New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-25


State has attracted general and wide spread attention
from all parts of the Union. The struggle has been
the most tremendous on record. Our poIticals annals
may be searched in vain for parallel. The battle
has been, il may be said without exaggeraton, one
on which public life and death depended We have
watched it closely from the beginning, and shall
watch it closely unto the ending upon the mode
and manner of its termination depends to large ex-
tent not only the succession to the next Presidency
but the honor and prosperity Of the Administration
of Mr.. Buchanan.
If Mfr. Douglas trumphs, and goes back to the
Senate endorsed by the whole moral power of great
State, he will blight wther and consume the Admin.
istration, while striving to maintain his Democracy
He will burn and blister Bir. Buchanan and his sate
lites If he is defeated and Lincoln succeeds bitter
and malignant AboIitiouist, as well as a remorseless
enemy to the Administration will be chosen to fill his
place So, in either event, the Administration can
not win and must lose. Further, if Douglas is tri.
umphant the chances are ten to one that the undi.
yided great West ana Northwest will unite in de-
manding his nomination to the Presidency at the
Charleston Convention. The fact is, if Douglas had
not been an aspirant for the Presidential nomination
he would not have been pursued and prosecuted by
the Washington Union and the Administration as he
has been. His prominence explains the secret Of the
violent animosity displayed towards him.
We are not partial to Senator Douglas, and never
have been. Bat we have said, and say now, that he
is gallant brave, great man, and in many essentials
truly noble and patriotic He has erred griev-
ousy, but he has borne himself heroically. Beset on
all sides by the hordes of Freesoism he has neither
asked nor shown quarter Pursued by the myrmi-
dons Of the Administration with a Carthagenan
hatred, he has not taltered for an instant. Lionke
he has defantly faced all his enemies and is facing
them this day. There is grandeur in his appeals to
his people rarely witnessed The odds are against
him. but he is struggling with a yigor manhood
and might worthy the holest cause that ever in
spired the brain or neryed the hand of man. For
our part we hope he may succeed for were he ten
times worse than he is, he would be thousand fold
better than his opponent, and besides we always sym
pathze with chivalrc spirit picked at by housing
owls and hunted down by ravening wolves.
For speaking thus iuregardt to Douglas several Ad-
mnstraton papers in this and adjacent States have
seen fit to take us to task and to point to the follow
lug extract from a speech delivered by him at Free.
port Illinois, to prove that lie is a decided enemy to
Southern slavery:
1t uuttcrs not in 1chat lray the Supreme Court
mGy Hereafter deciae 10 The abstract question );
WnttHeI s'attLS May VI Hty HOt 20 mo territory
uugt " tue i 55 5's a. 4Gog tot, T[t l''(Sr
Tie reason that slavery cannot exist day Or an6our
anywhere unless II is supported BY local police regu
5a[lo4s; Iho5e ponce regulations can only be estao
S[o ~ Cg lyo ot @nq e PeoPe are
that body whQ WIZ by unmeRaIy LEGISLATION, ehectu.
Well the above is rather tight we admit, but read
the following from the Bangor, Maine speech of
'VA"ro' "slslo'" D"'.e " M,9sSslPt' anu see
.''e'e any ii'7''' 0'1e'eH'e oe'"een Tue
W. s25i''.o,S
s sc s n5 aS y a5 Se5y snoug 1 LeLse 70
security to their property or to his il would he rem
dered more or less yalueless in proportion to the
dhatnlty q holding i without such protection. In
nsg5 coa3 ~ .t % @ IN 1 VI SnI %@I s IS
so great that the owner could not ordinarily retain
it, Therefore, though tie right ,rouid remain, The
remedy 6ethS Glhhfla 4 'soHa tolto'o that Tie orne
o '5s os ' an W t5
tori lrIere The sense Of The infqJitas eqs o9posed
c, u ~ tna"p ~ SiS
anI nov, rd ,l,a ro1i,,rirr f,a2, ,rr nr - so,+l
raralfna Caaatsar of la Tlas5 r1,,ya ~ n
santatiyas
ei5gar,, c,,,no oi+ o+,oI,r,oro H.
of the Deope are opposed to it, for tIev will re1se to
pass laws for its protection; nor can itbe excluded
Where majority are favorable to IT, for they Will
ra ~ f P,"sTfsta ~ necessary @ y e,saIom H.,
the TerrtoTy is omen Ia settcme1t and slaysRoIdnrs
go there, to protect slave property But if they de-
CAne 10 pass sncl laws, what IS tile remedy None,