New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17


government, melting insurrecton among her slaves,
and numbering her peaceabe inhabitants; he sue.
ceeded only in committing murder and arson and
treason. One Of his accompces ca son) escaped
to Ohio, was demanded, and the Governor of Ohio
refused to give him up; another fed to Iowa; he,
too, was demanded and refused It is true both OF
these miscreants (the Governors OF these States)
attempted to cover their plain violation OF the Con-
stitution and their oaths with msy pretexts about
formalities but they failed to hide from us the great
fact that it was sympathy with the cause OF John
\ Brown which gave sanctuary TO his confederates
If these men had fed to Great Britain, or France,
| we would have received them back and inflicted
upon them the just punishment for their infamous
| crimes under our treaties. But they were wiser
\ they fed among our brethren; we had no treaty
| with them; we had only a Constitution and their
oaths of fidelity to it. 1t failed u.s. and ther muir
derers are free, ready again to apply the lncen-
I dary's torch to your dwelling, and the assassin's
knife aud the poisoned bowl to you and your fam
| lily. Do you notioVe these brethren. On, what
/ glorious Union2 especially to insure domestic
tranquility
/ have shown you what this party has done and
declared in the national councils, in the State
Legislatures, by and through their executive de-
! partInents. Let us examine what they are at as
private citizens. By the laws of nations, founded
/ on natural justice, nation nor the subjects or
4 citizens of any nation, have the right to disturb
the peace security Of any other nation or people,
excite Instruction, discomfort or the commission
of crimes among them, and all these are held to be
\ good causes of war. For twenty years this party
7 has by Abolition societies, by publications made
by them, by the public press, through the pulpit
and their own legislative halls, and every effort
by reproaehes, by utilization, by slander-t0 dis
4 tnrb our security, our tranquity-to excite dis
content between the different classes of onr people,
and to excite our slaves to insurrecton. No nation
4 in the world would submit to such conduct from
4 any other nation. will not willingly do so from
this Abolition party. demand the protection OF
my State Government, to whom | own my allie
glance. I wish il distinctly understood that it is
i the price Of my allegiance. You are here, consti.
tutional legislators make the demand to-day OF
you. Gentlemen, have thus shown you the viola
tions Of our constitutional rights by our coneder-
A ates; have shown you that they are plain, pal
A pable, deliberate and dangerous; that they are
committed by the executive Legislative and judi
cial departments of the State Governments Of our
i confederates-that all their wrongs are approved
by the people of these States. say the time has
come to redress these acknowledged wrongs, and
to avert even greater evils of which these are but
the signs and symbols. But am asked, why do
you demand action now The question IS both
appropriate and important; it ought to be frankly
met The Aboltionists say you are raising
clamor because you were beaten in the election
The falsity of this statement needs confirmation
Look to our past history for its refutation Some
excellent citizens and able men in Georgia say the
election Of any man constitudonaly is no cause
for dissolution of the Union; that position is cal
culated only to misead, and not to enhghten. 1t
is not the issue. / say the election OF Lincoln,
with all of its surroundings, is sufficient. What is
the significance of his election? 1t is the endorse
ment by the non-saveholding States of all those
acts OF aggression HDon our rights by all lneSe
States legislatures, governors, judges and people.
He is elected by the perpetrators of these wrongs
with the purpose and intent to aid and support
t them in wrong doing.
Hitherto the Constitution has had on its side the
Federal Executive, whose duty it is to execute the
9 laws and Constitution against these malefactors.
1t has earnestly endeavored to discharge that duty
t Relying upon its power and good faith to remedy
d these wrongs, we have listened to conservative
t counsels, trusting to time-to the Federal Execu
t tive, and to returning sense OF justice in the
J North The Executive has been faithful--the Fed
: eral Judiciary have been faithfu-the President
has appointed sound judges, sound maTshals, and
other subordinate officers 10 interpret and to exc
cute the laws With the best intentions they have
all failedour property has been stolen, our people
murdered; felons and assassins have found sanctu
airy in the arms of the party which elected Mr.
