The Crisis! (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 1, 1860 Page: 3 of 4
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A True Southern Journal.
The editors of the San Antonio Herald have long
♦ ably and jealously maintained their position among the
" Opposition " of this State; but they have recently
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trammel them when the dearest interests and rights of
the South are at stake. In view of the contest the
South is soon to hold with the strongly organized
bands of Black Republicanism, and of the necessity of
united action in the whole South to meet this attack
on her peaceful dwelling in the Union, under the guar-
antees and protection of the Constitution, the Herald
concludes to fall into the ranks with the only organi-
zation that clearly and explicitly, sets forth the claims
of the South to " Equal Rights " in the Territories as
in the States.
We with pleasure give room to the Herald's article
on the subject, and ask for it the attention of the few
Opposition " journals in this State which attempt,
in blind partizan zeal, to defame the character and prin-
ciples of our gallant candidate for the Presidency.
The Herald says:
The champions of Abolitionism are marshalling their
hosts and putting them in order preparatory to the
great battle to be fought between the friends of the
" irrepressible conflict" and the friends of the Consti-
tution. The time is drawing near—the long looked
for time, when the enemies of the South believe the
decisive blow is to be struck. No art calculated to
deceive the masses, to enlist their sympathies and to
arouse their prejudices, will be left unpracticed.—
Thorough organization has already been effected, and
Abe Lincoln, the abolition candidate, is popular with
the masses. He is represented as a laboring man, and
the laboring classes are urged by every consideration
of interest, of sympathy, of patriotism and of religion,
to rally to his support. Religion, morality and right
are represented as belonging to the Northern cause,
and as being trampled upon by the slave owners of the
South. Our enemies are united upon one man.
At such a time—\yith such an enemy to encounter,
shall the South, be divided ? Shall she divide and
destroy her strength upon different candidates in conse-
quence of personal preferences or other considerations!
Such a course must inevitably lead to defeat. Her
cause is just. Her rights originated in, and are found
, ed upon the strong guarantees of the Constitution, and
Everett on Slavery.
In 1839 the following interrogatories were pro-
pounded to Mr. Everett by the Hon. Nathaniel Bor-
den, of Massachusetts:
1. Are you in favor of the immediate abolition, by
law, of slavery in the District of Columbia, and of
thü-slartrtraflkrbctween tlíé^tátesoTtíioÜnion?
2. Are you opposed to the admission in the Union
of any new State the Constitution of which tolerates
domestic slavery.
The following is his reply :
Washington, Oct. 24, 1839.
Lear Sir :—On Saturday last only I received your
letter of the 18th, propounding to me certain interro-
gatories, and earnestly requesting an early answer.
You arc aware that several resolves on the subject
of these enquiries and their kindred hopes, accompani-
ed by a very able report, were introduced into the Sen-
ate of the Commonwealth, year before last, by a joint
committee of the two Houses, of which the late la-
mented Mr. Alvord was chairman.
Those resolves, after having been somewhat enlarg-
ed by amendment, were adopted by the Legislature.
They appear to cover the whole ground of your two
interrogatories. Having cheerfully co-operated in the
passage of the resolves, and concurring in the general
reasoning by which they are sustained in the powerful
report of the chairman of the committee, I respond to
both your enquiries in the affirmative.
The first of the three subjects embraced in your
enquiry is the only one of them which came before
Congress while I was a member. I voted in the ne-
gative on the motion to lay upon the table the petition
of the American Anti-Slavery Society, f<jr the aboli-
tion of slavery in the District of Columbia, and on
other motions of the like character introduced to cast
off the consideration of this class of petitions.
I am, dear sir, very respectfully,
Your friend and servant.
Edward Everett.
Hon. Nathaniel A. Borden.
These "resolves" referred to, were a set of resolu
tions adopted by the Massachusetts Legislature during
the year previous, when Mr. Everett was Governor
of the State, and are as follows :
Resolved, That Congress lias, by the Constitution,
power to abolish slavery and the slave,trade in the
District of Columbia, and tjjat there is nothing in the
terms or circumstances of Wic atts of cession by Vir-
ginia and Maryland, ta otherwiáÜ, enforcing any legal
or moral restraint on jts existence. "•%.
That ^n^jr^^á^íiotaKe Measures to
What we must Eipeet.
