New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-02
ll,fa Orleans 9ailp Crestfnt.
EsTrue CORRESPONDENCE.

VIM. Garey Crane, of Mount Lebanon University,
IL t1;s state. elected IN eloquent reply from the
latter rentlenian, which is subjoined.
AFTER filing half o sheet with an explanation Of
nersonai matters, DR.. Eaton proceeds as follows:
might STOP here, but a circular, received o few
aaya since with your endorsement, prompts me
II add 4 few words on lis purport. l was ppos
fasadlr sorry nut not much surprised, to find your
name mixed up with such document, say not
much SURPRISED, simply because, as | understand
the prevalent sentiment and temper in your region,
st one can retain his position and be safe in per
son fr yp,lt{tti0f who does not yield to its violence
ana allow himself to be swept on by the roaring
current. You are under strange hailucinatlon IN
the South and greatly fear your madness will
nreciptate our beloved country into civil war; the
horrors of which no Imagination can picture. The
principal horrors must inevitably tall upon the
South. There will doubtless be much suffering
and disarrangement of the social order OF things al
the North, but there is an inexhaustlhle energy,
elasticity enterprise and selfreliance in Northern
society," engendered and fostered by the spirit Of
free labor, that will soon rectify disorder and
bring back things to their wonted channel. You
are the victims In the South of the most baseless
illusions that ever deceived and led astray an hon
est and confiding people. need no other proof
Of this than the document you sent me. It's full
Of Misrepresentation in every part. Let me call
your attention to some Of them
lst 4 sectional President, elected on platform
Of principles subversige Of the equal rights of the
South? 4 take it that the platform neoer has been
seen by the writer. There is nothing in it that a
sensible Southern man could object to, except the
article in respect to the eztenton of slavery into
free territory. This article is based upon the we'll
known and oft-expressed sentiments of our great
est statesmen, South as well as North, from our
Revolutionary sires down so far at least as the
great and patriotic Clay. It's fast the sentiment
which he held and avowed with all the energy and
thunder Of his matehless eloquence.
ia The new elected chief executive officers
;,reaged ii crusade upon Southern institutions"
eic They are pledged BY their platform .ittSt to
the 7eoerse. The most strongly expressed and
emphatic article in the Republican platform is
that which declares the fgft OF each state to reg
uIate and controli its Institutions according to
its own Judgment and will, without interference
from any quarter whatever And brands as the
4 gravest al crimess such raids as that of John
Brown! You, DR.. Crane, helped to draw the
resolutions Of the meeting. Had you ever read or
seen d copy Of the Republican platform? The Re-
publican party is not an Abolition party in any
sense Of tie term. Ii is not slavery aggressive
party The origin of the party is found in that
enormous breach of fai the part of the South,
led sr BY renegade FeyTtont Yankee, the repeal
of tle Missouri Compromise and the consequent
violent and bloody attempts to push slavery into
territory eonseerated by fathers forever to free
taJo,. Had Il not beeRfor these events and other
assumptions Of slavery utterly unknown to our
sires the Republican party never would have ex-
listed. 1t has none but defensive side towards |
slavery.
Sal For the first time in the history Of this con-
federacy a sectional President, holding opinions |
avowedly hostile to the cherished institutions OF |
the South has been elected! Whew! How little |
The man who penned the above knows Of the opin-
ions of former Pres dents, Washington, Adams, !
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, have du0ped opinions
hostile 10 slauerg. q suppose this is meant by
cherished ilstitulion,l in comparison with which
all that Lincoln has said is but the summer breeze
to the BoreaI blast. The word Sectional
amounts 10 nothing in q country like ours. Brock
lnridge was sectional as to the South. Why did
she South vote for him? He got no vote at the
~. |
spcet to locality Whether he is sectional in poti
sal principles must depend wholly upon the inter
probation ofthe Constitution. Republicans declare
heir strict adhesion to the Constitution. There is
3ot seeessionist or disunionst among them. That
hey hold strictly to the Constitution seems now to
De generally conceded As the significant fact tes-
fes that OF all the compromises offered by their
opponents every one Of them proposes some
0f the Constitution.
