New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-02
MI. LEBANON USiVERsITv,
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Mt. Lebanon La, January %, ls6l}
Rev. Ge9ge W. Eaton, D n, Ii. d
i-. Iiy Dear BTOtleT-1O ours of the 3lst ult. was
received a few days since. hope that need not
assure you that cherish for you, as an honored
| able and afectlOnate instructor, in other and hap
| pier days for our country, and in many respects
| happier days for myself an earnest, sincere aud
devoted attachment. 1 cherish fondy the recol-
leGtions of my residence and pnpilage at Hamilton
from 1888 to 1887, barring the one year was alb
sent at Columbia College. Although was at Am-
herst, Mass, in Mt Pleasant Institution, while
such men as Henry Ward Beecher, Edward Hum
phrey, Richards Storrs Jr. and John Holt Rice Jr,
were there; although / was in Richmond College
with Shuck, WalLhell, Crawford and Claybrook,
and have fond memories connected with all, yet
will not deny that my strongest attachments are
for my old instructors and my early friends at
Hamilton. Personally have much to bind me to
| the North. In full view of Lake Ontario, there re-
| pose, in the Nit. Hope Cemetery, the remains OF
one to whom | plighted my earliest love, and to
whom devoted the best energies of my opening
manhood To another native of New York
(whose remains silently repose in the Shockoe Hill
OF young heart. My friends and connexions are
all over the North never knew the time when
did not love all that is noble and excellent in the
North, and would not concede its just claims, its
| equitable rights. know, therefore, no change in
| myself. was opposed, intensely opposed while
student from Virginia. at the North, to abolition,
antl.slavery agitation, immediate emancipation
and all the schemes aiming in anywise to disturb
the relations of master and slave in the Southern
system of domestic serytude. | have not, there.
fore, been carried away by the roaring current
and am not the " victim of strange Authorization"
Nor are the Southern people sweeping on, in an
hour of Madness " to horrors u which no ina gina.
ton can picture.
The thorough investigation of political economy;
the calm perusal of the Sacred Scriptures; honest
interpretation of the original languages in which
the terms involved in the system of servitude are
found the concessions of Casusts; the authority
of Blblic critics, commentators and antiquarians
the facts OF Roman and Grecian history; the i'm.
proved condition of the African race living in the
Southern States the interest, happiness and very
existence of the slaves among us all have long
since demonstrated to the Southern people that
slavery, so far from being morally wrong is scrip
turally right-right according to the Mosaic econo-
my, and right in the light of and by the sanction of
New Testament teachings. Upon this point there
is deep seated conviction in the Southern mind
We believe that just notions of political economy
correct moral science and the Holy Bible are with
u.s. Our social organization is interviewer with
slavery. Our sustenance our wealth, our products
our forms OF society, our ALL are based upon the
institution of slavery. We admit the excellence
of free labor in cold climates and for the Cauca.
sian race. We have been willing to continue an
equal partnership between free and slave labor.
without the collisions of an "rrepressible con
hict." We have only asked for the enforcement of
the guarantees of the Constitution of the late United
States the right to secure our servants when iuri.
tves from our protection and ownership, and an
equal right with all American citizens to abide on
any common soil of the late coniederacy with our
institutions and possessions until a State Copstitu.
ton was formed for such territory. Both OF these
rights have been denied us. Could it be expected
that when not only these rights have been denied
u.s. and, after an ncessant effort of nigh thirty years
to obtain political power, that party has triumpbed
which menaces our all threatens to uproot and an
initiate the foundations of society change the
whole character and the very continuance of our
social organization, which, if successful would de-
populate our valleys, give our cities to the alliea.
10 hpnr nd 5bn .l,Dnc
bring not only social ruin upon US, but reduce US
TO beggary. | ask, in the name of God and hui
mainly, could it be expected that we should he
calm, and idly look on and see that organization
established over US which, il it did not Immediately
oyerwhelm us in ruin, would at no distant day
plunge our children into all the horrors Of another
st. Domingo scene of woe.
Win US this struggle is one of life or death
You intimate that we are not acquainted with the
publications OF Northern men; the sentiments prev
alent and the doctrines of the Chicago platform.
Az to the platform, may say thatlt has been pub.
lished in every Southern political paper which |
have SEEM 1t has been commented on by the
speakers of the Breckenridge, Bell and Douglas
tickets. AS to the Tribune, it is seen enough here,
and taken by number. l have read the Inde-
pendent the greater part of the last three wears
and have regularly perused the Rochester Demo.
Graf and American, forthree years past and surely
the Tribune does not go farther than the Independ-
dent and the Rochester Democrat Besides, Pres.
ton King, James R. Doolttle and Others, Senators
send Us under their frank all the prominent Black
Republican documents. And that hitherto emi.
hently conservative, fair and ably conducted jour.
nal, the National Intelligencer, has not failed to
furnish me weekly, with every important docu.
theil', speech or movement, in any wise emanating
IRON any political party in our country We can
not De charged, therefore, with ignorance of North.
efh cfeeds, platforms, movements or aims Would
10 fnd mat we did not know as much as we do
and that that much was not so thoroughly involved
IN wrong, outrage, Injustice impieIy radieahs'n
inhdeiity, red repubcansm, free invism. social
ism, aud every other ism and heresy known in lie
calendar of this fast age. | do not saw that fLc
good met of the Republican party are sp0nsibje
for all these denominations but do saw that il il
strange that such men should be linked together il,
such Union with such spirits as band themselves
with the followers of Thomas Paine Horace Gree
ley and Ledru RoIlin. IrrepressibIe conflicts high
er-lawism and radicalsm have run to seed at The
North. aud elected Abraham Lincoln, OF the free
foreign Stale of Illinois, and Hannibal Hamlin, of
the free foreign State of Maine, to reign over the
Sauthtfa states without their consent and against
their most solemn and earnest proGesfauons. TO
such an administration, thus iRSuEinqly imposed,
We have declared that we will not snhnnt.
Tits idle To argue the constitutonaiEy or right.
falpess OF secession now the ballut, box of every
5tate in which the question has been tried has de-