New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-18

putinga recent discussion on the bill to increase
the effective force Of the National army in the United
States Senate, in which Senators Seward Of New
York, and Hale OF New Hampshire-the leading /
Abolitiousts Of the North-largely participated, the
former is reported as having said in reply to an obser
walton Of the latter
an. yery sorry that the faith of the honorable
Senator from New Hampshire is less than my own.
He apprehends continual disaster. He wants this
battle continued and fought by skirmishes and to de-
pfive the enemy Of every kind OF supplies. Sir, /
regard This battle as already fought it Is over. All
The mistake is that the honorable Senator and others
do not know It. NE are fighting for majority of
FREE States. There already sixteen to fifteen and
whatever the Administration may do--whatever any.
body may dohetore one year from this time we shall
be nineteen 10 fifteen"
Although Senator Seward is one Of the shrewdest
men that breathes on the surface Of the globe
although his GOODNESS and elear.headedness are re-
markable and his intellect great for he has narrowly
escaped being statesman of the first order-and
although he is acknowledged on all hands to be
mastery manager and consummate politician, never
theless there is little or nothing in the foregoing
triumphai vaunt which rings like death knel upon
the rights and the hopes Of the South In the future
that was not predicted in the Crescent at least
eighteen months ago, and iterated and reiterated
through the same channel time and again since. We
was coming , and we warned our Southern fellow |
citizens to prepare for the fearful emergency that
was approaching with rapid strides and crushing
weight. But, the Union-atany price" gentlemen,
insisted upon little sleep, little more slum-
ber little folding of the hands sleep They
still insist uponi it, They will not awaken. Barred
in memories Of the past, when patriotism, manhood
and fidelity to the constitution, governed the North
they will not consent to contemplate the actuates
Of the present, and with spirit Of martyrdom that
would be refreshing to behold if it did not involve
the utter ruin Of many millions besides themselves,
they langudly prepare their necks for any Jugger.
naut Northern anaticism may seek to roll over them
The remarks, on rather admissions, of Senator
Seward, surprised US in one respect, and to a very
considerable extent Habtually selfposed, cautious,
and cold as the ice that DISTRACTED DR.. Kane Arctic
expedition, and hating the South with a Carthagen-
ian hatred, be was the last man we expected would
betray exultation ia any expose his politi
cal hand, until his prey he south) was in his grasp
and his foot firmly fixed upon its neck, We did not
expect he would speak he has spoken this session
until next session, aud probably not until the next
session thereafter when in all human probability be
would be surrounded by eight Senators as bitterly
freesoil as himself, from Kansas, Nebraska, Mime
sofa and Oregon, and when be could talk by author
lily and with command. But the certainty Of early
triumph seems to have overcome bis usual reserve
and in tones Of unmngled Joy and exultation he has
told the Southern people that "beore one year from
iris time they will be as poweress in the Federal
Senate as they now are in the Federal House Of Rep
resentativesi He counts Delaware, too, as a slave
State, when Delaware in reality, i no more slave
State than Maine With this correction Of the Sena-
tors estimate the South in 1889 win be represented
in the Senate by twenty-eight senators-the North
by forty Senator's Senator Seward has drawn no
fancy picture. He never draws fancy pictures.
" Union-at-atlyprice gentlemen, how do you like
his Inning?
Senator Seward, deliberately speaking from his
place in the national Senate abont the slavery con-
test that has been raging between the North and
the South for quarter Of century, says q re-
gard this battle already fought; IT. IS OVER
/" we are fighting for majority Of free Statesp Wei
already have majority; but before one year ex-
pires shall count Z" nineteen to fEteenp Read his
language. Study over its significance. Ponder the
character of the man it comes from and then, fell
low-citizens, think of your probable condition when
such man--dark in thought cruel in sentiment and
relentless in deed-wields the mighty power which
the Presidency coniers, and has both branches of
Congress to back him in crusade against the
it in manner becoming freemen, or else subms-
siyely prepare for serfdom more ignominions aud
contemplate than that which enthtal the people of
the most oppressed country of the Old World. The
Contingency we speak of is at hand The year 1860
viii witness its realization in the election Of William
II. Seward to the Presidency, with a Senate and
House Of Representatives to carry into execution
whatever legislation he may recommend.
As matters now stand the constitution and laws of
the confederacy dead letters so far as the vindi
cation of the legal rights of Southern eizensare
cerned. The property recognized by the organic
law is continually stolen from us, and there is re-
dress. If we attempt TO reclaim it, we are insuted,
maltreaed, and sometimes murdered and there is no
redress for us! We are ostracised. For Us, in the
North, the law has no vitalty-the Constitution no
binding foree--and are regarded as fit objects for
outrage and spoliaton only. These the plain, in
dispatable facts of the case, let the " Unon.atany
price, gentlemen gloze them over as they will.
Such being our condition at present with an Ad
mlnstration claimed to be favorable to US, and with
almost equal strength in the Federal Senate we ask
what o be our condition when the observation-disclosures,
Seward, occupies the Presidential chair, and eight
new Senators swell the free State majority in the Sen.
ate and the same majority, already overwhelming, is
| augmented in the House by four new members /?
They now steal our negroes secretly and covertly,
viii they not steal them then openly and by force
There's no telling the lengths triumphant fanateism
4 will go.
sournaRN PACIFIC RILRoAp.- Official intei.
genee from headquarters in Texas makes il certain
that the first section of the road consisting of twenty