New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-25
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Brifasfa Appeal 70 Narftaern Genservaafsr
THE EXECUTION D. 5oHx Bgossx
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4 tFrsm saa London Times, Ese vii
We we're not wrong IN aupposng that tIse enthr-
aiasan for John Brown memory would speedily did
out and that the Tagarie# of the AboIitionisfs
would cause reralsion of feeling I'M favor of tie
South. By the present mail We learn that THE
country is most indignant at the Bostonians. and
they Themselves seem I'd be not little ashamed d
their proceedings. The capital Of Massaehusests
was, On December The stlI, the scene BIZ demon
| stration in favor OF the Union, and tic more
sensible portion of the citizens had opportunity
Of protesting against the doings of their Aboli-
| ZIONIST brethren, The tone 81 this meeting was ~
patriotic and becoming ~ the speeches At 4 Ire
mont Temple Z were the reverse. Mr. Everett, d
man respected throughout the Union, delivered 4
speech which will, doubt, produce great effect
in al parts Of the Republic. He showed the
Wlekedness Of Browns attempt reminded bis
hearers that the old man had long meditated raising
revolt, that he was aided BIZ AboIitionist money
and supplied with Aholiti0nist guns and pixies I
that his plan was well considered illasnnch III lie
seized the largest arsenal III that part Of the cou
Try, full of arms and occupying coed position
and that his enterprise only failed because The
represented ID be-.
MI. Everett then read extracts from tfe nara
tive Of the revolt III ST. Domingo to show The hor
rors which necessarily follow from such an ont
break as Brown sought to cause, and hid might
certainly haye directed attention to the resent
state Of the island, az proof Of how little the
world g likely e gain BY The establishment of
suggest themselves 70 every refieetfHg man, Sc
called upon the people of tbs North ID discontinue
the system Of preVocasion which they have used
towards the Southern people, and 10 NE all means
ness had endangered. The reception ct Mr. Ever
EFT was most enthusiastic, and hfa eloquent appeaI
will no doubt produce The best effect beth Oil Is
own neighbors and on the irritatea SoHtherners.
~ many other places meetings have been held to
express sympathy with Virginia, and adherence
of such schemes as that Of Brown and Ills associ-
atea. ~ New York manifesto to the same effect
there Is no doubt that the feeling III the country
Will be such as to strengthen the Federal Govern
ment and the several Southern States against gtch
malefacters Tor the future. In this result We most
/ sincerely rejoice.
Mr. Everett, III his speech, expressed apprehen-
sions for the future Of the Union, III which we
should not have been inclined to share But, as
his experience and observation on this subject have
been very great we must conclude that Of late the
party war has been carried on with Firulence
which leads even people accustomed to American
exaggeraton tofeel that there is danger; and in
deed, the attempt at Harper's Ferry must necessa-
rily have brought new considerations into the CON
treversy. Formerly the North contented itself with
attacking the planters in newspapers Or speeches.
and decoying away or giving shelter to their ne
groes; but now the Abolitionists have gone q step
further and the crusade II for the slaughter of the
white people, and the establishment Of haif.caste
Republic after the model of the Central American
committees. The Virgnians may hitherto have
as people who merely wrote at them and preached
at them, but when Il comes to revolution and muir
der the case is widely different. The State which
produced washington, u fers0n and Monroe might
be excused for declining To descend to the level Of
Hayti 81 Costa RIGA. Men of the purest Eng1ish
blood may well shrink from turning their country
into a region in comparison with which Mexico
would be gentle and enlightened. But there are
still more pressing considerations.
After all, security for life and property Is the
great object Of society, and the Southerners have
now been called upon to decide whether they can
il justice to themselves their wives, and children
live under the same federation with men who make
no secret OF their purpose to revouonize the South
by force of arms. 1t was boosted III Boston that
from John Browns ashes armed men would spring
to carry on the war for the liberation OF The slaves
The people OF the frontier Southern States may be
excused for taking these expressions literally and
demanding some guarantee that there shall not be
periodical seizures Of Federal arsenals, incite-
ments Of the negroes to murder, and imprson-
ments of noffensive citizens. by Aboltonist bands
The Federal Union presuInes the disarmament Of
one State with respect to another. Virginia and
Kentucky have not men ready posted to protect
them from invasion by their Northern eonntTymen.
II is not the duty of each State to defend itself
against its neighbors, and when the necessity OF
suck vigilance arises the objects of the federation
are gone. The southerners may well say thatif
they are to be exposed to these inroads they must
have their own army and navy to protect them
Selves and that however much they regret the dis
rnption Of nation which has existed in prosperity
servat0n dictates this course.
1t is for the whole body of honest and rejecting
men throughout the United States to unite in calm
Ing these natural fears. The union of the Ameri-
can people is OF Importance not only to themselves
but to the world at large. To EngIishmen the
spread Of our language, OF our religion, and to a
certain extent of our laws and manners, can never
cease to be an object of interest, or can we desire
success to the fanatics who, in their wild dreams Of
raising an inferior race, would imper all that has
been accomplished in the New World during two
centuries of industry and genius. That the HARSH.
ness Of masters in the Southern States may be less
ened, that the slaves may receive education and
moral instruction, and that ultimately slavery may
be changed into system by which the eolored
race shall enjoy personal liberty and the legal
rights which are necessary for the preservation OF
life and property, we most heartily desire; but
anything further we cannot join in seeking.
Well might Mr.. Everett ask, stHas any one
whose opinion is entitled to the slightest respect,
undertaken to sketch ont the details of pIan
for efecting abolition at once by any Legislative
measure that could be adopted? The Abolition
lists would have the population of the Southern
States turned into mixed race, whites, blacks
and mulattoes being on terms of equality, and con-
stantly internarrying; but if one thing more than
another has tended to give the Anglo-Saxon race
in the New World the victory over the Spanish, it
is that it has kept itself apart from the red and
negro races, and lodged power constantly in the
hands Of men of European origin. 1t has been fully
proved not only on the American continent, but
in our own colonies that the enforced equality Of
european anu African tenas mol 10 the elevation
of the black, but the degradation of the white
man. We cannot find any sympathy for those
who would try in the United States the plan Of d
haf.caste Republic, and we trust that the Federal
Government and the right thinking part Of the
community will protect the South from the rene
tition Of such outrages as that ut Harper's Ferry
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A NICE PEr.-A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Times relates the following
Apropos to travelling, let me give you a little
railroad incident, which occurred q few nights
since while riding of the lines leading to this
city, about midnight noticed a lady and gentle-
man on the seat in front of me-the lady ia a /
sound sleep, with her head reclining upon the
shoulder Of her companion. She was sitting on the
side, next to the middle Of the car, and | was
regarding her in that condition which usually |
= comes DER us at that hour, when was some /
what surprised to see the head of a snake slowly
rise up between her and the arm of the seat until
about foot Of his body was in sight. There lie
stood, erect as grenadier, slowly looking around
in one direction after another, and thrustng out
his tongue. had shaken such reptiles from my /
blankets ut night upon the great plains and among
the Rocky Mountains too often to be much startled BIZ
his enappearance but here, in country which
has been settled for two hundred years, the sight
sruck me as decidedly novel; What was 10 be |
done?
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