New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-28
SAVING THE UNION.


Ifwords could have saved the Union, it would have
been saved long ago We have tried arguments,
appeals, entreaties and exhortations without mum.
ber-but the time has gone by when such means
were of the slightest avail in restoring the people
of the North to just sense of their Constitutional
obligations.
Accordingly, it is with little or no pleasure we
have read a powerful and eloquent appeal to the
people of Massachusetts, recently made by some
forty of the most distinguished citizens of that
State calling on the dominant party there to retraee
its steps, repeal all acts of obnoxious and unconsti
tutiona legislation, and give the South some pledge
and security that their rights in the Union will not
be invaded. We say it is with little pleasure we
have read this Address. We appreciate the patri-
otism of these gentlemen-we honor their bold and
manly sentiments-but they had as well attempt to
prevent the rising and setting Of the sum- as to en-
gage in the vain and fruitess enterprise of changing
the nveterate antislayery prejudice and fanatcism
OF q large majority of the people of Massachusetts,
This Address is signed by an eS-Judge of the
supreme Court of the United States, by four ex-
Governors of Massachusetts, and by about forty of
the leading and influential citizens of the State.
But, we repeat The question, what is the use of it
all 2 Why address argument and entreaty to peo.
pie upon whom such things fall as the piteous
plant of the lamb falls upon the ear of the hungry
wolf? Why appeal to men drunk with fanaticism,
hate, envy, malice and all luncharitableness? Has
not the argument long ago been exhausted. and is
there any further use in addressing the conscences
of men who have shown, in every conceivable way
and through long series of years, that nothing
will divert them from their purpose?
Massachusetts, closed the doors of Faneuil Hall
upon Daniel Webster, and expelled from the pub.
lie councils such men as Choate Everett, Winthrop
and Cushing, to make way for such miserable cat
tie as Summer, Wilson and Burlingame The other
day she gave Lincoln fifty thousand majority over
the combined vote of all the other candidates.
She elected to her Chief Magstracy an open and
notorious John Brown sympathser, and an intimate
associate of Phillips, Garrison, and all that motley
crew of infidels, freeloyers and destructiyes Her
own Everett is set aside for Hamn, with negro
blood in his veins, as the presiding officer of the
Senate. Talk about appealing to such a people
with argument or entreaty!
The disease cannot be cured by emolients and
pouldees-for, they have been tried time and
again, and have only aggravated the maady. The
knife and the saw must now be employed. The
patient will surely die if we use any less positive
means for saving its life. 1t may be patriotic in
Messrs. Curtis, Gardner and the others, to issue
this address of warning and expostulation to those
rvopte-ous le - "s meah it is useless. To at.
tempt to save Union that Is areauy i1sl, may uU
for timid men and antedeluvan poiticans-but it
is painful almost to see the thing attempted by
good men and true. If these gentlemen must
needs speak, let them abandon the tone of kind
ness and Cancellation, and address those people as
they ought to be addressed in good, honest, plain
solid AngloSaxon words of denunciation and con
| tempt,