New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-08-30
DICKiN SON.

N.~e-,.-N
Mr.. Daniel s. Dickinson, in his late speech in
Pennsylvania, seemed to be very much puzzled to
know why the Southern States were dissatisfied
with the Union. "What.' he asked, g are their
causes of irftaton?" And he proceeds to answer
the question which he asked, not for Information
but to give point to the reply, ysaying that the
only real practical cause of irritation was the nom
execution of the fugitive slave law" Mr.. Dickn'
son regards this as very tritling matter. He
mentions five States which have been sufferers in
this way but says the cotton States have cause
of complaint whatever 'sThe cotton states," he
exclaimed, ''never lost a fugitive slave from the
time of their existence to this day."
We showed, some time ago, from the official
records that the cotton States lost almost as many
slaves as the States of the border. The figures
show that Louisiana loses, every year, almost as
many as Kentucky. They do not run off voluu-
tarily-yery few of them debut are enticed away
by captains of Yankee vessels. Mr.. Dickinson
says that none of the cotton States has ever lost
single one. What are we to think of man who
deliberately makes such statement in public
| speech? ..-.x
1t would probably surprise Mr.. Dickinson very
much to be told that the udlue of the slaves lost
was very inferior consideration in the matter of
/
| This gentleman, if he had lived in revolutionary
| tines would no doubt have counselled submission
| to Great Britain on the ground that the taxes
amounted to but very little, as in truth they did,
| He would have lest sight of the principe-of the
abstract right of the thing. Probably one man in
about ten thousand in the Southern States
] sufferer, in pocket, from the escape of slaves.
/ How is it. then, that all were indignant at the
execution of the law? Is Mr.. Dckinson's sense of
| honor so blunted that he cannot understand that
4 nen may fight for principle and that something
| else in this world is worth living for besides
money?
g To be sure y he continued, as if it were slight
| matter, scarcely worth auding to, ct they had
question about Territories, but it was entirely
ideal, mere abstraction, and so, practically, not
a real grievance This is not the way Mr.. Dick
inson used to talk when he had Presidential aspi-
rations dependent for their realization upon the
Southern States. If we mistake not Mr.. Douglas
was not sound enough for this same Dickinson last
summer, chiefly on this very Territorial question.
His sense of what was due to the South compelled
him to go for Mr. Breckinridge. Now however, the
Southern complaint is mere 's deality'-an % alb
straction y" practically, not real grievance"
1t is nothing we suppose, that Southern blood and
Southern money were the agencies, mainly, by
which these Territories secured. 1t is nothing
that entitled to the right of going into the
Territories with our property, even if we never
chose to exercise it, 1t is nothing that it is alb
solute necessity of the South that slavery shall ex
tend, considering the consequences that would
result if it were confined to its present limits for
half century, with its annual increase as to num-
bers. All this Mr.. Dickinson regards as a mere
| i6eaiity and an abstraction
After the above specimen of Dickinsonan logic
and regard for truth is hardly surprised at his
further declaration that if the question of Union
| or Disunion were submitted to the people of the
| South, " an overwhelming vote would be given for
the Union and the Stars and Stripes. This asser-
| tion is backed up by another one equally as en-
phatic, that "swherever there has been election
in any Southern State and fair opportunity given,
the Union sentiment has prevailed" From these
quotations. it will be seen that Horace Greeley him
self does not excel in downright mendacity this
ex-senator of New York. .-.
AS if to console himself for the prospect that the
Secessionists will escape punishment in this world
he looks forward to the " great day of accounts )"
when the crimes of savages g will look white in
| comparison with the perfdy of the men who now
| attempt to divide and destroy this Union" Here
| is a man passing Judgment upon the people of the
South, and depicting their fate in the next world,
who perhaps has never reflected what will be his
own future, after getting up deliberately before
large assembly and repeating falsehood after false
hood to them, for the purpose of exciting their
evil passions, and bounding them on to war upon
| people who have never done them wrong.
| And SO Daniel s. Dickinson, whom so many
people of the South have honored and defended
has shown the cloven foot at last. Let him go! !
We envy him not the reflection that for years he
| has been wearing mask, assembling and con.
ceang his real sentiments, and guilty of black
| hearted hypocrisy. All that the South contended
for in Congress for forty years. and tried in vain to
get, Dickinson declared we were entitled to.
Every usurpation and violation of right committed
by the North he denounced in unsparing terms.
He now rolls in the mre of Black Repubcanism,
and is in his right place. He ought to have been
there all the time.