New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-03
r.r pAILY N CANAL srREET.

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ror marty composed of fossiis.N old gentle
men. dead men, etc. as is said Of the sur r,.ofi
ers Of Bell and Everett by our friends OF .ne demo
cratic persuasion, the rally in lanai sti'sst on
Wednesday night was one oft q nostestesordinary
and wonderful political esents we have ever known
A stranger, unacfs fsdainted with oar people III
political sense, whose ideas OF them had been de.
rived from Democratie sohrees only, would have
expected to find in Canal street en- that occasion
merg scattering collectien petrited human bodies
lying, rigid and lifeless, upon the pavenentsfos>
siliferous remains, 'orly of what had once been
living and breathing personages political mum
mics, dried and aesiceated many long yescs ago
with here and there, perhaps, venerable citizen,
tetteging along under age aad infrnfsies, and re-
misaing him of the retired physician who ad
vertises euSck medicines in the newspapers, and
eScites or sympathies by the pathetic announce
ment that his " sands of life aro nearly run out. y
| But, how quickly would his opinions have changed,
on viewing the vast assemblage which thronged
the hzoad boulevard, instinct with life excitement
and animation and glowing with the patrfetic i'm
pulses of youth and the enthusiasm Of earnest mea
engaged in glorious cause!
! There were, it is true, old men at the grand
rally on Canal street-old men who do not usually
| take any interest in political meetings, but who
now come forth at the bugle call and rally to the
standard of the Constitution and the Union. There
were old men there, and we were glad to see them
venerable men who do not wish to leave their
children engaged in civil war but still citizens OF
that common Union which has dispensed to then
so many civil and political blessings. There were
middle-aged men there-the enthusiasm of yorth
less than usually tempered with the stability end
| steadiness of advancing years. There were yeung
| men there-young men who have yet, q great
many OF them, to cast their &rst vote. And there
were also the ladies' thronging the balconies and
banquettes, waving their handkerchiefs the pro-
cessons passed, and their bright eyes heamng
with the patriotic exciteEent of the occasion.
Truly the rally of Wednesday night was glorious
and inspiriting demonstration!
II was gotten up on brief notice. Some of the
clubs had been formed only few days before.
There was no distinguished orator from abroad to
attract by his eloquence There were no speakers
except those resident in the city. No special
efforts were made to sesure large crowd. The
thousands who were present in the teeming streets
attested how deep and earnest was the interest
they felt in the cause, by sort of spontaneous
demonstration, the lke.ofwhieh has rarely, if ever
been seen before in this city.
II was not the pageant which attracted the
people-not the mere spectacle. Such car be
seen almost any day upon streets. in the shape
of military and civic professions. It was mani
festly an outpouring of the masses, as when the
popular heart is stirred by deep feeling, and men
are in earnest in some great enterprise.
New Orleans, by this demonstration, sends
greeting to the Constitutional Union men of the
whole nation. The chief commercial city of the
South has spoken; end she speaks for the Consti-
tuition and the Union, not as represented by.a set
OF fanatical sectonalists at the North, nor by
divided and helpless Democracy, but by the honest
masses Of the people'w believe that the Union
may be preserved with honor to all sections, by
the election of those national, tried true and
trusty statesmen, John Bell and Edward Everett