New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-03
Nsh Orleans Duly Crssfsnt.
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1860
ERRORS CORRECTED.

Among the many misrepresentation TO Wmch
Mr. Bell is exposed, there are one or Two which,
perhaps it may be well enough to nouee' lrue'
where one of these il exploded half dozen othefs
very likely will arise in its place. But II We can
succeed in keeping down some Oh the pfihcipai
ones, and to prove them unlounded, we Will Dc
willing to trust to the good sense OF the people 70
class all of the remainder in the same category.
We propose 10 deal with only two at present
to.wt, the charge that MIR. Bell was candidate
for the Black Republican nomination at Chicago
receiving votes in the COnventon-and the charge
of 'tunsoundness" against Mr. Bell, based upon his
course with reference to the abolition OF the slave
trade in the District Of Columbia. m
Both Of these charges have been industriously
circulated. In regard to the first it is simply sui
fcient to say that there is not particle OF tounda
ton for t. Mr.. Bell was not voted for in the Chr
cago Convention, nor was lis name mentioned IN
that body. The whole story has not single eH-
cumstance of fact TO sustain 1t. Mr. Bell WAS
nominated at Baltimore before the Chicago Con
ventfon met and he was nominated by natiohai
men from the extreme South and from the eXtrelhe
North-by men who have been engaged u nShthg
sectionaliss all their lives, and in the North nave
ever opposed Black Republicanism with undauhteo
front This charge, we think, Is made IN most
cases by persons who are simply ignorant oil the
facts of the case, and would not #iliully deceive
the people. We repeat that Mr.. Bell was not voted
for in the Chicago Convention, nor was his name
mentioned, il our recollection serves US rightly
even indirectly during the entire session OF that
Convention,
In respect of the other accusation, the Qtfetd
records show that Mr.. Bell voted against the pro
positop to abolish the slaVetrade in the Dlstrict OF
Columbia He did express doubt we admit
whether the power to abolish the slave-tfade there
existed in the Constitution or not THIS doubt he
held in common with some Of the trnest Southern
men that ever lived. Under that clause of the
Constitution which gives Congress exclusive Jnfis
dction over the District, he held that congress
might have possibly the power to do ths-put ne
steadily protested against the exercise oil tht
power and voted against it when 1T came to the
test. In the name of common-sense and fairness
we appeal to the people of the South to rebukt
this unworthy attempt to impeach MIR. Bells iealtl
in regard to this matter. -
More than this: There was clause in the bll
confiscating slave if a Southerner should carry
one into the District. M'. Beltmooed 10 strike M
clause oeA of H.e blu Here was an attempt no
only to cast odium upon the ownership oil slaves
but to take away the right Of property IN them /
Southerner should carry them into the District
Other Southern Senators sat silently by, ans
offered no show Of practical remonstrance. L
remained for John Bell of Tennessee to come t.
the rescue Of the honor and interests Of the South
and to protest. by practical proposition agains
the outrage. And yet John Bell, owning tw
hundred slaves himself, is an Abolitionist! Hsy
many of those who bring this charge against him
.sssown one-half, one-fourth one-tenth as many
Some Of them do not own even ncgro's track
the sand -.
And yet this bill abolishing the slave-trade j
tile District Of Columbia became part OF til
COMPROMISE Measures of 1850. The Democrat
party of the nation, in general convention, tw
wears afterwards endorsed that Compromise, COZ
tanning this very proposition abolishing the siav
trade! They endorsed it in 1852, again in $50
and we believe they reendorsed it this very year
They have given their solemn sanction to a serit
of measures, one Of which they complain of job
Bell for doubling the right of Congress to pas
although he voted against it upon its naked merits
''Can the force olive will not say folly, but Il
consistency" further go?H
When John Bell does a thing it is all wron
When they themselves do identically the san
thing it is all right Dat re1liant corciS, ter
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