Gazette and sentinel., 1861-01-05

ECitA IlcOCltJ N'Cut HAM arm,
J. I. Nolan, j. J. Libby,
Thompson w. Bird, JOS. j. Denham.-
T. Derichcbourg, J. 4 Lcreque, Jr.
4 T. Babin, Il. \ b Hanks.
A. J. Bird, }. A. Lcvcquc, s..
Il. HILBERT, Allen s. Denham.
X. J. Hebert, J. T. Landry.
Gustavo Scrrctt, VIM. Nolan,
K. HGbert, Jr. Alfred Rahir
B. Stevens, Alfred Hebort.
7. Blanchard, w. ~ Bird,
Z LcBail.
Centismsa-Ynur letter rc0uastin, me- r.
become a condidate for the Convention, has
been received. la this great crisis. no one
should refuse 20 occupy The position assigned
him by bis friends, or shrink from defining hi.
opinions clearly and unequ;vocaIy.
The "lrrepreSSibie Ccnfict' has been
rendered us by the election Of en- Abolti ton
President, upon the avOwed p]rincple Of de.
s~truction TO Slavery. There is no mistakinc
the issue. But four years since, Fremont
polled one million three hundred thousand
Abolition votes. So rapid has been the in.
crease Of this fansticlsm at the North. that we
now have, in the recent election Of l.r. Lin
'oibN hANfAA wv ANlaRit VI ItlAlla Oh .Ln
Norlherh States who have declared their MIR.
pose not 10 rest until the foot Of a slave will
not press the soil Of America. Such n rarro
body Of citizons OF ore section Of this Vnior
entertaining such sent rnents of hostility IN
another section, hasjustly alarmed the South
and induces her to resort to the only remedy
left her.
The Southern States, with tie execution Of
tba SullEroltn, At al G,nvI o.
1882, have never refused to obey a Fedora,
law or violated & Constitutional obligation
whilst the Northern States, almost in a body
have confedeIa tcd to do SO, for more than thir.
ty years past, and | would call your atten.
ton to the fact, that whilst a party of our
fellow citizens desire us to wait and ask for
guarantees and amendments to the Oonstitu>,
tion, not a single Northern State is moving in
the right direction to give them TO US. 1.-THE
plain Constitutional provision for the rendi.
ton Of fugitive slaves, the Fugitive Slave law.
sad the decision Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, declaring slaves to be property,
are secuted at by the North now, can we hone
that guarantees and amendments to the Con
~stitutlon, wrung from them under the exigen>
cIes Of this occasion, will ever be respected :
They would only view such measures as a new ,
lease giving them trmer grounds upon which
TO base their attacks upon slavery within the
Union. Are veto wait until We can knock at
the door OF the Legislatures of eighteen diff |
fsrsnt Abolition States, begging them for
guarantees, when, in the meantime, we shall
noat under and through an Abolition Admin
~istration, under an Abolition President 7 No,
gentlemen. In this great movement of our
Southern sister States for independence and
security for our instit %utions, | have no inten-
ton, so far rs | am concerned, 10 give aid and
comfort to those who are DESTROYS Of placing
The case OF Louisiana al the foot Of q dead
Docket"
Whilst the Northern States have never given
one inch upon this subject, but have steadily
advanced and occupied position which wc have
abandoned, the South has been compromising
conciliating and receding, for the sake Of the
Union, until she rs driven to the wall. Louis.
ians, then, must deal with facts, not visionary
schemes or impraclicable propositions. Be-
lore she in Convention, the five Cot.
ton States will be out of the Union, to he
speedily followed by Texas and Arkansas -
Shall we remain in the Union, wedged in be.
tween these States, TO become in case the
Federal Government should resort to coercion.
The receptacle Of Federal troops and WidesA
wake volunteers TO subdue them and further,
TO have our citizens drafted as militia, and
called out under pretence of executing the
laws OIL the Union? Never forbid il Heaven ,
Dlnering so radically as the North does from
.he South IN her opinions, feelings and pre-
)udiceS, upon the subject Of the two systems
OF laoor-siave and ~lree-haviug such a large !
scope OF Territory over which each may ex /
pahd and Misunderstanding population subj /
.ent 10 make two powerful nations, is it not '
lar better Tor Us to separate the North hay- ,
OnS a government suitable to her idea. and =,
Iae South basing hers upon institutions con- !
GENIAL to her intcrestsl II we cannot do this =
then We have gained nothing by
he principles of The Declaration Of Ipde6eny
ience and those which guided us ia our s~epara-
Ion from Great Britain, nor shall we have
luSanced one whit beyond the European doc
line OF The divine right of Kings, if the Fe-
'erai Government dares to take their place
usurp the power expressly refused by the c
ramers OF the Constitution, to coerce n &C. il
State. !.
lhere Is no danger that Louisiana will find N
ierseit alone should she 20 out of the Un;op :
BESIDES the States already mentioned VI,vi- >
ia, tennessee and the other border States I
WI soon follow. They will never consent 10 IL
one mutton live hundred thousand slaves o.
vailed up between a Southern Confederacy d
one side and Northern Fanaticism on the
esnsri nor will they ever agree to deliver mn ~
Iae Demon of Abolitionism twelve bnndrs6 -
'ni,lOns of dollars in value of such pyonertv =
viewing the whole ground, if it were MOI Sc
! matter OF choice, it becomes a necessity for az
. ""a to resume her sovereignty and sever al
,er connection with the Federal Government CO