New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-06
NOR FIT FoR EMPIRE.

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| The telegraph, nearly every day, brings us news
| Of the arrest and Imprisonment Of some Southern
citizen who is caught at the North. The last case
| reported is that Of a gentleman from vicksburg,
who was seized at Saratoga and hustled off to Fort
Lafayette. We suppose he was quietly sojourning
at that celebrated watering place for the benefit of
/ his health. No offence is alleged against him--no
charge made-no explanation offered, for this and
other similar eutrages. The rule at Donnybrook
Fair, after the free fight begins, is when you see
head, hitit-" The rule at the North is, when you
| see Sontherner, pounce right on him. He may
be as innocent as an unborn babe, but that makes
no difference. The right of every man to be ap-
pfised of the nature of his offence, and to be CON
ronted with his accusers, has like other personal
and political rights, disappeared in the North as If
no such thing ever existed.
| e. These things go far to establish generally the
belief, already entertained by many. that the
| Yankees, as a people, are unfit for selfgovern-
ment. They have never had anything hut nom
NAL, bogus liberty in their local and social systems
at home, and many believe that they are unfit for
Tree government on a larger scale, Go into any
village in New England, and instead of personal
freedom and liberty of individual action, the whole
town becomes your censor, and you must square
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written laws Of the neighborhood. What sort Of
| freedom is that where you cannot smoke cigar
upon the street, or get glass of wine on Sunday;
and where. a man who does not go regularly to
churohis handed over to eternal perdition, and he
who eats anything but cold dinner on that,day is
sent straightway to the devil by the united voice
| of the community? The old blue laws, though re-
pealed from the statute book, are virtually in full
a of etia
personal surveillance holds every man and every
family subject to an unwritten code of morals Sc
we're, austere, unbending and tyrannical a. 4.
This is the style in which they wished, also, to
rule over the whole country when they secured
possession of the Government by the election of
Lincoln. If no other cause for disunion had ex-
isted, sufficient might have been found in the
opposite and irreconclable ideas entertained by
the people of the two sections, as well in respect
of social observances and customs as of general
Federal legislation. No people can live peaceably
together, or ought to live together at all, whose
ideas in so many respects are so widely diverse
and antagonistic. %
For the first fortyeight years succeeding the
adoption OF the Constitution and the Inauguration
of the Federal Government, Yankee Presidents,
only, failed Of reelection to the Office All the
Southern Presidents were chosen second time
without difficnltv Yankee statasmansbin e
mansbip n NAV he called has broter ao,,,, ~
failed. whenever IL has l,een triad and If tho mo-
Die are fit for ennire tbe nroaf x,e+ n IL 80
fordea
70 90 NO further hack than tba ,reosor+ A5n,;,i,
tration at Washington it's whole no1;cv fron, +ba
fourtb Of March last has bee so,,os ~
and follies. In six months inrdenenlant Of ~
grand mistake abopt lsnhdnnp the sonth ;ts AZ
hibtions If lack Of statesmansbin and conoo;t,, ~
Govern have baan oIariny IA ,iafnahio ~ 80
short time II has ad 10 disans, al En.n,
veil ~ tJa !. Re
r. IL mn e a. ~