New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-03

[CoMMU4ftcATED.l
SECESSION vs. COOPERATION;
-soR-
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEaEa ARE CALLED
UPON TO DO, AND IN WHAT WAY
THEY CAN BEST DO IT.
by A CITIZEN,
Thrice is he armed
That hath his quarrel tust.m
SECESSION vs. COOPERATION;
by A CITIZEN.
" Thrice is he armed,
That hath his quarrel just"


reconcilable and irrepressible conflict" with til,
institutions and social and political organizations
| half the States, shall not be allowed to posses
itself Of the national Government; without sucl
rcadJustments, concessions and guarantees as
| will secure to US the liberties for which oul
| fathers bled, and without which republican govern
| ment becomes but solemn mockery In this sen
tmont of resistance the representatives of all past
political parties cordially unite and the base and
suicidal doctrine Of submission few among US
| arc daring enough publicly to announce.
Redress for past injuries and security for the
future arc all that the people of Louisiana ask
and they are, by an almost overwhelming major.
ity, unable to discover the means of securing
these under the forms of the existing Federal
Government, when administered, as it will be, by
open, uRcompromising and fanatical enemies, who
refuse, in the honr of triumph, and notwithstand-
ing they have had two months to do it in and have
witnessed the defiant tone of our people, to recede
one step, in their insolent assaults upon the Consti
tuition and in their recreancy to the most solemn
plighted faith. They rather heap vituperation upon
US, and threaten dcsolation and the sword in re-
sponso to our just and reasonable demands.
PREcFITATE ACTION OF TIE CONTINENTAL COL
GNIEs.
Notwithstanding facts like these, fellow-citizens.
and the impressive and significant fact that gal
liant State, one Of the most glorious of the old
thirteen, which won the liberties VIC now enjoy,
de5pairng Of any adjustment, and true to her pa
triotic instincts, has rHpured the tie which bound
her to the Union, there is we regret to say it, still
q party in New Orleans, which, taking counsel
from its fears Or its unfoundcd hopes, has sounded
the alarm and charged upon us and those who are
moving with US "preciptate action "-preci1itate.
though we are but within nine weeks. and before
our Convention can by any possibility act, 7eM be
ori7a f02U 1reeks only of the installation of rev.
olutionary Government at Washington, which is
not the less UsURPATIoE because the mere forms
Of law have seemingly been observed. This in
famous Government, without limitation or re-
striction, but omnpotent in its powers of mischief,
when once recognized or submitted to. will leave
US without the moral sympathy of Christendom,
and SO bound hand and foot in its meshes as to be
without subsequent hope or remedy.
Fellow-c -citizens-Is it not deluson and snare
to tell you that within period so short, all of the
slavcholding States, covering a territory so vast
so far removed from each other can be brought TO
act in common, in calling their Conventions and in
appointing Delegates, and that these Delegates can
meet deliberate and resolve and obtain in the time
allotted the guarantees and securities, without
which VIC are to be degraded and powerless: and
this, too, in face of the fact that several OF the
states have not even yet mode movement, but
resist all importantly, and others show little more
than the mere inclination, to move at some in
definite future time ? It must be now as in the
. days that tried mems souls.' Each aCcrcved
State must think and act for ITSELF Each must
strike for its liberties or be unworthy to cuiQy
''"' 4.' CC''t''' "'.t" o "t0 Go''S'1e" dTt61-
acdTd8 Amid the clash OF arms and the glorious
enthusiasm of Virginia and Carolina, aud when the
brr,o 1,o+oe Of po+riol- IIorr .on a..
]A'"e"' o'S anu
CHElstopNeE Nausoeh were Souhalhg, what was the
employment Of the Continental Congress, the body
which Is to be reproduced in Southern Conyen-
toh' TO "h!ch our SLATE Liberties are to be en-
trusted whist we conlde ourselves to rosy sIur-
bcrs? Says the historian, Gayarrt.
"Jn the meantime, what was the grant r7ontino,+ol
CONGRESS- DOING? Nothj0n, Thay v,ara t"ilsin%.
thcv were dpIiberatiur: fhcv wpTe nr9inF nan%35'
Win +harn rn,lI Ln So r,na,So. ti,, s'~S p1"re'
mcrIiur deIav. when deny womb have ham
death ihnv we've nronnsinE r,aaan~a- az no,ii;
aii"h "Heh c3htHattoH Woul0 nave amounted to
,, 81 su"lit''SioI hUt WINE llGy were ueiiDe@tng,
S f,E+ C, r "''H a. it.,I 0out' "lut'es
Meclleahuye in North Carolina, without wa}tinr
for the cooperation CT her sister counties, declared
lteiSon i"ae PS.9tut Oh MEe&I bElj4h ana lhGrc Is
moro rroud ia hs i3y, WIuIa s9,ap Of Mn ot,d,
C0'onies 1cere he5itotiHg, North Carolina, South
SaTohha aua ItAouS lSiahd ahSoiVed their citizens
sama ar1 nrocHe5nd saTs h;Stor' = f,l vi" h s',G
as an independeut Stitr ana with0nt
waiting for general declaration of independence.
~ u'0 ~ "u eNoty Iol9Hy, at d'LeF,
also ut different cnocLs ana sanarefei th '';r"
stvucted their delegates in Congress to cmhodv in
Que general cechraunn or independence the sepa
i " "n1cii oa con
7ral declaration of indenendsnce was tharnroT1n
mere condensation Of what had taken place, and
was was gwen as -Sucn 70 lne Worid by the Delegates
Nv ''s'U ''' ~ N'''''>' ia '1e ''"'''i''
Gays bahcrolS' speaking oil Tile same Congress,
VOL Fil' p 900
lucy came to8obneF undeclded' and they long |
,I,nr1, for,ard ,nn,en,ont "a %h"'ust
,omDusion Not by foresight, nor by the nre. |
conceived purpose OF themselves or their consiiu
shss ou; py tne hatarat succession OF inevitable
md constitnfe natinn ), W '0ii'o1' o'iioh
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srpaRsTr sraTE ACr1nE -'-''-D WIN
CoopErAroS, then. as il is urred unon Won bv
,ur opponents, means submission To ne Gororn- |
yeut of Abraham Liuoo,n with or n,ithor+
guarantees, Cor rather wjthort opnrontops for
,opo can he rjyen in opr nrosent Violations os
,tatosA and leaves the S,utb nrostrato and 1o-
enseless at the Ceetor her enemirs Man If ronis.