New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-24


None so blind as they who will not see," is a
saying not more trte than true. It's correctness Is
wen exempli6ed in the stedfast manner in which
Southern Democrats avert their eyes from the re-
creancy of their Northern BRETHREN and in the reso
lutte refusal of many good and true southern men 70
recognize danger to the Union in the hostile attitude
which the Vaccinations Of Abolition fanatics have
caused the North and South to assume towards each
other IL that danger consisted in nothing more sub
stantial than the passionate defamation and incen
diary action of demagogues in the National Congress
and in the State Legislatures, or the crazy fumina
tons Of such public men as Gov. Wise, there would
be no Just ground for surprising that institutions
might not last to the end of time but, unfortunately
while these are but the shadow, the substance stern
and MEMORABLE lies behind, not hidden to those that
are willing to and dare look upon the TRUTH bnt every
day looming up in grander and more terrible proper.
tons. If ever house was divided against itself the
American people are in that deporable condition as
regards the two sections North and South, and il
becomes every friend of his country to strive and
pray that the breach may be healed, with honor
and justice to all parties, rather than to mock
at the danger. We, however, hold it far better for
the South that this breach should widen until 1t be-
comes gulf impossible to bridge over by any frail,
shaky compromise, than that ii should again be
patched up in manner that viii leave the rights OF
the South at the mercy Of the rapidly increasing pre-
ponderance Of Northern fanaticlsm and intolerance
The Baton Rouge Gazette appears to greatly msun-
derstand our sentiments upon this subject That
paper recently published editorial article in which
we find the following:
The last number of the Crescent is more bitter
than any of its hitter issues of the past six months
and If it advocates, on the Union question: the posi-
ton Of Americans and Amercanism in louisiana.
then are very free to confess, it no longer finds
sympathy or support at our hands.
We are under no apprehensions that our readers
will thus misunderstood US, and look upon us as dis
unionists or secessionists. But we may as well say
to the Gazette that we are neither the one nor the
other we do not desire TO the Union split into
as many fragments as there are States and Terrific
res nor yet do we advocate the peaceful withdrawal
of the South and the formation of Southern con-
federacy. We prize the Union as much as anybody,
and will strive for its integrity so long it is worth
preserving. When the rights guaranteed under it by
the Constitution to all can no longer be maintained,
it becomes worthless, and why should we or anybody
then care for it longer? We kno,c that time has net
arrived yet, but sadly fear and deeply we regret
to believe that it is fast drawing on, that it is even
now at hand Sincerely shall we deplore the calamity
when it falls upon the country quite sincerely
the editor Of the Gazette who affects to laugh at the
idea of its possibility.
The Gazette thinks that " We are no nearer disso-
luton now than ten years ago." while we think that
we are just ten years nearer unless the North
its bitter prosecutions, its tyranncal measures to-
wards the South and forever abandons its aggressive
policy and unrelentng prosecution of active hostili-
ties against slavery. We willing that the people
of the North should dislike that institution and find
fault with it, but when they come to demand that we
shall abandon it, and endeayor to compel us to do So
we should want nothing more to do with them and
should begin to think seriously Of putting an end to
our national partnership with them. We have said,
and we firmly believe, that an infexble and mex
orabe substance lies behind the shadow of the danger
that now impends over the Union. If the almost
unanimous vote cast by the North in the last cam
paign for the Presidential candidate Of the Black
Republicans, the persistent ferceness with which the
design of deprying the South of her rights in the
Territories has been followed up, the civil war and
the cruel murders and outrages in Kansas, the per
petual chickering's in and out of Congress, and the
thousand other omens of eonvulsion with which the
times are rife do not prove this then the most per-
feet agreement of concurrent testimony goes for
nothing end human wisdom may as well give over
any attempt to judge of events in the future by those
Of the present and past.