New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-24
sEeeting In Ne.y York.
Great

The Union demonstration at tie Cooper Tnsti-
tute, in the city of New York, Monday evening,
18th inst, is represented to have been over
flowing and very enthusiastic affair." The hall was
packed, and such was the multitude in the streets
that five outside meetings were organized. The
speakers in the hall were Ir. Joshua j. Henry, the
Chairman Mayor Wood Hon. Fl. w. Hiiard, Of
Alabama: and Ex-Governor Morehead, Of Ken
tucky. At the outside meetings the speakers were
ex-Judge Thompson, Nelson Smith, Egbert L. We
lie, Hon. John Gochrane, Eli ?. Norton, John 7.
O'Flynn, Messrs. Gilchrist Godfrey, Eugene otsul-
liyan, David Smith and Others. Letters were re-
ceived from Geo Lunt, Of Boston, Geo. r. Clayton
and Ex-Governor Washington Hunt. The utmost
harmony pervaded the proceedings, and the propo-
sition TO appoint a committee to nominate one
straight-out Union ticket was received with great
applause. We copy the resolutions which were
adopted:
Resolped That the citizens Of the United States
here assembled now declare their reverence for the
Constitution and their unalterable attachment to
the National Union, and they proclaim their liked
determination to do all in their power to preserve
it for themselves and their posterty. They an
nounce no other principles, establish. no other
platform, but content themselves with broadly
resting where their forefathers have rested, upon
the Constitution of these United States, wishing
no safer guide, no higher law.
ReS0lced That the Government of these United
States was formed by con0ining in political unity
widespread geographical sections materially and
necessarily differing not only in climate, products
and modes Of industry, but in social and domestic
Institutions and any cause that shall permanently
array these sections in political hostility, and es
tabsh parties founded only on geographical dis
tinctons, must inevitably dissolve the American
Union.
ResoEUed That in such an exigency we may and
must disregard any subordinate questions Of ad-
minstration in exercising the constitutional powers
of the Government. II is enough for us now to
know that the stability Of the Union is imperilled
by the principles and proceedings OF the Repub
lican party, manifested by the nomination of can
didates openly favorng and advocating constant
and i,7.epressible conflict between geographical
sections, the continuance of which must inevitably
1 subvert our National Government, and we pledge
ourselves to all proper and constitutional means
| to defeat their election.
| Res0lred, That, as our common English tongue,
| our common ancestry, our common laws our com
| mon interests the common sacrifice of our great
fathers, from Bunker Hill to Savannah our com
mon rivers and bays, linking and internking us as
one people; the very chains of mountins that
rivet us by the eternal rocks, as if by Almighty
hands, each and all proclaim such ''confct' false
it is our duty, and ALL to sacrifice all past pre-
JUDGES or past passions upon the altar of our COM
mon country, in order to demonstrate
That there is no internal conflict in our beloved
| country which wisdom cannot guide, which love of
country cannot Suppress and that instead of being
enemies in peace even, or in state of conflict
| or war, we are 1Flenus Dfelnfen, G0nntfymen,
| working in harmony for a common good and a
common glory.
That, in the words of Webster, we have g One
Country, one Constitution one Destiny" And in
the words of jackson, the I" Union must and shall
be preservedm in all the eompaCts, concessions
and compromises bequeathedto us by our fathers
And now, to carry into practice these deelara-
tons, be it resolved
l. That as Electors of President and Vice
| President, were the creations of the Federal
| Constitution, stepping in between the direct vote
Of the people and cutting off their direct vote for
| President and Vice President, thus estopping the
people from the direct expression for their prefer
ences for the Presidency The only left for
| u.s. the people, all agreeing upon the sacrifice OF
mere men-preferences, is, to insist upon cleo
toral ticket, in order to present one common front
against the common adversary of national peace
concord, and unity.
2. That as we are mans property, belonging
neither to Breckinridge, Bell, Douglas, but our
own mas .ers, with independent wills and powers
no mere party convention nor political machine
can harness us to drag draw mere men, and thus
in diverse harness to drag and draw each other to
pieces and therefore we should have no mere
Breckenridge ticket, nor Bell ticket, Douglas
| ticket, but common Union ticket.
3. And that in order to create and seeure such a
ticket the President of this meeting be authorized
to select committee of fifteen gentlemen, vested
with full powers to adopt such an electoral ticket
as the crisis and the country now demand.