New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-30
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: When the weather-beaten vessel that bore 81
Paul towards Rome was driving at midnight to
wards shadows and rocks, the weary and despair
ing sailors least out four anchors from the sterI
and wished for the day So, in the gloom that a
present surrounds the Southern people, they have
still left to them the poor privilege of anehoring
by the hereditary principles Of the government
aud awaiting the dawn of returning honesty. Al
present the political darkness is deep, and the
drift towards the quioksands and breakers rapid
The spirits of mischief brood and hover in the air
and kissing fends dance among the hungry waves
| Yet there is hope that coming light may show us
the way to safety and harbor.
The party of extremists now ruling in the
United States Congress by enormous majorites il
1 both Houses may continue in its steady increase
for a season, but unless our country is utterly and
finally doomed by a decree of Providence, and
wholly given over to the sway of the madness that
preeedes destruction there must be reaction. It
is hard to believe that the millions of intelligent
Northern voters can all remain much longer ig-
norant of the changes the federal government is
undergoing, and of its rapid tendency towards an
| ail-devouring despotism. They must, soon or
late begin to see the destructive results of giving
up the rights Of the States and transferring them
TO the central ageucy-a power which threatens to
take an ell = by force for every inch given
voluntarily. They must at last perceive by its
menaciug consequences the error of the course
they have pursued. And as their eyes are opened
they will undergo modification Of sentiment to-
wards the people of the eSelude6States, FASTENED
perhaps, by the influence of the emigrants who
will have left their section to find homes in ours
Bnt while awaiting this happy result we have a
negative duty to perform-while wishing for the
day we must hold fast to eur anchors Hope OF
constitutional liberty wanes when the demands of
tyranny are conceded. While we suecumb to force
aud bear the violations Of fundamental law, we
must take good care thatby no act of legislature
or ol convention, BY no proceedings in courts OF
justice, by no executive action whatsoever, do
We as citizens of State, sanction such viola
items. We can endure these violations which
We have not the power to prevent but between
endurance on one side, from necessity ana under
protest, and sanction on the other by legal or
Official Formally, there is wide difference. The
people of the United States have O bfrthrfght of
political independence on this continent, and
though it may be for time withheld BY tile Illegal
and tyrannous assumptions Of a majority supported
by an immense preponderanoe of physical force
sTe Is nope OF lis recovery unless the robbery is
converted into grant and sale by our own sane
ton and formal consent. While waiting for the
daylight Of changing sentiment, and watching
for the slow dawning of reform, we must cling to
the Inherent rights Of the State as our anchor.
We have nothing whatsoever to gain by agitation
and discussion here at home. Our own people all
think one way. There is no apprecfable DISPOSE.
ton to favor the oppressive schemes and malicious
Of the radicals. There is no disposition
to quarrel with foregone conclusions There is no
wish to undo the past. There is no desire to h.
more the principles on which we went into the |
late contest-there is no wish to renew that con
lest. There is no baseness in the opinions enter
ained-there IS no cowardice in aYowing those
opinions on all appropriate occasions. There is d
I'LL comprehension Of the situation imposed By the
esult of the Bar-there is but little repning over
hat result. But there is, we regret to perceive,
ONE small degree Of impotence, kind of desire
Q anticipate ultimate results, disposition to
now and feel and suffer the very worst that is in
tore for us now. Let all such initiate the crew
the vessel that bore holy Paul On his mission.
.et them cast onclo, and aoi8b for the dan.