New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-26
Neh Orlea1s nailp Crescent.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2s, 1859.
WE HAVE LITTLE FAITH.

We have little faith that the following remarks
taken from the Washington States of the goth inst.
will ever be carried out by the people to whom
they applied, according to their letter spirit
| We wish had more faith; but we cannot say We
have, and tell what we believe to be the truth.
| Speaking of the so-styled Harper's Ferry insur
recton, the States observes:
The sober-mnded men of the non-slay yeholdine
States must be blind indeed if they do not distinctly
perceive the precpce to which Black Republican
ism il leading the country. Can they coalesee witt
can they decline to resist, with all the energy
| which they command, party which is actu
| ated by but solitary sentiment, and that the most
| ingorlous one which ever found place in human
| bosom?-the destruction Of the noblest system Of
| government that the Almighty ever blessed peo
| pie with.
| 1t would be expecting too much of humanity to
| suppose that the slavcholding States would risk
| submission to such an administration Black Re-
| pubcanisrn would bring to Washington. Virginia
in view of what has transpred within the last few
days, would be faithess to every principle which
she holds most dear, were she to consent to let the
arnory at Harpers Ferry and the Notifications al
| Old Point Comfort pass into the keeping of a
| Seward, Chase, Banks, or any other Black Re
| publican! What security could be furnished her
| that the arms therein contained would not be en-
| pl0yed for Overpowering her?
There never was 80 grave period in the history
| Of the Union. Sensible citizens everywhere can,
not fail to 50 regard it. They should dispassion,
eiiectual mode of averting the terrific pending
danger.
The sober minded men y of the North no doubt
entertain correct opinions, but they are utterly
powerless in the premises. They do nothing.
They are overwhelmed by the surging waves of ia
| naticsm. What can be done with bigots who pro-
pose to decapitate the statue of Webster because
in his lifetime he proclaimed obedience to the Con-
sttution and who eXecrate the memory of Choatc
simply because he was an honorable, faithful citi-
zen? Nothing literally nothing. They rule be-
cause they are in the majority; and they are in
sensible alike to the appeals of Justice, honor and
reason. They resemble fcnds more than human
beings. They are as bad as cllurch-yard ghouls as
told in oriental fables if not worse, for they would
rcvel in a banquet of the dying, while the ghous
contented themselves with feasting on mouldering
carcasses-inaensible alike to pain and degrade
ton.
The " "soberminded men, of the free States
may mourn. That is about all they can do. They
are powcrless to control. Would that they could
Would that we could discover some signs of re-
formation visible. But we cannot. Perhaps if the
Harper's Ferry insurrection had extended over
several counties and some hundreds of children had
been murdered, and some hundreds of men assas.
sinated and some thousands of dwellings burned
and some hundreds of maidens and matrons raw
ished and killed, and many millions of dollars of
property ruthlessy destroyed, there might have
been some awakening of human sentiment in the
free States, outside New England Whether it
would have been sufficiently powerful to govern,
we have no means of knowing. All we are fully
convinced of is that no horror perpetrated upon
Southern women, children and men, could soften
the heart Of dyed-in-the- Abolitionist
The proposition in the second para graph from
the States we have no idea will ever be carried
out in any contingency. If William H. Seward
should be elected to the Presidency in 1850, we do
not believe Virginia will act in the manner indi-
Gated. Why? We judge of the future by the
past, and the months not many since Virginia
elected John Letcher Governor-a man who en-
dorsed language used in reference to the institution
of domestic slavery far more atrocious than any
ever employed by Seward or any of his compare
lively respectable assocates The supposition
that such man would seize arms and fortresses to
keep the Abolitonists out is simply ridiculous.