The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-01-16
LOUISIANA AND THE UNION.

From the New Orleans Bulletin Of December %.
Louisiana and DIsunion. all The
calculations aud estimates OF the hot-head-
ed disunionisis Of the South, we are pleas.
ed 10 note that they never pretend 10 in
clude The State Of Louisiana. Onthis point,
al least, they exhibit snundness Of judy.
mens and foresight which docs not disiin-
guish The rest Of their views or proceed.
ings. Louisiana il as sensible Of her just
rights. and will as promptly resist real
invasion OF them, as any other State, eth.
er OF the Southern or other portion of the
Union. but she is not disposed 10 make
herself ridiculous by shutting danger in
every breeze, and brisiling mp and ,hrea-
tening resort TO arms because a Northern
fanatic delivers TRADE against our ,lomes-
tic institution; but. lie, real danger appear.
she viii be found as " prompt in action"
as those who make SO much noise on ina.
ginary wrongs.
Il was once sneeringly remarked on The
floor Of Congress, in reference to North
Carolina, that she was the last State
which gave in her adhesion TO the presen,
constitution; TO which North Carolina
member replied, that, if she was the last
State 10 come into the Union. she wonld
likewise be the last TO 60 out Of IL. The
reply was appropriate and well.timed, but
would have been more correct had he said
she would be one Of The last tog 60 out; for
we guaranty that louisiana will not pre-
cede her or any other Stale in that move
meni. The whole Of this outcry, how
ever, on imaginary or apprehended dan.
ger. and abstrac, questions on the subject
Of slavery. which have no practical bear
ing or effect, We think is pretty much
confined 10 the floor Of Congress, and
meets but little il any response among the
people Of the South, if perhaps we except
South Carolina, who we suppose can be
worked Up to any thing after the exhibi>
lion she made in the notification war Of
1892. Equally unlounded is the expec.
taiion or belief that the grea, body Of the
citizens OF the free States contemplate any
invasion OF Southern rights, or will allow
themselves TO be led into any unjusii6a.
BILE Tor unconstitutional measures as re-
CARDS the South by few crazy and blind
fanatics.
Any thing which the indiscreet and in
liudicious Of any or all sections OF the
country can do 10 dissolve this Union. we
regard, as mere bruium fuimen, for il is
bound together by bucks Of steel, which
all their efforts will be unable TO loosen OF
destroy.
The Consummation. -I}ayard Tay'
lor. in his description Of the closing scenes
of the Constitutional Convention in Cali
fornia, gives the following stirring para
4 graph:
]; " The members proceeded to- aft,
their names to the completed Constitution
AT this moment signal was giseni .h'
American colors ran up the flag staff il
front of the Government, bdnaings, ans
streamed out in the air.. A second after
wards the first gun doomed from the fort
and its stirring echoes came back from on
hill after another, ill they were lost in III
distance.
? .All the natiye enthusiasm Of Capt
Suffers Swiss blood was aroused he wa
The old soldier again. lie sprung irol
. his seal, and wasing his hand around hl
. hsad. as if swinging . s~os1. sclalMc