New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-17
Weu Orleans 1ailp Crestent
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER II, 1859.
"UNJoN MEETINGS ,, At THE NORTH.

Far be it from us to decry the sincerity or patri-
otsm Of those who have honestly participated in
the proceedings Of the late Union meetings in New
York, Boston and Philadelphia. We wouldn't do it
if we could, and could mt If we would our desire
to do justice to all being great and absorbing.
But still, this feeling shall not prevent us from
telling readers the truth, as understand it,
from commenting thereupon as We deem just
and appropriate. The 'union-at-any-p price gem
tlemen and journals may prate about them as much
as they please, and deceive the Southern people as
far their exquisite measurement of the standard
of truth and right will permit, but we will neither
prate nor deceive We will state bold, naked facts
and draw corresponding deductions.
Philadelphia is announced as true to the
Union.' How is she true? Why is she true? Let
MS see. Is Philadelphia true to the Union because,
out Of a population of more than half a million,
ten fifteen thousand persons can be got together
to pass splenddly patriotic Union resolutions! We
say no. We judge communities by their acts, not
by their words What the acts of those who
represent them in Congress? That is the question
the only question Why, three Of their four Repre-
sentatiyes in Congress vote for John Sherman for
Speaker-yote to elevate a man to an office only
two removes from the Presidency-who warmly
| and cordially endorsed book maintaining the
principle that it is right that the slaves should rise
in nsurrection cut the throats Of their masters and
mstresses, bring about general massacre, without
regard to age sex or condition, and light the flames
of incendiarism throughout the length and breadth
of the territory of the saveholding States! These
are the dcts-telling, significant acts-of Philadel
| pha. Against them, her late Union demonstration
is as drop of water to the vastness Of the ocean
1t is also stated that New York is "true to the
Union.i Well, New York is better than Philadel
phia or any other Northern city. Let us measure
| her by the standard of acts AT the late election
in that city for Mayor, 7s,736 votes'were polled
| Wood, the only national man running, received
l20 votes. The regular abolition candidate
| Opdyke, received 81 ,773 votes while Havemeyer-
a virulent freesoiler, who supported Fremont
against Fillmore and Buchanan in 1856. land Var
Buren, against Cass and Taylor in lS4S, and who
ran as a Tammany Hall Democrat, and a BlacF
Republican, American and Old Line Wing candi
date-received 6,s43 votes! By adding the mimi
cal vote together, it will be seen that there was
majority Of nearly twenty thousand votes agains
the only national candidate running
Here is a fact-a great fact--a fact worth study
ing about And are the people of the South to b'
cajoled into happy security because few hun
| dred merchants, anxious to retain their Southern
trade, have, by lavish expenditure of money an,
other needful appliances, got together larg'
public meeting and passed divers and sundry de
cent resolutions? We hope not. Let them lool
at the fact we have mentioned above, and to tina
other fact we have published previously, that not
week after the murderous foray at Harper's Ferr.
a large majority of the people of New York vote
the Black Republican ticket.
Boston, too, has held grand public Unio
meeting and Boston has become suddenly g tru
to the Union" Edward Everett and others mad
eloquent speeches. True; but it is equally tru
that neither Everett nor any of his coadjutor
could be elected constables in their respectiv
Wards were it to save themselves and famie
from downright starvation. 1t is also true that til
Personal Liberty Bill" which nullifes the law
of the land and defies the decisions of the Suprem
Court is still in force that immense numbers Q
the people have made saint and martyr out 9
that horse thief and murderer, old John Brown
and that Sumner and Wilson correctly represen
Massachusetts, in the Senate.
With such indisputable facts as these befor
gent and rejecting, among the Southern people
will care much about the grand Union meetings
lately held in the cities named Powerless patriot
ism is of no earthly value, and when the chance
are that that powerless patriotism is stimulated b
a selfish motive-by desire to retain an endans
cred trade, it becomes-well, no matter what, a
we are not in the habit of using harsh phrases.