New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-29
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1852
Wem ORLEANS Dailp Crestent.

Ue6 ORLEANS 1ailp Grestelrt.
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1863.
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN's MESSAGE.
we published yesterday morning telegraphic
summary of President Buchanans annual message
TO Congress- After having waited in vain for the |
House to organize, by the election of its officials
II seems that His Excellency has made an nnova |
uoh upon the established practice and sent in his |
communication to the Senate before Speaker is |
elected His object is doubtless to get his address
before the people of the country, with the hope |
that his appeals for moderation will go some way |
towards stilling the threatening excitement that
RACES throughout the land. We hope that our
venerable President may not be doomed to see his
effort rewarded by disappointment. Still, we are
constrained to say that we deem the time passed
when mere words-however high their source
can have any very great efficiency in restoring
quiet. The South recognizes in the principles Of
even the moderate-spoken Of the Republican poll
ucIans, theories that, if carried into effect, must
result in dissolution and ruin to her section Until
she sees, therefore, some indication of the decline
IN the strength and influence of the Republican
party, in the Northern States it is felt that she
receives no guarantee Of security that is worth the
having. The Republican party desire to succeed
in possessing themselves Of the Government of the
United States, for the purpose of carrying out their
announced programme, which is as follows: A re-
peal of the fugitive slave law; remodeling of the
Supreme Court, SO as to disfavor slavery; abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia the forbid
ding of the admission of any more slave States;
and the eventual amendation of the Federal Con-
stitution SO as to grant to Congress the right Of
abolishing slavery in the slave States themselves!
This programme is a virtual declaration of war
upon the South; and, therefore, when the South
sees the majority of the Northern people arraying
themselves in the ranks Of the party that procaims
this war, mere ,co,ds cannot persuade her that she
has no cause for alarm or that the sentiments Of
those Northern people those of paternal regard
and friendliness toward Shareholders.
Thus believing, we feel pretty we'll assured that
nothing that Mr.. Buchanan could possibly say will
do much towards restoring confidence in the South.
And we are greatly misled if his words will prove
| much more effectual in the North. The President
personally has long ceased to be the object of any
greatrespectamong the Northern people and they
have, in most of the States in that section openly
arrayed themselves in opposition to the party to
| which he is attached. Rampant Republicans will
repudiate the advice from Democratic President,
| whatever wisdom that advice might embrace, or
however polite it would be to follow it. And judg-
| ing by the telegraphic synopsis that has come to
hand, there is nothing in the Presidents message
itself, sufficiently important ntrinsicay to create
any great impression either North or South. Mr..
Buchanan's ideas seem to be such as are trite to
| everybody. His arguments are those which have
| been rendered familiar to all ears-but which, un.
| fortunately, carry conviction to nobody's iudg.
| ment.
| Of what use, for example, is it for Mr. Buchanan
to assert that the question of slavery in the Terri
tories has been definitely settled by the Dred
Scott decision? Or that, hereafter States will be
| admitted into the Confederacy, with or without
slavery, as their people respectively desire? The
| Supreme Court may have, very truly, held that
slavery exists in Territory by virtue of law, with
| out Congressional action, and that masters have
perfect right to carry their property into the Terri
| tories-but can they, in practice, exercise that
right in peace and safety so as to make it of any
available utility to them? Not by any means
| And so far from the question having beer, put at
rest by the Dred Scott decision we know that a
formidable and growing political party has made it
article of their faith to keep the matter in agi-
taton until they procure reversal of that de-
cision, even if they have to remodel the Supreme
Court itself to accomplish the purpose! How u1l.
true, then is it for the President to represent the
question of slavery in the Territories as matter
at rest. AT this moment it forms vital issue be-
tween three Of the great political divisions that
separate the country, to-wit: the Lecompton, or
Administration Democrats; the anti-Lecompton,
| or Douglas Democrats; and the Republicans.
Each of these parties occupy distinct ground on
this vexed question, and each is striving to make
| that ground prevail.
| With respect to the admission of new States into
the Union, with, or without slavery, as their own
people shall have determined when framing their
constitution we think the President states anything
| but the fact when he asserts that such policy
has been fully recognized by Congress, and init.
mates that it will be peaceably followed hereafter.
Republican members neue, ,oiH cote for the ad,s-
sion Of slare States-sueh is their declared deter.
mination. On the contrary, that party demand the
| passage of law, by Congress, declaring that no
new slave State shall hereafter ever be received
! into the Union! If Cuba were purchased to-mor.
row, her admission to the Union would undoubt-
edly be opposed by every Republican Representa-
| tive and Senator in Congress, whatever were the
wishes of her people. And yet our respected
President would have us all believe that tho diff
Guilty about admitting new States, with reference
to slavery had all been reconciled, and that now
there remained nothing to awaken uneasness on
that score For the lovers of the Union to seek to
assure themselves by such tactics would be like
the ostrich which, with its head hidden in the sand
relieves itself of terror by shutting out the sight
of its pursuers.
Upon our Mexican relations, Mr.. Buchanan will
doubtless carry with him the sentiments of the
people of the whole Union. 1t is impossible for
our country to longer shirk the responsibility which
our contiguity to Mexico throws upon our should
ers of interfering to put stop to the anarchy and
bloodshed so long continued and so hopelessly
fastened upon her unless she receives foreign aid
The reception of the treaty just concluded between
Mr.. McLane and Juarez will doubtless make a
change in Mr.. Buchanan's proposed plan of opera
tions necessary but nothing remains for us but to
assume the /" curatorshp " of our intirm neighbor-
who is, indeed, very sick and to maintain it
by whatever force is necessary against the strug-
giles of the Mexicans themselves or European
powers. Somebody must interfere, and we cannot
permit any one else to do so but ourselves
ARRIVAL OF THE STATUE OF HENRY CLAY.-The
ship Fanny Fern, Capt. Jordan, from Havre, ar
rived yesterday. She brought the statue of the
illustrious Henry Clay, which has been recently
finished for the 'Clay Monument Association