New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-29


rays the Richmond (va) Wing, Of the 22ds in his.
issue Of Yesterday, thus properly and poutedy COM
hats the ground taken by the Enquirer, that the slave
trade Is al infamous traffic 2
! We do mot understand how the Richmond Enquirer
can pronounce the slave trade an Infamous traffic
without considering slavery Itself luminous. we owe
the introduction and present existence Of slavery IN
this country to the slave trade Is il not Infamous 10
jhold what was obtained by infamous means II g
horse be stolen and passed from hand 70 hand, each
knowing him to have been stolen, do not all become
ithievcsz II the first slaves were obtained BY In,
/ famous means, and they and their progeny hsve
passed from generation to generation, each knowing
Of the infamous transaction do they not all become
4 Infamous If not, when did the nfamy cease The
slave trade Is Illegal, 4 may be impotic but If we
believed it morally infamous, we should feel bound
by and conscience TO advocate the immediate
release and restoration to Africa OF every slave in the
land. But Is it Infamous Is It any more infamous
morally to go TO Africa and buy slaves to work the
plantations Of the South than would be to go to Bra
I'll aud buy them. or to Cuba, or from Louisiana to
Maryland What is the difference? Suppose a
Texas trader, to begin with Maryland, go next to
Cuba next to BRAZIL and next to Africa, where would
the infamy first attachf The Enquirer furnishes the
Abotionist with reason for the faith that il IN him
The Richmond Enquirer is pertnently and severely
rebuked but we opne no good will come from it.
II is a party paper has never been anything but
party paper-and probably never will be anything
but party paper, governed by the most contracted
sentiments and controlled exclusively with vew to
the success Of faction All the principle, patriot.
ism and fidelity it is cognizant Of is comprised In the
single word spoilsr and those spells to be dis
tribued by the party to which il is attached It has
4 been spells organ for about a half century,
and there u.s. probably, nothing the earth, under
the earth or over the earth it would not deny, repu
date and sacrifice before 1t would consent to aban
! dan the oaves and the fishes Of Office, and the per-
quisites flowing from an indiscrimnate and profuse
distribution Of public plumber It has played agree
able music to the powers that be SO long that It
has grown too old to learn any other tune even were
the disposition willing and there is little doubt it will
continue unto the end the same selfish, monotonous,
political organ grinder. Hence, no wonder need be
expressed or felt at any course it may pursue for It
! is bound to change as the national Democracy
change and to alter its tactics whenever there is
chance Of advantaring the Northern g National
Democracy no matter II the South--its own section
| suffers material damage thereby.
| Why, not long since, it deliberately put forth an
article in which the startling proposition was delib
eratey enuncated that il the balance Of the South
should conclude to go out Of the Union for certain
specified reasons that it doubtful whether Vir-
ginia would conclude to abide the fate Of her South
ern sisters or take up with the Northern Freesoers
This sentiment received what it merited-the unan
NOUS reprobation Of the Virginia press-sc far as
our knowledge extends and the erposs which fol-
lowed clearly proved that Virginia will be true to the
South in any emergency the future may bring fortl
Then, again, the Enquirer yielded Gov. Walker a
quasi support, and frequently more than that during
his gnbernatoria administration in Kansas which adj
minstration, from beginning to end, was raught
with treachery to- and betrayal Of, the South. The
President and Cabinet kept Gov. Walker in Office,
and as long al be was ID Office. any direct censure
upon him amounted to indirect censure upon Mr.
Buchanan aud bis constitutional advisers. Conse-
quently, the astonishingly consistent and tremen-
dously patriotic Richmond Enquirer sustained, imme
diatey or contingentIy the of that migrate,
which lost the Territory Of Kansas to the South be-
sides bringing upon US other evils Of fearful mag
nitude.
And. not long SINCE in face Of the universal con-
deu,nation which the course of Senator Douglas, in
regard to the Lecompton Constitution, had received
at the South, It came out ard said that it would not
do to osifacise such Northern Democrats-that all
or them disagreed from the slavery question:
that allowances must be made for differences of opn
ion-or else the Northern National Democracy
would 90 10 destruction This is substantially, the
meaning Of its remarks. More dangerous freesolism
we never saw promulgated in the strongest Black
Republican papers. II simply amounted 70 this, that
unless Douglas and all his Black Republican confed
crates were allowed to come back into the fold, Ii
they deemed iii, there would be no chance Of saving
any portion Of the North to the " Nationals at the
next general election, and that the spos Of Govern
ment Office and plunder would pass out Of the hands
Of the old spoilsmen--a consnmmaton most dreaded
Of all BY the ancient oceholders. Hence, it is pro
pressed by indirectly fusing with Northern Freesolers
and deludng the Southern people again by some art
fully constructed platform, TO bestow upon the old
set another lease of power corruption and spoliation
Whether the scheme will succeed or fail, we know
not We hope and believe that the Southern people
are too sensible aud too wide awake to allow them
selves to be hoodwinked, deceived and betrayed
again.
And lastly the Enquirer denounces the slave trade
as an anamous traffic. for which II gets deservedly
scathed by the Petersburg (va) Intelligencer. The
work is so well and truthtuy done that we shall add
nothing to it, further than to observe that il one
kind Of slave trade is infamous, all other kinds are
necessarily snamons, and that, If such be the case,
Virginia journal is the last which should presume
to stgnatize the business for the good and sufficient
reason that the domestic slave trade of Virginia ex
ceeds that Of any half dozen Southern States com
bined II the theory Of the Enquirer be true Virginia
is the most siniamousp State in Ghristendom. But
out Of its own mouth it stands convicted Of most
atrocious libel upon one of the nobest common
weaths that has existed since the dawn Of civilian
ton.
But we will pursue this topic no further. We have
said enough as was original intention, to convince
all intelligent Southern citizens that some Of their
most prominent mouthpieces are entitled to almost
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