New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21
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4 distinguished citizen Of Mississippi sends US
the following sketch OF the famous renegade,
Joseph Holt, of Kentucky. Holt, it will be recol-
leeted, has lately made the grand tour OF the
North speaking everywhere, denouncing the
Southern people and every thing else that is South
ern, and encouraging and stimulating the North to
a bloody war upon us. Many of the Abolition
papers have warmly recommended him for the
post of Secretary of War in the place of Cameron
Others have advised that he be appointed to one
Of. the vacant iadgesfips of the Supreme Court.
After speaking in Boston, New York and other
Northern cities, this Kentucky renegade is now in
Washington City, where he has also been making
speech, advertising his claims for office before
the very face Of his imperial master, Abraham the
First. 1t is hoped that he will succeed in getting
some of the crumbs that fall from the Federal
table, for he is it associate OF the ruling powers
of the Washington despotism native of Ken
lucky, and indebted to Mississippifor all that he
has of fame or fortune it is meet aud proper that
his name should be held up for the scorn and
detestation of the people whom he has so basely
betrayed: -
tor the New Orleans Crescent 7'
The Renegade. ,e.,,.Sr,se
Confident in her resources, with her wisest in
counsel, her bravest and best upon the field. the
South can well be willing to grant the silence OF
contempt TO those who seek to betray her, But
there are some cases so Marked so revolving, that
they should be recorded for future and NOT for
present purposes. Treason is not indigenous to
| the South. 1t does not prosper here. Few there
are who have beenifalse, but there are some. We
should mark them as our forefaihers did Arneld;
that their treason may, as Junias said of the vices
OF the Duke of Grafton, afford negative example
| to coming ages.
Joseph Holt, Southern born, Southern bred,
goes 10 Boston-that Mecca OF modern fanatieism
and sanity hypocrisy. He goes, as he says, to
refresh his patriotism W Fit the fountain, and
fit the leper for such patriotism as he will draw
from such asouree! That he should abandon his
native land will surprise only those who have not
known him. It is easy for him to abandon party
he only embraced for gain--to be false to prin-
cipies which he protested but never entertained.
His Wanted eloquence has found fitting theme,
and his legal knowledge and constitutional lore
naturally lead him to approve the destructive doc
trines Of the imperial despot at Washington where
the law and Constitutions, ancient rights and
present freedom, mingle in q common ruin.
When there is intellect man will ever act from a
motive; Joseph Holt is surely man of intellect,
yet many are at loss for his motives in this CON
test. It would be bitter sarcasm to say that it
was patriotism, love Of country. Thirty years Of
sullen and gloomy denial of the ordinary court
estes Of life and of the smallest duty of citizen,
stamp falsehood on such plea. He himself pirates
of his morals and religion as the animating prin.
ciples Of q course which, while it confounds good
men, perpleSes even the bad. The latter hesitate
even while they applaud, and pause even when
they would reward. About it there is something
SO strange, 90 unnatural, that ), treachery ltseh
seorn upon Arnold; they bought the treason and
despised the traitor. Even the huckstering Yankee
looks with diatrust upon the vindictiye rancor of
our Kentucky renegade.
Tt1tr rhar,s 31aafr ma no
the bloody connsefs Of st. Joseph to his Boston
brethren. AS Mr.. Prentiss said of his famous Ken
lucky witness, g il may not have been from patrl-
otsm, or religion or friendship, but from higher
and loftier sentiment from o Keen ardent. dis
interested unsophistcated lore Of glorious strife"
Like Jobs war-horse he slnelleth the battle afar
of, and to the sound of the trumpethe saith:
Whs e4 G. ~ ssae h des s8 s o%
wv For fame l. there 70 tell who bleeds, .r. -
Ms And honors eye ondarng deeds et, - ri
To gid his treason and to grace his shame, even
the poet has been forced to elothe his renegade
with halo of dauntless courage. Alas poetry
must yield to prose and fiction to fact. ea-t
Commencing life in Kentucky with good pros.
poets and handsome talents, the daring spirit of
Marshall drove him from his home and sent him an
exile to Mississippi. He reached there in times of
financial embarrassments, and his talents secured
him business. The bar Of Mississippi was an able
one, composed of men like Guion, Prentiss, Quit
man, Wilkinson, Chiffon and others; men of per-
feet courage, high tone and unimpeachabe honor.
Among those glided Joseph Holt. crushing the
weak and covering before the strong, lordlng it
ever the unapt country attorney, and himself sink
ing and quailng before the eagle eye and lion heart
Of Prentss. A spirit OF revenge born of bitterest
humiliations, that btterest of all Spirits willing
TO wound yet afraid to strike" took possession OF
his breast. AT last he gathered his hundredthou-
sand dollars, and then he turned and cursed in his
heart the land which had received and fed him
when he fed before the stormy eloquence of Mar
shall. Ashe planted his foot upon the steamer to
Id into
stream, the storm SO long pent up by fear and ava
rice burst forth. Envy, hatred, malice and all
nneharitableness,' and revenge, spake, and since
then the sounding rhetoric. the musical voice and
the flowing periods of Joseph Holt have. been con-
secratedto the defamation Of land and people
who had received him in his exile and warmed him
into being. From that hour, long years ago, to
this, it has been Labor of love with him to de-
nounce our institutions, defame our society, decry
our morals and Islander our people. Doour people
now know the renegade Do they now under
stand F48z = - - -e
.'sAl all the false and fatal zeal
Theecnvert Of revenge can feelfn -s-.==-
To such men as this glittering eharlatan the
present ubiquitous war is q saturnalia. Afar off
and In security they can hound on the Northern
hordes upon our people. They crafty their re-
They counsel men to bloody deeds, and yet escape
viainous saltpetre themselves. They pirate of the
honor of nation, and yet honor meier pricks them
on to- the field, where tits to be maintained by
over their flag, and yet have never seen its folds
spread to the battle and the breeze. And chetest.
among these carpet knights of blood and carnage
words, empty words. The childof the white doe
is true to It's lineage. He can counsel blood, but
cannot look upon it. Well, we will place him.
His cowardly masters at Washington have organized
war. on woman. Let them organize feminine
war department place him at its head and should
he not stumble upon some dashing Lola Montez,
his future achievements, will perhaps rival his
former deeds of arms ~ ~
But enough. Aday of retribution is not far off,
Kentucky may or may not come to Us, but she
ought not to come with the traitors who now
nestle in her bosom. The armed heel of righteous
Southern indignation should crush the life from the
reptiles, or else she should never be remembered
among the stars which are now blazing upon our
banner. e f4r sS -
TALK ON CHANGE.
Ii was quiet, very quiet, on the flags YESTERDAY.