New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-25
THE RADICALS IN CONGRESS.

Mr.. Sumner has presented memorial from the
Boston Board of Trade for the passage of a low
exempting suitors from the operations OF the
Southern stay laws long enough to enable them to
collect their demands Such is the wording of a
late dispatch from Washington.
In other words, the merchants of Boston I'M
satisfied with the countless riches they have
amassed during struggle which has impoverished
many other portions of the country, seek to cut
the pound of flesh, nearest the heart, from their
unhappy debtors of the South, by deferring the
enforcement of the stay laws, until, having col
lected the principal and interest of their claims
through confscation and sale, they will leave
nothing to render the enforcement of those laws
expedient or necessary.
A bill has already been brought before Congress
levying tax of ten cents upon every pound Of
cotton raised in the South; but that process would
be too slow in its effects-for though it would in
the end ruin the cultyator of that staple, the en-
terprising manufacturers of New England might
be delayed, by the tenaeity of the lingering land
holder, for series of years under the stay laws,
from becoming the great landlords and planters
they now desire to be.
If we of the South had not a lifelong knowl-
edge of the grasping and INSCRIPTIONS, but at the
same time keen, untiring spirit which impels the
Northern radicals to compass our ruin, we should
attribute therinordnate hatred to sectional insanity
alone but there is method in it which is not
allied to madness-iti is simply deep-seated and
relentless purpose to PROSTATE the Southern peo-
pie, if possible, at their feet
Is any man SO obtuse as to believe that the
radicals can be sincere in their devotion for the
African race, and at the same time persecute the
white people of the South with relentless cruelty
The dissonance is irreeonciable and unnatural.
The true cause of the anomaly is that they find in
our former slaves the chief and readiest instru.
ment wherewith to aggravate our miseries, and, il
possible, accomplish our ruin.
They are prompted by another motive almost
equally potent, restless and malevolent--a con-
seriousness that there is more honesty, more free
dom from selfish impulses, more christian virtue
and heroic courage in the remainder of the country
than could be concentrated from all the genera
tions of Puritans that have lived since the May
flower.
The SPECIALIZED National Congress has been
converted into ali exhibition room, where. the
oracle elect from every petty New England district
is free to air his rhetoric in heaping abuse upon
the whites and canonizing the negroes of the
Southern country.
Those halls once RING with the fiery eloquence
of Randolph and Hayne; they echoed the philo-
sophie prophecies Of Calhoun, the broad and en-
lightened craftsmanship of Clinton and Silas
Wright, Benton, Webster and Clay; they are now
silent, save to the absurd fanateism of Stevens
and Sumner and their ignoble parasites.
This radical party is the incubus which weighs
upon the vitality of the country, which promotes
discomfort and dissension, and frightens away
foreign capital and industry.
The conservative and sensible portion Of the
people, who compose the great majority, need only
to wait with patience for while, and they will see
the monstrous issue of demagoguesm and coYet-
BUSINESS strangled by its own tether.