New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-01
NOT EXACTLY CORRECT.
The following is from the Vernon Jackson par
ish) Times of the oil utiTno.

ish) Times of the 21st ultimo:
The New Orleans Crescent says it can't compre-
hend why there should be Southern hostility to
Senator Douglas. Our usually astute contemporary
must be very dull with reference particularly to
this matter When Mr.. Buchanan was represented
as occupying exactly the same position that Sena-
tor Douglas now occupies with much defiance,
the Crescent was unable to comprehend why there
was not Southern hostility to Mr.. Buchanan The
Crescent then assaied the supposed sguatter SOW
ereignty views Of Mr.. Buchanan, and, upon mere
suppostion, desired the South to repudlate him.
Mr. buchanan, in his letter to the thirty three
Northern parsons, gave the world to understand
he held no such views, but maintained the Demo
cratic construction of popular sovereignty. Yet
the Crescent continues to abuse the President as
vehemently ever. Judge Douglas is de-
family advocating the doctrine of squatter sovc-
regnty, thing the President never did, and yet
the Crescent cannot for the life of it comprehend
the reason for Southern hostility toward him.
Why, arguing from its bitter invcctves against Mr..
Buchanan in the presidential campaign of 1856,
one would have thought the Crescent would hurl
the undcrbolts Of Jovc at the Illinois Giant, if it
imperial nod, such as old Homer represents Jupiter
sometimes to indulge, make the earth tremble with
fear
We are not aware that we are '' very dull'' in
this any other matter. The Southern hostility
to Senator Douglas" all things considered, is
strange. There is not man in the Union who is
pursued by the Abolitionists with as much vindic-
tiveness he is, and all because they say he is,
and ever has been, a friend of the South.
When we assaled Mr.. Buchanan for his tergiyer-
sation and treachery in Kansas affairs there was
practical principle at stake. But for him Kansas
might have been saved to the South Now we
have chance for it, any other territory.
Hence it makes little difference, practically con
sidered, what views a man entertains in regard to
''squatter Sovereignty No new slave State will
ever be admitted into the Union anyhow. Conse
quenty, what's the of trittering away our
energies discussing impracticable issues. We had
better unite on some common sense platform, and
prepare for the momentous struggle of next year.
SO far as Douglas is concerned-athough we
have never been partisans of hs-we would in
fnltcy prefer to see him President than the pre-
sent imbecile, corrupt. treacherous and unlttera-
bly, contemplate occupant of the office. We can
hardly imagine any change that could possibly be
for the worse And, besides, we still hold to the
oft-eXpressed belief that the alternative which will
be presented next year, will be Douglas or a
Back-Rcpublican. In such contingency as that,
infinitely prefer the Illinois Senator. He is, to
use the language of Gov. Brown of Mississippi, a
great bold, brave mana giant in intellect and a
giant in will and such man is always embued
with noble, true generous and patriotic qualities
| which render him a tolerably safe custodian of
| public rights.
| We are sure We are not cruel by nature, and
know that we never premeditatedly injured or
wounded the feelings of any human being in our
life but we canddly tell our friend of the Times
| that if We ever get on the summit of the high
| hill called Olympus and should occupy the
" throne of authority there, think in about the
sixtietl part of the sixteth part of minute there
would be an utter humiliation of Buchanansm in
| this cOuntry-that naval officers would be re-
lieved Of the degradation of police duy-that they
would at once become the peers of English nava
| officers, instead Of being obliged to play second
fiddle to them-that all Federal officers would be
instructed to attend exclusively to their Legitimate
business, and not medde with local elections-tha
fundamental principle of our Government, in
volved in the right Of eXpatriation, would be vindi
cated-that the Nicaragua Transit Route would be
opened Immediately if not sooner that peacea
BILE fishing parties would not be molested with, o.
annoyed by governmental fizzlers-that the system
of Federal "pimping" and Federal persecution
would be wholly abolished-that the JeffersoniaI
rule of honesty, capacity and fidelity, as passport
for public station, would be revved-and that ther,
would be good, honest and patriotic time gen
orally particularly, and in detail and in aggregate