New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-09

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4 Gentlemen our letter OF the 18th instant has
just reached me, in which You ask my z yie#s Oh
the state 0f parties, and what, ID my intercourse
with leading men iii Congress and at the seat of
Federal authority, il deemed The wisest and best
course for The Southern States % pnrsue, aa The
period for selecting Chief Magistrate TO succeed
Mr.. Buchanan approaches
shall briefly reply 10 yonr question In the spirit
Of frankness and perfect eandor which has always,
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allege prevails II the public mind + not nncalled
for it would, indeed, De marvellous were it other
wise. Never, in my Judgment, WAS the Republic
enTir0ned with such periIs as now encompass IT.
The times never looked 80 menacing- Tie duties
Of patriotism we're never 80 stern n their de-
mand
So long as the sectional organization known as
the Republican party continues In the political field
contrasting for The government, there can be no
psaee ana quiet itS existence IS a party is
standing declaration Of war against the rights of
| .ne slave holding States Of the Union. How this
parry can pc defeated and destroyed " now the
pFoBiein that engages the attention OF all who love
fher country and value the preservation of its In
stitntions The stake Of the coming contest rises
e .he level % the integrity Of "a empire nothing
see but one psrty In The arena which seems To-
pc able 70 cope with this great enemy Of Tie peace
ana Tranquility of the country and that II the Ma
may differ in details Of administrative policy vet
candor compels me to ray, ii now the only coyasery-
azure organization which appears ID have sufficient
power g defeat the Republicans. And with this
party urge my friends 10 cooperate
in the approaching struggle. sas'Ss 7s|
i In regard to It's prospects ps success much. IL
not everything, n ny Judgment, depends On the
ton for its candidate. At present i believe tIat
with Stephen A. Douglas victory b certain with
any other man, the contest Is ct least risk Pre-
scented by the almost unanimous acclaim Of every
| of people, has never yet had o President, hia
friends insist that nominated he will carry every
| State west Of the Ohio river. ! confess that ths
facts and reasoning which they offer IN support b
this opinion nclines me to the belief that they al
| not exaggerate his strength. Imay be deceived
but my conviction is, that should Dongas be noni
| mated at Charleston, he will succeed BY an over
Whelmng majority.
many gentlemen in tho South for his views on tn,
Territorial question, and some 60 far as to stig
Matte him as Enthusiastically generally on th,
slavery issue. My impression Isl # we IN the Soutl
cannot trust Douglas on the negro question: we d.
not deserve to have defenders OF our rights at thu
North. For twenty years he has been unfinching
" the most gallant advocate of the Constitutions
guarantees that the South have ever had in the fes
States, and has risked more in their defence thar
any other statesman in the land. To-day, Iregard
him as the soundest and most reliable friend Of the
South at the North and his votes speeches, and
acts, as public man, will bear ont amply the
assertion.
As to his views on the Territorial question, they
are now what they were in 1850, in 1852, IN 1851
8, in 1856, and 1858, when he was regarded as
orthodox by those who at this time decry him. If
he is not sound now, he was not sound then. His
opinions on this question have been announced
one hundred times since 1850, and until within the
last eighteen months they have never been de-
| nounced as hereticaI; on the contrary, scores of
Southern Statesmen are committed to the same
doctrines. These gentlemen, who now object to
Douglas on this point, may have changed their
policy, but the record will bear me out in saying
Douglas has not changed his opinions. But, after
ALL it is an absurd and immaterial issue, contain
ing nothing practical in it, and involving only diff
ferences Of opinion strictly legal proposition,
which Of right belongs to the Supreme Court.
There Mr.. Douglas Is willing To adjourn it, and
What more can we ask of him
do not agree with Mr.. Douglas in his legal views
respecting the powers Of territorial legislature,
but it ia no new thing with me that he entertained
them. On the political point involved ii his posi-.
ton we do fully agree-viz: in adhering to the
great peace measure of non-intervention by Con-
gress with slavery in the Territories, adopted with
the sanction and mainly through the efforts Of the
venerated Clay in the compromise measures 81
1850, reaffrmed by both the Democratic and Wing
conventions Of 1852, by the Nebraska Kansas bill
of 1854 81 and endorsed over and over again by the
| action Of the people of Louisiana. | have thus
canddly, in hurried letter. given you my opinions
on the points you have asked them, and my earn
est hope again expressed is, that our friends il
Louisiana will unite with the National Democracy
in the approaching struggle, and trust they will
| endeayor to assist the friends Of Douglas in Sc
curing the delegation in his favor that will be sen
| to the Charleston Convention.
| say this in the interest Of the South who's,
stake IN this matter is VITAL and overshadows witt
me- all other considerations. She is not prepare,
| for the revolutionary issue which the triumph 0
| the Republican party will inevitably precipitat
upon her, and her true to avoid It is to SUP
/ port the strongest man in the Democratic part
/ for the Office of President, That man have ind
Gated in my opinion is Judge Douglas. With hir
as the candidate, I have no doubt of victory
Hence again reiterate the hope that all those pc
/ litical friends in Louisiana with whom have i
times past cooperated will lend the weight .
their counsel and influence in aid of his nomination
1 by the Charleston Convention.
4 With youfs, truly,
John e. E0ULIGGY.
To S Fulton George Clark, H. u. Summers Il. a. Pattet
c. H. Nohles Webster Long Thomas Askewi John Laid
law.