New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-24
Neh Orleans Duly Crestent.
aBELL AND EVERETT" UNION MASS MEET
ING At THE STOCK LANDING.

aBELL AND EVERETT" UNION MASS MEET
ING AT THE STOCK LANDING,
This meeting, in pursuance OF the announcement
heretofore made took place last evening at thclo
caIity designated. OF course, 1t was not to be cx-
pected that the Canal street monster meetings
would be ecpsed in numbers, but quite cosy
little crowd gathered for the occasion, and quite
lively one it got to be before the termination.
The meeting having been called to order by 7.
6. Noel, Esq, the following nominations were
made and ratifed
Prestdent-James P. Freeet Esq.
lice P1testdefts Hon +. Gardere, Messrs. II.
Noble, Wm. McDuf D. Nafe, Il. Charleyille, A. N.
Ogden, u. II. Wilson, n. Yeatman, Phillip Shaw, D.
s Dewees ! y ,3 n Keller p GarmeTgere, Yga, D. g
Secretaries Warren Woodson, j. 4. Treaudeau.
Mr.. James Otis, Of the Pieayune, was then intro
duced, and addressed the meeting at considerable
length, and upon the conclusion Of his remarks the
following resolutions were read
Whereas, distinguished and patriotic citizens,
without regard to personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT, or
party or sectional ambition, adopted and recon-
mended national and conservative platform re-
presenting the true sentiment of the Presidency
and yioe-Presidency, who are eminently suitable
and Trustworthy; therefore be it
Resotted That the United States is Con-
fedefaey Of Sovereign Republics, and that the SOW
powers delegated in the Federal Constitution that
the Constitution the fruit valor and
wisdom. and the richest political inheritance ever
enjoyed by great and free people. is in its appro-
pirate sphere, the Supreme Law ofthe land, and the
Supreme Court is the legally constituted tribunal
forts Just and authoritative exposition. The people
in every quarter Of the Republic are under the
highest obligations known to mankind to uphold
the Constitution, with the same firnness and
fidelity, in respect to the protection afforded the
peculiar institutions of other sections, that they
uphold it in regard to ~ protection OF their own
That the Union the product and development of
the Constitution is political editiee, which for
wisdom, patriotism and magnanimity is without
parallel in either ancient or modern history that
it is our strength and security against domestic
treason and foreign invasion, our pride and honor
our title to respect abroad, and the light and eH-
ample of the world in an advancing age IN civil
liberty human progress and happiness. Its dis
ruption would be the failure of the grand expert
ment of se1f-govtrnment, and would result after
fiery ordeal of civil war and utter anarchy, IN the
establishment Of the throne of military despotism
on the ruins of the Republic.
That civil liberty is based upon law that the
rights of person. Of life, OF property the pursuit Of
happiness that is meant by liberty-consist in
and are secured by obedience to just and equal
laws requiring all to use their own as not to en-
croach upon the rights of others. That while the
fewest laws possible to meet emergencies as they
arise should be passed. yet when they have been
enacted, all the power and resources at the com
mand OF the Government should be ready for their
enforce ment teaching rebellion and treason that
no quarter or liberation can be extended to any
attempt to subyert the authority and institutions OF
the country.
That John Bell, Of Tennessee, and Edward Ever
ett, OF Massachusetts, are tried statesmen who have
served their country with distinguished ability,
with dauntless moral courage, noble self-sacric,
] ing patriotism, and with the wisdom Of profound
| craftsmanship; that during the whole Of the late
sectional agitation, they have lowered high above
the storm that has been spreading its fury On the
nation, and have employed oil their great weight
1 of character and unrivaled eloquence TO calm the
| raging elements, and to sustain the Constitution
| the Union and the enforcement Of the laws; that
| their history, for more than quarter OF century
il prominent part OF the brightest page OF thelr
/ countrys history; and that they are the standard
bearers Of no party section but of the patriotic
! and conservative masses of the whole American
| people.
That we have an abiding faith in the in.
telligence, patriotism and integrity Of the
people that the genuine fire Of Liberty, how.
| ever temporarily smothered under the ashes and
embers Of partyism and sectionalism, still burns
| with unquenchable energy on the altar Of the
| national heart and in November next, from the
Atlantic to the sounding shores of the Pacific, and
from the inland seas of the North to the American
Mediterranean on the South, the glad and joyous
| shouts of freemen, gushing forth from the full
depths of glowing hearts, with loud reverberatlna
melody, will proclaim John Bell President and Ed
| ward Everett Vice President of the United States
| and that under their administration the Republic
will be settled on Its old and sure loundauohs tle
| public mind find the repose so greatly needed
and the American citizen againloo with pride and
hope upon his country moving onward in the ac
complishment of its heaVenappointed mission.
The meeting was then successfully addressed BY
Mr. Wilson, Mr.. Mari, Mr.. Ed. White and th'
| President, James 2. Freret The remarks o
some of these gentlemen were highly appropriate
and animated, eliciting the warmest appreciation
and enthusiasm of the crowd. The mere names o
Bell and Everett would call forth hearty applause
and when Mr.. Frcret concluded, by saying tina
when he turned Democrat there would be no Wing
left, the meeting seemed to be electrified.
DR.. Mckelyey, of the Executive Committee an
nounced to the assemblage that mass meeting
would be held in Canal street somewhere about TIL
LIST of September and invited their attendance
The meeting then adjourned highly pleased with tn
evening" and with the proper spirit, no doubt, per
manently aroused.