New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-11
g,,,,s 4s,,oposni, COMPROMISE.

The New York Tribune, which FIRST contended
that South Carolina should not be coerced into sup
mission II she wished TO withdraw from the Union,
now changes its tone and breathes war to the
knife So, also, in regard to any compromise Oh
our difficulties, the Tribune says, ietus retraef
nothing: let us not yield 4 single f'tch. !"
iii like manner, the New York Evening Post,
equally as prominent as the Tribune, US an organ
oil Black Republican sentiment, holds the foho"ahE
language with regard to the compromise prop Isl,
lions which tile Committee Of Thirty-three Is OK.
! peeted to submit:
Al the North tie proposed. conpror Use will not
i he generally acceptable. a very 10 .re proportion
Of people are resolutsly oppo sed TO the extern
unless slaves put Upon the same footing as other
property, and Its pfopret stripped of the prvi-
tege of repreaeF tation. which isdenied the owners
of property IL the fress States. Eyenthen itWould
meet with 9 pposition.
The CO. npromise referred to is that which Winter
Davis, of Maryland, who is on the Committee of
Thirty three, is the author Of 1t is absurd to sup
Ipose that one Southern man in thousand would
acc eptt as satisfactory to the South 1t does not
Come up to the Southern demand, nor anywhere
near it, And yet this compromise is distasteful to
the North because in the opinion Of that section,
| it yields too muchto the South!
This shows what an egregieus act of folly it is to
, be talking about compromises of any sort, in the
present temper Of the people of both sections.
compromise which does not give the South one
tenth Of what we claim, is repudiated by the North
T because 1t gives the South too much WHAT'S the
use, then, of tinkering and piddling over compro-
misses when it smanifest to any man, not natural
idiot that the day Of compromise is gone forever.
aud that none can possibly be agreed on by both
parties that would be acceptable to either?
We are told that the North is opposed to the
extension of slavery, unless the plain Consti-
: tntional right of representation be abandoned.
: Even them says the Evening Post, aitwould
aaeet gpih oppositioa So that if the South were
to consent to abandon the three.ffths provision Of
4 the Constitution. g euee them the North would
9 prevent if it could, the expansion of the South
7 with its property on an equal footing with the
2 property#of the North
This is an honest declaration, and, we have not
Z shadow of doubt, represents the predominant
Y Northern sentiment Why, then, waste time over
& puerile and ptiable efforts to " compromise thai
which it is as plain as The mondays sun admits 81
q no compromise whatever? Why should grown
! men iadaIge in the ridiculous folly of attempting
to settle difficulty, when there is not single com
mon agreement for a basis, and they can find ne
{ common starting point, acceptable to both sides
The rejection by the Black Republicans, OF the
Crittenden resolutions settled this question at once
and forever, and it is an act of superlatiye folly
when the Government is in the throes of dissolu
: ton, to be gathering together the shreds ant
patches Of an impossible adjustment. The stupidity
of believing Union to have vitality in it, after it il
dead and buried is evidence of mental imbeoility
If not of something worse, which it is painful tc
. cnntemnlate