New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-04
WASHINGTON ooRREspoNnENnE.

WASHINGTON Dec. 20, 1857.
u harmony shall ever be restored to this distracted
confederaey, we shall be Indebted for the boon GER
tainly not 70 the Senator whose name is nseparaby
associated with the questionable immortality Of the
Kansas Nebraska bill. The Democracy have made
immense capital out Of that bill SO likewise have the
Republicans. 1t has provoked endless discussion in
every section Of the Republic and yet II has settled
nothing TO the common satisfaction II II has set
tied anything II has settled the fact that no more
slave territory shall be added to the United States
In effect It has determined that the blessings OF do
nestle slavery shall be confined not within the geo.
graphical boundaries Of its possible existence, but b
restricted rgidly to its present metes. That q to
say, the only plan yet devised by human ard sane
toned by divine wisdom to secure the generalization
Of labor with capital shall be 50 coupassed about,
hemmed in, and subjected to extana pressure, that
its natural, healthful and bepgn development shall
become an impossibility.
And not this only me Kansas. Nebraska bill has
accomplished something very much more than the
restriction of shvery, and the wrestling Of the COM
mon terrteiai property to the exclusive use and ben
eft Of sne North By giving violent impulse to the
rscai and rash idea Of popular sovereignty-an idea
dangerous to any Government the most dangerous Of
all to ooselyaggregated confederacy of republics
1t has within three or four years hurried the Amer
lean people into the confines Of pure Democracy
But single step Is leftinto agrarianism One after
another OF the delegated have been claimed as among
the reserved rights until now of the delegated rights
there remains only the right Of the executive to dis
peDse few places for the behoof of party. Almost
every Office OF honor and Of trust has been submitted
TO the caprices Of the ignorant and factious SOW
ereignty" The municipal trusts and the rural mags.
tracies belong to them The officers holding author
ity in the name Of the State belong to them. The
law-msking power is theirs. The tenure Of Office has
been limited time and again to suit their whims and
to give them additional and unnecessary opportunity
OF exercising the right Of suffrage. Finally, the ia.
dietary has been thrown to the mob And still thew
clamor for more. They ask now that Conqress--the
supreme power-shall exercise no Authority in the
Territories, nor in any manner interfere with the ex
cesses Of rabble OF squatters recognizing no Const
tuition, Territorial, State or Federal and amepable
only to the law of their own sweet will And this as
fitting conclusion to its career Of Federal disjnte
grafton, the Kansas Nebraska Act proposes to give
them. This is virtually the " localizingn of the
Kansas question. This the logical consequences of
bis own act, Judge Douglas raves at, because, for.
sooth, il the tyranny - of an Administration dis. |
tancing him in his own line Of argument. and only
more fleet of foot than himself to surrender the last
Vestige Of authority.
II there be such thing as " the reaction OF the
age against itself it is high time that reaction had
begun in this unhappy land. If governments subsist
BY virtue Of the peaceful sntagonsm of ideas, and
The iudcious concessions Of those who hold to those
who would have ii may well be enquired how that
government is to subsst, which, having yielded every
hing, has no longer anything to concede. II is plain
hat the adrot management Of the Kansas question
BY the Administration party-the lOcaizine Of il
lis roundabout, but abject submission to the de.
nands Of the mob. And what is left for the rabble
70 ask, or for the Government to give but the abro-
ration of all law it would puzzle even politician to
ell.
The probabilities in favor Of the stability Of tho
Union are, in any contingency, small but il the
nlon stands II must and can stand only by retracing
he ground over which the popular sovereignty mania
as hurried US, by thorough change of policy, and
the adoption Of those cardinal federal ideas which
minated the founders OF the Republic. We have
one too far; we must go back. We must regain
be power we have lost The judiciary must he taken
rom the mob and placed in safe keeping. The ten.
re Of Office must be such at least as to enable the
nicer to know what he is doing and what he ouoht
: w. "Vi'n anu OaPaciIy must replace the fO0lery
I party fealty. The franchise must belong to those
VINO are capable Of exercising it intelligently And
naily' there must be an understanding between
'ortn and South with regard to the terrtories-an
Understanding different from that recorded in Kansas
'ebrsska bill ard hallowed under the name of popu
II sovereignty The land is divided not as Abraham
nd Lot divided it, fairly, but as the focks were
iVided between Jacob and Laban. Judge Douglas
as our Jacob, and he knew full well how the ring.
reaked, the speckled and spotted cattle, the mon.
rel herds from abroad, would multiply and possess
" manu. MALOU.