The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-03
NEW ORLEANS:
TUESDAY M0RNING, DECEMBER 3, 1850.
The Philadelphia Great Union Mass
Meeting,

are hlled with reports OF its proceedings. Speak
ing of it the Ledger says:
The meeting the Museum last evening" was one Of the
most imposing impressive and enthusiastic which has ever
been held in tins city The entire upper saloon of the build
ing appropriated 10 the purposes of the meeting The
salOon one OF tile re in the world intensely crowded
with citizens OF every party and shade of opinion The
lower hoor OF itself will contain thousand people; the
spacious and wide galleries. extending entire length of the
saloon, alO densey crowded AT least ten thousand
persons must have been present during the entire period Of
the meeting, while the numbers who and went,
immense, rendering extremely probable that at least thirty
thousand at different times during the
evening.
The saloon itef appropriately decorated for lin
pOrtant and patriotic occasion for which intended.
spacious platform eectsd for the of the officers
and speakers. The Hall decorated with appropriate
notices, among which the following: . The Union
shall be preserved" Liberty and Union now
and forever, and in'eparab'e." 'Our County, our
whole country.'' - T. Pufibus Unum' The Am rcan
flag asteuy festooned over the Presidents chair
conspicuous among the decorations portrait Of the late
amented President"
The proceedings of the meeting were deeply
interesting throughout. The resolutions that were
adopted, the speeches that made and the
letters that were read, are all characterized by
striking ability and the loftiest patriotism There
has been gathering of the people of any portion
Of the country the expression OF whose opinions,
the great question OF Union, will have more
powerful effect on the public sentiment of the
nation.
To show the tone, spirit and purposes of the
meeting, we give below some of the remarks of
the Hon. George M. Dallas, formerly Vice Presi-
dent of the Republic together with the resolutions
submitted by him In the course of his speech he
said
81 need not advero the emnaut men who adorned their
country the period of the formation ofthe Constitution OF
t United states need MT mention their names, although
thrr gnq forthe admiration the veneratou the
affection OF all mankind. need not recur to tnem The
government was formed and from the 3Oh of April 1853,
a. Chief magistrate under that government in the city Of
New Yo[oT that hoo s dS"9 20 the 6a mas gs
"a pause IL has proved itself 10 be matches ms umen
ow.citiIens originated discussed and adopted in
convection that assem2ea n s cry ana .o0sGqGenty a
States then composing the Union IN tins country, and re-
raved the confirmation of conventions in each agd
emphatic Ia Euage has worked well and nobly Applause
Whit has government done for commerce, for naviga
ton r trade During the last sky years, from the period
i"nm,s Of the U"e State from The BUNDLES to lie high
rs tgureirom 80 900 tons to 55UOLO tons (Aaplaase
l. has made the aggregate Of exports and imports Of the
United states augment from ne figure - l'sV q 1000 o.
Tor the agncu uri Of Ihe Am nctn people, Fellow;
QUEENS the valley Of the Mississippi whose gra1aes Of
s5IvInr appauseJEVhat has done for the poau.
op Of he American people ,-(anG petmt me 70 say that
aoo one OF the suTe ana mos significant is Of the ex
fsoTe in III + $40 ODU, he1 risen in $50 to . CO.,
done, fellow Citizens for the enlargement OF the
home me American people? 1t las grown from mere
Oceanc border, constituted by the original thirteen Staes
emlra g continent w. ao l, ~ 'ons ,o w aa. PHI
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the pf12's O tat "nSh ScdiCe Iudr'ei VI century az
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the Of he Uni Ell states a. formed by COnsl
that went InO OPERATION IN liSJ Wen these De u
results ul Iha governmental such be us rhdacel sue
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ly at lb .ni and saw in the serun,i o ace pnflemen
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nhsont4y necessary to the maintenance Of the Constitute
Wy ia YOU suppDse that they who med the Consult
i'm p framed ii with reference to the Institutions oil eve
Tprlnse O ucal usages local habits aud principles pra
m men IN meet the pfeudces FALL Tor the purposes Of
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III ir Isv and generation and ten time mo prYeTul rs
pss the wears elS-dO you suppose they, the
a0ud have been able adopt int ConsitulOn-tO carry
into eect-to procure me corss4' o. heeh Sa,s IN whI
Nv ysrv II they had not into noad in that very nsr
m-nl the spsane9 upon T MnSr ny s M boy drs
do ng so-aGd had they deamt OF Il, they would
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sion, and It procams that wherever fugitive rom labor
SerV ce escapes into anole1 S,a sian We f ~ W
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