New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-31

Poorest.
The Delegate from the parish of Catalonia OBJ.
poses, unqualifiedly the separate secession of
Louisiana from the Federal Union, and asks leave
TO place upon the records of the Convention lis
reasons for that opposition They are as follow:
Ioppose the Act Of Secession because in nv de.
hberate Judgment the wrongs alleged as the cause
of the movement might be redressed under the
Constitution by an energetic execution Of the laws
Of the United States, and that standing upon the
guarantees of the Constitution, in the Union,
Southern rights might be triumphantly maintained
under the protection and safeguards whchthe Com
stGntiou affords.
Because in secession see no remedy for the
actual and present evils complained Of and be-
cause the prospective evils depicted so gloomily
may never come; and if they should, the inalieIa
able rightto resist tyranny and oppression might
then be exercised as well and as successfully AS
now.
Because I see no certainty that the seeding
States will ever be confederated again none that
the border States will secede at all ana if they
Should Isee no reliable ground for believing that
they would incorporate themselves with the Gulf
or Cotton States in new government see no
surety either that Texas would unite with them.
Because the Gulf or Cotton States alone, were
they to unite in . separate confederaey, would be
without the elements of power, indispensable in
the formation Of a government to Take a respect
able rank among the nations OF the earth Because
Isbeliaye that paaeeable secession is right lit-
known to the Constitution of the United States
eipe in the structure of any government, and when
carried into the formation Of the contemplated con.
federacy of the Gulf States, will render it power
less for good and complete its incapacity to afford
| to the people permanent security for their lives
liberties and property. Because it is my solemn
and deliberate conviction that the distraction OF
| the Southern States by separate secession will de-
feat the purpose it is intended to aceamplish and
that its certain results will be to impair instead oil
STRENGTHENING the security of Southern institutions
Because the proper status of Louisiana is with
the border States with which nature has connected
/ her by the majestic river which flows through her
/ limits and because an alliance ID weak govern.
ment with the Gulf States east of her. is unnatural
and antagonstlc to her obvious interests and des-
/ tiny.
/ Because, by separate secession the State relin
i pushes all its rights within the Government it sur,
renders its equal rights TO the common territories
to the vast public domain of the United States and
the pubic property oil every kind belonging to tile
nation. And for this reason oppose secession as
| being emphatcally submission.
| Because secession may bring anarchy and war
as it will assuredy bring ruinous exactions upon
property in the form of direct taxation d whitening
blight upon the prosperity of the State, and faa
prostration Of all its great interests.
Because the act Of dissolving the ties which con
meet Louisiana with the Federal Union is reyo.
lutionary act that this Convention Is ofitsel with
out legitimate power to perform, Convened with,
out authority from the people Of the State, and
refusing to submit its action to them for their
sanction in the grave and vital act of changing
their government, this Convention violates the