The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-02-09

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temper which the reader may easily imagine:
They have no foundation in actual occur
renees, but are intended for the mere purpose
of agitation. They are the coinage of imagi
nation, the base coinage of vicious and mali
cious imagination. But they are only par
of many cotemporaneous circumstances, which
reveal to the country an important fact They
warn it Of widespread and desperate conspir.
acy in the southern States againstthe authority
OF the laws, constitution and government, the
continuance Of the Union, and the integrity o.
all existing institutions, not only IN the southern
States, but Ia every quarter that can be reached
from the southern States. We see evidences
of this movement in the efforts to revive the
African slave trade against the wish and con
vcton of pine- tenths of the southern people.
Until we determined the authority of the
quotation by actual reference to the original
article, we refused to believe that any such
statement had appeared in the columns of the
Union. As the reputed organ Of the admins
tration, that paper is supposed to observe a cir
cumspection in lis conduct with which so VIC
lent an instructive against the democratic sec
ton Of the confederacy, is an incompatible
idea. But, after research among our cotempo-
rary's files, our incredulity was dissipated by
the discovery that the obnoxious language was
actually employed in the leading editorial OF
the Union on the 9Th of January.
1t is a grave Indictment, and in our judg-
ment is as unjust as it is inculpatory With
our information of the prevalent public opinion
of the south, and the character of its people,
we do not hesitate TO stigmatize the accusation
as equally unfounded in fact and maleVolent in
motive. The charge is explicit, that "a wide
spread and desperate conspiracy exists in the
southern States against the authority of the
laws, constitution, and government. the CON
FINANCE of the Union and the integrity of all
existing Institutions, not only in the southern
States, butin every quarter that can be reached
from the southern States"
The circumstances adduced in support Of
this sweeping and overwhelming Indictment,
which can be justified by nothing whatever
less than the most positive and irresistible evil
dence, are the insignificant incidents of the
slave trade agitation and the expedition to
Nicaragua. IT, instead of being partial ebulli-
tons Of popular feeling and epsodical incidents
in the progress of southern Development these
enterprises were approved and supported by
every individual in the slave holding States,
they would not warrant the charge of con-
sPiracy against all law, government, and moral
ity. The Union does not restrict its impeach-
ment to particular class, but alleges the exis-
tenee Of a 'wides spread" plot of treason and
anarchy throughout the southern States. And
this after the Nicaraguan expedition has mis-
carried for want of support in the south, and
the inhabitants of the slave States have pro-
nounced against any infraction of federal law
no matter what the inducement of profit or
power! Nay more; such are the prevalence
and the exuberant energy of southern sedition
that 1t is not content with the conquest of its
own section, but aspires to propagate its poison
among every coterminous community Accord
ing TO the Washington Union, the contact of
the slave States is pregnant with infection!
Ii theseAblasting aspersions on the south had
appeared IN the columns of a black republican
paper, they would be laughed at as the rhap-
sody of a lunatic aboi,ionist. Emanating from
the official organ Of the president, and propa-
gated without rebuke from the administration,
they will exert no inconsiderabIe influence on
the issues Of sectional and party controversy.
They are accepted by the abolitionists as
proof of all their calumnies
against the slayeholding community.
What will the representatives Of the south
say in response to this Indictment?
Washington States.
TIE NAVAJO WAR-The Galveston Civilian
of the oath uIt., has late dates from New Mex
leo. The NaYJoes sued for peace, and the
Indian agent and military commander, beliey-
ing the Indians sufficiently castigated and hum
bled, agreed to an armistice for thirty days
The armistce provided only for the surrender
by the Indians Of property taken from the fort
and which belonged to the United States. but
did not provide for the surrender Of private
property of the territory. The armistice did
not provide for the surrender of the murderer,
which was the cause Of the war, nor even for
the payment Of the negro boy who was MUIR
dered, although the Indians, before the war,
agreed to pay any price for him, however ex-
lravagant. The superintendent of Indian al
fairs and the commander of the military de-
left Santa Fe a short time ago for the
seat of war. They will consent to no peace
upon the terms Of the armistice They will I
require at least the surrender of private as well /
As public properly taken by the Indians during
The war, and a meridian line shall be establish /
ed, east of which the Navajoes shall neither
plant, nor Craze their stock 4 peace less ia /
gorable to us would be unjust, mere deusion I
and could not last If the Navajoes are hum
oled, as It's said obey are, they must give some
better proof of it than empty words If
peace should be agreed upon, the terms will
De known to you long before the termination
If your session, and if no peace should be
lgreed upon, the war, no doubt, will be pro-
secuted with renewed vigor
SPEECHES FoR CoNGREss.- presume that
ew persons, not favored with peep behind the
scenes, are aware that most of the speeches
which appear in the Congressional Globe are
got up by letter writers for the members whose
lame they bear. Yet such is the fact. The .
Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
enquirer thus refers to the subject: MANY
members who remain here to spend emerry
Christmas" l discover, are, in parliamentary
anguage, ''crarming" themselves. That is,
hey are at the departments and the library
DOM getting data for speeches. Speech ma
ing IS business. It is an art to be studied,
nd requires material for success as every thing.
here are persons who follow the occupation
f "crammers.o They provide all the facts,
cures, and quotations for persons who wish