New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-16
VOLUME XIII
Nslu 0rlsans Bully Cresttnt.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 1s. 1860.
poL1TIcAL AFFAIRS NORTH.

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| POLITICAL AFFAIRS NORTH.
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1t will be no holiday sport for the nominee OF the
Charleston Convention, though he be the only one
| man who has any chance of overcoming BLACK
Republicanism, to defeat that motley but most
thoroughly drilled organization, which, though
made up of the rags, shreds and patches of all
parties is united on the one great issue OF oppo-
sition to the South. Black Republicansm sus-
tanned injury, it is true, from the reyulsion ocea-
stoned by the Incorporate John Brown demonstra-
tion which was in accordance with its tenets, but
was too violent and premature to be polite, and
| shocked the sensibities Of the weak brethren who
had not yet come to a stern conscientious conyic-
tion of the desperate and inevitable nature of the
/ irrepressible conflict.
4 These sensitive members gave evidence of a re-
belious spirit which broke out in Union meetings
| and kindred demonstrations, the effect Of which
| has been, we fear, to give an undue and unw1se
| confidence to opponents of Abolitionism- How
have the astute leaders of Black Republicanism
comportcd themselves to bring the rebels back be-
| meath their dark banner? With the utmost wis
dom. Too shrewd to attempt to whip them back
into the traces by abuse and denunciation, they
have adopted a conciatory tone, sinking the
i niggern as much as possible from his unpopular
emnence in their platform, and cunningly resusci-
| tating old questions that have now scarcely the
Importance Of side issues, which they adroitiy ad-
vance as the principles they are battling for, and
\ in which they know the rebels must sympathize
with them, however strongly they may decline to
swallow John Brown. They keep John Brown as
far out Of sight possible, knowing that those
who endorse him will still cherish him. and that
lie is obnoxious to those whom they wish to cir
cumvent.
The speech of Senator Seward, the great arch
plotter of Abolitionsm is patent example of this
sort of political inesse by which he and his fellows
are striving to win back into the fold and unite on
the Presidential contest all who were shocked
from the ranks by the bloody business of Harper's
Ferry. Seward obtruded nothing that could star
tie the nerves of the most sensitive of the seeeders
He played traitor to John Brown, his most ilnstr-
ous disciple, and bamboozled the " Unionists " in
the most scientific style. No doubt most of them
are now convinced that Black Republicans gener
ally and Seward particularly, are now qnite as
much against the John Brown method Of operation
as themselves are, and that they rather hasty
in denouncing the party as whole. That it was
with them after all, and that they were with 1t and
are with it, and will not be compromising their late
position by seeing it through the Presidential con-
test
1t is thus that popular sentiment is being man
aged and controlled to the end, and, meanwhile,
secret electoueering work is not neglected. but is
being reduced to the perfection of political man.
agement that will result in a most thorough
organization of the Black Republican forces in
| readiness for the day of battle. We have now
before us copy of secret circular, issued by the
Black Republican Central Committee, which is
composed of three members of the Senate of the
United States and six members Of the House. II
calls for the organization Of clubs in every town
village and city Of the North. The circular
signed by the committee, states, 8 We address
you as one known personally, or by Information
to the committee as friend to the cause, and ask
an early reply to this communication, with such
information from time to time as you may think
proper The circular especially solieits contribu
tions of money from every friendly voter-a sort
of political ST. Peters pence'-which is to be
collected and forwarded by the I" friends of the
!. cause" to whom the circular is addressed, and
which sets forth that " the Republican party mus
rely upon the voluntary contributions of its
: friends.'' This enginery is to be put at wori
especially in the doubtful States, where they hope
u to buy up or whip in majority to carry the day
for sectional President.
OF course the whole South is safe for the nominee
: of the Charleston Convention, and most of tht
Northern States for him whom that of Chicago ma,
select for standard bearer; but those doubtful
"a States of the North are essential TO the success
either. In these the battle will be fought and
will be no holiday conflict. No labor and no ex
', pense will be spared by the Black Republicans
4. and hence we say that ii will be no light work II
c. defeat them, and the man who does, must be b
who already has the greatest number of firm an
avowed friends and supporters in those States, an
not man scarcely known outside of his own dis
i'll trict, who may be taken up and "put through wit
i'd rush and hooray,n simply because he is th
nominee of the Charleston Convention. We be
lieve that the only man who has this essential por
ularity, this readymade strength in those Norther
1d States which have the best chance of carrying
and which we must carry to insure success, is Judg
In Douglas. We believe that vote sufficient to Civ
him the thirty-four Northern electoral ballots
Nv already cut and dried, and that it is exceedngl
doubtful in what direction that vote will falfif h
n is not the nominee to claim it. 1t is quite as kel
that it will be directed to the Chicago nominee
be to the one commissioned at Charleston. We sha
see but we do not look to it with calm, phil
1s sophica curiosity for we cannot, and no one cal
3 be obvious to the fact that the coming Presidents
election is test trial of strength between sectiona
ism and nationalism.
TALK ON CHANGE.
Matters and things in general moved along vel
quietly yesterday. Carondelet street, PARTICULAR
was quiet On the grand leyee there was ia