The whipped Massachusetts Senator recently de-
livered, by invitation, before a large and enthusiastic
audiénceof Republicans, in New York city, another of
his wild tirades against the South and her institutions.
TheJjL-Y. Tribune,-Evening Pobt, anduttTer1éa^ñg~
Black Republican journals unite in praise of this pro-
duction ; the Journal of Commerce, (Dem.), N. Y.
Express (Bell), and Commercial Advertiser (Rep.)
censure it.
The speech, which was unsparing in its vitupera-
tion of the South, declared that it was the mission of
Republicanism " to fight out" the battle between
" Civilization " and " Barbarism "—between Freedom
and Slavery. It must show no hesitation ; make no
concessions : give no quarter and manifest no forgive-
ness until the battle is over. Sumner said :
" Tameness is surrender: and charity, too, may be
misapplied. Forgiving those who trespass against us,.
I known not if we are called to forgive those who
trespass against othor : to forgive those who trespass
against a race; to forgive those who trespass against
a Republic ; to forgive those who trespass against ci-
vilization ; to forgive those who trespass against a
whole people ; to forgive those who trespass against the
universal human family
trespass against God."
He regrets that he must use words when he " ousrht
to command thunderbolts," and were he omnipotent
he would ciuish with his thunder that system which he
describes as " offensive to civilization, hostile to law
itself by virtue of which it pretends to live, insulting
to humanity, shocking to decency, and utterly heedless
of all rights, forms, or observances, in the maintain-
ance of its wicked power." Iu his peroration, which
the Republicans -heartily applauded, he urged those
who are engaged in " this Holy War," to
" Prostrate the Slave Oligarchy, and the door will
be opened to all general principles. Prostrate the
Slave Oligarchy, and liberty will become, in fact, as in
law, the normal condition of all the national Territor-
finallv. to forgive those who
Let the South, then, like her Northern enemy, be
united—let her voice, as that of one man, proclaim
her principles to the world, in such a manner as to en
sure success,--to demonstrate that she is in earnest—
and that in defence of her rights she lacks neither ca-
pacity, zeal nor power
With the facts above stated before us, what is the
duty of the South ? We have no less than four candi-
dates in the field whose claims are zealously urged by
their respective friends; Bell, Douglas, Houston and
Breckinridge.
It is becoming every day more evident that three of
these candidates stand no chance of concentrating the
Southern vote. Eery vote cast for them is a vote
thrown away from tlie South.
The Herald, although independent, is not neutral.
In a crisis like the present, it has a duty to perform
and its voice, however feeble, shall be heard in defence
of what it judges to be right.
General Houston was our choice, and as long as we
supposed lie stood any chance to be elected, we willing-
ly adhered to his cause. But from our exchanges we
are compelled to believe that outside of the State of
Texas, he will get no considerable support. Bell oc-
cupies the same position, and Douglas, whether misre-
presented or not, is by no means acceptable to the
South. We are speaking of facts as we find them, and
^not as they ought to be.
* Breckinridge, then, is the only man upon whom the
Soutii can unite with any prospect of success; and for-
tunately he is exactly the man for the South and for
"the times.
Mr. Breckinridge is quite a young man to occupy
the post of President of the United States, but we
have had too many old fogies at the head of the na-
tion ; and it is time to avail ourselves of the energy,
the progressiveness and the enthusiasm of early, but
ripe manhood, instead of the listlessness and decrepi-
tude of age. As a statesman, a patriot, and a man of
parts, Mr. Breckinridge has few superiors. Conserva-
tive in politics, and devoted to the Constitution and
the Union, lie is worthy of confidence in every part
of the Republic. He is emphatically a Union man,
and all those who sustain that palladium of our liber-
ties, the Constitution—who are not in favor of a
"higher law," which fanaticism would substitute in
its stead, will achieve a glorious triumph in his elec-
tion. .
Thus believing we have this day hoisted his name
at our mast-head.
íes. Prostrate the Slave Oligarchy, and the national
Government will be at length divorced from Slavery,
and the national policy will be changed from Slavery to
Freedom. Prostrate the Slave Oligarchy, and "the
North will be admitted to its just share in the trusts
and honors of the Republic! Prostrate the Slave
Oligarchy, and a mighty victory of Peace will bo
w^n, whose influence on the future of our country and
ofimankind no imagination can paint! Yes, fellow-
i'zens, surely, it will die—when disappointed in it?
poacs- d.-i. cu-*^uck wiifiin the States, and con-
lined within these limits—it can no longer rule the
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Resolved, That the rights of humanity, the claims of
justice, and the common godd alike, demand the sup
pression by Congress of the slave trade carried on in
and through the District of Columbia.
