New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-02

were not enacted to DISTRACT the carrying out OF
the Fugitive Slave law, but to protect the citizens
Of the several States against outrages in so doing.
The Republicans all agree that the South is en-
titled to an efficient Fugitive Slave law; but the
present law has some most abominabe pro-
Visionsso much SO, that a distinguished Southern
Senator declared that were he Northern ,el
he'd be id if he would submit to them U We
are perfectly willing that Shareholders, armed with
the authority of the United States Government,
should pursue and capture their runaway slaves
in a lawful manner, anywhere in the free STATES
We are aciHing, because the Constitution under
which we live in common guarantees them tOlS
right though the irrepressible instincts OF human
nature will always be on the side OF human beng
8eeinr from hondage-in case he has committed
csii.s Rnt when Shareholders demand that.we
shall become Sldee,ia7asgs- and s}uue catc'erS to
them, it is asking TOO much. We can't, 80 it, my
brother Crane Again, what miserable preteXt
YOU put forth that Lincoln owes his election to
negro Suffrage! All the negro votes cast for
Lincoln were as a drop to the ocean i'll comparison
with the tremendous polls cast for him. The negro
vote is limited in any of the free States, and in
most of them there is none at all. apprehend
the greater part of this small vote was cast for
Gerrit Smith, the Abolition candidate. You see,
my dear DR.. Crane, that | have no great respect
for the document sent me, simply because it is
tissue of false issues from beginning TO end; and
it is sad, inexpressby sad to think that it is upon
such flimsy and Fictitious issues that portion of
these United States seem determined to plunge the
nation into all the horrors of C{rH lcdr. My dear
the dispassionate Judgment of State, is ciimera.
| There is no such right known TO the Constitution.
| Secession means revolution, violence, fraternal
| war and general anarchy. And as remedy for
| the evils of which you complaint is the widest
of all the vagaries that could infect brain heated
by some fiery stmulant seven times hotter than
want. You talk of the right of peGceabe secession.
And yet you are drnling throughout the entire
| South. What do you mean by that? Nobody is
| agnaing here at the North. What do you mean by
secession It includes, of course, resistance to
the collection of -BHited States TeUe7iueS and the
torcib7e Sezure of United States property within
the limits of the seeding States. The United
States ctoue'nne4 collect its revenues and protect
its property. Ought it not to do it? You must re-
SiSt the United States Government then in its L.
ultimate course. This is among the first acts of
your pedcedb2e secession!
But | will not further weary you. l began to
write and could not stop. The South actually seems
to be, Gin certain portions of D without any SUB.
stdftidt cause, resolved on sttfdeSt,uction. 1t
the South my children are there my best and
warmest friends are there. Because we cannot
approve of slavery at the North, you infer we are
goatr enemies. No inference could be more filIse.
We make a distinction between the system and
those implicated in it by birth, education and sur.
roundiugs We are willing to let you entirely alone
to manage the system as you may Judge best But
you seem now to take the position that we must
approve and be parties to special protection and
propa gandsm, or are your enemies. How un-
| am not an old man now, and re-
collect the time when lived at the South, when a
Northern man would be despsed for expressing his
approval Of slavery. Whence the qreat cha13qe ?
GEO W EATON
P. S-How sad to think that could not now
visit in person my brother Crane without subject
ing myself to personal violence