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Show TELEGRAPHIC BLACK ?ll.Kl:v .11 ore .Measures tar Tlielr Abislhtauue. ISew Orleans, 24. The constitutional constitu-tional convention, after two hoirt-s debate, passed a resolution einiilar to that introduced yesterday, delaring there is no intention whatever on the partol the convention of impairing or restricting the political, civil or religious reli-gious riehtsof any class. New York, 23. A mass meeting was held at Cooper Union, to-night, to procure aid fur colored people leaving leav-ing theBoaib. Tho ball was crowded. Letters- of rfgret were read Irom Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd Garrison Garri-son and Mayor Cooper. In bis letter Phillips says two courses were open to the negroes to resist, or leave and let their oppieeeors starve. Garrison denounced government us nnfit to live if it allows 4.000,000 people to te left like sheep among wolves. A liberal collection was taken up. New Yorlt, 24 At the meeting in Cooper Union last night in aid ol the negro refugees, the colered man hnv-'inu hnv-'inu charge o( the relief movement in St. Louis, said: Within the last (our 'veeka 5,000 bad arrived. He had been to Washington to ask government govern-ment to help Frederick Djuglas received him coldly, (Hieaes. ) I Went to tbe President and he evaded the question. I went to Roecoe Uonkling and be received me cordially cor-dially and gave me encouragement. (Applause.) After tbat my work was ussier. The Times, commending on tbe ex odu, condemns the partisan feeling exhibited on both sides, and thinks tho movement of nogroes north has little merit, and ia not worth encouraging; encour-aging; nevertheless, the brutal course ol the opposition nhown towards it by planters iu Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas will gu far towards per suading the north to aid the exodu?. The Tribune By$ the negro exodus is said to have to alarmed southern congressmen that their attitude to wards tho. Chinese has entirely changed. If the bill restricting Chinese immigralion were to come up again, it is thought that the south will be solid against it, because of the possibility that Chinese labor may be uceucu iu loittuo miii. ui iue ueeing negroes This may be odq of the reasons why the anli Chinese bill id not revived. Boston, 24. A large meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, to-day, to pro vide relief lor the Kansas immigrautt). |