New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-24
a USELESS sffeNTEsr.

We do not see what occasion there is for putting
forward an opposition ticket to the Black Republt'
cans in the State of Ohio, as we see has been done
If there is any material difference between the two
parties, we have yet to discover it. The oppo-
sition, it is true, call themselves the peace
party hut it Is a perversion of the word. We
have read the letter of acceptance of their cand-
date for Governor, and it breathes nothing hut a
spirit of determined and venomous hostility to the
Southern Confederasy.
Thus, Mr.. Jewett, the nominee for Governor re.
peats all the disgusting slang, and all the mon
strous lies about the rebels y that daily grace
the columns of the New York Tribune. He says
that the rebellion D in the South is the work of
the leaders, and not of g the great body of the
people," He falsely aseribes to us a purpose to
humiliate the Northern flag and oyerawe the
Northern Government. He accuses us of robbery
and fraud. He announces that he has no oompro-
misses to make with us, and 90 no terms to offer,
other than unconditional Submission
Probably it would be as well for Mr.. Jewett to
wait until We express desire for a s.compro-
mise, before he volunteers his determination that
he has none to make. Probably he had better
wait until we ask for terms, before he processes
that he has :" none to Offer If the Northern
people suppose we are fighting for compromises or
terms, they had as well get rid Of that little delu-
sion at once. We are fighting for Independence
and asseparate nationality If we were allowed to
dictate our own terms for further union with the
| North, we would seorn and spurn the proposal.
Another repetition of stale and threadbare as
sertion is found in this letter. where the writer says
that g the great body of the people of the South
| are loyal to The Federal Government. Their sym
patty is with it and for it, if thereal nature of the
controversy was fairly before them, and they were
permitted to act in accordance with their own
feelings and juagments.' We would like to know
what has prevented them from acting in accord
ance with their own feelings and Judgments This
is q Islander upon the Southern people. To sup
pose that g the great hody'' of them would sub
NIT quietly to small minority is not only prepos
terously absurd, buta reflection upon their man
hood. If this statement were true, the t'great
body of the Southern people," are simply dastards
and cfaFens. But it is not true, and Abraham Lin.
coin knew it was not true when he said so in his
message, and this man Jewett knows it is not true
and the whole pack Of them who are constantly
repeating the statement know that it is an out
Rageous falsehood There were hundred Tories
in the war of the Revolution, to one Union man
now in the South. In the name OF common sense,
why do the Northern people continue to give cur
rency to this glafing Misrepresentation?
This candidate of the g Peace Party further
announces that he is in favor of prosecuting the
war with vigor and energy, and that under no cir
cunstanees will he submit to dissolution of the
Union, or consider terms of separation The Union
was dissolved last December when South Carolina
seeded, and has been orumbling to pieces ever
since. Yet Mr.. Jewett says that he will not sub
mitto it, How does he propose to help himself?
After g submitting for seven months he now de-
elares he3will not submit. He will otsubmit to
thing that has already been done and cannot be
nndone, He might just as well talk of not submit
ting to the rising and setting Of the sun.
It is evident that there is some mistake about
this matter, ard that JeWett ought to be the eand
date of the Black Republicans, and not of the
Peace party. At all events, there is no occasion
for the Black Republicans to put up candidate in
opposition to him. If they can find a blacker
Black Republican than he is, they must take some
one of their ebony idols like Fred. Douglas. Jew
etts true position is in the Black Republican ranks
and he is guilty of fraud and hypocrisy in pretend
ing to be opposed to them. We only hope he may
be beaten by q Black Republican opponent who
has the manliness to attach himself to the party to
which he belongs.
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