Resolved, That Congress has, by the Constitution,
power to abolish slavery in the Territories of the
United States.
Resolved, That no new State shall hereafter be ad-
mitted into the Union whose Constitution of Govern-
ment shall permit the existence of domestic slavery
therein.
Resolved, That Congress has, by the Constitution,
power to abolish the traffic in slaves between the diff-
erent States of the Union.
Resolved, That the exercise of this power is de-
manded by the principles of humanity and justice.
-A dispatch from New York,
New York Politics.
of the 14tli, says:
A meeting was held, last night, at the house of
Watts Sherman, to arrange a fusion between Tam-
many and Mozart Hall Democrats. Many leading
men were present, including Mayor Wood, Erastus
Corning, John A. Dix and Dean Richmond.
The N. Y. Herald of the 14th, says :
The Constitutional Union party had a State con-
vention at Utica the other day, which is described as
" moderate in numbers, but highly respectable in char-
acter/' The object of the convention was some arrange-
ment touching the Presidential electoral ticket, and an
arrangement was provided for in the appointment of
a committee of four for each judicial district to attend
to the matter. The committee will doubtless await
the action of the Democracy, and should the Douglas
and Breckinridge faction agree upon a common elec-
toralticket, it will, we presume, be adopted by this
Republic as a plantation of slaves at home ; can no
logger menace the Territories with its five-headed de-
vice to compel labor without wages; can no longer fasten
upon the Constitution an interpretation which makes
merchandize of men, and gives a disgracefal immunity
to the brokers of human flesh and the butchers of hu-
man hearts ; and when it can no longer grind flesh and
blood, groans and sighs, the tears of mothers and the
cries of children, into the cement of a barbarous poli-
tical power! Surely, then, in its retreat, smarting
under the indignation of an aroused people and the
concurring judgment of the civilized world, it must
die—it may be as a poisoned rat dies of rage in its
hole ! [Enthusiastic applause.] Meanwhile all good
omens are ours. The work cannot stop. Quickened
by the triumph now at hand—with a Republican Presi-
dent in power—State after State, quitting the condi-
tion of a territory, and spurning slavery, will be wel-
comed into our plural unit, and joining hands together,
they will become as a belt of fire, girt about the slave
States, in which Slavery must die ; or, happier still,
joining hands together, they will become to the Slave
States a zone of freedom, radiant, like the ancient ces-
tas of beauty, with transforming power.
\ United South.
Under this caption the LaGrangc Democrat of the
19th July, has the following forcible remarks :
In the present Presidential campaign, we hold that
unanimity of sentiment and action by the South is all
important. We are aware that there are many who
think that it is wholly immaterial for whom they cast
their votes. Because there are several candidates in
the field, it is taken for granted that neither can be
elected by the people, and that the election must, of
necessity, go to the House of Representatives ; and
consequently it is a matter of no moment for whom
Bell-Everett committee, with or without a special un-! cas^ their suffrages. But here, too much is as-
-- - - - sumed by the promises; and even were they true, the
conclusion would be equally unwarranted.
That Breckinridge can be elected by the people, we
think quite possible. To effect this, however, he tnust
get the entire South, California, Oregon, and twenty-
live more Northern votes. New York will elect him ;
or Pennsylvania and New Jersey ; or Pennsylvaniá
tin conjunction witfi any other State. Now, is it possi-
ble for Breckinridge to carry any of these States ? In
one'event, and in only one, do we think that he can;
and that is by a united Democratic vote in those States.
derstanding on the subject with the Democrats. New
York must be taken from the Republicans to carry
this Presidential election into the House, and to do
this the Bell-Everett men will be ready to throw their
whole strength for the Democratic electors, when the
Democrats shall have agreed upon a common ticket.
Let the Democratic convention, which is to meet at
Syracuse on the 15th of August, bear this in mind,
and the State may be saved, and Lincoln may be left
perfectly free to return to his old vocation of splitting
rails.
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The Crisis! (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 1, 1860, newspaper, August 1, 1860; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth181138/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.