New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-31
5NeD Orleans 1aiIp Crescent,
SNoNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 81, 1860.
THth 20 sCo-opERATIoNIsTsn AND DEL
AWARE

THE !" Co-oPERATIoNIsTs, AND DEL
AWARE.
The soperatonists of New Orleans have put
forth Platform and nominated candidates to run
upon it, whfh declares that they are in favor of q
:" thorough cooperation of the slaveholding States"
and that they aye opposed to all separate and
hasty State action y and then they proceed to de-
fine the duty of he Convention which is to meet
in Baton Rouge olA the 23d of January, in certain
resolves, which, if sarried out, would prevent Lou
isiana from any COO eration whatever, until long
after the 4th of Mares\
Delaware is styled Savehoding State. She is
always counted as one q the fifteen slayeholding
States; and she ranks as auch, whether rghtfuily
or wrongfully, with Louitana, Mississippi Ala
bama, Tennessee, and the glance Of the South
ern commonw ealths, who holla n immense interest
in our peculiar domestic nstitthon.
If Delaware refuses to join IA South, such a
thing as thorough cooperatl,N of the slave
holding states and that united S. thern action"
preached by the cooperationists oix;iew Orleans,
is impossible. Louisiana cannot ctS,oerate with
Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennssee, Geor-
gia, Florida, the two Caronas Virginia, kentucky,
Maryland, Missouri and Texas, ocitl,om pelaiGare
c6operdtes and antics also If Delaware 4efuses,
the " thorough cooperation" fails the United
Southern action falls to the ground; ana no
Southern State can assume its sovereignty andact
for itself, because complete cooperation and thor
ough Southern action is defeated by the voice Of
little Delaware!
This is the gist of the platform of the c5opera-
tionistsn and "united Southern actonm men of
| New Orleans, without taking into consideration
other points which propose delays until after the
Abolitionsts are seated in power, and are invested
with the full authority of the General Government
to oppress, ruin and degrade US. H"..@
What humlating position in which to place a
sovereign State! What centemptiblc attitude
would Louisiana be made to occupy if this pro-
gramme should be carried out! What blot upon
her escutcheon What blur upon the character
of her chivalrous people! She, proudly claiming
independence and positive independence within
herself, constrained to wait until Delaware takes
action, and comedies with her What an abase-
ment of State dignity What an abandonment of
State respect What an gnominious surrender Of
the cardinal principle of freedom which lies at the
foundation of our government!
| We can conceive Of nothing more humiliatinp
yet if the programme of the !" c6operationists y
and "united Southern action" gentlemen of this
metropolis should happen to triumph it will be
impossible for Louisiana to cooperate with her
Southern sisters as long as that State declines.
She will be contemplate appendage to the tail
of an uninfuential State-Southern only in name,
| not in interest.
How much Southern feeling is there in Delaware?
Precious little, we should imagine, judging from a
telegraphie dispatch published in the daily papers
last Saturday morning. That dispatch was dated
Wilmington, 2sth December, and stated that the
citizens of that place were I" firing salute OF
twenty-five guns IN honor Of the evacuation Of
Fort Moultrie and Major Anderson and his men,
The persons who fired that salute would proba
bly, have fired one thousand guns of rejoicing il
Major Anderson, prior to eyaeuatng Fort Moultrie
had turned his batteries upon Charleston and ut
terly destroyed that great and beautiful city, with
every man, woman and child it contained! vii,
mingtonians and Bostoniaus, North and South
would alike have been delighted, we have little
question, if such tremendous slaughter and de-
struction had taken place. We envy not the feel
ings and hearts of such men.
Yet, according to the platform of the q cooper.
ationsts y and 'unted Southern action" men Of
| New Orleans, Louisiana must not move until Della.