New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-21
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 81, 1861.

such. The object of government in all CIVILIZED
countries is to protect property and person. NJ
man can be held bound to society when his asso-
ciates turn to rob him. IF three men associate for
mutual MD, and two turn against one, the one has
the right to protect himself as best he can. 1t is
the same with any number, up to thirty mil
lion Of human beings.
With you in Maasa chusctts, Abolitiongm is simply
an idea and although you have been blind to the
tremendous energy with which it has been urged
it has taken quarter of century to poison the
minds of your people, while other isns die out in
few months for want OF funds. at the South it is
something more than an idea or ism. It means the
very existence Of E3tateG-it means the all Of every
one-and the South would be wanting in regard for
their most sacred obligations to Themselves, their
wives, their children, their ancestry their Glavca,
their country, and the good opinion the world has
Of their honor and manhood, if they permitted this
revolution to be forced upon them. The revolt
comes from the North, not from them; but it forces
her to do what Northern State ought to have
done if dissatisfied with the Constitution So many
have broken the compact with their personal lib
erty bills, that the South must seek alone those
States that are true not only in deed but at heart
Like the great West, Southern industry is chiefly
directed to cultiyatng the SOIL their interests re-
have similar laws all have depended upon the East
for products Of their manufactures to an extent
which, in the case Of the South, was made derison
in the last campaign. Statesmen would have pointed
to it, next to your industry as the foundation fyour
prosperity. Look at the statutes Of Massachusetts
and how many years It is since judicial fees and
minister's salaries paid in skins and corn. The
| heavy and valued exports of the South have en-
nh IN 1a5r0 rc1,i,.
| tories, fisheries and every species of industry,
throwing mines Of money into circulation to an ox.
tent that excites the disgust Of modern politicians,
and is shown up as symptom Of imbecility and
decay! But the variety Of Massachusetts, wares
comes enriched now with 50 costly venture its
reception will never be though Of for one moment:
she will not have that revolution at any price.
One or two of the larger Northern States could, by
solemn convention Of the people, nullify the vote
of November 9th, and possibly save the Constitl-
ton for the whole country; but craftsmanship in
Republican Governors being out of the question,
there is other course but for the South to let the
| Northern hands they have graspal in cordial EN-
| brace for 50 many years, loosen and part, the
North to float off upon the untried waters of revo
luton the South clingng to the Constitution Of our
fathers She las pTospered under it to that extent
| it would be base ingratitude in her to desert it
now. She feels that under Providence she is in
fulflment of an awe-inspiring prophecy to our
generatcn-the Japhet of Scripture-with her and
herself alone under God, must be left the working
| out of the great designs Of Heaven with these
people. The world may be impatient to see the
| ties between master and servant abolished, and
chafe themselves into insanity at the slow working
of a mysterious Providence. The North may rise
| in arms against their brothers and their Cod but
firm as the everlasting hills, The South will meet
them at the line which marks her boundary, urged
on to deeds Of daring by a lively remembrance Of
an heroic ancestry.
She is fathers left her, following the same
pursuits, relying upon the same God, under the
same Constitution, and in all future time, when our
late happy, glorious country, crumbles into frag-
ments, whatever be the destiny of other States she
will be found working out the problem of self gov
eminent with unfalterng steps. You at the North
who in the last campaign fought manfully against
this revolution, will not desert her now her stand
is your stand, and possibly the day is not far dis
tant when you will feel it to be the proudest position
you ever occupied. JAG.