New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-14

nss1a - ~ kiang Of efficiency or patriot
- ftnm ION 6aok'sor my cf bis subordinates,
Z Z : u isnpossibilisy that any disappoint
Y $3.50 q e, uuless ne antquated specimen
q 81 - abonination should change his course
sui issly ~ radically.
NJ lave received the annual message Of Gov.
Rx,fy 4. VIE, however. It is . splendid docu
uont, II = written with mastery ability; and
co,a1non selse and feryent patriotism glow and
pervade every I1ne and sentence of it. Gov. Wise
-, heretofore, been special fayorite Of ours,
u nccuunt d certain idosyncracies which, in our
hNmhle opinion, have tended to obscure his other
~ peerless Intellectual greatness but we do
~ sn4uali6edly and nnafectedly that his course
4 ~ sccent Harper's Ferry cmbroglic, from be-
Rnnlng ~ end, u deserving Of the highest commen
Ation, and that his late message places him in the
lfont rank, foremost among the foremost Of great,
reliable, Southern statesmen. His head, heart and
\ arm. hare been equal to the emergency which
forced itself upon him, and Virginia has reason to
I W proud Of her grand chief magistrate.
We have not room for the whole message Of Coy.
wise, but We shall present sniciency Of extracts
10 enablc our readers to appreciate and understand
The tone ana temper u the entire admirable docu-
ment, % nj as ne absorbing question at issue is
concerned.
We viii now commence our quotations. The
Govsrncr starts out id this wise:
Up 70 late period had fondy hoped to close
nv 0ffcial term and part from my executive labors
with napght but cause Of congratulation on the
condition Of the commonwealth. But, the upper
most theme in this my last regular message must
be, that our peace has been disturbed; our citi-
zens have been imprisoned, robbed and murdered;
IA sanctfty of their dwellings, has been violated
their parsons hare been outraged; their property
NJ been seized BY force Of arms; a stronghold in
Sakeir midst, with its arms and munitions of war
IN been captured and the inhabitants cut Off from
the means Of defense; q national highway through
our nitG, and its locomotive trains and telegraphic
W1reH have been stopped; the State and national
goyBr6ign6eS have been insuited and assailed; and
State and Federal troops have been called out and
been compelled to fight, at the loss of several
killed and wounded, to subdue rebellion and trea-
son at Harpers Ferry, in the county Of Jefferson,
within our Jurisdiction.
This was no result Of ordinary crimes, however
highhanded and feloni0us. 1t was no conspiracy
Of bandits against society ia general with the mo
tives which usually actuate criminals, confined to
the individual perpetrators, and to be crushed by
their arrest and punishment But it was an extra
ordinary and actual INVASION by sectional organ
zati0n specially upon shareholders and upon their
property in negro slaves The home to be invaded
Was the home of domestic slavery; the persons to
/ be seized were the persons Of stakeholder: the
property to be confscated was the property in
dawes and the other property Of shareholders alone,
such as money, plate, jewels and other OF like
4 kind, which was to be taken to compensate the
v robbers for the trouble and risk of robbing the
masters Of their slaves; the slaves were not to be
taken to be carried away, but they were to be
made to stand by the side ofthe robbers and to be
forced to fight to iiberate themselves by massacre
ing thair masters the arsenal was taken to supply
B arms TO servile insurgents; and provisional gov
4 ernment WAS attempted, in British province, by
our own countrymen, united to us in the faith Of
confederacy, combining with Canadians, to invade
a the slaveh0idng States Of the United States and
thus the night Of the 18th Of October last,was sur
prised, and the day of the 18th of October last
startled BY the signal guns Of rapine murder rob
purpose Of stirring up universal insurrection Of
slaves throughout the whole South.
Sudden, surprising, shocking as this invasion has
been, it ID not more than the rapiGity and
Of the causes which have prompted and put it in
motion. Il is not confined to the parties who were
the present participatOrs in its 0utrages. Causes
md influences lie behind it more potent far than
n the little band of desperadoes who were sent
4 ahead to kindle the sparks Of general confagra-
\ ton; and the event, sad as 1t is, would deserve
but little comment, if the condign punishment of
TIE immediate perpetrators OF the felonies com
ulitted would for the future secure the peace
which has been disturbed, and guarantee the
safety which ID threatened. Indeed, ii the miser-
Able c0nvicts were the only conspirators against
our peace and safety, We might have forgiven
Their odences and Constrained them only BY tile
4rAce Of pardon. But an entire social and sec
s.onai sympathy has melted their crimes, and now
rises Ia rebellion and insurrection to the height of
sustaining and justifying their enormity.
II would be pusillanimous to shut our eyes and
10 Affect not to see certain facts of fearful import
which stare us In the face, and of which must
speak plainly to you, with the firm and manly pnr-
pose Of meeting danger, and with no weak and
wicked design of exciting agitation. That danger
exists, Of serious magnitude, there can be no
doubt in the minds Of the most calm and reflect
ing and the way to avert it in all cases is to march
mp to il and meet it front to front. If it has not
grown too great already, it will retire from col
and as groTh hs strong enough e ALREADY
Tor i viii not diminish by delay. believe in
truth, that the very policy of the prime promoters
Of this apparently mad movement is purely ten
tative: to try whether we will face the danger
dare the aggression will become more and more
ins0lent; and il we do not, that it will either
6uckle or meet US in open conflict to be subdued
and, in either event, our safety and the national
Ut once the sooner the better.
For = series of years social and sectional differ
ences have been growing up, unhappily, between
apirie Of fanaticism has seized upon negro slavery
4s the one subject of social reform, and the one
Idea Of It's abolition has seemed to madden whole
masses Of one entire section Of the country 1t
enters into their religion, into their education into
their politics and prayers into their courts of JUS
doe, Into their business into their legislatures into
~ classes Of their people, the most respectable
and most lawless, into their pulpits and into their
presses and school houses, into their men, women
and children Of oil ages, everywhere. 1t has
trained three generations, from childhood up, in
moral and social habits Of hatred to masters Of AZ
rican slaves in the United States. 1t turns not
upon slavery elsewhere, or against shareholders in
H any other country, but ID especially malignant and
vindictve towards its own countrymen, for the
very reason that it is bound to them by the faith
and sanction OF aconfederate law To set up that
law to it is to enrage it by the sight Of the law be-
cause 1t Is bound by it. It has been taught by the
Atheism Of q higher law than that Of regular
government bound by constitutions and statutes.
has been made to believe in the doctrine Of alb
solute individual rights Independent of all relations
Of man to man in q conventional and social form /;
and that each man for himself has the prerogatve
70 set up his conscience, his will and his Judgment
over and above oil legal enactments and social in
sttut0Ils. 1t has been infamed by prostituted
teachers and preachers and presses to do and dare
any. crime and its consequences which may set up
III Individual supremacy over law and order. It
has been taught from the Senate chamber to trust
IN the fatality of an irrepressible conflict into which
i y bound TO plunge. Its anti Christ pulpit has
breathed naught but insurrectionary wrath into
servants against their masters, and has denounced
our national Union as q covenant with death for
recognizing property in slaves and guaranteeing
70 Il the protection Of law. has raised contribu
tons ~. churches 10 furnish arms and money t.
such criminals as these to make war for empire O
settlement IN our new territories. 1t has trained
them on the frontier, and there taught them In,
skill of the Indian in savage warfare and the]
turned them back upon the oldest and largest slave
holding State To surprise Of its strongest holds
II has organized in Canada and traversed and COZ
responded thence to New Orleans, and from Bosto
TO Iowa. Il has established spies everywhere, an
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