New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-21
WHAT We ARE no ExpEcT.

WHAT we ARE no EXPECT.
when Lincoln, in advance of even Seward, pro-
claimed the doctrine of the irrepressible conflict
and declared that in course Of time the States oil
the Union were to be all slave oil free, nobody
misunderstood his language. Its obvious meaning
was that they were 10 be all feethat is, that the
warfare against slavery was to be continued until
the hated institution was entirely exterminated.
What he expects to see accomplished he will OF
course help to bring about. And if Lincoln as
President of the United States-supp it pos
sihle that the Union eontinue-fail to carry out I
this pocy and refuse to use all of his personal I
and official influence and power to cripple and TO
destroy the slave interests of the South he VIII De
false to his own doctrines, and traitor TO the /
party which elected him and the principles which |
that party uphoiis. We do not believe he y that /
sort of a man. If he were, it would make no differ
ence, But We believe he will carry out faithfully /
the policy of anti slavery. The spirit of his Admin
istration must, of necessity, be spirit Of hosfity
to the South The people of his section Will be
satisfied with nothing short of the conviction that
slavery must eventually be destroyed ana put
down in this country, one way or another ana tney
never intend to stop until it sprovided we stay
in the Union with them, and thus give them the
power.
| The Southern man who believes otherwise
makes, in our opinion, fatal and terrible mis-
| take The Southern man who expects that North |
| ern hostility to slavery will ever ahate is blind
| and rroping in the dark. The people who came
aaross The ocean and landed on Plymouth Rock
| nrotested that their main object was to secure
religious toleration-hnt they imme diatey set up
the most rigid and intolerant social and religious
system that the ingenuity Of man ever devised.
Bigotry in religion, and perpetual meddling IN
1 the affairs of others, extending into the family
household and regulating even mans domestic
| arrangements were the characteristics of the
people whose descendants true to their blood, are
now attempting to subject the South to their
rule.
4 If anybody thinks this spirit of enmity to the
South and her institutions is going to stop, he is
| no Judge Of human character, and no correct
i reader Of the history Of the past. Men have GER
tain instincts natural to them, just as brutes have
The instinct Of the tiger is to rend and tear
/ weaker animals and the instinct of the legitimate
Black Republican is to hate everybody whom he
/ cannot control You can no more prevent him
from hating Southern slave holder than you can
j prevent the sun from shining in the heavens.
u But il there remain any doubt Of the intentions
Of the party which elected Mr. Lincoln, that doubt
Il ought To be at once removed by the authoritative
{ utterances of their leading organs of public
opinion That those intentions are precisely what
we have asserted witness the following declara-
tion Of the Chicago Times, the leading oracle Of
Black Republicanism in Mr.. Lincoln's own State:
i IF the Union be preserved and if the Federal
4 Government be administered for few years ny
81 Republican Presidents, a scheme may be devised
II and carried out which will result in the peaceful
4 honorable, and equitable EMANCIPATION oil all the
slaves.
The states must be made all free-and, if a Re-
publican Government is entrusted with the duty of
Il making them free, the work will be done without
| bloodshed, without revolution, without disastrous
loss of property. The work will be one OF time ana
of patience, but it must and Will be done.
We suppose there can be no mistaking such Ian
guage as that We are told, in plain and fat terms
that the States n,ust' all be free-that the work
Of liberating Southern slaves will be one Of time
and patience, but that it must and ao be done.n
The Chicago Times only utters the voice Of its
i readers The sentiments Of that paper are the sen
i tirnents Of the people. Nobody but the widest
sort Of visionary can believe otherwise.
i The Chicago Democrat, another paper published
in Iincolns State, expresses the same aspirations
and the same determination. Here it is:
II Our duties have been the more arduous during
1.-THE camnagn in consequence of the tongue of our
great champion being tied, on account Of his being
| candidate for the Presidency. Next to Abe Lin
Icoln, the Chicago Democrat has done more for the
anti.siavery cause than any other agency in the
State of Illinois. We see the day OF Jubilee coming,
when millions of enfranchsed slaves will rend the
II heavens with their shouts; and all this under the
forms of the Constitution, and with the States OF the
, Union kept cempacted together.
Here is a confession that Abe Lincoln has done
more for the cause of anti-slavery than any other
man in nlinois-the editor of the Democrat gra-
tciously putting himself next. This is the man who
is going 10 have all the Executive powers OF the
: Government in his hands for four years to COME
to be succeeded, perhaps. by Charles Sumner ol
i Wendell Phillips or William Lloyd Garrison. Abe
7 Lincoln has done more for anti-slaYery than The
editor Of the Democrat; and yet, the latter sees
with sefaphie delight, the day coming when tht
I slaves, by millions, will be enfranehised # th
be the aspiration Of the editor, what must be the
b wish of Lincoln who is more actively anti.siayery
u by tie editors own confession, than even he i
himself
!, The war upon slavery is to be kept up; and n
: man, il seems to US, not wifally blind to event
I transpiring all around him and right before hi
: eyes, can fail to see it. 1t is for this reason W
say the time for talking has passed. and the tim
for action has come-and il we are going to act
III all now is the accepted time and now the day
is salvation. Il we are going to submit to the d'
ar struction Of property the insult to our homo
DR. and the subjugation Of the South let us say SO
once--and let us commence the business by sui
mittng to I4incoln's Abolition rule. Hatred
Pc slavery, and determination to put it down, al
~ inborn III large majority Of the people of Il
ue North. and you can no more drive it out Of the
et than YOU can drive out Of Digger Indian his pr
pensity to steal. It is part of their nature al
3 they can't help it. 1t is as natural for them
81 hate the South as it was in ancient times for t
81 garthagenians to hate the Romans And soon
~ than live together, like cats and dogs, perpetual
=. auarreling and growing, in the same Union,
VA had better go our ways separately, and be do
~ with it, We have got to come to it sooner
~ Nv later, and the sooner the better.
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