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The Convention Resolutions.

We republish the following from tn,
Louisiana Democrat which paper hat
previously published and defended Gen
Gilbert's resolutions, against which hs
now so loudly and vehemently deciaims
OF this the reason may be easily under
stood. The leaders of the democratic
party have since found out that ths
people of the district are decidedly op
posed both to the secessionists and tt
their absurd doctrines. But the Gilber
resolutions having been adopted to ap
prove Mr.. Morse's conduct, we are at g
less to understand how the Louisiana
Democrat can support SO vigorously a
candidate whose doctrines he publicly
disavows. This is, we think, secret
too impenetrable for US to try to dis.
close. But hear what he says:
AS was to have been expected, the
acoavention resolutions of Gen. Gilbert
have arrested the attention of the press
throughout the district and State. We
open our exchanges, and read bitter,
fierce denuneiaiions of them from the
valley of the Ouachita to the Sabine,
and lay them down with feelings that
mar be better imagined than described.
Now that we have been brought to
the thinking point touching this unfor-
tunate matter. our modification is only
eoualled by the contempt we feel for
ourselves. That such unmitigated trash
as these resolutions should have passed
from committee room to the press
that such farce should have been en-
acted in the parish in the light of day
seems, indeed, passing strange, and
must be taken as one of those unac-
.countable occurrences that deiorm the
mage of history, and leave the mind in
inementary doubt and uncertainty as to
its power 10 distinguish between right
and wrong.
Let us take calm survey of the field,
and see If anything can be found that
NAV relieve the mind from coltempla-
tion sickening in the last degRe.
The fact is notorious that Louisiana
approves most heartily, aud with un-
common unanimity, the Compromise
Law of 1850. An equally notorious
fact stands 10 view, viz: thai all efforts
10 organize the secession party in this
State have been pitiable faillres. The
Legislature refused, by a decisive vote.
to send delegates to the Nashville Con-
yention; our Executive ha, time and
again exhibited unequivocal opposition
10 the opinions South Carolina has pro-
mulpated; and if there is a single
urorninenf man In our ranks who cllngs
DO the folIies of Palmetto land, we know
him not. Mr.. Soule found it necessary
to discIaim any connection in sentiment
between himself and the fire-eaters OF
The refractory sovereignty, ,and to sustain
this he pointed to his votes in the Senate.
But there wers many who did not deem
;fhis prOof sufficient. and the honorable
gentlemen, wearied with the searching
analysis of men who looked to the spirit
of action. not simple aetinn itself, again
took his seat in the Senate, uttering not
q word thai could be tortured into affir-
NATION with the extreme malcontents
during the session. If he had not learn
ed wisdom, prudence had come to his
Aid. and a vivid recollection of the New
Orleans Committee sealed his lips.
We need not 90 further TO show that
Louisiana was and is emphaticaily a
Unian State--more decidedly attached
to this conservative principle, perhaps,
than any other southern State-for she
uouid clearly suffer more from . disso-
linton of this Union than any division
of the confederacy. Let US now see how
affairs stand in this district, so that
there may be no mistake in the mind
of any one touching ths action of the
meeting called to nominate q congress
sional candidate. 4
a. The people of the district have given
the most convincing evidence that they
Do not approve of the extreme course
recommended by the opponents of the |
Csmpromiss. The Mississippi fire has
nsper reached the plains OF north |
wesseen louisiana Some ten menths |
ago number of South Carolina gentle
man, living 10 the parish Of De Soto,
headed hyGol. Marshall, called meet
iag of citizens and proposed series OF |
resaintions of the Gilbert stamp, though |
drawn up With more care and ability. |
Goli Philips opposed them, and offered
as . substitute resolutions breathing |
the spirit Of the Maryland and Georgia
plaafcrms. They were passed amid en-
thusiastic cheers, but one voice being !