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Special 10 The New Orleans CreSeent.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1860.
Mr. EdRor-Whatfs the use of trying to save
man IN drttce1o morris, with Mrs. Winsow's Sooth-
ing Syrup? Where's the sense of treating what the
doctors would call ga case Of compound commnu-
ted fraeture,,' with Spalding's Prepared Glue?
Such questions as these, put to-day to the Crisis
Committee, would provoke as much derisive laugh
ter as Wigfall's speech did in the Senate. They
think disunion is thing to be dealt with after the
fashion Of those excellent grannies who never dis
pair of life SO long as little "yerb tea can be
got out of the kitchen kettle, Like Vanity Fair y
the comic New York paper they picture the state
of the country as that of a young and robust man
whose arm is broken and nothing more the matter
with him.
But, the wise physician is well aware that the
disease is organic and that its seat is in the ytals.
No man contends that the fault is in the written
Constitution or in defective legislation; yet the
| Crisis Committee propose to remedy the evil by
| legislation; and because they voted, pretty unani-
mously, for Rusts resolution, the Union are in
| high feather to-day. Stocks are rising in New
| York, and all is going to be well again. Two Diff
ferent and innately hostile systems of civilization
remain, and must remain, wholly unchanged and
antagonstic as ever long after the courtplaster
bandages, now being applied have been scattered
| to the wind. The incurable rot of agrariansm,
| which permeates Northern society from center to
| periphery remains and must remain long after the
resolutions of Northern Union meetings and Crisis
Committee pacicators have established their utter
| nefficacy to meet the requirements Of the case.
| l find it simply impossible to get men Of Union
| procyities to probe the national trouble to its
core, and meet the fact of inevitable revolution
face to face They agree willingly that revolutions
never 20 backwards; but lifting their heads in
horror and dismay, with Lieut. Maury, they shrink
from contemplating the tbloody abyss of dis
union.n They blame this or that section, and
above all they blame the politicians. "Get rid OF
the politicians they cry :" and let the people rise
in their majesty, and all will be wel.n Far very
far, from it, Neither the people nor the politicians
are to blame. The fault is IN The form Of society
Politicians are but the weathercocks of public
opinion and public opinion is controlled absolutely
by social structure and by uisibte facts Think
ers-men who can abstract their minds from the in
fiuenee of outward surroundngs-may hold opin
ions totally ct variance with the teachings of the
society in which they live, but the opinions of the
mass of mankind are commanded, shaped irresist
IDLY formed, guided and perpetuated, by the thing
they with the eye by the evidence of the bodily
senses.
Whether free society can emaneipate its opinion
from the law by which it is controlled, will yer!
soon be seen, The question of protection t,
slavery in the Territories, which will be and ougl
to be the sine qua with the men of the South
is the great test. AS the denial Of the right o