New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-01
VIOLATED PROMISES.

the faIlowinp. awe are OF the Deliberate and well
and long considered opinisn--would that we could
conscienhously think otherwise-that no Efforts or
movements be successful at the North 70 reform
the Of Northern opinion and action In connec
| sion with the question Of slavery"
If this opinion be correct, who's to blamef We
humbly coneeive-nsy We Freely asseit-that tins
result was mainly precipsated by the developments
and entameuts Of the order OF which the Crescent is
q PROMINENT spokesman in the South.-[ Baton Rouge
Advocate.
The Advocate is particularly unfortunate in refer
ring to violated promises. the present course Of
Northern opinion and action in connection with the
question Of slavery and their and effects. 1t
Is calculated to bring up "reminiscences very unpea
SAINT 70 old line DEMOCRATS who adhere to the an
tiquated notion that Democracy means something
than scramble for the spoils of victory.
1t win bring to mind the fact that the Democracy
National, Of coarsen 1852, in National Convention
assembled. solsmnly aud sincerely-as was supposed
declared opposition TO all agitation Of the subject
Of slavery or out Of Congress- and rerecognized all
the ancient landmarks Of the party from the days of
the great apostle of Democracy down 10 those of
James K. Polk. The American people, placing full
faith and confidence in the sincerity Of these declare
tions and professions, with unanimty almost nm
paraleled elected Mr.. Pierce to the Presidency and
an unprecedentedly large majority Of Democrats to
Congress. II was to be expected then, that the Gov
eminent would become intensely Democratic. Now
we ask the Advocate to review the actions of that
Intensely Democratic Congress, and say, if it in
sincerity and truth, that they up to the Jack
son standard Of Democracy with the confession Of
faith rs set forth in the Baltimore Platform. wesay
they did not and 10 support Of our assertion refer
TO the several vetoes Of the President the violated
pledges and unredeemed promises, which were made
By the leaders of the Democratic party previous to
the election in 1851.
It was during this overwhelmingly Democratic
Congress that the Kansas Nebraska act was passed
and the Missouri Compromise line obterated Did
this not revive the agitation of the subject Of slavery
70 greater fury than before known in and out
Of Congress? Mas this not violation Of the declara
ton Of opposition to such agitation 4 Was it not
violation Of the pledge that the Compromise of 1850
was to be final settlement OF the yexed question"
Of slavery Most unquestionabIy it was. These
violations Of pghted faith these betrayals Of public
confidence were not brought about by the Know.
Nothngs. nor by the Black Republicans. They were
the voluntary, deliberate, premeditated acts of
Democratic Congress, The Democrats are alone re-
spoBsibIe for the results which followed They sowed
the wind The South is likely to reap the whirl
wind.
The plea that the Missouri Compromise was uncon-
sttutional and ought to have been repealed, is no
defense or bad faith and betrayal OF confidence. That
measure was one Of long standing, so that the De-
mocraey had ample opportunity to repeal it years
before. Not only So but its repeal was not demanded
BY the people Of either section of the Union at that
time.
The Advocate enumeratcs the pledges and prom.
ises set forth in the American Platform the action
Of the sewards the Hales, the Beechers and others
Of that Tx the election riots the increase Of the
Abolition vote in Congress, and charges the whole |
to the account Of The American party. This mode Of
argument is rather disingenpous. 1t would do well
enough for stump oratoy during an election excite. |
ment, when rant and fnstian are the order of the |
day; bnt when addressed to the sober second |
thought It is puerile and contemplate. Know
Nothihgism, Amerieanism, bad nothing to do with
the election Of the one hundred and three Black Re-
politicians to Congress. That was solely and excIu.
siyely the result OF the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise and the passage Of the Kansas-Nehraska
bill Anti-repeal was the watchword and ralying
cry at the North and every other question sank into
States that had given oyerwhem-
ingly large Democratic majorities at the previous
election elected ,anttrepeal candidates to Congress
throwing aside almost every man who had voted for /
the repeal Of the Compromise. And since then the
Democracy have been unable to regain their lost 4
power at the North. Many Of the leading men have
become Disguised with the hollow professions and de-
eeitfn practices Of Democracy and abandoned it for
Black Repnblicansm And had il not been for the
united effort Of the South in behalf of Democracy
ID the last Presidential election as choice between
Two evils, Black Repubcanism would now be ruling
d its stead.
And where do we find the remnant of Northern
Democracy now All, with few honorable excep
IONS and those who are influenced by the cohesive
lower Of public plumber, are arrayed against the
south and the President because he ia suspected OF
leing disposed to deal justly by the Southern people
These are facts. which show most conclnsivey that
is TO the Democratic, and not the American party
hat the disgracenl and tragic scenes in Kansas are
attributable. Aud the apologists of Democracy will
all to blind the intelligent and unprecedented to these
'atent facts, by parading the refusal Of American
Representatives to unite with the Democrats in the
lection Of one Of their number to the Speakership
IT the House, which resulted in the election Of
Banks, Black Republican. The course Of the Demo
lratic Representatives towards the Americans had
been 50 ungenerous and insulting, that they could
lot unite without sacrificing their honor aud self
espect. But the election Of Banks did not bring
'bout the scenes in Kansas which so horrfy the Ad
'ocate destroy the raternal feeling between the
North and the South. These things lie at the door
II the Democracy. They alone are responsible for
hem, And Il lily becomes the Advocate to re-
,roach the American party for not redeeming prom.
ses which ID had not the power to redeem while its
'wn party stands selconycted of breaking promises
had the power to redeem, and violating pledges 1t
lad solemnly declared TO maintain inyioIate Take