Year: 1860

As it Is quite probable that this meeting will be
heralded forth as mighty demonstration of South
ern sentiments by the Abolition journals of the
North and thus encourage them in their work Of
wrong doing, insults and expressions, actual and
| contemplated, it is but proper we should remark
that Concert Hall is a small room never used be-
fore for purposes of general city assembages and
| that it cannot contain, when entirely filled, more
than six or eight hundred persons at the outside
Consequently, any effort to make use of the meet
ing of last Saturday evening, as an expression of
the feelings of the people Of New Orleans on the
absorbing question of the day, will be utterly at
| variance with the actuaties of the case. The
| Black Republican papers OF the North and other
enemies of the South, will undoubtedly publish
| the proceedings, and comment thereupon with
huge delight for with them cooperation" and
"united Southern action" only signifies delay
and delay is all they want IN the present posture
of public affairs. If they can only get the South
ern States to postpone action ten days after the
4th of March, their dearest objects will be accom-.
plished.


We say this with all possible respect for the gem
| temen who participated in the meeting. We do
not believe they would betray the South, or that
they intend to betray the Sonth or that they are
not true and loyal Seutherners, but we are i'm
PEELED by the obligations of truth and duty to ex-
press the belief that their action is solely calcu-
lated to encourage the Abolitionists and depress
their Southern friends.


The meeting was called to order at about the
usual hour. Mr.. j. A. Maybin was elected Pres,
dent, and large number of vice-Presidents and
Secretaries appointed. A committee was chosen
to draft resolutions and during the retirement of
the committee there was some speaking.


The Committee on Resolutions discharged their
duties in commercially brief period, and reported
lengthy preamble and still lengthier resolutions
all of which were adopted.


In the preamble there is not much to object TO-
Indeed, wrongs and outrages are enumerated, snf-
ficient to warrant the Southern States in withdraw
ing from the Union, in any manner they may see
fit to adopt; and more than sufficient to cover
them with lasting ignominy and eternal disgrace, if
they basey fail to assert their equality and indie
pendence at this time But, the resolutions defeat
the preamble, whether intentionally or uninten-
tionally, it is not our province to enquire. The
spirit Of the resolutions is at war with the pream-
BILE. The resolutions should have had different
preamble, or the preamble different resolutions
The one enunciates wrongs; the other proposes
course of policy which will not remedy those





thousand fold degree. The one demonstrates
that we should take immediate action. The other
proposes impraeticabties and suggest measures
which will involve delays, until our deadly enemies
are firmly seated in power. The one tells us that
we should strike for our rights and liberties now,
while the time and the opportunity are at hand The
other recommends that we should sacrifice time
and opportunity, and wait until those who hate us
are in possession of the Government, the Army the
Navy and the Treasury, to wage war upon us, if
we show any indisposition to submit to the ruth.
less sway of unbridled fanaticiam.


The first resolution recommends prompt and
vigorous action" The second resolves " that we
are in favor of thorough cooperation Of the
slaveholdng States in this crisis 7" and the third
declares " that we are opposed to all separate and
hasty State action,' etc.


Now, and we say it with due personal respect.
greater and more abject submissionism could not
be desired by Greeley, Lincoln, Seward or Sum-
ner, than is involved in the resolutions to which we
have referred. Should they happen to prevail in
New Orleans the Abolition heart OF the free States
will thrill with delight, and "North Boston y in
Massachusetts will send loving greetngsto to 8 South
Boston in Louisiana. But they will not and can.
not succeed.


Prompt and vigorous action - thorough
cooperation of the slageholding Statesn and opno-
stion to all separate and hasty State action 4,
What conjunction of contradictory phrases.
Promptness and vigor, and thorough c6opera-
tion,n dependent upon the action of nomnally
slaveholdng Delaware. which is, in reality, not
much more of slavehoding State than Vermont,
and witch is sure to go with the North when the
inevitable separation takes place! Is this the kind
of cooperation the c6operationists of the Con
cert Hall meeting desire to invite the people of
Louisiana to- We fear SO. The language of the
resolutions cannot reasonably bear any other in
depreciation. If this is not submissionsm of the
most humiliating sort, then we do not understand
the meaning of the word.


We are opposed to hasty action, but are in favor
of separate State action. Why? Because no State
can go out of the Union honorably and decently,
without first resuming its sovereignty and acting
individually. The Constitution forbids t-manhood
forbids t-and safety in the future forbds it, After
Louisiana has resumed her sovereignty, she NAV
rightfully contract and cooperate with any State
or States she may see fit, but not until that act is
performed When her Convention meets, and long
before it adjeurns, the chances are thousand To
one that five six Southern States will have with
drawn separately from the Union, and that their
Commissioners will be waiting for our Convention
to act in order to present proposals for immediate
cooperation. Gould safer, or better, or more pa-
triotic cooperation be desireds We think not. The
mere statement of this fact seatters to the wind all
the arguments of the e0opera&ionsts that have any
foundation in reason or comnaen sense. Why talk
about cooperaGion at this time, when Louisianats
sisters will be prepared for efectual cooperation
long before she IS ready? Why prate about "thor
8Ggh cooperation when it is known that Della ,yare
5sagainst u.s. and when the fact is clearly apparent
that Maryland and Missouri are half abotionized
already, and that they will never go with us in Con
yensson as suggested, unless we first lead the way
and thereby teach them that it is their interest as
well as their duty TO cooperate with us? Why in
culeate resistance to Abolition destination in the
preamble, and suggest smpossibilities in the resou
tons? Are these men in favor Of submission to
Lincoln frst-to arm him with power-to deprive
themselves of the means of resistanee-te bind
themselves hand and foot primarily in order to
tight seeondarily? It would seem So The i'm.
praetcabiiities and delays they suggest lead 4ae
mind to but one conclusion.


There is little in the resolutions which will re-
oeive the approval of any true Southern man. The
cooperation taught by the Concert Hall meeting
'an have no other tendency than to prevent Lou
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