New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-14

bains an article, rather desponueht III LONE aoout
The rejection Of the Leeompton Constitution by the
people Of Kansas we are not surprised at the sad
forebodnes Of the Mercury. Unlike the Crescent,
the Mercury entertained hopes that the South
might possibly carry Kansas. We never thought,
from the moment Governor Walkers treaehery was
developed that the South stood the remotest chance
Of success in that Territory. We felt sure she
would be juggled out of her rights somehow, and
when the slavery clause was adopted, rather unex
pectedly than otherwise to u.s. we must confess, we
were confident Kansas would never be admitted under
that instrument. And our anticpations and predic-
tions have been realized to the fullest extent. Con
gress wouldn't admit Kansas without conditions, and
the people thereof have rejected those conditions,
The Mercury very pertiaeutlY observes, that al
though the cause of the old agitation rejected and
dead, a new issue arises from its ashes-shal Kan
sas be admitted as a free State at the approaching
Congress, despite the provisions Of the Conference
Act? The postponement of the admission OF Kansas
into the Union until she obtains the population which
a member Of Congress represents, was 70 allow the
South another chance to win this Territory Ger
tain1y it was. No one dispute that. 1t was the
main consideration offered to the South in the Con-
ference Act.7 But, will it be adhered to in good
faith BY the North We believe not. 1t will be con-
tended that one Congress cannot bind a succeeding
Congress and that it is perfectly competent for
Congress to repeal any act whenever it is deemed
necessary This will be, in all probability, the line
of argument taken by the Freesoilers at the next
session, should Kansas make her appearance with an
autisIavery Constitution.
Speaking Of this new cause for agitation, the Mer-
curry appositely says:
1t will now he taken up the North and become the
faaI Of We
doubt the result before the people of the North.
With such men as the Hon. Thomas Corwin, now
leader of the Black Republican party in Ohio Doug
las in Illinois, and FOrney in Pennsylvania we look
for nothing short of pretty unanimous determua-
ton from that section of the Union to be shown BY
the coming elections to force Kansas into the Union
with free State constitution at the approaching SEES
sion of Congress. But what will the Democratic na1-
ty from the North in Congress- which supported the
Conference bill, do What will the Administration
what will the South do, in the approaching session Of
Congress- viii the Democratic party stand true to
its pledges and will the South serny insist on their
fulflment OF will both give way, and defeat and
| surrender be again the policy Of the South The
time when to ask such questions would have
been considered to be slanderous as it insult
ing. But that time is passed for the South, That
high spirit which actuated our fathers to fight
through revolution for abstract principle, we
fear is gone. We have fallen into the policy of expe
diences and to submit to spOation and aggreSsiOnis
the part Of Wanted patriotism. Although eXper.
enCe has shown that by every concession we have
weakened the Democratic party, strengthened AbO
ti0nsm, and rtpened sectioualism at the North
although the planest dictates OF reason show it APP
pears u.s. that this must be the case from the nature
of things-yet to yield our rights is still the sagaciOus
policy of vast portion of the people Of the South,
The Union does not deter the Northern people from
aggressing upon u.s. but it deters from resisting
| them it does not stay the end of Abolition from
seeking to seize the Government to overthrow the
institution Of slavery but deters Us from seeking
1 break from their hostile fraternity. 1t is their
mighty instrument for sectional agitation, and aggres-
sion, and conquest; yet we look to it as worthy Of
our highest affection, and essential to our safety.
We fully coincide in opinion with the Mercury. We
| cannot doubt the result in the North And if the
Frees0Iers attempt to " force Kansas into the Union
with q free State Constitution they will probably
succeed 1t is easy to answer the intemogatores OF
/ the Mercury. The Democratic members of Congress
! from the North will, when the question referred to
comes up, go to eating free dirt yoracously. The
Administration will give way, after a decent show OF
resistance, and approve the measure and as for the
South we expect her to be sold again. stern past
and uncompromsng future lead irresistiJly to the
conclusions we have briefly pointed out. We do not
expect nor have we ever expected, that the muses.
of the Southern people would release themselves from
the hradom of INSCRIPTIONS politicians and treach-
er0us presses, until the election of an out-und.Out
Aboitionst to the Presidency sartles them from the
dangerous repose into which they have been luled.
The Mercury thus concludes its article
For 9ur part we have, for some time past looked to
the mastery oil the General Government by the Ab0-
tonists to be just as to take place any other
event morally certain in the course of human affairs
The whole history OF the country for the last twenty
or thirty years points to this result as inevitable in
the usual course Of things The South could ere the
battle was fought and won, have broken up the
deadly sequence of effect from cause which was roll
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