New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-29
THE PRO-SLAvERY REBELLION.
FROM LOUISIANA.
THE CONVENTION.

And harmonious puoic DuhdiuSs III '"0 0'''
h located on St. Charles street, facing Laiayet@
sauare--one of the admirable little parks which
ara the pride of New-Orleaus--and a short dis
tance from the imposing Flrst Presbyterian
Church. in which the well-known DIR. Palmer
aspepses sound Pro Slavery Gospel. The front
"a Of white marble, and the side and rear walls
Of stucco, the whole standing upon high base
uent of Quincy granite. The bsilding is ninety
feet on the street. running back two hundred
and eight feet. 1t is entered by fight of gran
be steps through spacious Ionic portico. This
leads into the main corridor, twelve feet WIDE,
with tesselated marble pavement, extending the
whole length of the building, On the nght' as
you enter, ia the School Library of the Second
Municipality, the largest public library in the
city, though containing only about ten thousand
volumes. On the left is the Mayors Office, and
the remainder Of this story and the basement are
devoted to the various departments Of the Mu'
nicipsl Government.
Passing half through the main corridor, you
turn to the right up double fight of marble
stairs push open baize door, and you are in
the Lyceum Hall, occupying the front Of the
Convention of T., .ate Of Louisiana, in high,
airy, aud well pr, portIoned apartment. The fres'
dent, Mr.. Moreton, a portly gentleman OF the
heavy father style, is seated on the platform,
which occupies a recess, in tho end oil the nan
ne,t 10 the street Immediately behind him Is
Hfe-size Dortrait of Washington. On his right,
portrait of JEFF. DAVIS has been hung upon the
wall within the last day or two. 1t represents
him with thin, beardless face, and eyes OF un-
comfortable soleulnity. Beside it is painting
sf the members Of the Convention, while in front
Of the Clerks desk hangs copy OF the Secession
ordinance, with Autographed fac simiies OF their
signatures. You can purchase copy OF IT at
sny of the books stores for So; and what is 50,
when weighed against patriotsml The members,
you perceive, have made all the preliminary ar
rsngeinents for being nnmortalized NO doubt
they will be; but, perhaps, not in the envious
light they imagine.
Yesterday was a day Of more than usual in
terest in the Convection. The lobby was well
allied, aud olsrsed, for the fret time, three or
four ladies' iD the galleries. The question of
adopting the Montgomery Constitution came up
Cor 6osl decision Mir. Rozier fought it to the
last aud was unspsring in bis derunciation
against the whole Secession policy Of trampling
on the rights OF the people. lie rdlcuied the
Ssa Of a Cotton Confederacy, and condemned
the irrepressible State Of South Carolina, as be
termed her, without stint. Mr. Fuqua-origi-
usIy a co0peratiouist, but now forced into rank
BY the maiorty-folowed in a sentimental speech
IN favor OF adopting the Constitution clinching
Mr.
L,w's Recommendation to let tho dead past bury
ito dead, which he seemed TO think quite settled
the question.
The veteran Roselius then took the floor, and
raked the Secessionists fore and aft, for more
shan an hour. Tie Montgomery Instrument was
not a Constitution; it was merely league-a
treaty Of alliance 1t did not iDaugurate Gov
eminent of the people but hn OdiOus and unmt-
irated ohearehy. So far from being an onward
march in the science Of Government, it was q
retrogresson of SIX hundred years. He secuted
the claim that the people had been permitted to
oct in the matter. True, we had been told that
this Convention was "the sublimated cOncen.
nated, qulntescence" of the sovereignty of the
people [Laughter.l That was no pew doctrine.
It was older than history. Caesar, when he
crossed the Rubicon; Augustus, when he over
threw the Roman Republic; Cromwell, when be
broke up the Long Parliament; BoOa. arte, when
he dispersed the Council Of Five Hundred at the
point of the bayOnet, and Louis Napoleon, when
he broke his oath TO the Republic and assembled
the imperial throne--all these regarded them
selves, no doubt, as the " sublimated quDtes
sence" of the sovereignty Of the people. Loud
laughter and applause in the lobby, promptly re-
koked by the Chair.1 II was true, the forms of
republican liberty were preserved by this instTu
nent, 90 all the tyrsnts of history had acted
ander the forms Of law; but the spirit was
crushed out. Ee dissected the Constitution in
detail, pointing out lite obnoxious and aristocratic
features He predicted, In view Of the military
preparations DOW making, that the Government
would cost, from the outset at leas. sixty millions
year.
The export duty on cotton would inevitably in
iure agricultural interests instead of advancing
them. Spain was the only Government that
lsyied duties on expOrts-the most tyrannical
Government in the world, aud America was
called upon TO initiate Spain 1t was only sur
rrisiug that the gentlemen Of Montgomery did
aot engraGt another feature Of the Spanish Gov
eminent on this Consttution-the Spanish Inqui.
stion. The one was a. ectestable as the other.
The one was the great feature Of damnable
despotsm-tbe other the tyrannical oppression Of
an Independent people.
The conclusion of the speech of Mr.. Roseus
was made in q broken voice, aud with great feel