New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-18
CONVENTION IN THE
FOURTH DISTRICT.


FOURTH DISTRICT.
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Our readers are already advised that there was
4 Democratic Congressional Convention in the Fourth
District held at Aexandra on the 4th of July inst
and that the Hon. John n. Sandidge was renomlnated
for Congress Owing tosome cause Or other the official
Of the Convention did not reach us until
Saturday last and theu in the Natchitoches Chroni
Gle Of the 18th instant As we shall have something
to say in regard to the proceedings of the Convention
and the resolutions adopted, we are thus particuar
General Jacob Humble Of Caldwell parish ofilcla- |
ted as President, and Messrs Samuel Bard OF Caddo'
B.R. CAN'T of St. Landry, r, Al Morse OF Natchi-
toches and IT, r. Evans Of Claiborne, as VICE Presl'
dents. and Messrs. j. NJ B. Tucker of Natchitoches,
and p. a King Of jackson, as Secretaries. The fol
lowing named parishes were represented BY dele
yates Bossier, Bienvile Caldwell, Franklin, jack
son Union, Vim, Rapides, Sabine, Lafayette, 81.
Landry and fNatchtoches. Caddo, gCalcasieu, Cla-
horne, Desoto and vermilion, were represented by
proxies, and Morehouse and .Ouachita were entirely
unrepresented. 5t3s Il
On motion Of General Deering, the President ap'
pointed committee Of five to prepare and report re-
Solutions to the Convention. The Chair appointed
the following gentlemen Messrs. 7. c. Manning, al.
Boatper (wonderf Gen. Boatner has forgotten when
he was mn exquisite Know Nothing ~ J. K.
Smart. B. ". Pearce and Ralph Smith. The report OF
the Committee through the Chairman, Y Q: Manning,
ESD, was unanimously adopted. Here is the nrst re-
solution: ssgssss 5sss4f4 ts.l,
Re.olued, LIST. That we.affirm our unwayering al
herencf and devotion to the principles OF our party
as enunciated and defined BY the iass s. the
vention-that the triumph Of Mr.. Buchanan, az ,he
embodiment and representation OF those IT,
over two opposing sectional at.ests .he
nationality Of our Faith, and we cengratulaIe tns
country that his mas eeen ny Whole
nnder auspices which inspire his party and the Wao5
people, with the hope that his ana
saracty his prudence and sense Of justice MS nIni
ness and devotion to the Constitution and tne vioh'
will work restoration Of re- anI Il
tablish concord and amty between al 'iio llie "
the confederacy-
We imagine the foregoing resolution would not
\ have been adopted if the members OF the Conven-
ton had known that President Buchanan and his CAD
met had resolved to sustain Gov Walker treason III
| Kansas--whch treason not only hands that magnin-
cent Territory over to the dominion of the abolition
lists for all time to come but absolutely excludes the
| South from any benefit of, or enjoyment IN the
mighty territories of the North hereafter In
the canvass Of lS55-when Mr.. Sandidge was elected
\ the voters Of North Louisiana were led to beheVe
by Gov Wickliffe Attorney General Noise, and Other
shrewd Democratic orators that the epraska
hill was to be the panacea Of all their political ills
and that any man who did not ardently support tha
A bill was guilty Of little less than downright treason
to the South. ais b
The same game was played with much success pJ
the leaders of the same party in 1856 and there II
Il little doubt in our mind that but for the deusol
under which the people labored during both thos'
eanyasses. in regard to the Kansas. Nebraska act
there woud have been widely different result at th'
nos Of the Fourth Congressional District Now tina
that subterfuge is exploded that it is certain
the South never had any chance in Nebraska-aDt
now that it as apparent the sun at MONDAY tina
Kansas has been sold to the freesoiers by an admin
istraon almost entirely elected by the South 1t is x
be hoped the people of the Fourth District will ge
their ewes open, and never again compliment thel
betrayers by the passage of laudatory resolutions
Vi We mass over the second and third resolutions
They are unimportant, and made up of words which
have no particular meaning.
The fourth resolution reads as follows
II 4th. That now as ever we condemn and reprobaf'
the organisation, the principles and the eonauct
the Known othng party The first is anti American
Il and SANDER upon the character OF people WIZ
profess to be free and independent, and VINO are DOH
and manly. The second is at variance with IN
spirit of our institutions, and opposed even to pos
tive constitutional enactment. Inc thlfa mas pee
SO marked by riot, violence and blood as TO deDas
the marty beyond example, that its misfortunes
not excite commseration and the despair of its dyn
struggles is unable to redeem it from contempt.
The foregoing resolution is full Of falsites. 1h
, American party as we understand it, was organize
to carry out the principle that none but natives
the soil should be elected to office. The principle
held sacred throughout Christendom and Heather
) dom-none but natives (exceptin rare instances
> being allowed to participate in the Government
directly or indirectly. In no country under HeaVe
save the United States, is the matter of birth !
earded in any other light than as source OF prld
of honor and peculiar prerogatiye to its possesso
n Ask the Irishman, the Scotchman, the Eugishma
e the Frenchnan, the German, the Hungarian, tt
i Italian or the Spanard and they will all assert tn
their country is the best country that basks in Il
sunlight of Cop, and that they are better entitled
e govern it than anybody else II the American par
was not formed to carry out this universally reco
Il nized principle, then we wholly ignorant of
d purposes of its organization. The sur about III
II violence and blood lily becomes party situated
g is the Democratic party. Let them look to M
n York and other Democratic cities, and hold tn
il peace. And SO far as the cruelty sandered city
Us New Orleans is concerned, we state positively tina
ne large majority of the crimes committed here with
a the last twenty months, have been committed
is persons who could not, by any possibility, ha
in belonged to the American party!
The fifth resolution, and the last one that we 81
m append, is in this language: " y.
u.s. 5th. That our last Legislature acted wisely a
nm periodically in providing for the enjoyment OF
= frage by the voters of New Orleans and for the s.
w preston of that violence and mob rule which has
he long time INSTRUCTED citizens in the exercise OF
cir sacred rght-that the law firmly executed, is the
cir remedy to apply to existing evils.