New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-23
THE CRIsIs-THE CAUSE AND THE REMEDY
av RUFus DoLBEARs

i II would ID worse than madness for my one
nov to pretend that the rights, the property me
honcr, ne sanctity of she domestic Preside q the
neonle az tie south have not already boon assaulted
Il sst ,,,ayslr v son,tsyss thieves and murderer
b,,t AZ sscss Who have sworn to support the Laws
c.ystit.iiioI IL tho country, and those, also,
MS nn;sr liz saered garb Of religion, biaspheme
assiIst i.irl heaven BY calling God 10 aid them
/ ii crime and infsmy, and who seek to eanonize one
| wispss hands we're dyed III the blood Of Innocence
/ Ii mach are those 70 whom the masses do homage
sni Governors eulogize, what must BIZ The standard
Of morals Of the masses themselves and aeldt will
hey not do to emulate hea. saiatss II crime ii
mistaken for religion, and treason for patriotism,
who can trust such insane Jdnaticisnas Certainly
none but idiots,
Men Of thought, men of patriotism, men who
hare homes and loved ones to protect, would
sooner sacrifice the last dollar and the last drop Of
blood, than yield single inch 70 such foe.
Bat let US see what is the CAUSE of this direful
combination, which threatens 10 cover the land
with blood and desolation. We know that it is
thought mind Or IDEAS that s,lgate or disenaral
people. And when England By her unjust acts
| lost this country ana the products Of the slave
| labor here, her first step was to guard against
powerful future rival for the wealth and commerce
/ Of the world.
! The policy was the same here that ii ever has
been everywhere. When she could not cont Of
the slaves she sought to destroy their ualae and
| set them free She published books and papers to
| show that the negro was equal to the white race,
/ and that It was d great SIN to hold them in bond
| age. Every State, North and So,aA, introduced
these books into ai their schools and libraries. No
one questioned the correctness Of their statements
until laws passed in half the States setting the
negroes free. Bills were introduced into the Legis-
latures Of Kentucky Virginia, Delaware, Maryland,
| etc., more than twenty-five years ago to abolish
Il slavery, and wanted but few votes Of then becom-
ing laws, and simply because the people had read
British literature made specially with view of
efecting his uer,g end. This British literature has
become the granary Of hoisght for all Northeast,
mud she has filled the North with her books, tracts
and literature till the whole North is controlled BY
that Bi,tish idea, and now the sclole Soatt is daily
flooded with this literature and its agents. We for
i get that from policy she ruined st. Domingo, and
that her whole policy has always been to diuide
and conquer shedid in the East Indies till she
ensaved them all. We forget that she had her
agents at work during the last to effect disso-
linton Of the States by melting section against
the other and forget that these abolition agents,
such as Seward Sumner and Stowe, are constantly
now visiting England for " aid and com "a and
we forget, also, that very large number Of people
VI Of the South ~ in Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia,
Maryland, etc-really think. with the mass of the
n people Of tho North, that sldpe,y is d SIM
What would be the value Of the property of the
South II majority in the above States should vote
10 abolish slavery Plantations would be as value
less I'D Louisiana or Mississippi iii Jamaica Or ST
/ Domingo
The great mistake the masses, fanatics, Cover
nors and oil make is, that they speak of the negro
race as an equal with the white. Fanatics Jalsify
al the history Of The race, both sacred and pro
fame falsify anatomy, phrenology, physiology and
4 chemistry as well their own olfactories and their
own vision to convince their readers and hearers
that the South il ,aI,lst They tell them that
| tie Egyptians and Curfhagenians were negroes,
and The most enlightened people in the world. Yet
| there some eight hundred millions Of Egyptian
mummies that positively ief,te the assertion. They
forget to tell their readers that the people of the
| South have done more to ciyize sayages than all
the three hundred millions of reputed Christians
besides; that while the South has four millions Of
negroes happy, contented and useful, the inter-
neddling officiousness Of England and fanatics
have rendered those under their control worse and
| think they doing mankind service by en-
barking in all attempts to free the negroes and
thus ruin the South 8 a
large portion of our people Take Northern i'll
stead of Southern newspapers, and send their
children there to school, and for this latter reason
our State colleges, after an expense Of millions.
have gone down and been abandoned Yet The
States and cities, with yiew3of advancing edu-
al
ydual enterprise in the business Of teaching.
Hence There are few of our own citizens who ever
dream Of encouraging their children to embark iii
that profession in the face of such formidable rival
~; and that important office i usually filled by
those who are hostile to us. We have no Southern
publishing houses and those of the North viii not
publish book if it advocates Southern interests.
Gen. Lamar, who went to New York to publish I'LL |
poems, informed me that they refused to publish,
because it was a Southern book
WHAT, THEM IS THE REMgDY2-sin,,{y do mn.
oacn Thinking make d literature Of reason, Of
truth and philosophy that viii mark out the
boundaries Of society as God himself designed
them, that will place the negro race where nat,,e
history and science have ever placed him, the d.
Ja,'iol Of the white race Advocate slarery as the
NORMAL condition of the negro; sustain onr own
papers and institutions instead of those that ncul.
cate heff murder and treason as religious d,aies
Let every Southern Legislature offer $780, to-
wards general fund.- to be given as premiums for
the best Southern or national literature, and the
publication and distribution of the same among
the masses, North and South Educate SPEEDILY /
and PRACTICALLY ereiy young man in the South SO /
as to develop the mental, agricultural mineral and
mechanical talent of the entire South. Call into
tile business Of teaching, and thus develop the re-
sources Of the South, our best native talent, by I
offering encouragement to home talent and in
dnstry.
Appeal to the reason, the patriotism the justice,
the berality, not the passions Of all honest men,
North and South, and you would see such change
In sentiment as was never before witnesaed-and
in six months ai-Slarery would be where Anti-
Masonry now is--dedd, dedd-and its advocates
greeted with the misses Of scorn. Do You tell me
this will not succeed Why has old England less
in size than Georgia or Virginia, been able to an
mex Wales Scotland, Ireland, the half Of America,
Asia, Africa, and the richest isles of the ocean;
and why does she to-day dictate terms to every
government of Europe; and Why are our laws pub.
lished in the language OF Shakespeare Milton and
Newton, instead Of Dante, Ceryantes. or Rousseau