in his place to
gainsay word which places the South at the mercy
of ragamufn fanatics and foreign paupers and crim-
mails. Therefore, fight over the Lecomptnn CoDst-
tuition and victory in its favor is but mite OF am
munition, an expenditure Of time and breath that
viii avail nothing long as the Colossus Of popular
sovereignty bestrides the Republic.
Among the recent appointments Of the President,
by and with the advice and consent Of the Senate
are those Of Beverly L. Clarke Of Kentucky Minis
ter 10 Guatemala and Honduras Fsyette McMnnen
Of. Virginia, Governor OF Washington Territory
Abraham Rencher Of North CsroI;la, Governor Of
New Mexico and Alfred Cumming Of Missouri, Gov.
ernor Of Utah. Old Buck has been singnIary fortu-
nate in the matter Of nominations one has been
rejected during this session.
The Senate, ii is said, have at length warmed up
to point Of almost seriousness upon the subject Of
the recent shameful affair in Nicaragua They are to
decide the extremely difficult question whether a
gross outrage was a grave error" whether viola
ton OF international law deserves the open reward Of
gold medal or merely the secret appreciation Of the
Executive. / trust that some inquiry will be made
into the behavior Of the commander Of the susque.
hanna. That vessel was at Havana when Mr. Bu-
chanan received the news OF Paulding's grave
error = sealed dispatches we're Immediately for
warded to her captain, who proceeded forthwith to
Punta Arenas delivered his dispatches to Commodore
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