New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-30
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. mas transmitted another message to Congress. i
is, Of late. very fruitful Of messages. liz appea
g nave the same faith in the saving virtues of
message as the elder Weller had in the efficacy
an alfhi. As that extraordinary parsonage b,
iievea an abb would afford him escape nom ever
species Of trouble, 50 the Old Public i anctionarJ
Whenever overcome with CONSERVATION ols sorrow
resorts to his unfailng rBlsleIy Of . message TO
relief.
in TINS iaS' ssagess Judging from the teie
grapir r' Think We detect the finger of lht
Il" mt, Gen. Scott. We are told tina
not aggression that it his duty IL
Constitutional means to protect the prop
i; & he United States, within the limits of the
sees.iing States, ard to preserve the public peace
at the scat of Government. All this means that
Forts Sumter and Pickens are not to be sur.
rendered, but defended; and that the District Of
Columbia is to be flooded with military to secure
the peaceabe Inauguration of Lincoln, as against
a reported attempt to prevent it by the people of
Maryland and Virginia.
/ But, to talk about protecting the United
States property withia the seeding States at this
time, is altogether absurd All the forts, arsenas
| and barracks in the seeding States have been
seized BY the States in which they are respectively
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to be protected while occupied by the States,
the ~ 7. +. does not take the trouble to inform
u.s. IL the policy Of protection is to be pursued,
| 1t ought to be general and complete. Fort Pike,
near TINS city, Is as much entitled to protection as
Fort Sumter. But as the Government has aban-
doned most of the forts to the States and no longer
holds them under the United States flag, the policy
OF protection ceases to be universal and therefore
Is worm nothing. The Government ought, for the
sake Of consistency, either TO retafe the forts
winch have been captured by the State troops, or
to abandon those which it holds to the State troops
which are ready to occupy them.
from this outgiying of the late President of the
late United States we conclude that the Admins.
ratlon VIII make no effort to recapture the forts
already seized, but that it will defend Forts Sumter
ana flckens to the last. These are not to be sur
rendered, but are to be defended if attacked We
suppose this is what has been decided on at Wash.
ington. hlr. Buchanan, no doubt expecting that
ms term Of Office will expire before anything Of
any moment will be done, and that he will turn
over the whole affair to Lincoln to be mana oed
by him as he may think proper. We commend His
discretion whatever opinion we NAV have of hi,
patriotism and good sense.
But, everybody must see that this state Of THINGS
cannot always continue; and Old Buck had inst as
well settle the meter now as to leave il as legacy
TO Llncoln. The forts in the South must either all
belong to the Southern States or to the remains Of
me late General Government. There can be no
permanent division Of them according to the state
OF things now existing. If Buchanan has a right
TO hold Fort Sumter he has an equal right TO hold
Fort Pike and Fort jackson: and, since lie has |
been deprived of the latter, he ought either to sur