New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-06
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| The organ of the Administration--the Washing
| ton Union-geems to be pretty much disowned down
South Its invocation to the Southern press to speak
out on The Douglas question has been generally re
sponded to. and We don't think we are at all wide Of
the mark when we say that fully eighttenths Of the
newspapers published in the slayeholdng States are
warmly in favor Of the triumph Of Douglas and the
defeat of his ultra-abotion antagonist, Lincoln In
fact none but the regular belwethers the stipend
aries of the Administrations they are compare.
lively, few and far between-yenture to follow the
coarse of the Union and to assail Douglas.
Vice-Presdent Breckenridge, Senator Brown Of
Mississippi Toombs and Stephens Of Georgia. Orr Of
South Carolina, and scores of other leading Demo.
cratic statesmen, have proclaimed themselves in
favor of Douglas and large majority, as we have
said above, of Southern journals, have taken the
same ground,
The Memphis Appeal, for about score of years
the Democratic mouthpiece Of West Tennessee, had
the following in a recent number;
If there is anything desirable in preserving the
unity integrity and power of the Democratic party
Of the Uuion, we can see no good policy in keeping
up a warfare upon Mr.. Douglas ana the Democracy
Of Illinois, A persistence in such course will and
can result n nothing but suicide to the party ITSELF
which is dearer to the people than all the politicians
engaged in the melee.
The same Journal in referring to the recent speech
Of Senator Brown of Mississippi, in regard to Judge
Douglas, says;
This is manly and patriotic language, and contrasts
most pleasantly with the 4 serene indifference doc
trine preached by the Washington Union and other
smaller prints that wear the collar and follow in its
! wake.
It has been feeby denied in some quarters that the
Washington Union correctly represents the views of
the President and Cabinet in its savage and persistent
warfare upon Douglas. We have always believed
that it did, and have, on several occasions, ednced
evidences going to show that our belief was well
founded. If other proof was wanted in addition to
that which has been heretofore brought forward the
following ought to suffice to convince the most in
credulous. The annexed extract is made from one of
the printed circulars issued frem the Office of the
Union, and addressed principally to those holding
Office under the Federal Government:
You are requested and EXPECTED to exert yourself
to give increased circulation to the Union ae0se p0
Stf0n and relations to the administration enable ii 10
know and cypress the wishes and sentiments of the
Executive.
This extract is made public, forcibly observes a
Georgia contemporary, by Mr.. Hoyey, an antiLecomp-
ton Democrat, running for Congress in Indiana and
he produces it to correct the assertion of his Lecomp
ton Democratic opponent who denies that the Union
is authorized to express the sentiments of the Adj
minstration OF the particular point in dispute be-
tween these two Indiana worthless, we have nothing
to say, nor do we think it of much consequence
whether the Union represents the Administration in
its warfare Douglas not for the present Execu
tive can as readily back down and leave it unsus-
tanned as he did in respect to Kansas Walker. But
we wish the freemen of the South to note the base
uses to which it is proposed to prostitute the Offices
of the General Government by the President and his
newspaper organ. Besides attending to the proper
duties Of their stations, the ofieeholders are ex-
peeted to procure subscribers to the Union That
word expected" when connected with the intima-
tion that such is the wish Of the Executive means
that there is to be penalty for noncompliance. 1t
means that no oficehoder issafe in his position who
neglected the duty Of increasing the circulation of
the Union" It Yields the official patronage and in
auence of the Government directly to the support of
partisan newspapers. Instead Of the old Jefersonian
standard, " Is be honest? is he capable is he faith
full to the Constitution the inquiry from headquar
tiers now u.s. will he exert himself for the purty in
elections will he appropriate part Of his salary
an eectioneeriug fund will he use every effort to
sustain the Union and other Administration papers?
What next Rome's Imperial Grown +" was sold
on more than one occasion to the man who could pay
down the largest amount Of hard cash for the glitter.
ing bauble How long before the Presidency will be-
come the prize of the parsonage possessing the
longest purse?