New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-05
NIX ELECTION NExr MONDAY.

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The election which takes place next Monday, as
VIC have frequently shown, is OF more Importance
to New Orleans, in one important sense, than the
vote which may be given affect the general re-
suit That the State will vote the secession ticket
by heavy majority, we hare no doubt; and an
adverse vote here, which we do not think at all
probable will only have the effect Of arraying the
country in direct antagonism against the city. New
Orleans is unpopular enough in the country now,
without arousing additional preiudioes, and it must
be apparent to every intelligent mind that an at
tempt on her par to stem the general and ire
ssiible current Of Southern sentiment, is alike un-
wise and impolitic
We never yet have been able to understand
what the tcdoperationistsa hereabout mean, or
what they are driving at. There is an obscurity
about their platform, as WELT as the language their
orators employ, which is really ineomprehensible,
unless their sole ultimate aim and end is to so conf
plicate and procrastinate that abect submission to
Lincon's rule will be inevitable conclusion we
are very 10th to arrive at Besides, there is rad
ical difference between " c0operation' doctrine in
the city, and Cooperation doctrine in the coun-
1 try. IN the country, so far as our knowledge ex-
1 tends, the cooperation candidates are downright
lsecessionists and only want to postpone action
until they can see how the rest of the Southern
States going to act'aot atatd after The 4t Of
Mdfeh-to see whether the North will yield to our
Just demands-aDd to take time to look about in
i order to perfect the plan of Cooperation. As none
OF us are in favor of precpitate action, as we all
/ know that tile North will notrelinquish one solitary
measure of intolerance and OPPRESSION and as the
facts positive that four five of the Southern
States will be ontof the Union before our Conven-
ton can act, we have objection to the views of
1 the country c6operationsts. They are as true as
Isteei to the South, ana do not seek to postpone
vigorous measures until long after embittered enc
mics Of the South are naugurated into the high and
4 DOW rfu places Of the Government. Bat, the
c6operationists of this metropolis propose delays
n inacton and postponements, Gf we understand
them Alright, and we think We do) which will not
only prevent cooperation with Ave or six Southern
States that will have seeded, but which will make
4 cooperation and 'lnited Southern action" de-
pendent upon the voice of Delaware State that
has little more regard for the slave Institution than
Michigan or Iowa. 1t is to this that we specially
object for if the New Orleans cooperatfonists
should happen 10 carry their point and every cot
/ ton State should secede, Louisiana will be unable
to cooperate with them, and will be obliged 10
4 travel Northward for neutrality-suspicious. to Yer.
i mont and Massachusetts.
aCooperationn and Il united Southern action, y
as we understand it in New Orleans, means refl-
sal to cooperate or unite with anything immedi-
\ ateIy Southern. The whole cotton region may i'm.
plore us to cooperate with them and Join them in
forming great, prosperous and powerful Southern
Confederaeyr but we will be precluded from doing
anything of the kind if the SO called " cooperation
4 lists Il should happen to triumph.
How opposite is the policy of those who adyo-
cate immediate secession by separate State ac-
4 ton n There is no misunderstanding their prnci-
pies or The motives which actuate them. They be-
| lieYe in secession BY individual State action, as
that is the only honorable and constitutional mode
by which the State can resume her sovereignty
| her independence. This once done, she will be
| free to form alliances and enter upon the widest
\ system Of cooperation. Before Louisiana will be
\ prepared for this step five or six States will have
thrown off the shackles of the Union, and will be
4 anxious TO cooperate with us as soon as we have
done the same thing. Is not this practical cooper
4 alton? Is not this the best way to bring about
united Southern aetion2' Is not this the suresi
4 means by which Southern enfranchisement can be
i obtained2 Is there any other mode through which
tile great object all profess to desire can be &C
4 complished? Wecan see none and hence, as We
i are in favor Of secession in order to promote
i cooperation and union among tie Southern States
i we hope the Southern Rights ticket will be trium
Il phantIy elected on Monday next.