New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-28
Nf6 ORLEANS @aiIp Crestelrt.
PRACTICAL COOPERATION.
FRIDAY MoRNING, pEcEMBER IS. lseo.

The following dispatches from Charleston ap-
peared in our paper Of yesterday. We deem them
of sufficient Importance to produce them again this
morning:
CHARLESTON, Dec. 25.-Judge withers reported
fayorably to the sending of Commissioners to each
Of the slavehoding States. the adoption OF the
Constitution Of the United States as basis for the
Provisional Government of the Southern States
and instructing the Commissioners to urge the
Southern States to send delegates to a general
Southern Convention. The report was made the
special order Of tomorrow.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 26.-There was an effort made
to procure recess until the 18th of January which
was tabled, when Mr.. Rhett offered an ordinance
providing for Convention of the seeding slave
States, to arrange for the formation Of Southern
Confederacy. Montgomery, Alabama was desig-
mated as the place at which it should convene.
The ordinance recommends that there shall be
the same number of delegates to this Convention
as there are members of the present Congress,
and that the Constitution shall be adopted by
vote of the States.
The Constitution of the United States was sug-
gested as suitable basis for that Of the proposed
Southern Confederacy.
1t also recommends the appointment of eight
delegates, by the State of South Carolina, and the
sending of Commissioner to each sayeholding or
seeding State.
The measure was referred to the proper commit
tee.
Now, here is the sort Of cooperation that is de-
ever be brought about. Those who have been de-
claiming against South Carolina, asserting that she
was engaged in the selfish business of draggingn
the other Southern States out of the Union, leay-
ing them to bear the brunt of the occasion, while
she herself safe and secure will see with what
injustice they have treated Ler. She herself is the
first State to propose, in an authoritative manner
the formation of Southern Confederacy She
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the Union, general Southern Convention, the
adoption of the present Constitution, and a full
and firm league and alliance with her sister States
in common Confederacy. In short, so far from
being averse to cooperation, she proposes it as one
Of the first acts Of her independent position, but
proposes the only sort Of cooperation that Is now
practical, or that ever was desirabIe-the c0opera-
ton of the independent States, after their with
drawa, with view to their more perfect union'
in sort of family confederacy of all the States of
the South.
There is now no need Of cooperation before the
act of separate withdrawal. 1t can best be had
afterwards as South Carolina proposes, even if it
were not, now, the only mode. Those States
which are determined to 60 out of the Union are
going out, whether there be cooperation or not
SO that, in truth, in respect, can the c0opera.
tioniss now find single argument to sustain their
position.
South Carolina knows, as we all know, that the
interests of all the Southern States, as well as their
institutions, are identical. They are Joined to-
gether by every conceivable tie, social and politi.
cal and those whom God has joined together, no
man can keep asunder. The Southern States, by
an irresistible law of gravtation, will come to-
gether for the formation of grand Southern Con
federacy-and South Carolina takes the initiative
in the movement. If the c6operationists,' before
secession, have now a foot of ground to stand
upon, we do not know where it is.