New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-09
NINE .xArloNAL pEuocRAcY.,,

Some time ago we remarked that II Kansas should
be refused admission because Of the slavery feature OF
her constitution, il would amount to an unmstakahle
declaration on thepart of the North that no more
slave States shall be admitted under any eircum-
stances and that as regards Territories, in that pa
tculsr the Constitution shall hereafter be dead
letter. This proposition is plain and direct, and con-
tains the whole thing in nutshell It's correctness is
endorsed by the Pttsburg (Pa.) Dispatch, neutral
! paper in politics, in the following terms:
A number Of Northern Senators and members OF
| the House. upon the assumption that the slavery
clause would be defeated have commhted themselves
in favor OF the Lecompton Constitution With their
assistance the Southern members, acting unitedly,
might carry il through both Houses, and Kansas be
admitted as pro.slavery State. This would of course
be satisfactory to the South, however the people OF
Kansas or the North may view the matter If, how
ever these members recede from the position they
have taken the whole country will understand that il
is because the Constitution presents itself in pro
slavery FORM contrary to their anticpations. 1t will
be plain ayowal OF their opposition to the instru-
ment on account of its pr0avery feature alone, since
upon all other pons they have sgnifed their readi
ness to accept che Constitution and admit the new
State under it.
Kansas under tho Lecompton Constitution would
prove the ruin Of National Democracy the Dis
patch signifies its concurrence in that opinion. and
adds:
Should the Constitution be accepted by Congress,
and Kansas admitted, where will National pemoc-
racy be in the North II there be sufficient senators
like Bright Of Indiana, who declared in his Pniladel.
pha speech, Monday evening, his readiness 70 accept
the Constitution without stopping GO inquire whetner
it be for or against slavery s1c sufficient number
Of members OF the House With the same easy vie vs.
Of duty to carry the Leompton Constitution through,
1t ID not difficult to that the Democratic organiza
ton in the North will be broken beyond the power Of
Administrative favor or party drill to form an effect
i've battalion.
Tho Dispatch speaks Of the Crescent as II the lat
Ter were willing to see the Union sacrificed for the
sake Of pulling destruction upon the Democratic
party. That is simply mistake. We do not desire
to the South set up for herself unless compelled
to that course by a continuance Of the system Of
wrong and outrage which has so long been practsed
against her. We could not desire such measure
merely for the triumph or defeat Of any political
party and we have never used language justifying
belief that we entertain any such sentiment. That
paper also speaks-jestingly or otherwise-as if it
would invoke compassion for the present condition
Of the " National Democracy covering beneath the
shadow Of impending humiliation. We can assure
1t that we have nothing Of the kind to throw away
in that quarter No pity for the fate Of such
party can be found in breast than milk in that
OF male tiger If the country again totters upon
the crumbling brink Of the abyss which once before
threatened TO engulph it, who have brought it into
that fearful peril2 The National Democracy If
the rights Of the South in the Federal domain have
been wrested away, and the strongest safeguard Of
union--the balance of power-thus destroyed, en-
gendering deadly and irreeoncilable feud between
the two sections, who have schemed and plotted
until this danable result has been brought about2
The National Democracy, who repealed the Mis-