New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-16

NEW POLITICAL TESTS.

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| NEW F OLlIlOAh TESTS
/ M. C,eseent-Geptlemen Standing aloof, as you
| are and having mn conneetnn with nor taking any
mart N the dissertations which divide the Democratic
party Of this State vet, nevertheless beg the favor
| Of small space In your columns.
| The most copsumnate political presumption which
has been witnessed in many day, in fact, for the
first time in Louisiana, Is now being exhibited by
certain presses together with that section Of the
Democracy which influences and controls them in
their attempts to create and impose new political
tests by which Democrats are to be arraigned and
adjudged and received or rejected as they may, or
may not come up to the particular standard of these
selfconsttuted censors and dictators. These ndi.
viduals are either insane or they have wlfully set
themselves to work to break up the Democratic
State Convention {; indeed, we believe that this is
their design and poicy-such pretensions cannot
possibly Indicate any other purpose. They know
well enough that no high.minded and true South.
ern Democrat will quietly Weld and submit to these
hph.handed assumptions these bold and uuscrupu-
Ious acgressions upon their inalienable political
rights, utterly at war with every principle of De-
mocracy. The very idea is odious, and as baneful
as that political euyia which arose from the swelter.
ing hot-beds of old Federalism. Such Democracy as
this would substitute the inauisition for the right of
trial BY Jury and trample under its heel the liberty
of opinion and speech
Y The New Orleans Delta. that new organ of old
federal instincts in Louisiana. nnder the assumed
parb of Democracy in late article in reference to
the Democratic State Convention, copied and en-.
dorsed by the Advocate of the 9Th inst very plainly
indicates the designs of the Federal section of the
Democracy in that Convention. Thew will attempt
to rule the delegates down to certain new political
tests and policies on Federal questions and force their
acceptance or deny to those delegates who shall re.
fuse these political mandates their rights in the con-
vention. This we believe ia IN. nrooramme of their
intended action nn,ess thew shali find nv the time
the convention rnees that dissertation ia the better
mart of valor. For onr mart VIA do not hesitate to
saw that We hone thew will not finch from their pur.
nose in this matter We have long desired to see the
Democracy of Lousians relieved and freed from those
sbackes Of Federal conservatism which have crippled
its yirorous action and ia now RAPIDLY a5uteratnp
its noble old nrincinles.
Should the Federal section of the Democracy per.
sst in carving out their designs in the approaching
State Convention. thew cannot escape the couse.
ouepces. If It is their intention of enforcing new
nolitca tests and Of refusing to with those
delegates whom thew cannot force to think with
them then their ONLY course will be in SEPARATE and
distinct action for themselves and those from whom
thew shall have senarated will remain az the true and
faithful representatives and guardians of the creed
and doctrines Of Jefferson and Jackson.
The consequences of such division or separation
in the Democracy Of Louisiana can neither he an.
na,;no or minous. t. will he Init mere w;nnow;no
and SCATTERING away of the char and an emerging If
the true and sound Democracy from amongst that
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