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for January 2d, was addressed by a great orator of national fame, United States Senator Pierre Soule. Irad Ferry Fire Co., No. 12, hastened to hold among its members a special meeting at their hall in the same cause.
Beside these, nightly meetings—the surest makers of clamor—met for co-operation at the corner of Camp street and Natchez alley.
Day work was there, too, less for enthusiasm than labor.
In all this flood of oratory, the opposition organized companies.
The tramp, tramp of the marching men answered the speakers at every point that the State was marching with them.
About this time an incident occurred which shows chivalry.
The steamer Henry Lewis, on her trip to Mobile, delivering New Orleans papers to the United States troops in Fort Morgan, saluted on leaving the fort.
So might a chevalier of Fontenoy have, with his sword, saluted his adversary about to die.
No casual visitor from a Northern State could have supposed for an instant that the pros and cons of a vital question were agitating the city.
On one side, full meetings; on the other, the calling of roster-rolls.
The city, between its orators thundering hasty action and its youngsters wearing the kepi, had reached that kind of decision which makes a man's nerves of steel.
Already, before the selection of delegates for the convention, the majority had settled upon secession with ‘immediate’ attached to it.
Between whiles New Orleans is not without varied entertainment of the best to be had. Young Adelina Patti, with a throat full of unmatchable notes, is singing at the French Opera on Orleans street. Prof. Von La Hache is bringing out at Odd Fellows hall, with full choir of male and female voices, Mozart's Twelfth Mass. Carrollton, near by, is laughing over Dan Rice, greatest of Yankee clowns.
Prof. Vegas, still pleasantly remembered among middle-aged people, then juniors, is issuing in deference to the anxieties of the times invitation
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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