New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-06-19
eRsME. NORTH aND SOUTH.

4 The New York Herald, of . lafa date publishes
The criminal statistics Of that State fer tho year
1859. They sre taken nom the official returns Of
The officers IL the difsrent counties, and may
thsref,re hs relied upon o. correct. These statis-
tos show, as the Herald says, q q noticeable In
crease of crime p and the array Of figures, con
tinass that paper, 10 really appalling
I Nor, says the Herald in continuation, IS " this
stasa of things peculiar to our city. All over the
North and West paaperism and crime are on the
increase. If we look at the South we find COM
paratively little crime, and no pauperism worth
mentioning. And yet the politicians and philan-
thropists Of the North are continually writing and
talking about the wickedness Of the South, forget
ting altogether the skeletons in their own closets
Would II not be as well for some Of the phantlrs-
pists, who are 80 anxious about the black man, to
study these statistics intenty and then turn their
attention to the white men, women and children OF
the Empire City, held in tire bondage Of ignorance
vice and crime n? "a
The question which the Herald asks is very
pertinent one-but it has been asked thousands 81
times before, and never has been satisfactorily
answered There are two classes of people in the
Northern States men of sense and moderation on
the one hand, and fanatics and fools on the other
The former agree with us Of the South that it ii
their business to attend to their own domestic
affairs and TO let ours alone. The latter are un-
approachable with the weapons Of reason and ar
gument, and it is merely waste of words to throw
them away upon them. Determined moi to be con
vinced, it is altogether useless to address them in
spirit Of argument, to appeal to their sense Of
justice and right The proverbial futity Of e sing
ing psalms to . dead hsrse'' is q commendable en-
terprise, in contrast with the endeayor to convince
fanatica1 abolitonist that he ought to attend to
his own business instead Of vexing his pious soul
about the institution of slavery in the South.
One Of the chief burdens of Mr.. Charles Sum-
ner's late song III the Senate was the ebarbarism''
that prevails at the South This /" "barbarisIn, =
according to that precious saint Of Senator son-
ssts in street fights, duels, and other violent en-
counters between man and man. All Of this, Of
course, he attributed to the influence Of slavery
forgetting that in the parallels of latitude in
Europe, where no slavery exists, such things are
Of as frequent occurrence as here. In France and
Spain people fight duels, and in Italy assassinatons
are far more frequent than in the Southern States
of this continent In truth, they are more common
in New York and other large Northern cities than
with US. But because such things occur here, as
they do everywhere else, it is slavery of course,
in the opinion of Sumner, that causes them His
eyes are SO blinded by fanatiesm that he considers
slavery as the source of every social evil that ex-
iats in the S0uth-leaying us in the dark, however,
az 70 the cause Of such things in the nominaIly
:" free communities Of the North. He Il like the
deaf old woman mentioned by Dickens in one Of
his novels, who attributed every noise she heard
TO the kitchen chimney being on fire.
There Is no country on earth, let the people be
either civilized or savage, where crime does not
occur i is in the nature Of man to commit sin,
and no laws, however stringent, can altogether
repress crime and subdue our evil passions But
the Southern States of the Union will fearlessly
challenge comparison in this respect with those Of
the North They will contrast their statistics Of
crime with those of New York-of equal popula. |
tion-with confidence that they will mot suffer |
from it. Even il there were more crime in the |
South than in the North Summer would not be Just.
lied in aftributing it to slavery, because climate
and race have much to do with ouch things But, |
as this is not the case, Charles Sumner has only |
given fresh proof Of his unmitigated demagoguism |
and fanaticisnl and mendacity in SO asserting. And
20 far as pauperism is concerned every occasional
reader Of newspaper knows that not only is alb. |
solute poverty more prevalent in the North, and |
the average Of wealth to each citizen not half az
great as m the South, but of starvation are
not unfrequent in all their large cities, while such
cases rarely or never occur with US. 1t gives US
no pleasure to refer to such things, and we would
willingly omit the comparison il men like Sumner
would let MS alone, and cease their infamous at. |
tacks upon our section. But this can hardly be |
expected when such speeches as hisare applauded |
to The echo and the Legislature Of his State, as we
zee by recent report, approves and endorses his
harangue by vote of eightysix to forty -four.
sumner and all such pestilent and malignant dem
agogues must be driven from the high seats they
iisgrace before there can be any abatement Of the
unhappy sectional hostility now existing In this
country for, so surely as the South continues to
% slandered and maligned by them, will feeling
IT Indifference to the Union grow by degrees into
me of positive hatred and ennfamnt - 1