New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-03

nressvvation to adopt. confess frankly, am moi
saugnjn.e that such an suspicious result will be
reached. Partly, because1 do not see how new guar
antees are 10 be grated upon the Constitution mol
how If grated they can be more binding than those
rvbieh Rave aIrea dy been trampled under foot; bu
chiefly because 90 not see now sucn guarantee
can be elected from the people at the North. i
cannot be disguised, ~ ss..o's 80 aholi.;n 'ne
whole oereyafion has bee,' educated to look upoT
the system with abhorren 90 as nationai niot
They hope, and look, and p. ay IoI "
within reasonable time, and eahitot ~ sdsasnss
unless things are seen drawing tnat Sonelu,;oi
We. on the contrary its const uatsa gasSui ~
can demand nothing less than that v snoula ue e
open 70 expansion, subject to no lii atstlonS sass
those imposed by God and nature. iear w ~,
tagonism is too great, and the conscen &c OF DOH
parties too deeply implicated to allow gu, IN con-
position Of the strife. Nevertheless since is Win
in the range of possibility in the provide nee OF
God, wouid not shut ont the alternative.
Should it fail, what remains but that we say %
each other, calmly and kindly, what Abraham said
to Lot: LET there be no strife, pray thee, pc.
tween me and thee, and between my herdInen "a %
thy herdmen, for we be brethren: Is not the Ehoi
ldHd before thee Separate myself, pray thee.
from me-if thou will take the left hand, then
will go to the right or if thou depart to the right
hand, then will go to the left" Thus, IL We can
not save the Union, we may save the ineetima6le
blessings it enahrines If we cannot preserve the
vase, we will preserve the precious liquor it con-
tans.
In all shis speak for the North no less than for
the South for upon our united and determined re.
sistance at this moment, depends the salvation Of
the whole country-in saving ourselves we shall
save the North from the ruin she is ma0fy drawing
down upon her own head.
The position OF the Sonth is at this moment sub
lime. II she has grace given her to know her hour
she will save herself the country, and the world.
II will involve indeed, temporary prostration and
distress; the dykes of Holland must be cut to save
her from the troops of Philip. But I warn my
retarns. If she will arise IN her majesty, and speak
now as with the voice OF one man, she will roll
back for all time, the curse that is upon her, II
she succumbs now, she transmits that curse as an
heirloom to posterHy.
We may, for generation, enjoy comparative
ease, gather up our feet in our beds, and die IN
peace; hut our children will so forth beggared
from the homes of their fathers Fishermen viii
cast their nets where your proud commercial navy
now rides at anchor, and dry them upon the shore
now covered with your bales of merchandise.
Slapped, circumvented, undetermined, the institu-
tons of your soil will be overttrown; and within
five and twenty years, the history of st. Domingo
will be the record of Louisiana. II dead mems
bones can trembie, ours will move under the NUT
tered curses of sons and daughters denouncIng the
blindness and love of case which have left them an
inheritance of woe.
have done my duty under as deep a sense Of
responsibility to God and man. as have ever felt.
Under full conviction that the salvation of the
whole country Is depending upon the action of the
South, I am impeled to deepen the sentiment Of
resistance in the Southern mind and to strengthen
the current now flowing towards Union of the
South. in defense of her chartered rights 1t is a
duty which shall not be recalled to repeat, for
such awful janctures do not occur twice in
century,
Bright and happy days are yet before us and
before another political earthquake shall shake
the continent, | hope to be "where the wicked
| cease from troubling and where the weary are at
restu
1t only remains to say that whatever be the for.
! tunes of the South, ] accept them for my own
| Born upon her soil, of father thus born before
me-from an ancestry that yet occupied it while
yet it was a part OF England's possessons-she i:
in every sense, my mother. shall die upon hel
bosom.-she shall know no peril, bat it is my
peril-no conflict, but it is my con6ict-and nc
abyss OF ruin, into which shall not share her fall
May the Lord Cod cover her head in this her day
OF battle!