New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-30
SOUTHERN RIGHTS ASSIMILATION.

On the evening Of November 23d a public meeting
was held in New0reans for the purpose Of forming
"Southen Rights Association" The following pre-
anble was adopted:
Uh1eos, We, the citizens of New. Orleans and NJ
the State Of Louissna ignoring all former political
ties, nanes and assooaiiDns have met for the purs
OF declining our sentiments on the present moDentous
CHRIS IN the history Of country, and 10 form 4.
Southern party and state lis objects feel that due rs
gard fortEe OIiniOn Of Ourfellowmen mIes 20 avow
the aud causes for such step which an made
up by the history Of the insults aggression and wrongs
heal ed upon Southern men by those who should
be friends and brethren but who really and in
fact our worst eDemieswe the northern portion
the following facts:
They have for more than thirty wears assailed the
institution of African Slavery in the South and have
made our Federal Len htnIe grad instrument for
incendarism and Addition;
They deny to us a common property in orr Terrific
Tes, acquired equally by our money and blood. the
on the ground that tie people Of the South with their
inttltutions, are not worthy 20 colonze them;
They have paced laws IN majority Of their State
iegslstuTes multiplying the provisions Of the Cons,itu-
ton Of the United States for the recovery Il fugitive
slaves and the laws Of Congress passed thersunder,
and made IL a criminal oense in any one 10 aid IN the
execution Of these laws Of Congress;
They have rendered representation In Congress Of no
avail TO protect the interests of the Southland THUG
taxation without representation Ia practically enforced
over US; ..
They have proclaimed that there IL Aigher lar
than the Constitution and laws Of country, and
that they will disregard their Oaths and trnpe npon
our rights;
They have organized as sociatons TO steal saves
and prevent their recapture and have murdered tbee
masters in seeking their rendition;
They have invaded Southern soil and murdered our
inofending citizens aid men among them, high IL po-
ston and office have bestowed praise and eulogiums
upon the assassinswbile the Executives OF several Of
tEer States refused 10 deliver parties implicated in
these crimes, upon proper and legal requisitions;
They have sent seditious Pam and papers among
us-whe sixty+ight of their embers Of Conress in
dorsed " Helpers impending CRISIS" an inoeadlary
book, and utterly subversiye Of Southern ri2hts and
safety;
They have sent emissaries among us to burn orr
towns and distribute and poison among save5
to 6esolate the Sonth;
BY their fanaticism and intolerance, they have
PEELED separate from them in our churches aud
other religious institutions;
And recently, az if TO add the crowning insult and
wrong to the long catalogue, and 70 compel 10 de-
clare severed the last tie that binds us together az
naton-Wih the cboi Of three national aud ooeeryt-
tive candidates, they have, by large majority of
strictly sectional vote elected Abraham Lincoln and
Hannibal Hamlin TO TIE high Offices Of President and
President of the United States-represeptatiye
men OF all that is Odous and unjust TO the South
Black Republicans in name aud Abohtionsts at heart
the first of whom is the author Of the doctrine that
that there Ia iTTePressibe cOlftct tetreed tie
North and South" and has openly avowed that he
will disregard the decision Of the Supreme Court Of tho
United States declaring II The nRnt OF the Soutn 10
carry slave property into the Territories;
And believing ~ we do that by these declarations
ard acts the Northern States have virtually sutyered
the Constitution and dissolved the Union and that the
only safeguard for rights, property and liberties is
in prompt action; therefore, agree TO form poti-
cal association.
The Following article from the Constitution Of the
Association, states the purposes of the organization:
ART. 2. Tie objects Of this Association shall be TO
encourage Southern independence Of interest and feel
md IN NJ fhaN
States And should any State States in tie ex-
ercise OF their sovereign right, withdraw from the
Union, and the Federal Government attempt coercion,
to extend to such State States cordial suppor
and sympathy; to all honorable means to bring
about, under the sanction Of State Convention, the
withdrawal of the State Of Louisiana from the present
Union, and the assertion of her independents and
sovereignty; and finally, to promote in every way the
establishment of a Confederated Government of the
Southern States, such of them viii unite for that
purpose. .nrt