New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-19

these expenses were borne by the respective parishes
the aggregate amount paid per aDnum did not excee
40 and this can only be attributed to the watch
1 care bestowed by the parochial authorities In
diting and adjusting these charges. Economy an,
retrenchment demand the repeal Of this law.
call your attention to the act of 1916, relative Il
the trial Of slaves, and quote from my last annua
message: "This law requires amendment. Severn
when slaves convicted OF the crime Of murder hav,
never paid the penalty the law demands. Thespecia
tribunal which tries them has power to fix the time
for the execution OF the sentences an appeals taken
appointed for carrying into effect the sentence once
passed, there is proyison Of Law authorizing the
! designation OF another. Indeed the criminal law
demands revision Irefer you to the report Of the
Attorney General
The relations in which we stand towards our sister
States are hopeful if not prosperous It has become
apparent that the entire South is with the Democratic
party, and recent events have shown that portion
Of the Northwest 10 also with us. This state of af.
fairs tends to give us some assurance that we may
for the present. at least hope to defeat the purposes
Of that strong party of the North which is animated
by firm hostility to social and industrial system
These two parties only now occupy the field the
Democratic Is based upon the idea that each separate
State is sovereign and the Government at Washing
ton only intended to be the agent of the combined
States for certain special purposes The Republican
appears to foster the idea that State lines are mere
boundaries for convenience in local jurisdiction and
States considered as one nation ought to rule. This
last idea would be 30 fatal to the South if carried ont
that nearly all Southern men are with the Demo.
cratic party. The position of the Northwestern
especial interest to u.s. These States are by gsograph
icA position, commercially our allies whether slave
or free while many of the States on the Atlantic side
OF the Alleghenes are necessarily hostile in CONNER
the Mississippi valley and does much oil the Imports
ton, and most Of that of expectation The Atlantic
cities are rivals of New Orleans in both of these
trades. 1t s cheering to find our commercial allies of
the Northwest sustaining our Southern policy.
The last named States, and all others whose trade
passes through the Gulf of Mexico are especially in
terested in the acquisition Of Cuba. That island
commands by its position the outlet of all our trade
with the world and all the States of the Mississippi
valley may well be DESTROYS Of having it become a
member Of our confederation. 1t is generally under.
stood that the people Of that island are anxious to do
90, and that the claim Of Spain to sovereignty over
prevents them from applying for admission. Wemay
congratulate ourselves that the present Administra
ton is negotiating for this claim and hope that if
this means Of setting the island free should fail some
more potent one will be used
The expansion of the South southwark is recop.
nized as its destiny. The Administration has pro.
posed 70 occupy portion Of Mexico, in way which
We nope wall advance our progress. If it shoud be-
come impossible or useless to treat with the fitting
deceptive and powerless Governments which SO fire.
quenty rise and fall at the city of Mexico it will be
easy to arrange matters with each State separately
and, by the expressed implied consent Of its PEG.
pie occupy those necessary for the protection Of our
borders and the progress Of the United States The
interference of European powers in the affairs of this
continent contrary to the spirit of the Monroe doc.
trne and offensive at to the pride and the int
rest Of this Union, will be best met by policy look
ing toward the acquisition Of Mexico and Central
America This State has an especial commercial in.
terest in everything which occurs in the Gulf Next
co, and great political in the speedy admission
Of new Southern States.
ROBERT O. WICKLIFFE