Lincoln. The executive power, the last bulwark
of the Constitution to defend against these
mics of the Constitution, has been swept away,
and we now stand without shield, with bare DO,
SONS presented to our enemies, and we demand at
your hands the sword for our defense, and if you
will not give it to us, will take it-take it by
the divine right of seldefense, which governments
| neither give nor can take away. Therefore, re-
dress for past and present wrongs demands resist
aDce to the rule of Lincoln and his Abolition horde
over us; he comes at their head to shield and pro
( tect them in the preparation of these outrageE
upon u.s. and what is more, he comes at their head
, to aid them in concentrating their ayowed purposes
a. by the power of the Federal Government Iheil
main purpose as indicated by all their acts of hos
tty to slavery is its final and total abolition His
parry declare it their acts prove it, He has de-
clared it; accept his declaration. The battle Of
the irrepressible conflict has hitherto been fought
on his side alone. We demand service in this war.
Surely ne one will deny that the election of Lincoln
is the endorsement Of the policy Of those who
electedzhim, and an endorsement Of his own opin
IONS The opinions OF those who elected him are
r to be found in their solemn acts under oath-ir
their State governments, endorsed by their constt
d uents. TO them have already referred. The3
are also to be found in the votes OF his supporters
@ in Congress also endorsed by the party by then
. return. Their opinions are To- be found in thu
/ speeches of Seward, and Sumner, and Lovejoy
l. and their associates and confederates in the two
r houses Of Congress. Since the promotion of Mr.
It Lincoln's party, all of them speak with voice
b and speak trumpet-tongued their fixed purpose L
o outlaw four thousand millions of our property il
l. the Territories, and to put it under the ban of h
1t empire in the States where it exists. They deelar
i their purpose to war against slavery until thef
IF shall not be slave in America, and until the Atr
}: can is elevated to social and political equait.
;, with the white man. Lincoln endorses them an
d their principles, and in his own speeches declare
the conflict rrepfessible and enduring until SLAYER
10 is everywhere abolished.
m Hitherto they have carried on this warfare b
IF State action, by individual action by appropria
r. ton by the incendiary's torch and the poisone
ir bowl They were compelled to adopt this metho
ID because the Federal Executive and the FEEDERS
d Judiciary were against them. They will have pos
4. session Of the Federal Executive with its vas
Of power patronage prestige of legality its army, it
" navy, and its revenue on the 18th of March mex
a. Hitherto 1t has been onthe side of the Gonstitntio
Of and the right; after the 4th of March it will be
u. the hands of your enemy. VIII you let him hay
lie it? (Gries OF NO, no. Neyer.'D Then strik
Dr. while it is yet to-day Withdraw your sons froI
N the army, from the navy, and every departmet
es of the Federal public service. Keep your CIV
ot taxes in your own coners-buy arms with thet
and throw the bloody spear into this den Of incel
diaries and assassins and let God defend the RICH
" But You are advised to wait send soft messages
le their brethren to beg them to relent, to give 70
IL some assurances of their better fidelity for th
of future What more can you get from them undo
ID this Government. You have the Constitution
er have its exposition BY themselves for seyent
n years--you have their oaths-they have broke
lie all these, and will break them again. They te
III you everywhere, loudly and defantly, you sha
N have no power, no security, until you give up th
m right Of governing yourselves according to yol
n own will--until you submit to theirs. For this
Ig the meaning of Mr.. Lineolns irrepressbe coniit
n this is his emphatic declaration to all the worlt
n Will yon heed IT, For myself, like the Athena
ID ambassador will take no security but this, thu
it shall not be in the power of our enemies to il
ir iure my country il they desire it. Nothing bl
1e ruin will follow delay. The enemy on the 4th
III March will entrench himself behind quintup
Y. wall of defense. Executive power, judiciar.
If (Air. Seward has already proclaimed its reforms
il tom army, navy and treasury. Twenty years
In labor and toll and taxes all expended upon prep
e, ration. woudnot make up for the advantage yor