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


Der, perhaps the majority, of the democrats ia
vored the project. Looking upon it ss calculated
TO advance the better interests of Louisiana, and
as vitality important to the city of NewOrleans,
we gave it our energetic advocacy; and were
happy to find that opposition to it was SO feeble
and Insignificant.
But Notwithstanding the plainness Of this fact.
we were and are unwilling to pass quietly over
any thing like an attempt at argument against a
project which we espouse 1t has been said,
with singular and perverse unfairness, that the
friends of Convention to form new Censttu-
ton cannot or do not specify their objections to
the one under which we are at present. We
are, literally and in the most significant sense
of the term, under our present Constitution. It is
our King Log-full Of unrepublican and unde-
mocratic negatives and peremptory prohibitions,
and positive only in fixing the routine of gov
ernmental organization. Of governmental action,
it says little or nothing except in negatives. 1t
is protest against possible or probable action
of the people. 1t is full Of +" shall nots;' and
the disinterested reader would conclude at once
that its trainers were fearful that all wisdom
would die out with them, and the next genera
ton be incompetent to legsate for its own interests
But let us specify:
weobject to Arts 6. 30, 80, Ga, g. liz, ll3, ia,
l2l, 1872. 1923. l24. la5, 14o.
We object to these articles Of the Constitution,
| without specifying others that are justly objec-
tionable. We object to fourteen important and
restrictive provisions Of the Constitution, that is,
to nearly tenth Of the whole.
| We object to them, because they are anti-repub-
lican, anti-democratic.
We object to them, because opposed to the
friendly and intimate relations of States; in spirit
designed and operative to the ostracism Of our
fellow-ctizens, our brothers from other States.
We object to them, because planned to limit and
embarrass the exercise Of the elective franchise.
We object to them, because fixed to impede the
sure and regular administration Of justice, to
destroy the authority Of Supreme or Appellate
Court.
We object to them, because proscriptive Of pro-
| fession and religious position, marking out the
ministers as improper to receive Office weal
civil honors, and, therefore, fundamentally
prescribing class Of citizens.
We object to them, because combining office
holding to the particular classes which may b,
represented by citizens, some Of three, but tn
larger portion of the unusual length of six AM
fifteen years citizenship, and thereby, contrary t
the received policy of the United States Q
America, and contrary to com mon sense, creating
u standing body, a major ty of aliens in our midst
We object to them, because composing tn
Supreme Court of even body of jurists, an
thereby virtually multiplying the general utility
an appeal, and bringing ju dicial decisions down
la point at which, in nine cases out of ten, a
appeal is worthless, and its result matter
chance.
i We object to them, because illiberally ostrg
cisng (though of this we make no special point
one fourth of the power and wealth and greatnes
of the State, as UNIV orthy of neghborhood to tn
legislation of the State.
We object to the m, because compelling the Stat
to slothful and foolish inactivity, to positive nor
L
l to a larger amount than One Hundred Thousan
Dollars, and prohibiting all State aid to assoc
, ations of public utility, formed to create publ
works, to afford facilities to commerce, by crea
ing facilities of transit or Of credit upon Il
I pledge of crops or endorsed responsibility.
II We object to them, because absolutely interdc
ing public means OF trading upon a well secure
representation of actual capital, and leaving pr
vate and irresponsible system Of n.plasteris
to afflict and impoverish the State, forcing us
only in the enactment of profit from depreci,
ton, and doubtful in every view of responsibility.
We object TO them, because barring the progress
of railroad and manufacturing proscts-project
which require five to twelve years to reach the
probable profits, by an Introduction upon the exs
ence of corporations, followed almost immediatel
by the more stringent provision, that" no exclusiv
privilege or monopoly {" taking Buncombe
, phrase "shall be granted" for longer peric
than twenty years."
/ We object to them, because providing for Il
revision of the Constitution itself, that accidents
circumstances and individual whims might defe
it for generations, if not forever, in the face of
, clear majority of the people.
} For these reasons, we object to our present Coz
stitution, and for these land most particularly f
$ the latter we call for Convention to form ne
Constitution. Under our present Constitution,
: view OF the articles TO which object, we do n
J, see how we are to have Free Banking, judicio,
! system of K Railroads, sound Currency, comfy vii
. our sister States, or Equal Rights. We do n
n specify these things idly. Our readers may e
anime the articles have referred to, and auesti,
10 themselves if they do not sustain our position
Of But we shall not leave the matter at this poir
h We shall not trust the sloth indifference or pr
st occupation Of the general reader. What we ha
C. said we shall hasten to demonstrate. We ask
. candid and manly consideration. We ask t.
~ common attention which planter, a mechanic,
laborer or a merchant gives 10 his ordinary bu
ness; and we shall demonstrate to him, plant
h. mechanic, laborer merchant, of separate class
but intimately interviewer in the vast web work
ID social interests, that his truest and most solid
OIL terests, the truest and most solid interests of
- State and Of New Orleans, demand the prompt
!, nation Of new Constitution. We shall be
le brief in our demonstration as the points are Gle
Modification of the 7ar,f-The Norrstown
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