New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-29
VOLUME XII.
Ne(u Orleans 4ailp Grestert.
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1859.
WE THOUGHT SO,


On the 10th instant an extensive Abolition
meeting was held at fremont Temple, in Boston,
the object of which was to set afoot measures
to raise means for the relief of the family of John
Brown, the martyr. The assemblage was i'm
mense, between two and three thousand people
being present. and the enthusiasm was tre-
mendous. Distinguished lights of the modern
Athens" " Illuminated the occasion with their pecu-
liar eloquence, and launched their fearful anath-
emas at the South and if they do not cause all
of this ilk to shake in our boots, Indifference is
our own fault, not theirs, and it is certainly dis
courteous in us to regard the whitening scorn and
contempt of fellow citizens of the sister COM
monwealth Of Massachusetts, with such contempt
uous apathy.
Ought we not to have some respect for them
the same glorious banner waves owe. US, and we
are bound in family relationship by all the deeds of
our common fathers Of the land, by the bonds of
citizenship, and by all the ties which can make
people one and indivisible until the act of sever
ance annhilates past and inaugurates future
But, believing with Hamlet, that tits better to 3" bear
the ills we have than fly to others that we know not
Of, we will not contemplate future but strive to
bear the ills we have until they increased to
be unbearable, and meanwhile lament that such
schism should cape to dissever us, and invite some
patriot to plunge, Curtius.like into the hungry
gulf to appeasc its wrath and close its destructive
mouth Perhaps old Ossawatomie Brown fancied
himself the elect patriot to do suicidal sacrifice;
but he was not the accepted offering, and has only
widened the breach.
Among the other intellectual and political giants
Of Black Repubcanism who addressed the august
assemblage in the fremont Temple was Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and his discourse developed
fact which were previously inclined to take
for granted and announce on own unsupported
responsibility, strong the probability which
sustained our hypothesis. He stated that John
Brown is farmer, the sixth in descent from Peter
Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayhower
in l620 This accounts for John Brown. This
pedigree affords him full authority for being
stern fanatic. This ancestry is his abundant ex
cnse for being the exponent Of any folly which
the human conscience could be warped and dis
torted to justify. His fathers burnt witches, tor
tured Indians, hung Quakers and drove the gody
Roger Williams forth into the bowling wilderness
and where's the wonder that their son should run
an insane tilt against all contemporary prepriety,
and seek to make holocaust of every slave
holder and Shareholders wife and child in the
land? John Brown would thrust his rascally pike
into Virginia or Louisiana planter with as little
conjunction, and do it upon principle, old Peter
Brown would have fired up the fagot pile around
witch, or fastened the halter under Quaker's ear
But the misfortune is that all who have the blood
in them not such valiant zealots old Brown,
who heedlessly thrust his head into the lions jaws
and SO lost his power of doing mischief; but
rather towards, like Waldo Emerson and his
brethren, who, on the safe vantage ground of Mas
sachusetts soil, with specious and ince ndiary
tongues, have poisoned the minds of the masses
until the great body of the people are blinded and
have ranged themselves under the baneful banner
of Abolitionsm. They are more despcable and
detestable than old Brown for while they entertain
precisely the same views, they have not his pluck
to face danger, but add cowardce to their crying
sins. We have some respect for old John Brown,
for he is as brave murderer wlretted the
assassin's knife, hut we have no words applicable
to those who would fain strike but have not the
courage to give the blow. Such craven villains
as Emerson, as Howe, and others who have fled
their country to escape acquisitions, and who
dared not leave New England, though they coun-
seled John Brown to enter Virginia, disgrace their
puritan ancestors, for they were brave with all
their faults.
Old John Brown will die game " and they will
i've poltr00ns. Ralph Waldo Emerson Will live to
preach the apotheosis of John Brown through
New England, and to infame the minds of the peo-
Pile with his vile pleadngs, breathing fire and
slaughter against us of the South, when the more
valiant old traitor shall have crumbled into dust
and yet Ralph is of our dear citizens,
and the broad agis of the Republic shelters him
and us alike! Are not loving family, and does
not every element of union and fraternity exist
among us? OF course! Then down with the here
tics who dare to think that at some time the Union
may become too hot to hold all in comfort
Down with the seditionsts who think that the |
troubles occasioned by Abolitonism are but in
their infancy, that the Ralph Waldo Emersons, the
Beechers, the Stewards and the John Browns will
wax no worse, and that, with the aid of charitable
forbearance, we can always get along with those
who seek our destruction, and whose destruction
we cannot seek in selfdefense, save when they are
so ncautious to step south of Mason and Dixon's
line Down with the so-caed extremists who dare |
to contemplate a possible contingency! Foresight
is fooshness, and all men should be as blind as |
fortune until misfortune and disaster tear the blind
fold from their eyes,