New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-08
a STATE INsULTED.

| News comes from Massachnse It's of terripie I'M
| mort. The sold Bay State . the Old Common
wealth. W or by Whatever other ahectionate name
| Massachusetts calls herself, has been grevously
insulsed by no less parsonage than the Presldent
4 DC the United States. When the President, IN MS
| 22d Of February speech, denounced Sumner by
name as an obstructonist and disunionist he was
not aware perhaps that he was laying up for him
self treasures Of Massachusetts, wrath, or that he
VAS raortally offending The State, of all the othe
states. which has the Union specially in charge
which contains very nearly all the virtue, intelli
rence and patriotism Of the country, which is in
fallible ia its opinions, which chartably supervise
the affairs of not only this country, but most o
the other countries upon the globe, and which ha
only to turn loose its walls Of wrath upon the Pres
dent to cause that rash individual TO shake in hi
boots, and tremble for his place,
No sooner had Mr.. johnson uttered that incap
tious declaration about Sumner. than she Who'll
= Commonwealth was agitated from center /
circumference. Not when the same Sumner wen
hoH,inr home, from Washington for,a hrn;se wbic
vas cure1 IL Two davs-not even when .,se 9 rebe
lion j, broke ont and MASSACHUSETTS, ,ed TO
the f;pht INV sending IL Fmrone far = recrSlKs an
huv;,p ganthern necrnes Win sbonnt;es /, vas TIL
old Rav state more enraref1. II il dreadful t,
think what sort II 1 meeting would have beer
held II Fanue;l Hallsand how terribly the Pres
;dent would have been deno,need had Hot the leg
isiature been nctiIv in session. and acted as con
auit FIR the RAGE oY the Massachusetts, patriots.
That leaislature has nro,nptly passed its resolu-
tons. That ieeislatnre Immediately came to Mr..
| snmner,s defense. That legislature Indignantly
AGAINST The deep danination Of Mr.. Sum
ner,s taking off by the President of the United
States, with the chivalry for which Massachu-
sets has ever been noted, they threw themselves
into The breach iuterposed their COMMONWEALTH
between Sumner and.the President, and in turn de-
nounced Mr.. johnson for his audacity in mention
Inc Nj. summers name, except in connection with
the most sublime patriotism, the most heroic
bravery. and the most immaculate virtue. 1t has
rather surprised US that the President did not at
once offer his resignation when he. found him
self under the ban Of Massachusetts, displeasure.
we cannot conceive It possible how he can live,
much less retain his office, with the curse of Mas
sachusetts upon his head. Other blows he might
survive but this one, never1 The enmity of any
other State, OF Of an the other States combined,
might be supportable, but to haye, offended the
4 Commo wealth Of Massachusetts, is crime,
the black enormity of which the President epi.
IDENTITY does not appreciate, or he would at once
go out and hang himself upon a tree in the Presi-
DENTAL grounds, or turn a suicidal double -back-
action sumersaut from the top of the Washington
When Massachusetts, undertakes war upon
anybody Or anything, she goes into it con drnore-
that is, so far as words are concerned The rea.
son of this is. perhaps, that she has heretofore
prudently husbanded her martial resources. and
opposed every war in which the country has ever
been engaged, except the war upon portion OF
the people of the Unian. Such belligerent demon
STATIONS as burning old women for witches hang
ing Quakers and Baptists, driving off Indians from
their lands, and prosecuting nuns and other inof.
fensiEe religionists, hardly rise to the dignity 81
war. IT is when she fights arebels . (by proxy
that she becomes furiously pugnacious, or when
she launches verbal flnnderbolts upon the heads
of her enemies. as her legislature has done upon
the devoted head Of Andrew johnson. w.
\ The hrayery Of this last deed ii its most con
spioucus feature.--but Massachusetts always was
brave. Even when her people cast the tea ever
board in Boston harhor, tradition has it, that thei
ieariessly disguised themselves as Indians. ani
boldly sought to throw the responsibility of til,
act upon the dusky savages of the forest. Til,
PresiaenE from Lis position cannot strike back Il
d State.i Massachusetts, may denounce him bu
he is at the same disadvantage that the foreiel
ministers were, q short time ago, when Mr.. Ban
croft, under the pretence Of delivering euIogy
upon President Lincoln, insulted the whole diplo.
matte corps. It cannot be pleaded Id extenuatioi
of the Presidents crime, that Sumner had been at
the head of the disunion party in Congress-
he had lately accused the President of being
I whitewashedv by an officer Of the arnay-.that
Wendell Phillips had threatened assassination. and
Stevens had made historical illusions to decapi
ated English king. All these things Massachu-
;ettse the President meekly to bear. and to
,base hiroself in ,;l;tt, .onaya 4t
Day o'ate speaks. Ihal Andrew Johnson should
~ i'lss ges Als democratic blood up
: no', however, surprising to any other
'hans these q we commonwealth !" Of
aaassac ne should attack repre-
IL might, in their opinion. have heen nransr
enough but u lay M nrotana hands NAV III
holy person of s,e,,tor 80
an ofanse a,,te ,vata,., ~ ,aooas,,
wasltout. Pennsylvania might listen in silence to
an attack upon two of her statesmen Stevens and
the Dead: Duek--and might pass it over without
complaint; but the Comm ealth 4 must rush at
once TO the rescue Of her great representative
Let not Massachusetts content herself with de.
and yillifying the President. LET her
send for Sumner, ana open wide Tia doors u nan.
euil Hall for q popnar ovation ia If, H. str,,,,