New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-16
INCONSISTENCY,

The inconsistency of Black Republicanism was
well illustrated by Vice-President Stephens in a
centspeech at Savannah "While it fixed prin-
cple with that party" said Mr.. Stephens "never to
allow the increase of foot of slave territory they
| seem equally determined not to part with an inch
Of the accursed soil, Notwithstanding their
clamor against the institution, they seem to be
| equally opposed to getting more or letting go
what they have got. They were ready to fight on
| the accession of Texas, and are equally ready to
| aght now on her secession. Why is this How
| can this strange paradox be accounted for? There
seems to be one rational solution, and that is, not
withstanding their professions of humanity, they
| are disincned to give up the benefits they derive
from slave labor"
Mr.. Stephens has hit the nail right on the head.
He has penetrated the motives of the Black Re-
publican party and exposed them to the broad
light of day Humanity, and the "rghts of man,"
and all that sort of thing, may serve for the SEN
timenta babblings of crazy people who deceive
themselves with the notion that they are philan-
thropistsbut when all this is weighed in the scale
against the solid advantages which the Union de-
rived from the Southern States which have seeded,
philanthropy gives place to interest, and senti-
ment kicks the beam against dollars.
Everybody recollects how violently the adms-
sion of Missouri into the Union was opposed by the
North. 1t was for other reason than the exist
ence of slavery in the State. For the same reason
the admission of Arkansas and the annexation of
Texas were resisted until resistance was useless.
But when California, with I" free Z" Constitution,
applied for admission, she was welcomed into the
Union. So also were Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Oregon and Kansas. It is only when slave States
were to be added to the Union that the North was
seized with holy horror. Free States were man
ufactured in the Northwest, by the favoritism of
the Central Government, the expenditure of money
and forcing process generally, and hurried into
the Union with a most precipitate haste. Slave
States on the contrary, met with every possible
impeachment. In short, the North was always
willing to extend its own political power, but
never willing to extend that of the South. So long
as that section gained everything, and the South
nothing, in the way of territorial extension was
all right. When the South asked to have some
show of development for herself it was pro-
nounced most unrighteous and diabolical claim
And yet the North is now just as much opposed
to the Southern States going out of the Union as it
was to their going in. They were opposed to their
admission, but yet equally opposed to their with
draWal. Reversing the Scotch rule to " welcome
mo coming, speed the parting, guest" they resist
the entrance OF the guest into the house but having
got him in seek to detain him by force from going
away. Ii Arkansas were objected to on account |
OF slavery, as we know to have been the case how |
has she made herself so acceptable to the Northern
Union as that she will not be allowed to with |
draw If Aboiitiondom can prevent it? Slavery |
there is stronger now than when she was admitted.
" hat has Arkansas done that she is now so yalua-
bic member of the Union, Notwithstanding her |
admission into it was opposed with all the might of
Abolition?
mat party processes to be distressed at the idea
OF being quasi responsible for the sin of slayeryr
by being in the same Union with Slave States. Yet
when the Slave States propose to Withdraw, and
nus relieve them of the responsibility which so
much vexes their piOus souls, they are indignant
md scandalized.
This would be rather inexpcable but for the
explanation which Mr.. Stephens gives that the
Material benefits which the North derives from
lave labor outweigh all their hollow phianthrophv 7
nd sickly sentimentality. The two hundred mil q
ions of dollars per annum, which foreign nations
'ay this country for the products of slave labor is
l sum which blinds the eyes of the purists aud {
2harsees who are so constantly congratulatirr |
themselves that they are not as other men are, and
'"A y ie "'eheu S'FeioIueIS VI lue South.
With them, duty is good thing, but dollars much |
letter. When duty and dollars come into collision.
he former yields and retires and the latter takes
precedence. Besides this, the innate love of the {
urltan for kind of small tyranny and petty op-
ression, and the good it does him to plumber :
nnoy, and exasperate all whom he can get in his |
over, is the strongest passion of his heart He t
never happier than when he can get one whom Il
hates in fgurative vice, gloating over the h
ellis of his victim at every turn of the screw This
as just about the position in which they thought
icy had the South after many long years of labor,
hen the South escaped their clutches and got +
eyond their reach. Hence their rage and their il
mentations. To be consistent they ought to be Z
lad to get clear of the Slave States. But even SO
nall virtue as consistency is beyond the reach a
Black Repubcanism. Y