New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-02


Leptilely baxren Of news. a
After the Important duties all owe to thor country
asy the relaxation will be grateful to the unequaed
Cissus and the Faki, IF sea at the Floating Palace.
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The Last Grand Rally!
The wings held Mass Meeting last night on the Net-
trail Ground 1t of the largest and most enthu
siastc held in this city The asscmblage adj
dressed from different stands by Col G. r. Wheat Harry
Hays o. r. Dreux, r. G. Noel j. W Price j. r. Currell,
N. r. Jennings j. p Benjamin and others.
THE MEETING AT STAND NUMBER ONE.
At the great wing gathering tho neutral ground
there stand erected at the intersection of Carone
let street The space around filed by an i'm
crowd while the galleries either side of the street
were thronged with ladies.
The members of the different clubs up in process
sion headed by bands of music bearing banners and
tansparencies with quaint devices They received
with shouts and huzzas from the multitude while from
the galleries the ladies lent their inspiring aid by the
waving of scarts and by the carping of hands.
The meeting called to order by r. B. Sykes by nom,
mating H. r. W. Hill for President and about two hun
bred Vice Presidents
The first speaker that took the stand Judge Ogden
Afterwards Randel Hunt, Esq forward and spoke
in his Enthusiastically brilliant and polished STYLE His
the New Constitution which to be submit
to the vote of the people to-day distinguished by
depth logic and of practical reasoning surprising the
/ usually splendid efforts Of this great orator.
He said that he felt somewhat wearied and indisposed
to address the mighty multitude but that when the
sion called he felt it the duty of every man who had the
welfare Of his country at heart to raise his voice in the
cause The in which thoy gathered together,
was the cause of liberty and Of constitutional freedom
He congratulated the meeting that it presided
by of the most influential merchants in the country
When he looked around him on the vast multitude which
had assembled together without noise riot for the dis
cussion Of the great principles Of human freedom he felt
that the wing was the of every Americanof
every Lousaniap-and must prevail. His remarks, he
said would be first applied to those great questions that
affected ousanians and afterwards pass, to the
general topics in which, Americans, were all
interested
Tomorrow (to-day) said he, will be evenfu day.
On this occasion the people would be called to de-
eide whether they would accept the Constitution which
had been framed for them by their representatives
whether they would reject it.
First said he) let speak of the local mattersnat-
tiers of interest involved in local questions In doing
he would make use of figures of speech tropes
flowers Of rhetoric, but would address them plain
Citizen having great public and local interets at heart
former occasion he had reviewed the Constitution
it's and the government at present administered He
would again pass in review those topics.
| What, at present. the situation of NewOrleans
Compare it with NewYork, Philadelphia and the other
great cities the Union For the last ten years they have
advanced in prosperity and commercial greatness to
degree Of power and Importance almost unprecedented
while New Orleans with her natural advantages unaided
by enterprise, has remained stationary. Why is this
Why has New Orleans not advanced with all her great
sources He would tell them. 1t because Con
stuton and restricted the energies of the
people, Look at condition under the present Const
tuition What department of it is not faure Of all
the departments which is properly administered Should
he call their attention to the Judiciary department
Witness the power of the Governor to appoint the Judges
of our Courts and the in which that power had
been exercised Out of fortyfour Judicial officers ap
pointed-Judges and District Attorneys-how many DEM
ocrats there who filed the Offices Save and except
Judge Rost, of the Supreme Bench, not one!
In relation to this subject Of the Gubernatoria patron
age he would say, he had said before that in
the history Judicial appointments had there such
an utter disregard of the qualifications oce-never
had there been anything equal to this when partisan
Governor had appointed partisan officers for partisan
purposes For himself he would say, that through life
be had been whig but that now, speaking Ameri-
citizen and Lousanian, he would ask why, in
the list of appointments, but wing to be found
lie would show also, what had been done in relation
to other Offices The Governor had appointed Noares,
their partisan opinions who grossly ignorant
and deporaby incompetent that they could not draw
act, and to themselves from disgrace, had been
compelled to resign.
In regard to the Judiciary department he would ask
who does not know the Importance of purify on the
Bench? Judicial Offices should be bestowed for merit and
not for partisan services The time when the de-
csions Of Supreme Court hailed law through
out the Union In foreign countries toe, they
spected expositions of the civil law that prevails in
lightened Europe But how it now We have a SUI
preme Court that is composed of four Judgesan equal
number When these four Judges divided in opinion
point Of law the present Constitution provides that
the decision of the Court below shall stand How this
provision affect the Jurisprudence of the State The
sequence is that have adverse decisions the
point There is certainty in the law and this, the
LAWS uncertainty is, of all slavery the most miserable
Should Judge of District Court under the present
of things decide legal question in way and should
the Supreme Court be divided upon it, the decision Of the
Court below would be law Should another District Judge
| decide the game point in directly opposite way his
opinion would also be law and thus should have and
do have, the questions decisions in direct oppos-
ton There certainty to the law and tho Dis
trict Judges WERE in effect the superior Judges for
their opinions and not by the opinion of the Supreme
Court questions of law decided Never in any civ
lied country, the law uncertain as now Practi-
ealy'; We had no law at all mooted questions And
were TO be satisfied with this peous state of things
Let the people decide this question at the polls
In regard to the Legislative department he said that
Legislature had power to grant permanent charter
Is credit wanted or do the necessities of
mand Internal improvements build no railroads
Improve no riyefs, charter banks Col Grymes in
late Speech had sai that he deed any to show
Internal improvements could advance the prosperity of
country Shame on Que veteran lawyer for such an as
sertion
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and Great Northern Raroa the opeousas Railroad
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