New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-24
REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE
ON FEDERAL RELATIONS.


We present elsewhere, IN ertenso the REPORT Of
the Committee on Federal Relations Of the Senate Of
Louisiana which was ordered to be printed in
pamphlet form FOR the use Of that body and for gem
eal circulation. The report owing 70 the ateness Of
the session at which it was made was not finally
acted upon, but it viii unquestiouably be brought
forward next session. when we presume it will be
adopted, with such alterations and additions as the
developments Of another year may warrant, should
any be found necessary
The report is from the vigorous pen Of DR.. Edward
DeIoay, Democratic Senator from the parish Of East
Felicana and it received the sanction of ourffths
Of the Senate Committee on Federal Relations 1t Is
written in that nervous, forcible style, which always
attracts the attention of the public aud leads the
reader 70 think. This is great merit in compositions
Of any kind. If the writer only set his reader to
thinking over what he has written in nine cases out
Of ten he will win him to his side of the question
unless some extraordinary reasons intervene to pre-
vent.
We are so pressed for room this morning, that we
cannot present our readers with even a Just notice
OF the report Nor is it necessary we should do so.
The report, as the Kentuckian said about Henry
Cays mouth, speaks for itself, and is its best
explanation and illustration. As such, we commend
it to the careful consideration of the public. The
people will find in it much to reflect over, and, very
likely. TO act upon. ~
The report inculcates the same kind Of Union doc
trines that have been incucated for a long time by
the Crescent. Give rs constitutional rights ex
tend to that protection which the organic law of
the confedeacy guarantees to every section aud ev
cry citizen; restore that equality that existed in the
earlier and purer days of the Republic let there be
law for the Southern man as well as the Northern
man, the moment the former crosses Mason and
Dixons line and let it be known that the South
and her institutions shall be respected on grounds Of
right and justice, and not tolerated for purposes Of
oppression and spoliaton, and we are as good Union
men as can be found under the canopy of heaven !;
but IL these objects are unattanabe as seems to be
the case, we readily adopt the language Of the re-
port g The utimatum Of the South is then, before
the American people-equality within the Union or
independence without itn that alternative, unless
our people conclude to degrade themselves to the
condition Of serfs, and become hewers of wood and
drawers of water to the Abotonists, will be forced
upon the South in less time than half decade if the
sincerest convictions Of our heart are not utterly
founded in error.
The resolutions which close the report are pointed
and to the point, and the concluding one ntimates
policy which, opine, will be resorted to before the
lapse Of many years, unless all means having self
preservation in view are incontnently abandoned.
Again asking the public to bestow due consideration
upon the report, we dismiss the subject for the
present.