New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-12
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The Mobile Register is one of the Oldest, ablest
and most respectable Democratic Journals in thu
State Of Alabama For many years il has battled
with Surprising zeal and ability in behalf Of Demo
cratic principles And it has had saorous and erudit,
editors, who have commanded for il a weight an in
Huenoe and power, second to none welded by any
State journal published South Of Mason and Dixon's
line.
The Register has strenuously, boldly and CALAMITY
advocated the admission Of Kansas under the lie
compton Constitution, and has proved itself true
Southern journal whenever il became necessary 4
vindcate the constitutional rights of its section nc
matter what the expense, what political party os
gained by the operation. For this we honor it al
it ought to be honored. .s.s
In the issue Of the Register of the 10th inst, W,
ipd an able article under the head of The Progress
Of the Struggle, meaning the Kansas question nov
before Congress. 1t is stated that the latest tidng
are more g unfayorable than we had anticipated T
that the hope that the House would recede from the
Montgomery amendment to the bill (Which was re.
jected by the Senate) was sadly shaken /; and that
the expectation that certain " Northern Democrats,
who voted for that proposition, would yield their
objections and unite with the Lecomptontes to pass
the Senate b has not been realized hut that if the
matter cannot be determined, settled, or arranged,
by means OF committee of conference in which
the antLecomptonists shall make concessions then
there can be no compromise, no modification, no
abatement Of single jot or title of their demands
on the part Of those who are claiming the admission
Of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. We
regard that as fixed and certain If there is any re-
traction or surrender it must be on the other side
and we cannot perceive any very good reasons to
hope that, under the discipline or prescription of
committee Of conference, there will be any other dis
position on the part of the antLecompton majority
in the House, than has been manifested already in
the decided expression of twice recorded vote Our
hopes, therefore, are but feeble that any other result
will be accomplished than what has already trans.
pred. The House will in al probability adhere to
its decision in favor Of the Montgomery substitutes
and the Senate will certainly continue to refuse its
concurrence in that proposition
So say we. !" II there is to be any retraction or
surrender it must be on the other sden We, Of the
South, have yielded enough, compromised enough
and surrendered enough, we have pursued the road
to spoation and ruin long enough. and eanuot fol-
low 1t any longer with safety to ourselves. We must
travel on another track il would avoid destruction
The Mobile Register concludes its very sound and
article ia the following language, to
which invite the earnest attention of the public
We not disposed to anticipate the actual event
)s the final and detintive refusal Of Congress to ad
nit Kansas into the Union. 1t will be time enough
when that event shall have become demonstrated as
fixed reality and fear has been changed TO covic-
tion TO give vent to the resentment which will be
Cue TO so violent an outrage upon the rights OF the
South. But we viii say this much now If Kansas
is denied admission at this time in accordance with
her application made through her authorized conven
ton, the contingency will have arrived when the
South stands pledged to retire from the Union and
she will deserve the scorn and cOntumely of the |
world, which she will certainly receive in abundance
she shall fail thus TO resent the insoeut atteinpt OF
Northern majority to fasien the badge of vassaage
Upon her. We profess to be one of those who revere
md value the Union. We should regard its dssolu-
ion as the greatest political calamity that has ever
'eiallen the world. But the Union which re thus |
lod SO dear and sacred is the Union of the Constu
ion, and with all the rights OF its members unyio |
ated. When those rights have ceased to be secure |
nder the Union, its virtue and soul and value are I
&has become curse instead Of o blessing |
nd il is the part Of wisdom as well as Of honor to
eject 1t. We shall regard the refusal to admit Kan
Us into the conlederacy with her slavery constitution
conclusive evidence that the Union has lost its yir
ne, and has become, from being the greatest boon |
yer conferred upon people, a monstrons engine Of
oppression and tyranny. And thus believing, we
nall In that event, behold without reorse this once
Generated tabernacle, dedicated to liberty by our
athers. but basely perverted from lis design torn
rom lis foundations, and shattered into fagmeuts
lntl like the great temple doomed by the wrath OF
sod there shall not be left one stone upon another.
Tie above is toleraby strong language; but if the
Southern people do not find that there is more truth
han poetry in it, before long, we will acknowledge
hat we are neither prophets nor sons of prophets.