4th. bin. Sumner does not speak for the Republi-
sans. He is not TO be taken as representative of
sheir platform. He is a man of extreme views
more theoretical than practical, more ardent than
wise.
9Th. Coyertly contending for the equality of
The slaFe.n o, shame! Mr. Lincoln has declared |
"a the most emphatic manner that he does not re-
cognize the social equality of the negro in any con-
iition. The Republican platform has no such re-
sagnitioG ID one sense Of participating in a COM
mon humanity the negro has qIghs; and it is mean
g well as wicked, to ignore his rights and treat
nm az though he were brute. Is there no medium
pett, and treating him as without any rights a
white man is bound torespect?n
9th. What you impate to Horace Greeley, he
leuer said. believed it was a false imputation
yhen Tread it; for though not one Of the ardent
.dmirers Of Greeley, read the Tribune, (the
Outh would be wiser, let say it with all defer
nee, if it was read and circulated more extern.
lively than j. is in that region) and | had never
NET with the sentiment Ihave just been looking j
yer the last number of the Tribune and see he .
Greeley1 Hatty denies ever having said any such f
hing. Here is small specimen of the way the {
outh is befooied and ba1aboozled by nisrepresen-
atoms. Ii
Your address quotes Wendell Phillips as au-
hbTity for what the Republicans design to do
Tow. DIR. Crane, this is really putting the broadcast
tssible burlesque and farce upon your whole pro-
ersistent. foulmouthed libeller of Lincoln and i
Ne Republican party in the whole country None of
herampant, blood, and thunder, participating and
eayen5splitting, INFLAMMATION, fire-eating
im in splitting and roasting Old Abe He declared
penly that he greatly preferred the election of
srecknrdge, forthe reason that the policy of Lin
DIN and the Republicans would be to quiet the j
+ Breckenridge would keep the fires blazing. You S
aote his wild fanatic utteranee about the Chicago
You might as well have quoted the Y
avings Of q maniac. His lie (and he knew it was f
nything to do with the proceedings at Lincon's
omination, was uttered simply to keep up agita-
ion, as far his influence Growing continually less)
0uld go. John Brown behind the curtain, indeed
ir. Phillips is a spi'itstaliSt, believe. The poor
Id man must have been greatly edited to hear
is raid into Virginia branded as the gravest of
rimes There is not probably single Repub.
can IN all the North who approves of John
rown's foray, or any such interference with the I
istitution Of slavery. Its in direct conflict with
heir avowed principles.
9TH. Ofapiece with the foregoing errors in your
1dress are The exaggerations of personal inter- S
rsfh natnt l.,
len. Here is ground for dark Indictment against
ie South; but will not draw it. because my OBJ /
ct in this letter is to meet imputations and not
'ake them. My honest opinion is, that where one
aVeholder has been dealt with horribly by mob
the North, twenty men and a1onaen, (Yes, o
Rivalry sgoTsefa y entirely innocent OF all tamper-
IS with sayes, have been treated in the most cruel
nd Shameful manner in the South Deducting at !
asst one half the cases as bogus and exaggerated
mere y enough left, authenticated by Southern
apeTs and the testimony of the victims to dis |
race any society where The scenes were enacted
Fnether savage, semi barbaFians or civilized. The
fetext Is that such persons have been tampering |
91th the slaves. Nothing can be more vague than !
uch a charge. And then it is clenched by the | S
ontesson OF some poor negro under the lush or I
lftttfs. such confessions are not aSorth a strdlp
.ou understand. DR.. Crane, that have lived in /
le South number OF years, and i have had per.
Onal knowledge of the utter worthlessness of such
now that tampering with slaves, by Northern
len or women 10 an extremely rare hinq The I
b0laienists have no such martyr spirit as to 90
own South among the negroes. No; the under /
round railroad run by this class, and who are
OF Republicans but voted for Gerrit Smith and ,