The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-06
AsA@Se
q Sensible 2rotest.

u 1ensible Protest.
"Mr. JAMEs G. TALrA1ERao, delegate I.
1.-THE Louisiana State Convention. from the
Parish Of Catahoula, publishes in the New
Orleans papefsa vigoroua protest aganst thu
| Ordinance Of Secession which The body il
question adopted. He bases his protest OF
the following grauuls redress for the alleged
wrongs might be obtained under the Con
stitutioD; in Secession he secs no remedy FOL
the grievances complained Of. nor does he
think that the seeding States will eve'
again be -contsdetates, or that the Border
States, with which Louisiana is connected by
natural ties, win secede at all. PeacesbIe
Ksecession is unknow to the Constitution, and
| if carried into effect viii Ls the recognition Of
principal which will completely neutralize
the power Of the proposed Gulf Confederacy.
Secession il an abandonment Of all claim TO
public Territories; will bring anarchy. war
and ruinous taxation in its train; and finally
it is an act which the Convention has no
constitutional right to exercise. The people
should be allowed to act and to rstify or re.
ect the conclusions Of the Convention. This
protest was refused place on the journals
Of the body BY which Nj. TAlrAvERao was a
member" S ~sgN ac
HoE. JAMES G.. TALrAPERRo: Sir-lu
the Philadelphia Enquirer, Of the 9th inst,
and the enclosed brief article touching you.
position in the recent Secession convention Of
Louisiana, and having recently had the honor
Of pleasant professional correspondence
with you, / could not but realize some degree
Of pleasure in the reflections naturally incl
dent 10 the perusal thereof es
Presuming that your Protest is properly
outlined BY this article, I cannot refrain
from expressing my admiration Of the posi-
ton you have assumed, and / am confident
that thousands upon thousands Of the Union
Democracy throughout the West and North
are identified with me in the opinions from
which that admiration springs. The hour
and the calamity have certainly not yet &C.
CURED to justify any portion Of this great
confederacy in resort to revolutionary
measures for the adjustment Of sectional and
civil complaints, and therefore, when those
Of us in the North who are standing by the
Union, lind men like yourself standing in
the midst OF Secession and exertiug them
selves e stag the revolutionary action Of
their immediate neighbors, I'VE cannot but
feel rejoiced-Perhaps ! may err in giving
to Secessio" the character Of Reyolution, but
I cannot distinguish between them. The
one is as subvessisa in its tendency as the
other, when applied 10 this government, and
surely We cannot contemplate The ono with-
out al inevitable reference to the other, look
ing as they both certainly do, to the de.
of our government. "
IL Aas.A4:- i~...,y, bot uns,,cces.fulix-
'ome statesmen, namely; that It is possible
Eor. 4 state TO secede from the Union without
,ubvey,;bc the entire government, or pro.
yorinp civil war. / can understand states.
men when they assert the possibility Of
,olaical port;e, being changed. revolution.
set Or .puiaf;Istetl without bloodshed and
without e.nldanrerine tho permanency Of a
and, .I-m,y here, add shst both
,ou and I have seen this government re-
,u.te,,lv .od radically changed upon oues.
IN, q ores, s,s,;,;t.iIs moment !. b.,t;.ss.
II co5dictioa "a pi;osli,ic.r sentiment. have
.l,srn 5,,Eii .it.;ned 10 nos;.;on and pover.
So. .,, .h., an to,d that ope j, more ofstbe
HAN. ,composiur tb;s esesss soofsdes.cy ]
nsy: without warrant from The constitution
covering and protecting Al. and by the sim. I
IA nroce,. -, Il o,onvention, and onain.nce. 90
ID e chs uuioo aud e.t.bll.h tbem.elves 10
,f,sincs a0d t,.Ieb.,sts prtiop.lit;e.. / mat
,opfess q some doubt,.-I cannot but b..
;era .uch an attenutsd .1n.r.t;on the, hioh.
q, sa, md beae.t .teD tov.rds revelation. and
: such, soope, D. ist.r. 10 5. visited by all
M fnovp aud ,uao.t edicieut appliance. for
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