New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17
Special q he New Orleans Crescent.


BROWNSVILLE, Dec. Is, 1soo.
| M. Editor-Phe excitement common to af tne
country is the only topic or question of interest,"
with on this extreme North Western frontier.
And il there is q community interested in Ene
settlement Of the differences which exist between
the North and the South, on good and equitable
basis, that community is or ought to be this one.
We have several interests that require adjus ment
but we are hopeless to obtain the national donsid-
Grafton so long as the public mind is engrossed by
the subject Of Northern fanaticism. We demand
for the Rio Grande an extension of our border, SO
that both banks of this river may belong 10 one
power; or we demand that Mexico be enforced to
respect our right of property in slaves.
There is but one of the propositions above set
forth which we believe to be at all practicable,
and that is, that our boundary line be removed
from the Rio Grande to the Sierra Madre. It1would
be useless to enter into treaty stipulations with
Mexico for the return of negroes, because the
treaty would not be respected by the MeHicans.
Therefore we are narrowed down to the demand
that our boundary line be removed further west.
At present it is useless that we live in tho most
favored climate, that we have most bountiful
soil, and that nature has favored us in thousand
ways-.-we cannot coax population to come here.
Land as rich as the most choicest Red river soil
can be purchased here for one cent an acre and
yet we have no purchasers. Whys Because
Northern people do not wish to purchase land
where slavery is established and next, because
Southern people do not wish to buy farms where
they can have no security for their negroes. Thus
we lose the presence of both parties, and besides
the general insecurity of property deters all classes
from settling hereabouts. People had rather live
on the borders of the Indian Nation than on the
Rio Grande, when they have no remedy fol- prop
ertY lost in Mexico. They could pursue marauding
Indians, but they have no recourse against a
| thieYish Mexican or American who crosAes the
river into aneighboring nation.
The people on this frontier are therefore bound
by the highest interest to aid and assist any move
ment which promises to settle the pending domes-
tic controversy in the United States, SO that the
Government may devote itself to foreign matters
or else, finding domestic disagreements unappeas-
able, we constrained to favor the formation of
a new Government whose local concerts shall
allow it to look abroad for at least six months in
the year. If the South secedes she will be amply
able to sustain herself and we shall soon have
new frontier. She has only been prevented from
expanding westward over portion of Mexico by
the opposition of the North which hatedour ex-
tension because it said we proposed to add slave
States to the Union. Congress was even afraid to
defend this frontier with an imposing force because
it apprehended that some annexation movement
might originate under the protection of United
States troops. The McLane treaty was rejected
because promised to strengthen the South and to
add influence and trade to New Orleans. In the
face Of such an unnatural enmity, is the sentiment
of disunion to be frowned upon as without reason
and Justice?
From what have written above, you may be
satisfied that we applaud the Crescent for the
course it has taken upon the question. phs Sec
ton has suffered long enough from the opposition
of the North, and gratifed at any revolution
which has tendency to relieve us from thb weight
of that opposition. We shall expect some move
men in favor of this Rio Grande frontier ali soon as
the present revolution is SO arsetted thai the new
Confederacy turn its attention to the develop
ment of foreign policy.
| Iobserve that that very pink Of notor1ety and
nonsense, fhe immortal Gen. Buckley, of *. G. G.
ambiguity, has made his appearance on the stump
| in Texas, where he is begging hsway Oh the old
song -of My Daughter | think the District
Attorney in Harrison county Texas, has failed in his
duties, thathe ddnot arrest this arrant imoster for
fraudulent practices. How any commun,tyin which
j the Crescent cirenlates can be SO ineyhressibiy
yerdant as to lend an ear to this man. whohas been
published in New Orleans for his rascaF, is past
my comprehension. But Isuppose that lie and his
auditors in Marshall were an equal footing when
he uttered, and they applaaded the idea d hanging
all the newspaper correspondents who Ienounce
Gen. Buckley and his bogus Mexican documents.
The X. G. G. commander evidently reads the Ores.
cent and has avery friendly feeling for III talented
corps Of correspondents. One of the lettRrwriters