Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-03-03

GREAT UNION MEETING IN New YORK
The New York papers, OF the evening IT the
22d. com. to us with enthusiastic reports of
the great Union meeting held in that city the
night before, Washington's birthday eve. The
Express says:
The Peter Coo per Institute was on Tues
day evening filled to such an extent as it had
not been since its opening. From every part
of the city men who loved the country Of
their birth, ave, and even men who loved the
country of their adoption-men who gloried
in the words of the immorta statesman. DAN
iel Webster: = One country. one constitution,
one destiny"-(which motto was distinctly
visible on the right of the platform) assem-
bled IN their might to evince their love for
the Union. The place was adorned in a very
handsome manner, the pillars being neatly
decorated. Among the other decorations
were the words of Andrew jackson. The
Union must and shall be preserved = and the
glorious motto of Henry Clay, "The Union,
the constitution. and the enforcement Of the
law"
At half past seven O'clock, Lieut.. Gen. Win
field Scott, the veteran hero of Mexico-he
who, next to Washington, lives in the hearts
OF the phople of the United States-entered
the hall. No pen could describe the enthu-
siasm with which the gallant General was
welcomed. Cheer upon cheer rose from
who was, il not " the hero of a hundred
fights" the promoter of has country's good
The platform was beautifully ornamented
with American flags, and the various pillars
were swathed in the same.
The meeting was presided over by James
W. Gerard: Esq, assisted by James Brown
Henry GrinnelI, and some twenty others
among the first citizens of New York, and
letters read from Edward Everett, Washing
ton Hunt, Daniel D. Barnard, &c. Eloquent
speeches were also made by the President
and others.
The resolutions are all ofa highly conser-
vative character, breathing the pure love Of
country over the too-often mistaken path o:
duty to party. Nothing but their great length
prevents our publishing them.
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GoLD AND SILVER Us. PApE CURRExcY.-
During the recent Senate debate on the cur
rency of the District of Columbia, Nj. BEN
jamin, of Louisiana, spoke as follows:
And now, sir, as to the other question abont
limiting the extent or the minimum of the
notes which may be allowed to be in %circula-
ton inxthe District assure the Senator that
the experiment has been made in my State
with signal success. 1 have not, for a long
series Of years, seen a bank note in the State
Of Louisiana of less than FIVE dollars. Our
people are prepared now. and very probably
within a year or two will extend the limit to
bills of ten dollars; and we intend so 10 90
on, until our currency. such as is daily used
amongst the people for purposes of trade.
shall be exclusively gold and silver: aud bank
notes shall be used only for that class OF CON-
merce in which they may faily be considered
as a circulation similar to that provided by
bills of exchange and checks. Large bust
ness, the business of the wholesale merchant
is conducted by these bank notes. which serve
as checks on the banks, and are, in point of
fact, check, just as the merchant draws mon
ey deposited there to his own credit; and the
men who take them, the men who deal in
them, know what they are, and understand
what they are doing; but the money that
clrcuIates in the hands Of the people. the
money that is in the hands of the hucksters
IN the market place, the money that passes
through the hands of small and poor families
into the grocer's hands, the money with
which |aborers are paid, tnat ought to be be-
yonG the possibility of doubt or suspicion.
1t is SO with us and know that, from my
being infatuated to the use of gold and silver
alone in the smaller transactions Of life, there
is nothing that annoys me more, when |
make al. occasional visi: to a Northern city,
than to find the miserable, worthless rags
that are handed to me in change for a five or
ten dollar bill, il | happen to have occasion
to change one. lido not know what they are;
l cannot tell whether they have any value; |
am obliged to take them on trust. l am
obliged to pass them, ignorant of whether
am giving to a person money or a rag. 1t is
all a mere matter of confidence between man
and man. The system must explode some
day; and when it explodes, it will explode
to the loss Of that class OF the community
least able to bear the loss, and best entitled
to the protection of the Legislature.
The FIGHr FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP