The Daily True Delta, New Orleans, La., Saturday, September 8, 1860.
Both Cannot Be Right.-
All the disunion party, every man among them who ventures upon preaching up a dissolution of the Union when the Black Republicans, by their aid, have carried Lincoln into the Presidency, denounces popular sovereignty as worse than Sewardism… Douglas is no better in their opinion than old Osawatomie Brown, for whom Brady, the Breckinridge candidate for Governor of New York, made a sympathizing speech, and yet, singular as it may seem, the abolitionist, on the other hand, denounce Douglas, truly enough, as supporting the principle through the application of which the South can ever hope to extend her institutions. No man is so hated, denounced, so vilified by the abolitionist as Stephen A. Douglas; none pursued with such implacable spite; Buchanan is- properly enough- despised, Breckinridge is patted upon the back, the regular disunionist are glorified by them; but Douglas alone is anathematized, execrated, abhorred, by every abolition fanatic in the land, and mainly for his support of the popular sovereignty principle…
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Jeff. Davis When in Yankee-Town.- Nobody in this region can forget the speech delivered by Jeff. Davis in 1856, when he went to make fair weather among the doughfaces, and delivered himself of sundry heterodox ideas which, on his return to Mississippi, he had to explain away or take back…Among other notable things he gave birth to in his Bangor, Maine, conciliatory stump effort, the following Douglasism…
“If the inhabitants of any Territory should refuse to enact such laws and police regulations as would give security to their property or to his, (i.e., slave or any other property,) it would be rendered more or less valueless in proportion to the difficulty of holding it without such protection.”…
…So much for the oft-repeated fallacy of forcing slavery upon any community.
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The Noble Old Oaks of the Teche.- …As we pass up and down the Teche, and feast our eyes upon the view of hundreds of live-oaks upon its banks, most of them with broad, spreading branches, the noblest and most beautiful trees in all the land, we feel that it would be a crime against the parish, an assault upon the beautiful features of St. Mary, to cut them down. Yes , it is a heartless, or at least a very thoughtless act to cut down a live-oak of the Teche. Their dark evergreen hues, fadeless as the orange, in winter as well as summer, its broad branches, it fine form and noble trunk, make it the pride and glory of St. Mary and the Teche…
…Then “Woodman spare that tree!”- planter, spare that noble oak! Let them live like the ancestral oaks of England, as monuments of former ages; and in the year 2000, just a hundred and forty years from the present time, when more than a hundred years have rolled over the graves of nearly all, even of the children of St. Mary, let it be said and written by posterity that these ancestral oaks stand here yet, their branches still spreading out in fadeless green, their forms venerable with age, and their shade always grateful to those who may dwell on this soil at that period new so remote.
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Restoration of the Jews.- In view of the present state of affairs in Syria, a contributor furnishes the following to the N. Y. Commerical;
Public attention having been directed to the condition and prospects of Syria by the late war between the Druses and the Maronites, an opportunity is once more presented for the revival of the “idea” of the restoration of the Jews to Palastine. A thousand associations, religious and political, spiritual and material, crowd upon the mind at the mention of ‘the restoration of the Jews!’ The are suited to the work which a powerful government, having Jerusalem for its capital, would be called upon to perform in the civilization of Syria, Arabia, Persia, and India. They have wealth, education, civilization and a knowledge of all the arts and sciences.
Their morality, founded upon the Mosaic law, and improved by the influence of Christianity, is superior to that of any other people, not Christians, inhabiting the Orient. Established in Jerusalem, with their government well organized, that geographical centre of the old world would become a moral and political, a spiritual and material centre. Railroads going east to India and China, and north through Syria to Armenia, Koordistan and Asia Minor; steamships on seas and gulfs and electric telegraphs on the land- all these things the modern Israelties are capable of, from their vast wealth, intelligence and enterprise. So great a work, so noble and so holy, has seldom been offered to any people.
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Thirty-thee Negroes Decamped.- Thirty-three negroes, belonging to Mrs. Chambliss, whose plantation is a mile or two from Montgomery, left the field on Monday where they were at work, and made for the woods. The Mail says “it is doubtless the doings of some vile abolition emissary.”
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Accounted For.- The Hartford Courant says that the custom of giving the back of the pew, in church, to the ladies, originated in the times of the Indian wars, when the male members of the family always took their muskets to church, when it was , of course, very proper that they should have the front of the pew, to rush out to repel an attack. Then the inner seat was one of safety. The men also never kneeled in prayer, or bowed their heads, as either was an unsafe position. Thus originated a custom of arranging the occupants of a pew which has become useless and troublesome in modern times.
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A Vicious Young Darkey.- A slave boy named Joe, about thirteen or fourteen years of age, belonging to Frederick Thomas, was yesterday brought before the Recorder Long on a charge of biting a woman’s breast in a fiendish manner. It appears the young rascal bears the worst possible reputation, being a young thief and desperado, and generally, as the officers say, an imp of Satan, and one that does not do him any discredit, or rather credit. Joe, it seems got his hand into the money drawer of Mrs. Mary Robinson in St. Bernard market, and she caught him at it. She seized him, and he turned upon her like a young beast, bit her in the breast and inflicted quite a severe injury. The pain made her scream so, that the young villain did not injure her as much as he might have done, probably being scared by her expression of agony. He let go the hold and was taken hold of by proper parties. He will doubtless get his deserts.
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The Courier, New Orleans, La., Sept. 8, 1860
Gen. Lane in New York.- The following are the remarks lately of delivered by Gen. Jos. Lane, before the “Democratic Volunteers” of New York, repelling the charge of disunion….
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Declared for Breckinridge- Corruption of the Douglas Party.- The Williamsburg Gazette, the oldest paper in Virginia, and heretofore neutral, has come out for Breckinridge and Lane.
“We received a proposal by letter, to the effect, that if we would advocate the claims of Douglas for the Presidency, we should receive besides a large stipulated pay, a bonus of three hundred and fifty extra subscribers.”
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Another Abolitionist Hung.- We learn that a few days since an Abolitionist was hung near Bridgeport, on the Alabama river. We shall doubtless receive full particulars presently, through some of our country exchanges. [Mobile Mercury.]
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The New Orleans Commerical Bulletin, September 8, 1860.
Alive with Runaways.- The Bastrop (La.) Advertiser says that the woods around Bastrop seem to be alive with runaway negroes. Some of them hail form a long ways off, and declare their intention to enter the Mexican territory, where they expect to be free.
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Indian Fight.- The Fort Smith Times reports a fight having occurred between the Indians near Smokey Hill Fork of the Kaw River, and several companies of the first cavalry under command of Capt. Carr, in which thirty of the former were killed.
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David Upton