New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-26
OUR POLITICAL CLUBS.

II the people Of this city don't stop forming Bel
and Everett clubs, we shall positively have 70 en-
large our paper as to get in the notices o. tei
different meetings. II has been few weeks oliy
since the first club was formed; but they nave
since been organized fast that 1t IS dilneoit 70
s.keeu the RIM, of them. We thought, in the be.
ginning, that there would be about two clubs for
each District Of the CITY, making eight in ALL Very
soon after tile first organization, however, we
counted up twelve; not long afterwards We no.
ticed in procession tifteen-then the number
swelled to twenty-and now we have twenty three,
leaving out those of Jefferson City. We published
in yesterdays paper the particulars of the forma
ton Of two new ones-the Kentucky Club and the
Crittenden Guard. As Byron, in the opening canto
Of Don Juan says about heroes, SO we say about
the Bell and Everett clubs of this eity-amost
every day and hour brings forth a one.
Our excellent campaign neighbor, the Signal
after filling up two columns with Directory OF
these different organizations, will have still further
to enlarge its bounds; and il they keep on form
ing as they have been doing lately, nothing short
of q whole broadside of the paper will meet the
requirements Of full and complete Directory.
Now, all this means something. People would
not go to the expense and trouble of forming these
| clubs and keeping them up, merely for amuse-
ment. They show that the popular heart is reached
that there is work to be done-that there is an
apprehension Of danger in the future, and that
great popular revolution, sweeping away the old
order of things and starting the ship of State upon
new tack, has become one of the imperative pc.
litical necessities of the times.
We might naturally look for some enthusiasm
among the clubs composed Of young gentlemen
the Bell Ringers, the Bell Champions, the Everett
Knights the Fossils Guard the Minute Men of go,
and other organizations comprising the flower of
our young men, many of whom are to vote at the
next election for the first time But when we look
at the clubs of our older citizens, we find them
animated by spirit of equal determination not so
demonstratiye in its character, but just earnest
and sincere. The great feature of our last pro-
cession, by common consent, was the Fossil
Club composed of citizens over forty years Of
age, many of them venerable gentlemen who were
sacrificing the comforts of an evening at their
own homes to give their sanction to this cause
old and honorable citizens, the patriarchs of New
Orleans, who have come forward at the call Of
their country to aid inrestoring peace and security
to this great Union, the blessings Of which they
have SO long enjoyed and lived under, and natur-
ally desire to transmit uninpaired, to their child
rem. Such spectacle could not have been looked
upon by any one with Indifference. OF all the
political movements in this city, none has so much
stern significance as this.
One Of the latest organized Clubs is called the
sCRIrTENDEN Guard.n We beg to congratulate
this club most heartily upon its name. The Crit
tenden Guardi It is in honor of the foremost living
statesman of the country-a man venerable for his
years, his wisdom his unblemished honor personal
and political, his glowing patriotism, his half
century Of devoted service to his country! A man
who, though he has passed his three score and ten
has buckled on his armor and dashed into the polit
cal arena with all of his old ardor and impetuos-
ity! A man whose voice yet rings out, clearly
and eloquently for the Constitution and the Union
A man who knows what it has cost this country to
attain its present proud and happy position OF ma
terial prosperity and would not willingly see it all
perilled by sectional broils and civil war. All
honor to such man. and to the club which is
honored by his illustrious name!
W. 10 nnlitical friends thrnu ohont
the State the necessity of the same sun =.
ization that we have in this city. Let clubs be
formed everywhere. Let the people be assembled,
and the real, living issues Of the contest be ex
planned to them. Let them be assured that this is
| no ordinary political battle between national
parties, but contest involving the domination of
| the South by powerful and aggressive sectional
| organization in the North. Orleans will nobly
stand to her duty-of that be assured. 1t remains
for the other parishes to do theirs, and to sustain
us in the effort which our friends here are SO
earnestly and CALAMITY making.
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