New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-11
8sh @rlsans 9aiIp Crestent.
SOMEWHAT IN ERROR.

9ItW Wrlfans 4allp Wrestfllt.
SOMEWHAT IN ERROR.
cate OF the 9TH instant
How WILL THEY SETTLE IT Fit is well known that
sne Crescent and some gentleman from neighboring
A Pa!isn, who wrote Douglas Q welcome when he
vim1ed New Orleans last winter, are warm advocates
Vol Do1gas for the Presidency, and at the same time
Bat - Douglas has declared that he will not accept
nomination from the Charleston Convention ii il
ADOPTS resolution in favor Of the revival Of the slave
Gads what are these freeating friends Of his to do
since his avowed hostility to and egotstical soueam.
ishness against their dearest scheme Will they drop
douglas or free trade in da,kies? II very serious
dilemma, we grant, and will not readily admit OF a
SomPromlse Let our States Rights doctors try their
nsnds at patching up Cancellation between these
extremes OF Abolition demagogueism represented by
Dougias, and slave trade Disunonists who swear BY
sae Gresaent and dream Of Congo as the Canaan of
Our friends of the Advocate, unintentionay, we
are quite confident have done the Crescent consider
aoie injustice in the foregoing. To show wherein the
.eiasoce lays, as well as to set ourselves and
right before the public we will proceed to
make The proper explanations.
In the first place. the editors Of the Crescent never
wrote Douglas welcome to New Orleans in the
this city, shortly after his triumph in Illinois over
that arch and unmitigatedly abomnable Aboitonist,
Abraham Lincoln, we bade him welcome as the
only man, in the whole broad North who, no mat
ter what his sins of omission or commission, had
been able to beat back and utterly discomft the
serrled and triumphant hosts of the Black Republi-
cans which had swept in victory from State to State
until the prospect seemed that all the territory aboy
Mason aud Dxon's line about to be subjected to
sheir fanatca sway This was the SUM and substance
OF what we said and did Was there anything wrong
IN ttf anything unbacoming Southern gentlemen :?
anything antagonistc to the character Southern edi
tors ought to maintain? We, certainly after reflect
sng over the matter, have been unable to discoye
anything Improper in the premises. We merely re-
Joiced over the defeat Of ruthless and unscrupuous
Abohttonist, and proposed to welcome the victor,
WAnout distinction OF party, as such. Nothing more
and nothing less. We had nothing to do with the
peculiar political tenets of Mr. Douglas, never had
and never expect to have. That idea never entered
snta our calculations. We simply commended pub
nc demonstration on account of the first and only
mag who had been able to defeat the Abolitionsts in
fBe year OF the memorable Illinois contest. And
whatever may be said of Judge Douglas in other
respects. he is no more an Aboonist in feeling and
, sympathy than We are.
In the second place, we are not nor have we been,
advocates, much less "warm advocates Of Douglas
Tor the Presidency" Our record will bear us out in
this assertion We have said frequently, and now
say again, that we infinitely prefer Douglas to an
Ahollsionst that. with all his faults, he is great
bold. brave man and we hold TO the belief that a
man possessing these exalted attributes, can Meth er
ne hypocritica or mean, much less Abolitionist
shat We do not think there is man living who can
beat Seward, or more odous Black Republican, in
1850, bat Douglas and we entertain grave dou BITS
whether be, with all his acknowledged North We st
ern strength, will be able to effect that desirable OBJ
Iect; that no man, in deliberate opinion, from
the siaveholding States stands ghost Of chance
and that under the circumstances and in view of the
exgencies of the times that upon US, and consd
esing the alternative that is becoming pressingy i'm
mineut, prefer the election of Douglas to the s
cess of a Black Republican. Our advocacy o.
Douglas for the Presidency hath about this exteu
and little no more! Woud not the Baton R,ug {
Advocate support Douglas in preference to ultr
Freesoller? If yea, then there is no substantial if
ference between the Crescent and the Advocate.
In the third place, capitolau contemporary in
, Inmates that we are warmly in favor of the re
opening of the African slave trade.r Now this init
nation does us positive injustice. We have neye
declared ourselves in favor of re-opening the Atrica
slave trade. We have said that the great want o
the South was lack of an adequate supply of opera
tive laDor. We have never heard this proposito
disputed and we have also stated we believe tha
Africa afforded the only source whence an appropri
ate supply could be obtained. The laws prohibtip
the slave trade are, in opinion as disgracerul an
huullIating to the South, they are unjust and ur
constitutional. Congress has just as much right t
brand the slave trade between the States as Infamous
as it has to stamp infamy on the African slav
trade. In all moral aspects, religious aspects, an
phianthropic aspects, there is no difference betwee
the two descriptions of traffic. If there is it is i
favor of the African trade, for the simple but ncontrc
verbe reason that the African trade elevates civi
izes, Chrstianzes and redeems from barbarism tn
wretches bought from their owners there while th
Interstate slave trade does nothing of the sort. 0
grounds of genuine humanity and true religion stron
arguments can be brought forward to sustain re
opening of the African slave trade but when W
view the question in the light of expediency, it
sunies different aspect. 1t may be inexpedent an
1t may not. On this point men may honestly and il
tesligently differ; but on the moral issue there
little or no room for discussion. Bigots may raw
and fanatics may howl, but neither their rawlings nc
their howlings, come they from the North or frol
the South can have the slightest effect upon resu
arrived at through the medium of ncontestble fact
and legitimate deduction from ncontrovertible, hi
tercal truths.
The political queries of the Advocate do not r.
quire any answer at this time from us, as we do ne
belong to that popular school. When the period
rives, we have sufficient amount of selfreiance
say, that we believe we will be enabled to do as W
have done in the past-justify and sustain ourseve
in following whatever line of policy, duty and a
unwavering regard for our section may dictate.
Louisiana Intelligence.
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter of Saturda
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