New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-19
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MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1850
A WISE STATE CONVENTION.

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MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1850.
WISE STATE CONVENTION. !,
a week or more ago We quoted from a Demo- J
cratic cotemporary in this State extract from
lengthy article arguing that to produce the per-
feet union and harmony which safety requires at
the present juncture, the whole people of the
South without regard to former political lines Of
demarcation, should be represented in the Charles
ton Convention. We commended the tone and
spirit Of our cotemporarys article, and commend
it now. We are in favor of .'union Of the South
for the sake Of the South,' and holding the honor
and welfare Of the South above all other earthly
considerations, are prepared now, as we ever have
been, to sustain all measures best calculated to Sc
cure that paramount object
division in the South will most likely prove
fatal divided South can do nothing and that
very division can have other natural tendency
than to weaken our section and strengthen Abo-
litiondom. In 1856 Mr. Buchanan carried every |
Southern State but one, and most Of them by large
majorities. But is there man stupid enough, any
where in our part of the country, to suppose that
that majority could have originated and carried out
measures of resistance against the positive oppo-
sition of the intelligent, wealthy and powerful
minority that votedfor Fillmore? We imagine not:
but if there is, spaldng L Rogers should at once,
without regard to expense, buy him up and place
him on exhibition in their Museum on st. Charles
street. He would rank as a Behemoth among
their other curious curiosties-as a regular Brob-
dignag among collection of IiIliputians- would
draw immense houses as long the season should be
| procrastinated. They would make their eyerlast-
ing fortunes by getting hold of and exhibiting such
| specimen of unutterably verdant humanity, be-
yond all question.
4 Because we saw fit to commend a proposition
| emanating from respectable and influential De-
| mocratic source. and which we deemed advisable,
judicous and patriotic, in every phase in which it
| could be viewed, sundry Administration papers in
this State have seen proper to carp at the sugges-
ton and throw slurs upon the comments it drew
forth. To these we have no reply, and never ex-
pect to have. We will not enter into discussions
with men whose partisan zeal, not to say downright
party fanaticism, leads them to oppose union Of
all the people of their own threatened section-an
object of more Importance than any and oil things
else at this perious juncture-because, forsooth, o
few merely political leaders may be shorn Of their
power, and few followers of those leaders may,
possibly, lose some Of the pecuniary and personal
advantages they now possess. From all such,
whether of high or low degree, we appeal to the
people, and perfectly wiling to rest the cause
we advocate upon the verdict the patriotic and in
telligent masses will render. And, if they decide
against q union of the South, then the path oil
Seward is clear, and the Black Republicans need
apprehend no danger from their Vaccinations
and may proceed to put the rrepressibe con
fict y into practical operation soon as they OBJ
tain possession of the reins of government, witt
perfect safety to themselves and immediate ant
prospective advantage to the party whose inferna
doctrines they are the mouth pieces and expo
nents Of
Since we first noticed this matter, we are pleaset
to know that it has met with widespread favor
and that the feeling for it is generally and gradually
increasing. The people, so far as our EXTENSIVE
means of obtaining Information enable us to Judge
are becoming imbued with the belief that it is hig
time they took the control of affairs into their owl
hands, and prepared to secure their own safety o
person and property. To accomplish this, the
feel that complete and cordial union Of the me-
of the South is indispensable. They are right, an
we trust they will succeed, despite the offce-hod
ers and trading politicians.
The Democratic State Convention of Mississippi
which met one neek ago this day at jackson, acte
wisely and patrioticaly, in opinion, in unan
mously adopting the resolution below. The Demo
Gratis of Mississippi are as straght-laced any in tn
land: but when it comes to the matter of preserving
the rights and safety of the slaveholding States il
which every man, woman and child of our sectiol
of country has deep and absorbing interest, the,
open the doors wide to union and harmony, an
invite the cooperation of all good citizens.
Here is the resolution above referred to-:
Resolred, That all the citizens of this State her
| wi hn
cratic party of Mississipp--that it is the duty o
the Federal Government to afford protection unde
the Constitution to- slave property in the Terrific
res elsewhere, equally with property of an,
kind whatsoever, and who are willing to unite witt
the South in demanding at the proper time a dis
tinct recognition of this right by the Federal Gov
ernment-and also by any Convention for the nom
ination of candidate for the Presidency Of tn
United States, as a preliminary essential to tn
| union of the delegates of the South with those O
the North-and also who are willing to unite wit
| the Democracy of this State in maintaining th
equality and honor of the South in the Union. o
| her independence out of it-and who would con
slider the election of President by party hostile
to the institution of slavery in the South AZ mena
cling her equality and honor, as to justify her il
providing for future safetybe and they are hereb,
invited to report their names to the Secretary ant
take their seats as members of this Convention
and cooperate with the Democratic party.
Az soon as the above resolution was adopted
certain leading gentlemen, who had invarabl,
acted with the Opposition, took their seats in tn
Conventions; and of them-Senator Charlie
Clark-was chosen to represent the State at larg
in the Charleston Convention.
This course we consider eminently proper, wis
and just; and we hope the judicous policy Of Mis-
sissippi will be followed by Louisiana and her sis
d ter States of the South. Should this auspiciou
result be consummated a brighter era will daw
upon our people-the whole South will present q
united front-and when move we will move a
one man and in solid, unbroken phalanx. In thi
way, and in this way only, can our equality, indie
pendence and safety. be maintained in the unior
or should that be found impossible, built up an
preserved out of it. Therefore, we again say, Ii
us have "union of the South for the sake of til
South"
RARE OLD WORKS OF ART.--The admirers of tn
fine arts are enabled to crafty their taste by tn
exhibition at the store of Messrs. Bloomfield
Steel, of two genuine and famous paintings b
Corregio and Rubens, of the dates of 1920 an
1890 respectively. They have been heretofore nc
!, tjced in these columns at some length.