New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-22
N.m @rItans @ailp Grestent.
MORNING, sEprEuBER ~, 1855
BAD LOGIC,
We extract the following article from the CoIum.
bus (Gs.) Enquirer of the 10th instant:

We extract the following article from the Colum.
bus (Gs.) Enquirer Of the 10th instant:
HARD CHoICE-The New Orleans Crescent, no.
ticing the reports that Hon. John Forsyth, Of the
Mobile Register has become an active Douglas man
says that Mr. Forsyth evidently agrees with it in the
opinion that Douglas is "the only person who stands
chance to defeat Seward in 1907 Granting this
to be true what interest has the South in the contest
between them Is there q Southern man who, for
aught but party association would turn on his heel
to give the victory TO either? In our humble jndg
ment, the election of Douglas would be the most dis
astrous event OF the two, because 1t would establish
Tor all time principle directly subversive Of South.
ern constitutional guarantees. Seward President,
might organize his "irrepressibIe conflict" between
the variant domestic systems of the two sections
but Douglas popular sovereignty" would so hamper
the South as to prevent her from entering upon
the confict-for no stakeholder will emigrate with
his property to any Territory and contend with the
North for its possession If he is liable at any moment
to be expelled, or have his slaves liberated by the
action OF the majority OF the squatters while 1t is
Territory. Seward would consnmmate hisaggression
by the direct action Of the Federal Government and
he could and would be met first by the united repre-
sentatves Of the South in Congress, and, "as last
resort" by the independent action OF the aggrieved
States But how could Douglas insidious "squatter
sovereignty unriendly legislation be met, after the
country, by electng him. had established it as the
true and equitable doctrine. OF the Constitution
Like the English bill passed by Southern votes, it
would be an aggression bad in its results Black
Republicanism but debarring the South from resist
ance or complaint against the section that triumpbs
by the wrong. If the South, then, does not wish to
find herself in the position of Samson when shorn of
his strength By Deah, it behooves her to resist
the election of Stephen Arnold Douglas to the Presi
dency as the greatest political evil that befa her
We hold to the correctness Of the first proposition
in the foregoing. We have seen nothing to work
change in the original opinion expressed. We have
never been partisans of Judge Douglas-there are
scores of men in the South and many in the North
we would prefer to him-but as there seems hardly
chance of getting better than Douglas, in place
OF Seward, we have frankly acknowledged, and do
now acknowledge that we infinitely prefer Douglas
to the New York agitator, any other Black Repub-
lican. "lf this be treason, make the most OF it."
We do not agree with other arguments Of the En-
quirer. They impractcabe, rather than practical
Douglas is no fanatic. He has been fighting the
Abolitonists all his political life there is hardly a
man living who is as much hated by them as he is !;
and besides, he possesses bold, brave, manly quail
ties, which render him altogether more acceptable
than his presumed Abolition opponent.
So far as his popular sovereignty" doctrine is
concerned, We regard that as a barren issue. We're
all the Territories Of the Union open to the South-f
the North extended us equal and exact justice to
which we are entitled under our common organic
law-.he result would be the same. 1t would take q
fifth of a century to reclaim and populate single
Territory, and even that reclamation and population
would cause weakness and exhaustion in other por.
tions of the Southern States. If we had an opera.
tive labor emigration of one or two hundred thousand
souls each year, the effect would be different, and
we might be enabled to occupy and settle Terri
tories advantageousy. As it is, we can do no such
thing. We haven't the means. Every slave taken to
Texas, Arkansas or Louisiana, only weakens the
institution in Virginia, Maryland and Missouri, with
out solitary corresponding benefit generally con-
sidered.
In this view of the case we are sustained by one
Of the boldest and abest Democratic statesmen of
the South. Hon. John J. McRae, who is running for
Congress in the Fifth District Of Mississippi, without
opposition, made speech to large concourse of his
constituents in Port Gibson, Claiborne county, on the
18th inst There is lengthy report of the speech
in the Port Gibson Reveile of the 14th inst now
before us. If we had room we would publish the
entire report. AS it is we are constrained to content
ourselves with extracting single paragraph:
In politico economic view, the great want of the
South at this time was more slave labor This want
is felt everywhere throughout the country, aud
especially is it apparent in the present Territorial
discussion. We are called upon by large portion
of the country to yield the right of protection to the
slave property in the Territories and although the
South, with great unanimty and manliness, has
answered this assault by declaring she will resist it
even to severence of the Union of what practical
good is the doctrine of protection in the Territories
to us? We have, in fact no interests in the Terri
tories of the Union. We have neither citizens nor
laborers to people them. Should the North bv
great stretch OF magnanimity say to the South,
all the Territories are open to you, we will pro.
tect your slaves, all we ask is fair and equal chance
come on with as much slave property as you can
bring with you, yet with all this, it would be impos
sible for us to people even territory with pre-
ponderance of slave labor interest, or slave labor
voters. The simple truth is we have not negro prop
erty sufficient for the cotton States 1t may not be
generally known that at the commencement of the
Kansas difficulties, there were fue Territories open
for settlement but the South only made fight fol
one, and failed in her attempt, although the slave
labor interest was upheld in Kansas by 5000 voters
while there were only 300 slaves in the Territory And
we failed to people Kansas must fail to people
any Territory, wherever situated for the same reason
the want of slave labor. 1t is folly to talk of exten
| sion without the means to accomplish it. Every
statesman in the Union, North and South is looking
| to the annexation and absorption of Mexico at nc
distant day, but what hope for the South is there in
this contemplation unless she has the means of car
| rying with her to those extensive fields her peculiar
system of labor?
1t strikes US the reasoning of Ex-Governor McRae
Is incontroverthle. When our Georgia contemporary
answers it satisfactorily we may take up some othe
points involved in the article we have quoted at thu
beginning.
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