The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-28

.,,h =. spplause louder, longer, and more entnus'-
- ,h.n often falls to the lot oil servant OF the
nubl;o After quiet was restored he began ms ao-
dress to the assembled multitude.
GEN. Downs Speech.
u s.;d that the appreciation Of ~ course during
,ha r.cent session of Congre-d'O kindly expressed
= of the resolut;oUe,S sst adopted, and for the
"noo,c,, srd bos.s- aDle manner in which he had
- is hasty visit, he made his pro-
80 ateful acknowiedg Such marks
slNass-Sation peculiarly gratifying ana nat
tszg to him, coming from New Orleans, the great
city of the South destined at no very distant
period to be the great city of the world, and dis-
tinguished no less by the intelligence refinement
enterprise and patriotism OF its inhabitants hah LOT
the vastness of its commerce and exchanges, eSter
nal and internal. Appreciation from such quar-
fer he said is full recompense for all the cares
and anxietes of public liie-it is worth struggling
for. 1t will encourage, it ought to- your public
servants to greater exertions. Who would not
faithfully, zealously labor in the service OF such
constituency?
This demonstration was the more gratifying to
him. from the source from which it comes. 1t is
no party triumph such thing is Of daily occur
renee But to see whole people, divided usually
BY strong party lines, rise up spontaneously, and
by one common impulse hail with appreciation
public servant who has, during most Of his public
service, been a decided party man, and subject to
all the excitement, opposition and reproaches Incl
dent to such position, is ordinary occurrence
/ and springs from ordinary motives; and it
deserves as l assure you, said he, it receives no
ordinary consideration from the humble individual
1 who is the object of it. But he not vain
\ enough to suppose that this originated in any
| peculiar merit in him, any services rendered by
| HIM No; it came from deeper source-from
their love and re serence for the Union-that U MON
which the Father of his Country and his COM
| patriots secured by their lives, and legacy to
l their posterity. He had been fortunate enough, at
an unfortunate period, to be your exponent and
representative in endeavorng protect that sacred
| institution and was now made the instrument oil
their expressing, not only their undiminished at
tachment to it, but their admiration for it, greater
than ever from the new dangers through which ii
has, he hoped, safely carried us.
After making some explanations of matters ap-
pertaining TO himself personally, for which he
deemed the occasion not inappropriate, he returned
| to the subject of the meeting.
He deeply regretted that objections had been
urged by some persons to the meeting, and that sin
\ lister motives had been imputed 10 those who were
b instrumental in getting it up. He had no reasons
| for believing that such motives had actuated any
: one He did not believe they had, and If it be so
: he had no knowledge connection with them He
attended the meeting as he had similar meetings II
all the other parishes he had visited since his re
turn from Washington, convened irrespective o
party, and without the imputation ofimproper mo
Ftves, and he did not see why the same things may
H. hare IIa hat
lSwhigs or democrats he met such occasions wert
Mass wings or democrats because they attended
or that he was less democrat because he addressed
y them, and returned them courteous answer wher
| his course was approved He thought the same OF
the present occasion. The Slavery or Compromis
question was never made party issue elsewhere
| and why should it now be made so here Coult
we have even succeeded as well as we have, if i
had been made party question 1t required the
utmost exertion of the strongest of both parties
| to carry them. Nothing could have been done i
/ they had been divided Can any thing be done By
parties He thought not. Whether, said he, we
| consider the Compromise measures right or wrong
just or unjust to the South, to connect party poll
tics with them, can but injure our cause. If they
were right and just, and we ought 10 acquiesce in
them, as in his opinion and the opinion of thii
meeting, and Of large majority of the people O.
| Louisiana and the whole South, then we could no
have carried them as party measures and if the,
4 were injurious and unjust to the South, as som
contend, can we ever get better terms by raisin
8 the party issue Would any one point out to hir
I | how this could be done ! He could not see It'll
did not believe it. 1t would be utterly impossible
Why then insist on it /! He entered into the dis
cussion of those important subjects not as parti
san, butas Southern Senator, representing int
Il al. r.
He represented wings as well as democrats
their interests IDENTICAL and therefore he coult
not separate them. He endeavored to sustain tn,
interests of all alike, according to the dictates o
, his best Judgment. If he was sustained he expect
ed to be sustained by all parties If his course has
bsen disapproved, he should never have attempte,
to make his party, any portion of it, responsible
: for it. Who had more right to'make it 80, or
consider it otherwise than he and those who acte
with Inn, had! No, fellow citizens, said he, ar
party man, and expect to remain so.
When he started on a party campaign, and o
party issues, he went with his party and expected h
party TO go with him. But when he struck ont
new course for himself, as he had in this case, vi
aided and uninstructed by party, he walked h
course unprotected by it; and if he fell then,
should fall alone, and not drag down his party wi
him.
He said he might be told-had, in fact, been to
by the public prints-that his course would ru
the democratic party. He believed no such stat,
ment good cause could not be injured by
good act; and feeling that he had been engage
III efforts to accomplish good for the country witt
out respect to the interests of party, he considert
himself as having perfect right to attend Thu
meeting, and tender and to receive congratul
tons on what had been accomplished.
Ia And what is party, or the interests of party,
'u comparison to the importance of preserving II
Y Union? Nothing, Parties rise and fall M,
no pass away his own place would, in the course
:, events, soon be supplied by another; but, said
~ with much impressiveness, if the fabric Of our 81
rious Union should be pulled down, who will
" found capable of rebuilding it
The speaker then referred, seyiatins, to the fl
rs, different measures embraced in the adjustme
70 scheme and commended that the South had gain
"a by three of them-the Fugitive Slave BILL II
- Territorial bills, and the Texas Boundary bill. /
ne had opposed the admission of California but, ha
els ing been admitted, he now saw nothing in it
sy justify the South in resistance to the action
Congress. He said il should not be forgotten tn
nd Congress did not do all that was done to exclu
NJ slavery from California that Congress, in fact HI
sc only not nterered, by any provisions on the su
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