New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-24
THE COOPERATION MEETING.

THE COOPERATION MEETING.
| The friends Of united Southern action otherwise
the Cooperationists. held public meeting at Con,
cert Hall, on Poydras street. The hall was crowd.
ed, but this is NOT saying it large meeting for
the hall is anything but large one. Probably a
thousand people were present, and of these large
proportion were Separate secessionists.
The meeting was called to order by Mr. Rozier
who nominated for President. J. 4. Eavbn Esq.,
and for Vice Presidents, hessrs. Chas. Briggs, Il.
B. Sumner, E. Hirart, E. Parmele, Jacob Barker,
and large number OF other citizens.
Mr.. Rozier moved that the Chair appoint COM
mitee of seven to draft and report resolutions ex
pressive OF the sense of this community on the po.
litieai questions of the day.
Messrs. Geo. NJ Pinchard r. II. Marr, 7. D. Har-
per- Geo. S. Lacey, Franklin Fl. Clack, B. F. Jonas
| and L. Madison Day, were appointed on the said
committee.
The committee retired, and then the President
Mr. Maybin, addressed the meeting at length
When he concluded the committee presented the
| following preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, During many years past associations
and large bodies of citizens in the non.sayehold
ing States have evinced and carried out the steady
purpose of assailing, by all the means they can
employ, the peculiar institutions of the Southern
States and have aided the attack by yituperatiya
addresses and speeches, by Abolition petitions to
Congress, by infiammatory discourses, and by ex-
aggerated appeals to the prejudicea and passions
of the ignorant and fanatical;
And whereas, Much sympathy has been exhibit
ed and encouragement given in the non-slavehold-
ing States to bands of lawless rufians making
attacks upon the slaveholding States, and endeay-
oring to incte insurrection among the slaves;
And whereas, A formidable and powerful party,
called Republican, existing exclusively, with slight
and insignificant exceptions, in the non-slavehold-
ing States, has proclaimed that slavery shall be
prohibited by action of Congress in the Territories
thus showing deliberate hostility to the South;
A whereas n 11.s1av abold,
States have passed laws with the design and with
the effect Of embarrassing and preventing the oper.
alton of that clause of the Constitution and the
laws of Congress passed in accordance Herewith.
in regard to the reclaimng of fugitive slaves thus
trampling on one of the clearest and most valued
rights secured to the South by the Constitution and
laws;
And whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln
and Hannibal Hamlin to the Presidency and Vice
Presidency, has given just cause of alarm to all
the citizens of the South, and requires their deter.
mined, vigorous and united action TO the principles
which it is believed will guide their administra-
tion
And whereas, We feel, as citizens of Louisiana,
that our rights have been invaded our opinions
outraged and our institutions imperiled by the ri-
umph and attitude of a sectional party;
And whereas, The danger which presents itself
to us is one we share in common with all the slave
holding States, and appears in a shape which for
bids us to separate ourselves at the present perlous
juncture from the other slayeholdng States, but.
to them our own, and to seek their sympathy and
cooperation; therefore, be it
Res0leed, That the time has come which demands
prompt and vigorous action on the part of the
South to assert and maintain her rights, and to
proclaim to the world that she will no longer SUBJ
NIT to the evils which environ her.
heSotued, Ihat we are in favor of a thorough
cooperation of the sayeholdng States in this crisis
Whleh mas peen thrust upon us, both in order that
we may present an unbroken front in the mainten-
ance OF rights in which all have an equal interest,
and that1n case ofreVolution we may Immediately
form new government and avoid an interreenuu.
with its dsqniet, doubt and insecurity.
ReSotued, That we are opposed to all separate
and hasty State action, believing that it will tend
to defeat or delay cooperation, and prevent a
thorough union of Southern sentiment.
Resoteed That in times like these, when each
day is full of changes, and no man can pretend to
read the FUTURE it is the duty the people to select
men to represent them in the Convention of ability,
honor and known devotion to the South, and that
such delegates should go to the Convention an
hd'fateted and unpledged free to act for the best
interests of their constituents
Resotred That it is the duty of the Convention
of the State of Louisiana, which is to assemble at
the city OF Baton Rouge, on the 23d of January
next
Fl'st-To make provision for Convention of
the slaveholdtng States for the purpose of united
Southern action relative to the question of slavery
aow agtating the public mind, should Conven,
ton for united Southern action be endorsed by
vote of the people of the State.
Second-Ho provide for the secession of the
State, in case secession should be afterwards en-
dorsed by a vote of the people of the State
Tttrd-To submit Immediately the questions of
united Souther cooperation and separate state se-
cessien to the people Of the State, to determine
which of the TIVE measures they are in favor of
If the vote of the people be in favor of united
Southern cooperation, then the provisions of the
Convention, relative to united Southern action are
to be regarded as fnal and complete. If the vote
of the people be in favor of separate State aeces-
sion, then the action Of the Convention, predieated
thereupen, shall become final.
The resolutions were put to vote and adopted,
though not unanimously, by any means; for a
great part of the meeting cried no. ON the question
of adoption.
Mr.. George s. Lacy, the venerable Jacob
Barker and Mr.. Isaac N. Morse, subsequently, ad.
dressed the meeting. All, in warm language, re-
pudiated the name of submissionists, and spoke
severely Of the leaders of the Southern Rights
Or Separate Secession party. The air now so
popular, the q Marseillaise," was anathamatized
IS profane and atheistic production, born of
blood and revolution; whilst Yankee Doodle. z
he Star spangled-Bauner,p etc., with the stars