New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-16

banished the question OF slavery from the halls OF
Congress, and if Il ever arose in the Territories,
would have made It's agitation local instead OF
national, affecting the popular pulse no more than
tho Indian skirmishes on our western horders-he
offered them measure which contained me es
sence of States Rights the seminal principle OF our
progress as people, the distinguishing character
istic Of Angio.Saxon liberty and the suress sac,
guard Of all regulated freedom-tte fsttddnseftdt
and iadlieauble sight of every community % mas
| age its o,cn domestic affairs. ,,
Under this pfincple the system oil slavery would
be left to work itself out by its own great laws
Believing. as | do, that it is system OF Divine
origin cannot doubt that ii Will run It's course,
and that in the end the South will secure every foot
of land which could be probably devoted to the
cultivation of the great staples of rice sugar and
cotton In this connection / beg leave to point
to the early history Of Texas, which, although an
isolated State, and exposed to the anti-slavery
schemes Of the North and of the world, became a
slave State for the simple reason that her climate
and large portion of her soil were favorable to
the production Of the great staples enumerated
above.
Mr. Seward, the real though not the titular chief
of the Republican party, in his speech at Detroit
made remark which strengthens the views
have endeavered to present. He gives it as his
opinion that the last forty years Of cur national
life have constituted period of signal and lament
able failure In the efforts of statesmen to adjust
federal policy for the regulation of the subject of
slavery in its relations to the Union. lie asserts
that our great statesmen Calhoun, Webster and
Clay, were oEertasked in these efforts. And yet,
where they have failed he steps forward modestly
to advise. and his counsel s-continued agitation
In wen rounded periods and Delphic phrases, he
proceeds to define the antagonism of his own
practice, the duty of an American statesman,
which is, he says, 6 to abate popular prejudice
and passions By modifying or removing their
eauses.n AS he does not propose, presume, TO
remove four millions of slaves, is it not his duty to
remove from the national arena question which
he asserts his superiors could not solve, and which
hn-rS fork ka1o
ing the master demagogue Of the Republicans?
Ii the North really deprecates the re-opening Of
the African slave trade, let her check her dema-
gogues in their irritating course, and let her cher
ISL that Union whose arm alone is sufficient to
prevent the traffic.. If the South desires peace
ful solution Of the great prohlemif she desires to
annex Cuba, and ultimately the whole group of
West India islands, let her rest assured that this
can only be accomplished within the Union. 1t is
not necessary for her, against the moral sentiment
Of the world, to assume the re0pening the African
slave trade when she remembers that under kind
treatment the few thousands imported have. in
creased to four millions and in thirty forty years
will be double that number.
Our country has doubled and quadrupled in size
since the formation OF our Union and the adoption
of our Constitution. New interests, new and
mighty questions have arisen and will arise and it
is idle to talk of fin1ng the letter for emergencies
which were never even imagined by cur forefath-
ers, who were sages but not prophets. 1t is only
left for to eonstrue Constitution in the spirit
of its originthat fraternal spirit without which it
could not have been framed and cannot exist.
It is time for the conservative men of the coun-
try to come together, and for the great center to
show its power, and prove that it is free from the
distempers which infest the extremitles. The
emens are suspicious. The politicians are lashing
themselves into fury, but the people are calm, al
most apathetic. Let Us hope that they are begin
ming to be disenchanted of the spells of their de-
ceiyers, whose wrangling brings no fruits but dis
tractioni in the present and the promise of dangers
In the future. The nation is now prepared to in
fiict the punishment of expulsion upon all disturb
ers Of tie peace.
The election Of Bell and Everett would go far
towards dsbanding the disorganizers and agita-
tors Of the country. 1t wond teach the aspirants
of every section that extravaganza Of opinion or
action is not the surest passport to profit or honor
II would rouse all to higher conception of our
duty and destiny if it were made manifest that no |
man North Tor South, East or West could command |
The confidence Of the nation who did not hail and |
defend the Union as at once the temple and the
ortress of our rights and of our liberties
B. ]. BARBOUR.