New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-11
1sIsn POSITION Dc. LOUISIANA.


PIE suese 9fiched, There never was more signal
Instance of a riding roughshod by booted and
spurred usurpers, over free people. and q brutal
tamping down OF their rights, than is afforded by
the secession movement at the South. In the tenn
nest Of IA tuntltuoas and bewdering popular ex-
citement of their own creating, the desperate and
daring secessonists induced the people to delegate
to them the high authority of Conventions to be
1 used for the defense Of their popular rights.
But no sooner had they gotten possession of this
delegated trust, than they resovedi into supreme
possssae knowle dgng no limits, contrasting no re-
isponsbility and assuming even the right to ignore
or defy the will Of the people, and impose upon
them new government without their consent
These Conventions were chosen to consult on the
troubled affairs Of the country, and devise means
for redress of grievances; hut they went far be-
You'd this. They threw OFF their responsibility, de-
prived the people Of a country, a flag name and
a history, plunged them into revolution, and re-
fused to submit this extraordinary action to the
decision OF their constituents.
Is Thus were Georgia. Alabama Mississippi and
Louisiana hurled out Of the Union when tile popu-
lar sentiment was, if not in favor of continued at
stachment&to the Union, at least in favor of a
further struggle for their rights in it, before final
abandonment of it. a
In the case of Louisiana, this defiance Of the will
OF the people was most fragrant and despotic.
There was majority of the Secessionists elected
to the Convention, it Isl true, but the popular note
cast for aeds three hundred greater
thar t'adt Joi. misunderstanding that a ma
Secession. 4 : Is
Ana YET, II spite Of this important fact, in def
ance Of this expression of the popular wish, the
Convention passed an ordinance of Secession and
refused to let the people vote omit.
The conservative press of Louisiana has repeat
eddy called for publication of the vote for dele.
gates to the Convention; but the Convention know
ing that the published vote would be recorded
condemnation of the ordinance5of Secession, per-
sstently refuses to comply with the request Never
theless, the figures have leaked out and they show
that the people Of Louisiana, although desiring to
remain in the Mon, were driven out Of it against
their; expressed will.
| Can movement which thus defies the popular
wish and violates the original principles of soyer.
eighty, succeed Have the secession leaders q
right to baptize their revolution with the sacred
name Of liberty, when their most important legs-
/ latiye aeti an outrage on liberty Have they a
right to challenge the sympathy and moral eoun-
tenance Of the world, when they thus trample
upon the only principle that could insure sympa-
| thy and countenance?
i But another and more practical question may
1 be asked, VIII the people Of Louisiana suffer
themselves to be thus tyrannized over by an usurp-
/ ing Convention If they are true freemen, with
honest Anglo-Saxon blood in their VEINS they will
not; and we hope yet to see counter movement
against secession in that State that win oVerturn
the Convention usurpers and bring Louisiana back
| to the Union.
tits evident that the Abolitionists, if they be-
/ lieve what they say, have but poor opinion of
tie lile people VI bue L-OutH lucy dT6
/ constantly declaring that those people have been
ridden over rougA-shod, their wishes disregarded,
and their rights usurped and yet, strange to say,
! people thus badly treated make no show of re-
sistance, but on the contrary, acquiesee in and en-
/ derse the /" tyranny and seem to be very well
| pleased with it. What q curious people, to be
sure, to submit 50 patiently, and even joyfuly to
the great outrages which, according to the Abo-
reading the above, they will feel like the client i'll
court, who remarked that he never knew how out
rageousfF he had been treated until he had heard
one recital Of bis wrongs by the eloquent advocate
he had employed.
Y The paper from which the above ID taken com
plains especially of the defiance Of the will of
the people . in Louisiana II was bad enough in
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi--but in Louisi-
ana IT was q most fragrant and despotic.r And
this opinion is founded upon the assertion that
while a majority Of delegates to the Convention
were secessionists, the popular majority was the
other way, The declaration appears to be made
on the authority Of E the conservative press of
Louisiana,n which has called for the vote, but
which the Convention refused to publish, the fact
leaking out some other way. Accordingly, the
oppressed people Of Louisiana ought to rise in
rebellion, and put down the usurpers. We wonder
if it ever occurred to this Abolition scribe that the
popular majority in the last Presidential election
was largely against Lincoln, and therefore he fur
| nishes, himself, an argument for the Southern
seeessionists wherewth to justify their movement.
We wonder if he would consent that Lincoln
should resign the Presidency, seeing that major
ity OF the popular vote was largely against him !?
| Hardly.
But there is not particle of truth in the asser
ton that the popular vote Of Louisiana was against
| secession. Upon the naked issue there was a
popular majority tofseeession. And il is safe to
say that large number who voted for 1Cooper-
alton candidates weresfor secession in the event
no cooperation could be had, as was plainly
seen to be the case soon after the election was
held. Even q majority Of those who were elected
as G5opefationists voted for the secession of the
State, because they knew their constituents were
then n5favor Of it. Scarcely symptom of dis
satisfaction with Cooperation representatives thus
acting has developed itself, though more than two
months have elapsed since the act was committed
n Now, then, we hope to hear no more from the
Northern press about the tyranny of the
susurping Convention Of Louisiana. There has
been no tyranny usurpahon. Take out those
who make factious opposition for opposition
sadA9, hhu hhe-tSntlS OF the people OF Louisiana
will to-day endorse the action Of our Convention.
both in passing the Ordinance Of Secession and in
ratifying the Montgomery Constitution. If the
Northern people choose further to deceive them.
selves about this matter, or permit themselves to
be deceived BY others, 1t will be their own fault.
CRoRs IN ALABAMA.--The Talladega Register Of
the 4th inst. says that there win be an abundant
fruit crop this year. The wheat, 80 far, gives
promise Of an extraordinary harvest. We suppose
the Oldest inhabitant hardly ever saw better pros
pect Tor fine wheat crop in this section of coun-
Try Fortunately, too, there was a much larger
quantity sown than usual. If nothing occurs to
mar the present prospect, we shall expect to see
the price of Western corn fall in a short time.
Settled WITH AND DIsoHARGEp.-D John T.
Horne, a dentist, of Anderson, s. G.. was detected
last week in mischeyous correspondence with
Black Republicans, and sent OFF to Indiana The
Gazette says when he left his hair was cut very
close Ion one side.
HoRRIBLE AFFAIR Woman KILLED BIZ d Dog
On the 28th ult. an old lady named Betsy Davis,
residing inRoss township, Allegheny county, Pa,
was found lying by her bedside in dying condi-
ton her left leg having been horribly acerated by
her own dog, as was supposed. The flesh, from
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