New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-15
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......... WASHINGTON, Aug. 9th, 1856.
It is really difficult to express to you how the
| troubles in your city have stirred the country.
Every item of news is watched for with the great
| est possible avidity. The President teegraphed
| Gen. Sheridan for particulars but the reply has
not yet been made public. The Presidents friends
consider your troubles an immense misfortune.
The radicals get all the political advantage from
it. 1t strikes the North on its weak side, freedom
Of opinion. They say if the convention was legal
| it had right TO meet, if it was a defunct body
then what it did amounted to nothing. Then
again. these troubles are used to give color to the
stereotyped assertion of the radicals that the
South will not give the freedmen fair chance.
IF people are fools enough to be deceived by
such absurdities, we cannot help it-ED. CREs-
CENT? It is the opinion of the closest observers
that the radicals will make more capital out of
this business than any one thing that has occurred
since the end of the war. The radical press team
with the most piteous details, large portion of
which are of course the result of fertile magma
tons Some say it will lead to the Presidents i'm
parchment, if the radicals carry the fall elections
The profound sensation created by your troubles
has swallowed up afmost everything else.
The wire-pulIers of the Philadelphia convention
are perplexed very much about the admission of
! the Yallandigham school of delegates, but it is
very difficult to find any plausible ground on
which to exclude them. The object of the con.
venton is purely to carry the Northern elections,
and thus GUST the radicals, hence the unwilling
ness to fellowship with Vallandigham. 1t would
certainly be wise if every individual should stay
away from the convention whose presence there
can give capital to the radicals I'VE don't think
so. We are not aware that the radicals are our
masters, and that we must get on our knees and
ask them what we must do.-FD. CREs0ENF.l
The new attorney general has reversed the
action of his predecessor in one regard. He has
determined that he has nothing to do with the
prosecution Of persons charged with criminal
oenses in the district and circuit COURTS that his
duties in court are by the law confined to the Su-
preme Court of the United States, and therefore
he declines to have anything to do with the trial
of Mr.. Davis
The radicals are very much annoyed with the
course of Governor SFann in Maryland Swami
sided with them during the war, but now he sus
tains the Presidents policy. The legislature
refused at its last session to repeal the disfran
chisement laws, but Governor Swami is appoint
ing inspectors of the registries who will not strain
be thrown sky.high, if the people of Maryland
can get any showing at the polls.
A good deal of discussion privately is going on
here as to the platform to be laid down at the
Philadelphia convention. 1t is urged by some of
the Presidents supporters that the platform at
Philadelphia must be made strong enough to win.
They then go on to say that the North cannot be
carried without conceding to the prejudices of
the Northern people on the subject of the freed
men South; that the convention must propose
that no discrimination shall be made by law on
account of color. That the result of this will be
to leave each State to regulate absolutely its
internal system to suit ITSELF subject to this pro-
vision, that State may say, not interfering with
those already voting, that henceforth no persons
who have not hitherto exercised the elective
franchise shall vote without property and intel
Hgence qualification. The President is understood
to consider himself bound not to ask any further |
conditions from the South than they have already
complied with. And SO the matter stands. The
radicals are moving to universal suffrage, which is
a dangerous party step for them, but the logical
result Of their philosophy.