New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-27
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We copy the following from the Charleston her-
curyof the 22d instant
NeRTHERN FAlTH.--We suppose that 1t may be
fairly said that there IL no faith ana no constitution
as regards slavery in the United States. uarTeadefs
donbfiegs remember Nr. Douglas faith in the Kansas
Nehraska at They also remember Mr. English,
from Indiana who moved IN the House OF represent:
atiyps Az tie last Congress- for committee TO see
whether compromise couid NOT De mace on tne APP
nIicstion Of Kansas to be admitted into the Union
/ a committee was appointed, and Mr. English was
| made the chairman Of it, and he accordingly re-
| uorted to the House the Compromise bill The bill
bassed the House, he declaring that by it the Const
tuition of Kansas was submitted for rejection or &C.
ception to the people of the territory. This gentle
man is candidate for reelection to Congress, and
on being questioned he has declared that he would
vote for any bill proposing to admit Kansas into the
Union despite the stipulation in the Compromise bill
that she should not be admitted into the Union until
the territory had the population which every member
OF Congress represents, OF ninety,three thousand.
This is Northern faith-Democratic aithas brilliant
as that of Douglas, which, we are told will aWays
be adequate to the protection of the rights of the
South. Will not all the Lecompton Democrats, the
only sound portion of the Democratic party, follow
the example Of their leader in the House Of Repre-.
sentatives aud violate the compromise in the Kansas
act And II this should occur, what will the South
do viii she submit 2-and not only submit, but
recognize these traitors to their faith as fit political
associates to control in future her destines The
Northern politicians seem to suppose that the South
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but that she is so contemplate that faith need be
kept with her, under boundless, measureless and
lunatic submission.
Well, what Of it to repeat the caption which
stands above, 1t is nothing more than we expected
nothing more than we have predicted on numerous
occasions Mr. English is only doing what might
have been anticipated from Northern politician,
He is taking care of himself and having aseer-
tanned that the abolition feeling in his District is
tremely formidable so much so as to peril his re-
election to Congress, he very cooly and deliberately
takes the back track, accommodates himself to cir
cumstances, and repudates his own offspring In
doing this Mr.. English is not as much to blame the
people with whom he has to deal. He, for aught we
know to the contrary, patriotic and well meaning
man. measured by the political standard of the pre-.
sent day. But, having Freesoilers and fanatics to
eectioneer with he finds that he must descend to
their level, Or retire to private life. Hence, being
ambitious, the reason for the late astonishing and
rather shameless political somersault on his part
alluded to- by the Charleston Mercury.
1t easy to answer the last interrOgatory Of the
Mercury, The South will submit, and not only
submit, but recognize the traitors to their faith
Douglas English etc) as fit political associates to
control in future her destiniesn The " National !"
Democracy of the North must be preserved, and as
it, like the rest of the factions and parties there, al
though not SO completely, is pretty thoroughly abo-
litionized. the process of Authorization must be
permitted progress and further sacrifices must be
yielded up by the South or else the aforesaid famous
Northern a National" Democracy will be merged in
or swallowed by the Black Republican party. This
the leaders see plainly, and with their accustomed
defiance Of principle, many of them, even in the
South, already preparing the minds of the South
ern people for the utter abandonment of the only
clause in the English bill which secured its passage
through both houses of Congress-
We don't see the propriety of denouncing English
and Douglas while guilty parties are allowed to
go scot free and when the fact is apparent patent
and well known that nine.tenths Of the National
Democratic candidates for Congress in the free States
occupy substantially the same grounds that those
gentlemen do, 1t is true that Douglas is assaled by
the Washington Union, generally supposed to be the
organ Of the Administration while the others are not
and that is about the only difference between them
we are able to discover. 1t would puzzle Phila,
delphia lawyer to determine which are the least OBJ
jectionable or the most odious to the South.