New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-15
VOLUME XII.
Nem 0tleans 9ailp Grestent,
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Is, 1853.
:. UNION ,1EET1scs" AT rnE NORTH.

French
Chamber OF Deputies. Paris was in a state of in
snrrectiof' HE troops of Louis Philippe were
e'ther aeieatcd' or mad joined the popllace. The
haShhlcct capital Of the Bonrbons was in the
hands oi the Insurgents and the most splendid
lhtole III Europe was rapidly crumbling from be-
feaeh nm who had been crowned as the "Citizens'
h'hS but who had been false to his pledges and
disioyal to his people. The Chamber of Deputies,
representing the people of France and of Paris,
was In session. Intense, but not noisy excitement
prevailed. Members were excited to the utmost
stretch of mental and physical tension, while an
almost unnatural calmncss prevailed showing that
"eighty events were in process of determination.
III was at this critical and momentous period of
time, that Deputy, friendly to the dynasty Of
Louis Philippe, rose in his place and proposed
that the old King should be forced to abdeate and
that the executive department of the Government
be coniided to a Regency, to be named by the
Chamber, until the son and heir of Louis Philippe
should attain his majority. For an instant the pro-
position seemed to take favorably. A dead, painful
silence, reigned throughout the vast hail. and had
the question been instantly put it would have
probably carried. Bnt the silence was broken by
Il stentoran voice that rang powerfully through
the hall, and echoed and reech0ed again. Ir IL
TOO LATE
1t ras too late! Those -four words doomed Louis
Philippe and his race to perpetual exile from their
native land, and made them homeless wanderers
upon the face Of the earth. Had the propostion
been made twenty -four forty-eight hours sooner
it would have succeeded beyond all question, and a
Bourbon instead Of Napoleon, would now be
presiding over the destnics of the finest empire
upon which the sun shines.
The merchants and business men of New York.
Philadelphia and Boston, are about holding grand
=" Union Mass Meetings. in their respective cities
to convince their Southern brethren, as they cav
that they do not approve Of the conduct of the get
tiers up OF servile nsurreetions of murderers rob
bers and traitors! This is exceedingly kind and
considerate ON their part and will be duly appre.
ciated by the Southern people But it strikes us
they are rather late in the day and that if they do
not do morc-much more-than hold public meet.
ings and pass grandiloqueny patriotic resolutions,
full of most excellent sound but wholly destitute
of practical value or results-that they will hear a
strong, solemn, and determined voice-tle voice
ofa wronged, despoed, and plundered people
majestic in its grandeur and allpotent in its
nnion-rising from tie hills and valleys mountains
and plains. cities and villages of the South. and
peang in thunder tones across Mason and Dixon's
Line: lT Is TOO LATE."
When Virginia soil was outraged--when Virgin.
ia sovereignty was dcficd-when Nirrnians were
wantonly assassinated their native soil-and
when an attempt made to subject the rnatrons
and maidens of Virginia to fate worse than death
thousand fold-these patriotic Union-sayers of
New York and Boston had little or nothing to say.
Some of them deprecated it-but the masses of the
people, by their acts, sustained it. At the cleo
tions held in New York and Massachusetts few
days after the Harpers Ferry foray the Seward
ties triumphed in both States by overwhelming ma
jorities! Here is gigantic fact-a startling truth
which offsets million fold the proceedings of the
patriotic public meetings to which we have re-
ferred. Why? 1t shows that the participators in
these Union meetings, granting for the sake of ar
gnmcnt, that they all sincere in their move.
ment. are wholly unable to stem the tide of adj
verse public sentiment, and that they are therefore
powerieSs for good, and no matter how well dis.
posed, can do nothing to protect the people of the
south in the enjoyment of their constitutional
rights. Consequently, their efforts should be
judged by this standard, and by none other il our
citizens would measure the present and the future
by the rule of truth.
But, while we desire to he rs charitable as nos
sbc, we shall not shut our eyes to stern truths no
matter whom we please or whom offend. These
New Workers, Philadelphians and Bostonians are
not half so patriotic and fraterna as they pretend
to be. They did not move in condemnation of
John Browns murderous raid until the pulpits and
press OF the North had made him a martyr--uniil
the air of the North had echoed and reecliocd with
the clang of funeral bells-unti the heavens of the
North were full Of the smoke of minute guns fred
IN honor of the memory of thief a MUIR
derer and traitor-and until they saw that this
direct and Indirect, this active and passive svlnpa-
thy OF the North had produced in the South Il feel.
ing so deep and absorbing. so potential and all
that it threatened the destruction of
their entire Southern trade, by the passage of nom
intercourse laws, which would be tantamount, |
also, to a radical change in the course of foreign
Weopine that the pockct-nerye has
more to do with these movements than brotlerlv |
love and patriotism, although we assail neither the
honesty nor the motives of any one concerned.
We only state facts. and argue and illustrate from
legitimate premises.
No. no! These Northern Unon-savcrs must do
more than hold patriotic public meetings if they
would retain their hold upon the people of the South
They must crush out Abolition in their States Z.
they must stop stealing our property: they must
rown down all sympathy with nlrlerers and |
traitors: they must preserve invioate the guaran-
tees of our common constitution: they must treat
Is as brethren, not as outlaws as they do now
hey must do unto as have done unto them.
md then, perhaps, the old fraternal feeling NAV be
and disruption prevented.
But, until these things are done it is idle to hold
public meetings. The people Of the South, being
1t last fully aroused, too wise to be caiocd by
oud-soundng resolutions, which are as powcrlcss
Is the paper upon which they are written, and |
equally as useless. When the pixies of Northern
assassns at the thro ats Of their wives and chill
lren, and the torches of Northern ncendiaries are
ready to bring about general confagraton of
their homes and tiresdes, it will not do for a few
hundred merchants in New York, Philadelphia and
Boston, (anxious to retain their Southern trade)
utterly helpless TO control public sentiment and ac-
ton in their own States to meet and pass resolll-
tons, in the hope of quietng the Indignation which
has been aroused.
No! we say again. They must do more, or else
mementous day is near at hand. When traitors
bear sway. as is the case throughout almost the
entire North and patriots are driven to private
station, it is time the threatened section organized
md armed.
There are good men at the North To them we
'ay, act more and talk less, without they would
near the wor(S-''T Is TOO LaTE''-tLundercd in
heir ears. The times require action-acton-
action.
The Y SAEIETIEs HplcrOftts finn oil