New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-11
.rxalS DELTA. ETC.

The good-naturea soui who presidcs over the
columns Of the Delta has recently given hisnseii
great concern about the course 81 The Crescent. |
Hc seems Is be VIGOROUSLY sensitive lest we sha 90
er say something wrong d ianpolitic and he has
stFiyen with Eysat diligence to prevent the paDhc
fropa understanding what we have said. lest |
spcs Instrumentation should lead to our detrimant
ar iii tlis Kind hearted solicitnde from our neigh
hor Ne feel extremely obliged, and here return
Hin Jill unbounied thanks; DIT the same time we
axe occasion 10 express the hope that he will not
nut himself TOO much cut On on account. One Of
the principal aims of newspaper proprietors is to
make money and we beg To remind our cotenl-
norary that there are stories circulated Of persons
Il ho have made large fortunes By following very
simple rule. tossFit: minding their own business.
The Last exhibition OF the Delta's patTonizing
care for the Crescent is occasioned by our re-
marks upon the election of Pennington. Our
reaaers Will remember that when that event oc-
CURED we took occasion to say, that from PEN
nington's past history and personal character, and
also from the fact that he was net elected to Con-
gress us d Republican, but ON the Opposition
Ticket, there !. was reasonable ground for the
hope that his administration 81 the Office would be-
conservative and free from partisan prejndices
and asperities II and also that be was probably
as unobjeetionable man to the South as it was
possible for the Republicans to have selected in
Congress- In expressing these opinions, the
Delta conceives We Z were too precipitate;'' and
| thinks, il we J. had only waited few days, we
might have been saved the modification to which
| the telegraph to-day subjects Y Us.
4 1t is very ungrateful in us no doubt, to differ
| with tie Delta man, when his opinion il put for
/ word with 30 evident design Of extenuating our
i errors. But really, ne assure him we do not ex-
perience the slightest amount Of modification
4 after reading the Geographic news. We never
/ dreamed that Pennington would place Southern
1 Democrats ii the Craftsmanship Of the important
Committees III the very article from which the
Delta quotas, we stated that Pennngton's election
weuld throw the Committees into the hands Of the
| Republicans and regretted that these important
engines of power would go into the possession of
the foes Of the South. But would not these have
/ been tile case inevitably, Il any Republican had
been elected Why, certainly. And for the Delta
to affect astonisimant or Indignation now, at what
every body made up their mind as sure to come,
as soon ~ the Republicans gained tho victory,
strikes us as only silly. In the appointment Of
committees, Pennington is no worse than any
Republican would have been compelled to be
and ID some other important respects, we have
good reasons for thinking he Il much better there
fore, we think we were and are jnstdable in saying
that be Is as unobiectionable to the South any
man elected by the North could be-
What are these other respects in which Penning-
ton is preferable to any of the other Republican
candidates for Speaker Let us examine. In the
first place. he never endorsed the Helper book. If
ii il a capital sin against man to have endorsed
that book it should be some merit, to our eyes, in
Northern man not to have endorsed it. Again,
Pennington has committed himself in favor of the
Fugitive Slave Act and advocates its strict enforce
ment! For this, we have the authority of Mr.
Keitt Of South Carolina, who stated it, just as the
vote was being taken that elected Pennington, and
who also declared that Pennington was in favor of
ssdHo1ing sldreyt 10 90 arererei. tropical climate
makes II prqftable.n Now, Mr.. Keitt may be
wrong, and the Delta right Bat we have not yet
seen the evidence that convinces US Of the fact.
Until We do, we must believe, the man who fayors
the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and
who is willing to permit slavery to go wherever it
ii profitable, and who never endorsed the Helper
book, is Speaker less Objectionable to the South
than any Republican z that could have been