New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-04
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THE ERECTION ON MONDAY.
The election is but three days off, and although
il is very important in more respects than enc,
there is not much excitement or outside manfesta-
tons, giving token that mighty event Is process
of contamination. This, however. does not argue
that there is absence Of feeling on the subject.
The contrary is the case. There is deep and
earnest feeling peryading the community, and II
viii exhibit itself on Monday next.
For cur part, after careful survey Of the battle.
field, we have come to the conclusion inst the
State is sure to vote the secession ticket BY very
largo majority, no matter low the city may vote.
The success of the so-ealed c0operationists here,
merely admitting w1atwe believe 10 be impossible
for the sake ef argument, will not advantage their
cause in the slightest degree, as they will be ont
voted three to one in tie State Convention, hut it
may create prejudice against New Orleans III the
States which support (which have made it, and
which can unnake (which may be traught with
disasters Of no ordinary moment MISSISSIPPI will
20 out of the Union in less than ten days, just as
sure as the sun will ever rise and set again. Her
peopie have voted for secession by an oyerwheim-
ING nlaiorityrofe than thirty thousand votes, we
believe. A withdrawal of the patronage oil Alissis-
sipp would lessen the business of this metropolis
| forty per cent Mississippi has frstrate site for
a city on her Guifcoast, and the best harbor on the
| whole seaboard. She is already building railroad
| to connect the interior with the Gulf and II New
Orleans should repudate her, she will be very apt
to repudiate New Orleans, and put forth every eX-
ertion to complete her great railroad as soon as pos
sible. Texas, too, whose trade is Of vast import
anee to us, is going out of the Union as fast as
| practicable. Shallswe, by warning upon the pre-
| yailing Southern sentiment, stimulate luminosity
| against US in that quarter2 Such course, it
seems to u.s. would be alike impolitic and danger
| ous Our commercial intercourse with Alabama
has been attended with vast mutual advantages.
| Alabama will certainly withdraw in a very short
time. Is it the part of wisdom to excite the hos
tiity of the people of Alabama against Us: We
think not. The rich and rapidly growing State OF
| Arkansas has called o convention through her
| Ienislature without Q dissenting voice. She will
| range herself alongside her Southern sisters as
soon as her convention can act. Is it sound policy
/ for us of New Orleans TO stimulate artipathies
among the people Of Arkansas against us? The
| promptings of. common sense dictate that We
| should not The secession spirit in Tennessee is
| increasing with unparalleled rapidity, and the
| Western portion Of the State, which is most adj
| yantagecus to our trade and commerce, is alive
with excitement. That Tennessee will go along
/ with her Southern sisters, when the day of trial
| eomes and be foremost in the onset and last in
| tho retreat, Is as positively certain as anything
earthly can be. Is it wise or prudent to so con-
| duct ourselves here, as to cause the Tennesseans
N dislike u.s. and seek some other mart for their
/ business? Certainly not. And what is true Of the
/ States named, without whose custom New Orleans
would be an Insignificant shipping port, is equally
/ true with regard to the most Of the country
4 marshes of Louisiana Shall we wage war upon
i orr home country brethren, and vote in such
/ 4 manner as TO tell them in unmistakable terms
that we do not sympathze with The Southern move
i ment, ard that the only cooperation we seek is
i for the Union, at all hazards and every disgrace
i and with the North? Better not do it. The hand
! Of the State has been laid heavily upon New Or
leans heretofore, and we fear that it will elaid
still heavier hereafter, if we, by our acts, show
4 that we have little or feeling in common with
the South or anything Southern.
Il II the SO called g c0operationists " of New Or
j leans stood any chance, whatever, of carrying
i their points in the convention, we should not OBJ
i ieet to their movements. They then would have
i Louisiana on our SIDE il all the rest Of the South
4 ern States repudated and abandoned US. But, &c
cording to the progress Of events if they succeed
the only abject they accomplish will be to array
Louisiana and the remainder Of the South, that has
4 commercial connections with New Orleans, agains
i us. Incapable of accomplishing anything fol
themselves or for the cause they advocate, they
may, by the merest possibility, be the means of in
4 dieting ruinous disasters upon the city in which
i they live, move and have their being.
Therefore, we urge them to pause in their careo
4 to reflect over the consequences-an when they
i see, as they must upon reflection that the sun
total Of their efforts, yielding all they clani vii
be to place New Orleans in direct antagonism Will
Louisiana and the South, that they viii abandon
j an enterprise which, in our deliberate Judgment
is only fraught with evil to this metropolis and it
i citizens, and which cannot, under any cireumstan
4 ces rebound TO their good.