The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-07
Tn. Union Meeting i'm Fanoun Hall.


The Boston papers are filled with accounts of
the great Union meeting. More than 5000 signed
the call. The immense Hall which has resOunded
with the voice of Otis, and Warren, and Adams,
calling on their cOuntrymen to resistance against
British oppression, was the most appropriate place
for an assembage of Bostonians to declare their
fealty to the Union. The meeting was presided
over by DR.. j. c. Warren, the son OF that warren
who fell at Bunker Hill. He is now an Old man;
he has never taken an active part IN poltlcs, oul
at this late period of his life he came forward TO
take his position on the side of the Laws, the Con
stiution, and the Union. He made a brief speech,
from which we make an extract:
cit hns been my lot to have lived during period when
there and M m %9R o Of SSy Of
me arts calculated make powerful and happy people
dance betw and man, and no harmony in me acu9n
Of HE different States. It was period when mems hands
were beset by armed when law and Justice Were tram.
pied under i2S when our best towns @nq T Ps b
ives polluted with the blood Of rs own citizens remember
be, Issued from this place, feeby provided with
arms or with the other culaed to put down daring
What dreadful foebodngs in the minds Of those who
for the safety of an unhappy country -
''But in the midst of this gloom ray of light showed itself
Constitution proposed, and after cautious and care
adopted as bond oeveatng union. unie- this Corstitu
lion new order Of 5i1ss he's arisen Commerce and ag,
up Education, literature and science have been dused IN
al our S and N g 20pe ey9 n' Enr1S
the spectacle OF republic tree without cenousness
Nov let me ak is the r1y one derous of returning to
the dsunon of 7Sj? Is there any one who wmg TO e
with, spurn behind this fthere is,
and the whole UNION the best cecuy for the Liberties Of
the people. For THESE | STAND HERE and if am not
ready every faculty which posses to uphold and
maintain them, shall be false the blood which
veins, false 10 the ancestors from whom am descended and
to every P Ct my 0w Gsa Union o5s sb f R
soluble, now and FOREVER.
A series of resolutions were then offered, breath
ing attachment to the Union and determination
to carry out the measures of the Compromise in
good faith, and condemning all attempts to disturb
the legislation of the last session.
Resoyusd that the adjustment of the measures which dis
urbed The action of CongTe for nearly t2n months OF is les
States in good faith all the substantial provisions because
although may offer with each other about the details
taon of any Of the questions then settled, would b.
raugh with end dangers to the and har
n soged G Inc county, ""'H '' adjustment I'D" "'''
We recommend this resolution TO Mr. Soul6 ant
| his admirers. Mr. B. R. Curtis, an eminent law
yer, addressed the audience with great power
| He commented with much severity on the courst
of Rev. Theodore Parker, who, in sermon, ex
hor'ad his hearers to refuse to return true verdic
in any case arising under the Fugitive Slave Bill
The Rev. gentleman YVES in the gallery and at
tempted to interrupt him, but MIR. Curtis prompt!
set him down." He was followed by B. F. Hal
let, leading democratic lawyer, and one Of III
| Commissioners under the laD. He pledged him
| self 70 perform the duties of his office. He wa
| followed by Rufus Choate He commended tina
our molol duties, not less than political inter
sst7, command us to stand instantly upon this plat
form of adjustment, and henceforward to discourage
by all means further agitation of the subject. LIE
us abltai1 from that philanthropy, which violates
compact, and over.rdes the law, assured that i
cannot break one link of the chain of slavery VIC
leny and prematurely.
Mr.. Choate, on concluding, was spplauded mos
Enthusiastically by the audience, who gave him
nine cheeij.
The Boston Post, in an able editorial, declares
amphatcally that the laws of the United States
will be carried out in Boston. Such, too, is the
language of the Courier, the organ of Mr.. Web
r;er of the Transcript, and OF the Journal, whose
leaning have been to Abolitionism.
Boston hrl nobly responded to New Orleans, 10
Philadelphia, and to New York. The Republic is
safe.