New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-22


who truly represents and stands in awe of freesol
sentiment. For the sake of relieving the present
intolerable financial distress, the people of the
North may yield their opinions, but they will do
with the mental reservation of granting the de-
mands of Southern mpudence," as they style 1t, |
only 50 long the South, by insisting upon these
demands, shall have the power to derange the |
commerce and business Of the country. frantic |
desire to get to work again at buying and selling
may succeed in restoring patchedup peace bat
the moment all is quiet the irresistible centrifugal
force will begin anew, and continue its task,
through whatever compromises may be made
now or hereafter, until the final partition Of the
opposed civilizations is accomplished.
Resisting the ultimate action Of this force with
hastily formed expedents suggested by the suffer
ings of the moment or by fanatcal patriotism
which clings to the corpse of the Union after the
soul has departed can have other effect than to
retard it for little time, during which the States
nearest the poisonous influence of freesoil prin-
ciples will sink still deeper into that stupefacton
from which it seems impossible even now to arouse
them. The obvious duty, therefore, of those States
which by virtue of geographical position have es-
capped the noxious and enfeebling effects OF Free
| soism (and thereby retained sufficient Yigor of
| heart and brain to appreciate the certain coming
| dangers and betimes to declare their independ-
/ ence) is to carry on the brave work of revolution
without pause hesitation, assured that their
/ sister slave States on the border are submissive
/ only because of the course into which they have
fallen by reason of their proximity to the sources
of that social malaria Of which the Black Repub-
lican party is the legitimate offspring, and which
4 operates alike as an infection and contagon, but
most rapidly, certainly and fatally by contact
4 +ba G,,1F G4a4a IN
slant and conclusive action by any doubt as to the
i possible issue of the revolution, either to them
selves or to those other afflicted States from which
(knowing the occasion of their tardy movement)
they feel naturally unwilling to separate. The at
tractiye force of identical institutions and a com
mon destiny must sooner or later draw all the
slaveholding States together and cement them in q
Union which will endure SO long as their social
organization remains unchanged. Well meaning
people, with honest hearts but childish reasoning
faculties, may interpose ephemeral obstacles in the
way of the border States but the final consum-
nation of great slayeholding Republic cannot be
prevented. The happy day that witnesses this
consummation will witness also the outspoken,
boundless gratitude of the border to the Gulf
States for forcing them out of their lethargy, and
compelling them to cut themselves off from that
freesoil cancer which they had learned to endure
simply because they believed that its excelsior
would be fatal to their existence.
Such, but in sadly commingled metaphors, arc
my views in regard to the present state of affairs
D and such my candid impressions as to the duty
e owed by the Gulf States to the border States
Knowing the fire and spirit of your people, can
not doubt that the issue will accord with the wishes
e of the strong and rapidly increasing secession
party in Maryland and Virginia. 1t is decreed tina
the younger shall take precedent of the olde
' States in this, our second Revolution. Let then
r not shrink from the task. We will follow. II
: meet that the honors should be divided. Go on
h then. God speed you.
e As for news, there is, happily for my disnclina
L ton just to play the reporter, little to tel
r Cass resigned to-day because the President woul
!. not send additional troops 10 Fort Moultrie Thu
the old public functionary, as you call him,
e bereft of friend after friend. Cobb has gone hi
Y ways Beau Hickman is very rich on Cobb's ma
It administration of the Treasury. !" He begun tn
Ii game " says the Beau, with double set o. check
that old man Guthrie left him when he quit dealing
y y Hoping to git good game and give his house
d great reputation. he played at first to lose, an
ID soon got busted Congress staked him. and b
Q Q started agin The revenue men changed in freel,
= cords of money came in from all parts of tf
VI
v going on finely, 10 and behold, the bank is buste
E agn and the dealer run off, leaving neither check
Of nor nothing else; and how the h-ll Frank Thomas
in (the new Secretary of the Treasury is going
rs git any game when he amt got the first chip
show and 'bleest to deal out of his hand Pm d
if / know. Where's the money, and where's I'll
checks? The man that's been playin' agin Il
bank amt got none. Cobb aint got none, nobot
aint got none. Its gone slap up the spout, al
n1Npjy nip+r, nnln nfi
Cobb done right to quit the game. He handled
n cards. he stocked 'em till the splits came eve
be other turn he done everything he could think
~ to make 'em run right; he won all the money al
:. lost all the checks; got played out himself, al
: nobody was left to call the turn, and so he je
sis cussed old Buchanan and made tracks for Geore
h where his friends has opened new game for b
ey on o bran new table that never was dealt on b
~ fore. It's the worst dealing that ever was done
~ this town. He has left the country in nudo SID
IS on necked rock, with just grease enough to he
be it to slide into everlasting blazes." MALoU.
- ADJUSTMENTS Fmieties.--At this pleasant a
~ delightful theater, tonight, Messrs. Mark Sm
~ George Jordan, John Z. Owens, Charles Bass,
H. Davenport Mr. Bddles, Mr.. Morton, Mrs. Cha
bo man, Miss Charlotte Thompson and Mrs. Leighto
Ia will offer Holcroft's three.aet idea of "The Ro
ON to Ruin" The Owens and the Leighton will aft
be ward show married folks something instructive
l., the way of "Conjugal Lesson' There will
4; dancing between the pieces. All who go will fl
n as they leave that they glad they went.
sw 81. Ghd7leS.-FareweiI benefit of Mrs. Wallac
Iif- Mr.. and Mrs. Wallaek appearing together as 4
ON Roy and Helen MeGfegor, and Mr.. Wallack aft
nd ward appearing as Hdliana to Mrs. Perrin's Bia
Ter eyed Susan. This will be positively the last
ed pearance of the Walacks.
NJ, academy of htste. "A grand performance
to noon for ladies and children, Dan Rice coming c
he with predetermined intent to tickle the ladi
sis whilst he kills the children. 'tWards Mission
ter China will be one of the lively new features
the MONDAY performance. AT night, the usl
on beautiful. astonishing, and funny show, will