New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-19


n The law which eempels the Supreme Court I
hold three separate terms, out of the city of New
Orleans, requires amendment. IL would be we
for the Legislature to fix by law upon some on
might be merged into one. This would give to gu
Judges that relaxation from their arduous dnte
which is naturally demanded.
GovERScRs MANSION.
/ | would urge upon the General Assembly til
propfiety Of providing, at the capital, IA Exeeu
4 tive mansion.
Il On the eve of resigning into the hands Of my sue
cessor the duties and responsibilities oil the oiiie
n of Governor, feel that can, without indelicaey
make this suggestion, and need only say IN its sup
q port that it would be but becoming in the grea
State of Louisiana to offer TO her Chief Magistrates
Y, during their terms Of administration, residence
suitable t.. the position.
Il NORTHERN AGENTS.
Il Allow me to present for your consideration az
increasing, rapidly growing evil.
In almost every town and village OF our STATE
are to be seen agents, representatives q Large
business houses from the North. who are dails
selling, from samples exhibited. goods, wares ane
a merchandise without paying that license for tht
support Of State government which Is demanded
and annually collected from our own merchants.
recommend the passage of stringent laws to pre-
vent this species Of traffic.
4 nAsTY LEGISLATION.
would most respectfully impress upon the CON
Il sideration of the Legislature the evils attending
hasty legislation. It may. with perfect safety be
said that three-ourths of the acts OF the General
II Assembly which presented 70 the Governor I0r
his signature are passed within the last ten days OF
each session. thus forcing upon him the duty OF a-
proving or Withholding his signature to Acts It is
i physically impossible for him to read with that
care and attention which iadicious legislation re-
quires. This suggestion is forced upon me by the
experience Of the last four years. it is not just that
this responsibility should be thrown upon the Elk
eeutiye.
| FEDERAL RELATIONS.
1 I had hoped to retire from the exalted po-
sition with which the people of the Common
wealth have honored ME without extended re-
ference TO national affairs or national politics.
had fondly wished that l might bring my
administration to q close with simple, yet IA
Yorable ausion to those subjects. ii is however,
with profound regret that feel constrained to
| announce to you my hopes in this respect have
been blighted, and that deem it my solemn duty,
as your Chief Magistrate and representative Of the
people, to enlarge upon disagreeable topic. Its
Importance demands my best attention and conf
mands your closest consideration.
The times that are upon lis are rapidly precipi-
tating crisis which must be met Inanfuly. In any
event, know that the people of Louisiana will not
be found wanting in practical yndication Of their
assaled rights, and proper defense of their honor
The times and the crisis to which have alluded,
apprehend, will bring into requisiton all the quail
ties Indispensable to the vndication of the and
the defense of the other. The character of LOUISE
ana has not yet been stained with servity or dis
honor, and know her people in the present, like
her people in the past, would gladly accept any
alternative which carries with it honor and insures
sell-respect. than take position which might Sc
cure temporary profit at the sacrifice of every
principle of manhood, every element Of independ-
ence every attribute Of that lofty sovereignty upon
which we have so justly prided ourselves. And
when it is taken into consideration that submission
will hardly assure temporary security-for COM
pacts with crayens are invariably broken by the
stronger party the very instant they have answered
their purposes-that aggression after aggression
invariably succeeds each compromise of constitn-
tonal right and submission to wrong-it is not pos
sible that Louisiana will abate one jot title of
her nalienabe prerogatives, or swerve in the least
from the true, just, and patriotic position she
has ever nobly occupied.
My views in regard to the most important home
questions are well known to the public and to Won.
In my inaugural address and in the annual mes
sages have since had the honor to lay before the
General Assembly, pursuant to the requirements
Of the Constitution, / have expressed myself at
such length and in such manner as deemed APP
propriate. My opinions, therein expressed, have
undergone no change. save that which facts and
unmistakable circumstances naturally work in the
minds Of all patriotic citizens. He who learns
nothing from the current of passing events, and
clings exclusively to the memories of purer age,
and obstinateiy closes his eyes, heart and brain to
the stern actuaites Of the present, IL an unsafe
counselor, and il invested with authority, would
lead any State or nation into disgrace ruin if
circumstances permitted the exercise of his des-
tructive proelivities. AS times change, men
change, and as men make up the aggregate of
communities and nations, communities and
lions must also change, to meet we'll the emer.
gencies of the times as they present themselves.
Nothing is immutable, save the laws of God and
nature.
For more than a quarter Of century Sec
tional warfare, based upon hatred of the institu-
ton of slavery, has been waged by the North upon
the South. At the ontset the members Of this
despicable organization were contemplate in
number and in intellect; and their fanatieal trea-
sonable and atrocious promulgations were deemed
DG .fIhi for ntirth hut zpp nf HIN
Confederacy. At that time each State respected
its constitutional obligations, the comfy of the
respective soYereignties was maintained, brother
hood and good feeling prevailed well nigh
unyersally-all the South requires now, or
wanted then, was the simple observance Of the
organic compact, which was cheerfally
dered on all sdes-the most benefcent system of
government the earth ever knew when rightfully
administered a union OF soYereignties under CON
federate head, armed with expressly delegated
powers, worked so beautifully and tremendously
that it was the wonder and admiration Of the world
It grieTes me to say that this happy picture has
been ehBnged; that the small band of fanatics
once only deemed fit subjects for laughter have
grown into a powerful organization that the
cloud, once mere speck upon the horizon, has at
tanned such dimensions that it baekens the skies
of the majority section OF the Confederacy; that
sovereign States, through their Legislatures and
Governors, have passed laws which set at defiance
the Constitution Of the United States; which nulfy
the laws of Congress; which trampie under foot
tile ueGlsl0ils Vi EtutIaI 1OuIb VI last RESORT
and which openly contemn the executive authority
of the government, when exercised in strict con-
formty to the demands of the Constitution. All
this is done, too, without cause proyocation or war
rant OF any kind. The slayeholding States have
not wronged, nor attempted to wrong their North
ern brethren in any manner, and in all contro-
versies they have been the first to yield they
have compromised and compromised, for the sake
of peace, when they had rights and interests at
stake, and the North had none--bnt every yielding
and each compromise has been followed by fresh
demands and renewed aggression, until fanaticism
grown bold by our yielding and compromises as
well by the Wondrous growth of its power ait the
North, now says in the Federal Senate, in the hall
of the House of Representatives and from the
Legislatures of most of the n-slayehoding States
backed by an overwhelming prependerence of the
masses, almost sufficient to elect President that
not another slave State shall ever be admitted into
the Union-no matter what the circumstances of the
case-no matter what the obligations imposed by
one common organic law.
great, bad man ~ great in intellect and
fearfuliy great in influence = the foreordained
candidate of the Black Republicans for the
Presidency, not twelve months ago announced
in his place in the United States Senate that
his party would soon have control of the Govern
ment, and that they would then :" re0rganize
the Supreme Court u in such manner az would
lead to decisions agreeable to themselves. After
wards, in several speeches made in his own State
on the eve of general election, in presence of I'M
mense assembages of the people, he distinctly de-
cared that there was an irrepressbe conflict be-
tween the free labor of the North and the slave la
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