New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-08

Geutle7re7t-As Assured by competent authority,
that ID is no port Of The secret, as certainly is not
OF the avowed and public purpose OF ne PhlIadei-
phia National Convention Of August lt'h to pro
pose any measure looking to the present or ultl-
mate dsbanding Of the Democratic party, accept
the appointment one OF the delegates to that
convention from this district; and, accepting, |
desire to add a word of eXlsanatlunss
am well aware that tYN9&he great mass OF the
Democratic party here @48d elsewhere, the con
venton is regarded with extreme jealousy and
djstrust. Nothing could be more natural; moth
ing more Just. They who stand forth to the world
as tha managing agents Of tue movement were
among the chief supporters of he late Mr.. Lincoln
and OF a party by which he was first and second
time chosen President.
There is not one act of wrong oppression, or
outrage committed during the last five Years upon
the Democratic party, or the individual members
who compose it, for which they are not dlfectiy
or remotely resp nsibl4. Some among them 81 ent
a lifetime in raising the storm Of civil war which
for 50 long ragged with the fury Of hurricane all
over the lond-that storm whose lashings threaten
vet to eDgulph whatever is lett OF he original TORN
of our federal system the rights of the States and
the liberties Of the people Though the agency
of these men, and Of others with Them reign of
terror, scarce surpassed even in The darkesperiods
of the French revolution of 'S9 smote the land,
rendering hearts, desolaling homes, and destroying
in its course not only poltcaand personal liberty,
but the peace and the quiet AID the security of
every hearthstone, those oniy excepted where
dweGt the sycophants and unions Of despotc
power.
Not O. Democratic hOQSenOiu IN -rOllO, perhaps
anywhere, escaped without Injury to person or
property, or at least, without insult or wrong TO
name, to family and to reputation. Dispersion OF
public meetings, suppression of newspapers, pro-
scriptions in all the social, religious and business
relations of life, caiumnies, prosecutions, mob
bngs stripes, StOnings, arrests, imprisonment,
military commissions, exile, death-these were
the bitter fruits of the teachings and policy Of the
men who now invite Democrats to sit in council
with them in the Philadelphia convention. That
such an invitation, from such garter, should be
received with suspicion and distrns if not keener,
stronger emotions is bnL an instinct Of nature !
and whoever consents oilers up high and holy
sacrifice to magnanimi y and patriotism But
wise men do not hearken TO the voice OF passion,
and true patriots never sac 1ce The beng and
welfare Of their country 10 the impulses Of re-
veuge.
Providence has made possible, in spite Of the
evil policies of the past five years, the restoration
of the Constitution and the Union aid, with them
of free federal government. q d pubic and per
sonal liberty. The tide in the affairs of men which
leads to fortune is now setting in, and it must bt
taken at the fuod. AS to all who, in good faith
"'accept the situation" and would even yet aver
the natural and legitimate fruits North and South
of civil war, the past must BE forgotten, ante
made the sole test of present fellowship and &C
operation. Save the shi' fist Strive then TO
the mastery. He who cann't attGiu to the heigh
of this great argument. is $40 much Vi partlsa
to be anythih of a pari't.
On every side dangers encompass us. The lat
war indeed is over; but the evils OF WHICH a
parents, just now b gin to b. felt. In good fan
and earnestly, as I he eve the President labo
day and night to avert or t. uitsuLe these evil
His is the rare, but wise, healing, exalted pohG
of conCiliati0n magnautliiy-the policy OF u
christian and the statesman. THAT OF the kepu
lican party represented by he Congress may
summed up in two WORDS GgG ulctiS-' woe To u
conguered"-the unwisc narrIw irritating, peac
destroying policy of tile barbarian and plrai
Between these two the country must now choos
and the life of the Republic hangs upon t
choice.
am not aware that handful of mischieVo
and evll-disposed persons of the Republican par'
now among the protessed iriends oil the Presldel
but themselves OF pecu ary odlouS and impair
tic. record and antecy dents, end TO SET up te
fer admission to the Philedelphia convention,
against certain men-n fact, all men-ot the De
sl ocratic party. The combiped indecencyi presun
m ton and folly of this pretense, together. with
.Z mingled treaChery aud hypocrisy OF the mouN
. In which prompt it, render it too contemplate
3 further notice. .H.=
-| .f If the Philadelphia convention is to apply
further test than the present nus and princlp
of the delegates upon the one great question
the day. as set forth in the call-abuve all if il
Ia be perverted to an inqnisItion, on either 81
re into the record and aneeedeuts OF the men
ahalI present themselves with the ordinary cred
tjals Of membership, then, appropriately, it sho
he assembled in the Temple of Dise"rd, or
r hetter it had not be assembled at ALL Upon
heads of those, of either party, who shall hrst
these fountains of bitterness be the evil WI
shall follow. ,, o. " NAl+LANDA0hAA
Dayton, Ohio, July 30 1856