New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-07
FsTR AND opng WARNING.


mi ins5ions and deadly foe. The one can be pro-
-iaod aoainst-eap be met On equal terms-and if
the terms should happen to be slightly unequal,
owing TO the superior strength Of our antagonist, the
strnple would be an honorable one in other respects
for we could not be taken unprepared, Or march
stoen upon US in the darkness of the night or IN the
guise Of pretended friendship.
whatever grievances we may have to allege against
the Abolitonsts and Black Republicans of the North
and goodness knows their name is legiOn-it is
clear aud incontrovertibIe that they have not at
tempted to deceive us, and by deception allure to
our ruin in regard to their chosen policy and fixed
unalterable determinations. On the contrary, they
have announced their present purposes and future
intentions in unmistakable language and in every
direction. Their Senators and their Representatives
in Gongress-ther newspapers and their preachers
have everywhere proclaimed from the house.tops,
it were that their policy aimed at the sublgaon Of
the South to the dominion of the North, with the
ultimate view of abolshing domestic slavery. The
man who knows not this wanders in Cimmerian dark
ness and the brightest lights thrown off by the
torch OF truth would be unable to irradiate the
muddy lahyrinths Of his leaden skull.
Only a few months since, Senator Seward triumph
antly announced from his place in the Federal
Senate, that there had been a battle between
the North and South, that the North had won the
victory and that the days were but few in the cal
endar of time when the tOotstep of a slave should
polute the soil of the cOnfederacy Senator Wade,
OF Ohio, declared that the North was the lord aud
master of the South-that the South would he COM
PEELED to obey her lord and master, whether so in-
clned or not-and that her only chance was to make
| the best of a bad bargain. Senators Wilson, Hale,
ETC.. followed in like strain, until the victorious
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Id the House of Representatives very often last
SION and will uuquestionaby oftener next SEES
sion The Abolition and Black Republican news
papers continually and defantly promulgate the same
doctrine and thousands Of preachers, with whom
the Northern pulpit is infested, 60 even further in
their fanatcal outburss of fierce and wild denuncia.
ton of the South and everything Southern.
We have mentioned these facts simply to substan-
tate the original proposition that Northern enc
mics are outspoken and manly in their hostility, and
that-while ayowing an indexble determination not
to desis from the ruthless crusade in which they
engaged until the bosom of destruction sweeps
the South involving our domestic institutions in wide
spread uterruin-hey act the opposite OF the sneak
ing, yet dangerous incendiary and tell us precisely
what they contemplate doing. Thus much, in sheer
justice, is due to an organization the cardinal prin-
cipes Of which are as wicked and detesable as are
those of the Father Of Evil
We have before US another warning from infuen
tia aye, an extremely potent, Black Republican
quarter. The Washington National Era is the cen
trail organ of those who delight in Sewards and as
is edited with signal ability and general courtesy
it yields corresponding influence over the ireesoi
masses which now constitute the ruling party at thu
North. The Era in a recent number, thus boldly ant
plainly defines the issue for the Presidential election
of 1850:
We want no Tariff Party; no unmeaning people'
party: no new party Mt ALI PrOsiaUey rule is 10 b
OUerirOIUI tie ideas and PRINCIPLES OF the ODBOHe
l Of siapeiy are 10 be stamped upon the Gopaumrni
This is the work of to-day. For this purpose the Re
publican party sprang into being for this purpose it i
preeminenty adapted. No otherOrganzation is fitted
for the work, Why then embarrass it with other issues
One thing at a time. The National Bank question
had its days so had the Tariif-sO had Land Distri
buttons and Internal Improvements. They have beer
passed upon, set aside, or postponed, The question
now is shall slavery or freedom control Congress h
Chief Executive, the Supreme Court? Clearly Til
masses OF the people have determined that this ques
ton shall first be settled. &essrs Fuote and SimmOn
/ may think home industry far more impOrtNnt-th
i National tntegencer may depreeate sectional is
sues'-the North American may suppose the Who'll
I country distressed by the neglect Or its commercial
: and manufacturing interests-still, the fact remains
the one question Of freedom slavery the c0ntr0
ling element of national rule, must first be settled.
# We cannot be mistaken as to the popular indiCa
tons. What are the issues in Iowa, Illinois Maine
New Hampshire, Vermont Look Mt their res0lu
lions, nominations and elections Nothing about tai
ifs, or home valuations, or the "oId fashioned Henr
Clay platform = everything about the rsurpations
slavery and purposes OF freedom! The people vii
not think about anything else. All other free State
. will stand on the same plattOrm-the tariff will no
be substituted for liberty, engraIted upOnth cree
and policy promulgated in Philadelphia, in 1926. |
must take its place with other subordinate questions
Doubtless it will be element of the elections ii
Pennsylvania, but in majority Of the States mel
will be chosen to Congress with little or no reterenc
to it II will not form a party question--better tia
. it should not,
!, We agree with the Era in one material respect, q
all events. The Era desires an issue. That is eXact
2 what we desire and the earlier it is made, an
finally determined, the better for all parties concerned
Let it be made in 1860. If the people Of the NORTH
through their numerical superiority choose to cleo
anaboIition President the proof will be oyerwheln
8 ing and incontloyertible that they are determine
upon expressing, insulting and dcspolng the soutl
), to tha extreme limit which admits Of only one alter
i, resistance and separation or submission an
&c seryitade, Then we will know what to do. If "
a choose TO be ireemen we will strike for freedom
S We choose to be serfs, We will bow our necls submit
as siyey to whatever Jokes our asknasters may see
to impose upon US.