New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-25


The Southern Democratic papers are not unit in
their views Of the effect Of the English Kansas bill.
They do not all think with the Richmond Enquirer
and South that the Kansas question is an extinct
issue.r For example, the Charleston Mercury adj
heres 10 the idea that internal dssensons and
test still rage in the bosom of the union,' and
adds
Re who supposes that they are dead, is fit to wear
can and bells ia the presence of imperial master
The two sections Of the Union were never more
divided and exasperated against each other After
five months legislation on the subject o. slavery
Is only adjourned over in all probability, to the next
Congress, to come back with deeper demonstrations
Of sectional antpathy and hate. The only party at
the North with any affinity with the South-the
triumphant party which, with United South, placed
the present Administration in power-went to pieces
at the North at the first contest on slavery. The first
message Of the President to Congress met on its re-
ception, an opposition which at once divided the
Democratic party patriotic regard for the Union,
or what Mr. Calhoun has called " the cohesive power
of public plumber, still holds together portion of
this party in the North true to the South. But let
the land ordinance, with the Lecompton Constitu-
ton be rejected by the people of Kansas at the polls,
to be held in August next, and even that party may
turn against u.s.
The Charleston Mercury is right. Its predictions
will be more than realized. The man is either
natural born fool or an unscrupulous demagogue,
who maintains that the late Congress did anything
to reconcile the differences between the North and
the South, that greater evaporation OF feeling
does not now prevail between the two sections than
ever before.
The settlement Of the Kansas question, so called,
after five months intense agitation, in which the
hercest passions of human nature aroused was
the meanest and most humiating compromise in
which the South was concerned, ever had part
in, or ever lost by. The whole great principle in
which the slaveholding States possessed the smallest
interest-the right of territories to admission into the
Union as sovereign States, under republican" con-
stitutions formed by themseyes-was made subordi-
nate to and entirely dependent upon the adoption or
rejection, by the people Of Kansas, of a miserable
land grant prexed to the constitution at election
to be held for that purpose some time afterwards
If the people Of Kansas accept the land grant, that
act vitazes the constitution, and Kansas is TO be
admitted into the Union by virtue of a Presidential
proclamation. II the people Of Kansas vote to re-
ect the land that vote kills the constitution stone
dead and every principle for which the South has
heretofore commended. The constitution is not voted
on, itself oh, no Congress would not violate
usage and law to such an enormous extent as to
direct that that should be done, after the people had
voted for the only important clause in that in
strument--the slavery clause but Congress very
quietly sought to reconcile the North and appease
the South, and at the same time overslaugh every
particle Of real principle at stake, by making the
whole affair dependent upon a wretched land grant
vote, as above described And Southern Senators
and Representatives, worn out by the protracted
struggle and probably seeing no better chance ahead
pitched headlong into the trap adroitly set for
them. Let Us not be understood as censuring the
motives that actuated our Representatives. We be-
lieye, while we differ from them, that they acted in
good faith and If the future should demonstrate as
think it will, that the South has been sold, we
shall accord them honest and pure intentions.
The Mercury is also right, we apprehend, in saying
that the slavery question will up in the next
Congress with deeper demonstrations of sectional
antipathy and hate.' We see no possible way Of
avoiding this result The FreesoiIers, flushed with
victory everywhere, strengthened by the admission
of Minnesota, and to be strengthened by the admis-
sion Of two three other Freeso States during the
next session of Congress, will not be apt to abae
jot or title of their pretensions and as Kansas will
undoubtedly reject the land grant, and thus kill of
the Lecompton Constitution thar issue will probably
be brought again before the national Legislature to
add to the fires of discord and swell the sectional
discussions which have already attained such por-
tentous proportions. No there is little prospect Of
peace or harmony in the next session of Congress
and il the South energies from the ordeal without
the sacrifices of principle made at the last session
without absolute loss in prestige, power and moral
weight-we shall be more than satisfied.
Our South Carolina contemporary very truthfully
describes the condition of the Northern " National
Democracy. It is split up into ten thousand frag-
ments, and is becoming more and more subseryient
to the doctrines of Blacl Rspublicanism. Before