New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-30
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fne ii lie uoss sensible things we have vet
5sSen coming isonl . Northern source. since the
bcaitinF III TIL AZ the following letter. II Il
fforn tie Mayor Of Hartford, Connecticut, and was
III reply 70 an initiation to preside at 4
Union meeting;
City of Hartford, April Il. 1861.
10 AZ n t1iask, ESQ, Chairman, ana othe MI
The call for your meeting is for those 4 In favor
of sustaining the Government of the United States
in all measures aeeessaFyto preserve the Consti-
tution,t etc. Accarding to my construction Of
this Language, the Governments to judge of the
s,ccesssta of the measures, and Lam unwilling to
pledge myself III advance to all measures which
any Government may deem necessary claim the
right myself of determining the necessity of such
measure before profess myself in favor Of sls-
tanning Hi This night do not propose to surrender
to Mr. Lincoln;s Cabinet
am in favor Of maintaining the Government in
Washington. lam willing to furnish it with the
requisite force to defend ii in the possession and
occupancy Of the federal capital. Twill supportit
i'm repelng Invasion of the Tertiary Of any State
which still adheres to The Federal Union On the
other hand, am not willing to sustain tin war
of aggression or inFasiOn OF the seeded states.
N Such Il war, to accomplish its avoWeti purpose oil
recapturing Fort SUMTER and of continuing the oe-
cupancy of Fort Pickens, must be war for
8conquering and holding in subsection more than
| three millions of an indofnitable race OF men,
I can lock upon such a war with no emotions
but those off horror and should be false to the CON
victions Of my understanding, and TO every emo
ton Of my nature, if assisted in Initiating it.
Unless the war is everlasting, it must be event
nally Terminated by treaty OF peace Il liz Waged
Xii Wagsd for any rational purposel To- secure a
better treaty al its termination than before 1t was
|eommenceas II
Now Irlost firmly and conscientiouslY believe
that better treaty, with fairer and more equita-
Bile teFsns can be secured before than after such
war and that all the interests of civilization and
humanity require that men of az par
ties should unite in adjusting our present dliicult-
les by ne collation. and comprO mise.
I'll aVowiHg these sentiments It is with heartfelt
regret thatT lind myself constrained to differ with
many personal and political friends, and With gen
tiemen sof adverse political views, with whom
should be happy to cooperate in an emergency like
the present.
But i'll crisis Of this magnitude hold II to be
the first duty of every honest man boldly and
frankly to disclose his real belief. Whether my
views age true NJ false theV are az all events sin
cere and earnest, and should be dislnyal to my
convictions, and a slave myself. if hesstated to
govern my political conduct by them until con-
WINGED Of their errar For these reasons. gentle
men, most respectfully decline your invitation to
| preside at the meeting this evening.
ana Tefy Eespeeifa III youE HENRY3G DENIM n
The chief point to which We wish to direct at
tantion in the above letter. is the writer's view o.
peace. Nobody supp oses, of course, that this wal
forever. Whether It continue ten, twenty, or fifty
years, ii must, like everything else, come to a
end at last. Now, then, it becomes the North tt
consider whether q better and more advantageou
treaty Of peace, to that section could not be mad
now than at some remote time in The future.
@ Mr. Degning thinks SO, and we believe every well
informed man who will seriously and fmpartiallJ
reyolVe the subject in his mind will come to tht
same conclusion.
II cannot Be said that the South has failed in hel
duty In this respect. She sent Commissioners tc
Washing ton, regularly accredited, with overtures
Of peace. She wished to settle this thing by nego
tiation rather than by war the pen rather thar
BY the sword. 1t was q fatal mistake the North
made, in more ways than one, when our advances
for peace were centemp tuously rejected The in
terests of Civilization and humanity all required
peaeeable termination of this difficulty. Yet those
interests were spurned and disregarded, the Ad-
nlinisuation well knowing that war would be the
result. They knew that If Southern independence
could not be peaceably secured, it would be Sc
cured by bayonets and bullets for nobody not an
idiot could have believed it possible to put down
BY force d movement which, as soon as force was
employed, would unite the entire population 81
fifteen States, whom Nh. Deming correctly calls
an indomitable y race Of men.
Itisnot too late yet for the North 10 arrest thi
insane and wicked effort to subjugate the South
nor is it too late to make a treaty of peace NOR
advantageous to them than the one they viii b
compelled to make at the close Of the war. LIE
not this desire for peace on our part be credite
I'd any apprehension Of a disastrous result to GU
cause. We as firmly believe as we believe in gu
existence that in the appeal to arms our eaus,
VIII be glorionsly triumphant. Every man ii Til
South SO believes and has SO determined. WI
speak purelyin the interest Of humanity of civiza
lion, Of liberty, of fraternity, and Of Christianity
itself, when we say that this war ought to stop
III can never stop, however, and oaght never TX
stop, short Of the recognition Of the independence
Of the Southern Confederacy. The North will havt
to come To sooner or later and the quicker the.
make up their minds TO do it the better. This j
the uItimatum Of the South.
The North seems now to be almost entirely unit
ed in sustaining the aggressive policy of the Lin
coin Administration. We are much mistaken
however, if there does not soon appear stron
peace party there after their first phrensy Of excite
ment has subsidized. They must see that this wa
is as inhuman as its results to them will be disas
trous. If the North il not given over to ute
madness, the people of that section will accept th
advice of tho Mayor of Hartford, that the difficult
between the two nations be adjusted by negots
ton and compromise.
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