New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-19
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Mr. Edward Everett, byo one act, has forfeited all
the respect and esteem entertained Tor nm IN
the Southern States. His late speech IN New ORR
is none the less infamous because delVered%lh
scholarly language and clothed in classical drapery
It exhibits all the venom, without the yugarity, OF
a barangue from Wilson or Greeley. Common de-
cency if not common sense, should have restrained
Mr.. Everett from this unnecessary and rancorous
exhibition of hostility to the South. 1t was in the
South only that he received any electoral votes for
tie vice -Presideney. His own section deserted
him then, as it had deserted him before Displaced
BY his own people from Office, and succeeded by
such dirty cattle as Sumner and Wilson, he was
regarded by as one of the few men in the North
honest enough to sacrifice place to patriotism and
Just enough if net to defend the Soutl at least to
refrain from contributing to the filthy stream OF
falsehood about our section poured outby the ma
lignant Aholitionists by whom he is surrounded.
1t seems now that the South mistook the character
Of the man. All his former professions were lip
service and lp-service alone. The hospitality the
confidence and the respect of our people have been
repaid by gross ISLANDERS. He now hounds on the
Abolition INVADERS in courty phrase it is true, but
with equal energy with Wilson or Wendell Phillips
1t is our purpose to-day to notice only one OF the
many extraordinary assumptions of his late ora
tien He says that, as one Of the effects OF dis.
union, "a general stampede of slaves will take
place along the border, and there will be no
thought Of rendition Whether Mr.. Everett be-
lieyes this or not we assert that all the probahii-
ties are against it, We proclaim, with entire con
fdence, oar conviction that slave property in the
Southern States will be far more secure IN the
future than ever was the case in the old Union
1T is only necessary to refer to other countries
which have been similarly situated and derive
from the experience Of the past a lesson for the
future There is the Island of Cuba, for instance,
filled with slaves; but nobody ever hears of an es-
cape from there to the boosted land Of Freedom
in the North. Yankee vessels fill her ports year
in and year out, but no slaye is enticed on board
and secreted, as was constantly the case with
Yankee vessels in the Southern ports when the old
Union existed There is Brazil also-a country
with which the Yankees have heavy commercial
dealings Their ships trade to Rio, but take care
never to steal negroes. Aud why? They know
very well that neither Spain nor Brazilwould sub.
nit to it. When the Union existed, they could
steal, with inpuniy negroes from Charleston, and
New Orleans and Norfolk, and there, was no rem
edy. II they had done the same thing in Havana
or Rio, they would have had an account to settle,
and very well they knew il.
Slaves rarely escape of their own accord. They
are tolled off by lying representations from Yankee
ship captains Or vagrant Abotionists. These gen
try know that their condition will be worse in the
North than here-yet their hatred of the South and
their maevolence SO great they cannot forbear
| from INJECTING an injury upon the Southern slave
| holder, when they know they cannot be made to
suffer for it. 1t is not love of the negro but hatred
4 for his owner, that makes 50 many Yankees negro
4 thieves.
/ Let the South be in the position of foreign
nation to the North, and we do not believe there
4 would be one instance Of the escape OF slave
| where there were hundred in the old Union. The
same instinct Of self preservation which keeps the
4 Yankee from stealing negroes in Cuba or Brazil
would keep him from stealing them in Virginia Or
Louisiana. If twas understood las most assuredy
| it would be Understandable every escaped negro
should be returned by the North, or we would
| know the reason why at the point of the bayonet-
precisely the relations as to this matter would
| exist between the North and the South as have
always existed between the North and other foreign
slaveholding communities.
| Mr.. Everett speaks as if the escape of slaves
would be a1distressing circumstance to him. From
the tone of his address we are constrained to be-
lieve thereis aretined hypocrisy in all this. Any
| man mean enough to approve and encourage the
invasion of the South and the murder of citi-
zens need not put any airs about the security of
Southern property. He is also mean enough to
encourage the loss Of ii. and to rejoice over fruit
less efforts for its recovery. ~.