New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-02
New 0raus Axty Gesen Saturday gorng gnth 2, 1861.


that, and that only. is self-government." Howell:
| Lite of Lincoln page 30. Again, in speech De
| livered in Chicago during the last Presidential
election, (the canvass of 1860 which is publishr,
| in the Illinois State Journal, the State organ o
| the Black Republican party of lllinos, you will
| iud that on the 10th of September. 1856, MIR. Lin
| coin said " That central idea, III our pOlitCa
opinion, at the beginning was and until recently
continued to be, the equality IF men and although
it was submitted patiently TO whatever inequality
there seemed to be as matter of actual necessity
it's constant working has been steady progress
toward the practical eQuaGyo Of all men. Let pns
differences as nothing be; and with steady eye or
the real issue, let us rGinaugurae the good Old cen
trdi ideas of the Republic. We can do it, The
human heart is with us-God is with us. We shall
again be able not to declare that all the States as
States are equal, yet that all citizens citizens
are equal, but renew the broader, better declare.
| ton .~~t1ing both these and much more, that
| all men are Gyeated equal.
Yet again. 1fhhs speech at Chicago, on the 10th
of July, 1858, Mr.. Ei11eeln said, II should like to
| know, taking the old Declaration O. ndepenaence
which declares that all men are equal up0p prln
| ciple, and making exceptions to it, and whereeSSl
| it stop? If one man says it does not mean a
| negro why not another man say it does not me an
some other man? If that Declaration is not the
| TRUTH let us get the statute book in which we find
| it and tear it out Who is so bold as to do il? If
it is not true let us tear it out (Cries of No no y
Let US stick to it, then; let us stand firmly by it,
then. + Letus discard all this quibbling
| about this man and the other man--this race and
| that race and the other race being inferior. and
therefore they must be placed in an inferior posi-
| ton discarding the standard that we have left u.s.
Let us discard ali these things and unite as one
people throughout this land, until we shall once
more stand up, declaring that all men are created
equal. leave you hoping that The lamp Of HbefY
| will burn in your bOSCms, until there shall no
| longer be doubt that all men are created free
| and equal" Enough surely this to set forever
at rest all doubt as to Mr. Lincoln's views of the
doctrine Of negro equality.
| S. You deny On Sir Greeley's authority. in the
Tribune, what is attributed to him in our address.
Be it so. But let me quote few passages from an
old document, to show that Mr.. Greeley has been
guilty Of that which he once published would
bring about civil war and dissolution of the
Union. Before me lie the six Juui,,s Tracts. pub
Iishcd in ls4t by Greeley & McElrath. One oi the
tracts is entitled Political Abolition" turn to
page 4-arlicles II, Il and lG. "Poltcal Abo
l;tion is force. We &nQw that this is not commonly
thought OF, AMI would, perhaps, at first be cues
toned; but vote at tile polls is the original and
fundamental pow CT OF American political society
and implies force in the end, if necessary The
first attitude therefore, or irst position of this
political power, is that Of incipient force 1t aims
to compel the accomplishment of its designs by
the powers OF the state which are force in uhey-
ance. There is no political power in existence
which Is not fortified by force, in allegiance or in
actual use, or that could stand one day without
it. Such precisely is the position assumed by
political abolition in the free States" NlD THAT
political abolition is an aggressive movement re-
suits from the political structure of the Union
before considered.
Slavery, in any of these States, occnnips the
same position, politically, in relation to the other
States which the institutions and laws of the En-.
tTan that - nartr abon1S et"rt S;ateI' suppose
lana has MI Ar I5ranaT r. ~ enS country
ana m IN va nTIs ~ auCl parry =
year. with the declared object of putting down
amS one %a iore Gl ne astIn'l3hs OF European
80 ''S".o ~ HNFlt view -Hht INSTITUTION IS a
1 ~ ~ "d "5SLlHtuPe OF human
Iioel ~ 4HeIE are iHIht slth institutions IN Eu
tpPe' N"HI" ~ HcE NC lt3htueu us an dJTeSHre
Inuf anu II I'tLe W5tt any chahce or ap-
p ~ VI Su0Ce77, womb IL De 4 matter OF sur
th S5 II w.; PG"tl snoulu Put ltSeh on
tie nouIu IL oe strange II that power
o,lgutu l"ne ASSURES 10 ahlelpate inc movement
Inu collehCe aSSFess.Ve operations lnretaIlatton?
= .11 ~ Vi te nlst pattg m5ht ne very De-
negolent QUE oul; as Poht'ehl one, II would be an
ol5e 80 '" are hotIond oil alarming
toplcS' nor disposed 10 excite unnecessary alarm.
Horth ,n5r We finnH tls8 up III le
IN nnst he cInjoI 1'''S ~ uvceS 'euus
ME- If The fn States may, h w 1859 'ile PEG,
believe thavarn almost nnirer,a1i,, ,at t W.
can MOI hmt anl that M I InGy
lion is worse than the disnasa F' !1
u,o1i 20 "olSe 1,Hi Ie u'SeI9t Atst' because ne
f. a,d % nne .Ie1t'teht ohIy az
medicine if administernd o ae@ , n,1 , EG
both Tho variant nd ia dctnrr io w. ~ M!
the Tod ,rGld he ne cortj,, nc e,ioj y
naval cause that co1 he ,,ecko,,p5 n ~" Tr u
likely that tl,is ,yonld ha tba nrd Tho oli"nI ~
pcrites and exasnrratons that would Frory o',t IF
spCh a conflict wnuld themselves 6atnroIl1, ha
bi eeders of other commissions and i}wonId n6t ho
strange if some military chieftain or rhinftainS
should rise M in the sfrurple to make siavar Of
all freemen, and bind in Stronger chains those
whom nv snch nIporG if ia nro6ncad IN oct rrao
We are a family of States, bonnd topether hv -
covenant solemnIy ratified, which prescribes tho
rights of each In this family concord ia hnanti
mi: but family auarreIs are the worst If all Civil
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