Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-11-17
Let Us Deliberate.

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The petition in circulation in New Orleans
requesting Gov. Moore to convene an extra
session of the Legislature at an early day.
seems to meet with favor by all classes OF
people, irrespective of party. Upon this
subject the New Orleans Bee has the follow
ing article, and we fully endorse the senti-
ments of our contemporary. Says the Bee:
The proposition to hold a State Conven-
ton for the purpose of inausurating a settled
policy with respect to the questions now ag.-
tating the people, and of responding to the
popular demand for action, appears to en-
counter no objection. even from well known
conservative sources. Our contemporary Of
the Bulletin gives its sanction to the contem-
plated measure, and We ourselves Con per-
ceive no possible objection to it. There are
sundry powerful reasons why a State Conven-
tion should be held. In the first place, it
will give direction and aim to public opinion.
which is now ag~itated and fuctuating- As
soon as our citizens are assured that their
feelings and convictions will be represented
in the amplest solemn form provided by the
Constitution, they will be content to await
the result of a Convention, and will postpone
further movements. Secondly. a Convention
will do away with the necessity Of hasty and
premature decisions. Its course will be de-
liberate, and whatever itmuy determine will
spring from a careful and we|I-matured con-
sideration of our dearest rights and highest
sense of duty. As the embodiment OF the
patriotism, the sagacity, the wisdom and the
experience of the State, a Convention will
command the unbounded confidence of our
people. Moreover. in an assemblage of this
kind Louisiana will not stand alone. Most OF
the cotton States have already provided, or
will speedily provide for the very exigency
which has occurred and indeed with the
solidarity of interest and institutions which
binds together every one of the slaveholdins
commonwealth Of the South, it is next to
impossible for Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky.
and Tennessee to stand aloof from us. They
must be brought into our common cause, and
by uniting with US, they will add immensely
to the weight and power of Southern opin-
ion. Whatever the South. as an unbtoken
demands from the North for the pre-
of her clear and constitutional
rights, is not likely to be refused, unless in
deed the North is resolutely bent on driving
US to extremities."
"We presume no one, whether in favor of.
opposed to violent measures, will object
TO the memomorial now in circulation re-
Gov. Moore to call the Legislature
in extra session at an early day. The
authority Of that body must be passed set
ting forth the time and place for the election
If delegates, and the time for the assembling
Of the Convention. We hold indeed that
those who look to a temperate and we'll con-
policy on that part of the State as
the most judicious and advisable. should re-
that an opportunity is now presented
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he Convention can meet. the torment exist
ing in the public mind will have measurably
subsidized, ard the people will be prepared to
treat the crisis with the GOODNESS and dispas-
sionsteness whic the possible gravity OF the
consequences imperatively requires.
For our Own part we take no step back
wards. We love the Union. and still trust !
nat it may be preserved and perpetuated:
hat a wall will be found by which we may
oe led through the wilderness without st,ife.
md especially without the terrible necessity
If civil commotion. To this end all good
citizens should labor. But while we love
The Union, and would give much to keep it
lnbroken, Louisiana claims the undertaking
allegiance Of all her sons, and such we shall
rot be found wanting in the day of trial.