New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-28
Slavery AalrAr1os..

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followed BY quite largs and respectable ciAss d
Southern men gsnsrally, and Southern journAliass-
Eee Houthefn sn. It h he fashion these excellent
peoss have d depressing The agitation Of saver,
lasnss and q proscribins tho discussion Of thes.
vital questions y being miachevous and injurioui
policy and We think Il may not be anss 70 consider
what soandnss there y in these objections to III,
ksspisg Of ssctonal iasues actively alive, Of neve
psrmltting them 70 remain quiet for moments
has bsen the course which We have pursued In th,
management Of these columns. Il Is alleged BY thi
school of setatyled conservatives that this agitation
does no good Whatever. and only tends to stimulate
sectional feeling. This we hold to Be- favoring argu
ment and IT y only does this It does good
sectional feeling should be the paramount sentiment
10 every Southerners breast II is nothing less thar
patriotism, and It 10 the feeling which keeps thu
SoutheTner everwatchful Of and quick to repel th,
attempts at infringement Of his rights it is, per
that eternal vigilance" which IL the price Of oul
privileges and our sovereignty.
The cause il just and all that Is said in COMPUTING
the attacks Of its enemies can but set it in more
conyincingly clear light before the world. Line
upon line precept upon precept, are not wasted in
its vindcation more than they are in preaching the
doctrines Of religion and morality and those whose
ears are offended BY the repetition should go where
they viii be beyond hearing. II the same untiring
zeal had been shown fifty years ago in manfally up
holding our peculiar institution and vigorously
polling even the ightest insnuation is now BY the
majority Of Southerners, It would not have been in
the uncertain circumstances under which II now ex.
lists for the generations Of twenty thirty years ago
would have been mbued with the spirit inculcated on
the youth Of this day and they would have checked in
the outset, and when it comparatively easy to do
the Roadway of the great abolition crusade that now
looms up In porentous proportion upon our North
ern borders, which II Is now openly assalng having
paved the way for securing its first oothold on slave
territory BY the long sustained and nsidous attacks
which were scarcely suspected or appreciated until
their object was attained Is IT time to deprecate
slavery agitation and to doubt its wisdom when the
sovereignty Of the Sonth is mperilled by the sggres
mons Of the North Will these attacks cease il we
cease TO defend ourselves against them fol if they
viii not then il is wise to keep, as we argue that we
should ever on the qu vcs to protect ourselves the
sentinels Of the press should keep awake and CON
SANITY proclaim, as the Waterman oil the night its
hourly tidings, every new DEVICE fent and invention
OF the enemy that ayowedy threatens our overthrow
in this matter at controversy.
This much discussion sits down the questions
which arise to the form and consistency OF the definite
issues which enter into electoral contests, and upon
which the South being united gives them national
Importance, and their advocacy strength which is
courted BY the North, thus comforting upon us suit
cient weight to maintain the balance Of power be-
tween the two sections. It cannot be disputed that
al political issues acquire their strength BY popular
agitation and il tho system Of discussion be not kept
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