The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-28
The Mississippi Bond of Union.

The Mississippi Bond of Union.
A few days since there appeared in the Crescent
the following article, which has been extensively
copied by the Southern Union papers:
"sxcxssos-Itis acknowledged every side that the
South dsssins to separate from the North" [Chareston'
Mercury.
kpowedyes III IN ONE little State We wish these Carolina
editors would Just out West, and this Mississippi
aS g g. 5
i nights! than az ever
The Charleston News did not deign to notice
our commentary; but the Carolina Telegraph, with
spirit, has replied at some length.
Anxious to treat with all courtesy an opponent who
deems the Crescent a foe worthy Of its ink, we
copy the entire article and shall endeavor to furnish
areply to its questions and arguments.
Will the Crescent inform US what peculiar powers the
Mississippi possesses to compel or persuade the South to IN
DE than ue should be The
much to lake view Of it, pot to lake boat on it. however
unless we desired blow np but we cannot for the life
and We look upon all such expo,
absurd, or even bssphemons and we challenge the proof
that Nature intended these United States form indefinitely
for sixty SS sess proves nothing laws
tons OF Nature than the Of The colonies with the mother
much longer PERIOD and every lesson OF history
analogy The idea % the dye Of sS In
S ss
recosnon of the possibility and the probability of separ
ton under certain CONTINGENCIES what phen3meoon is
nen seventy Before the grass has decked the
Gated which condemn and sy the who spirit and teach
ings Of that revolution which was empha,icay measure Of
separation and resistance to government whose ends had
been abandoned by prostitution OF Its forms.''
The answer to the first question is to be found
friend of the Telegraph has never deemed it
worth his while to learn any thing of the diff
cuties encountered by the pioneers of the West.
Content to contemplate and admire the glory of
Carolina, the outside barbarians have escaped his
observation.
We will call his attention to this interesting por-
ton of our national history. He seems to think
that the partition of this valley, between several
different sovereignties, would be no serious injury
Let him turn to the administrations of the early
Presidents, and learn from the past what would
occur in the future. The control of the mouth of
the Mississippi by Spain, led to the most serious
evils. Her vacillating, caprcious policy, exaspe-
rated the people of Kentucky and other Western
settlements. The action of the Federal Govern
ment was watched with a jealous and dscon-
tented mind. Parties sprang up in the West
having for their object separation from the Union
and coalition, less close, with France or
Spain. English, French and Spanish emssares
infested the settlements, and treason was busily at
work, alternating the hearts of the people from the
Atlantic States. The West caused more anxiety
and threatened more danger, until the acquisition
of Louisiana, than any other cause, We refer the
Telegraph, to Marshall's w ashngton, to Stoddards
and Martins Histories of Louisiana, to Monette' S
Valley of the Mississippi, to the American State
Papers, to Buffers History of Kentucky. These
will furnish him with frightul picture of the con
dition of the West, while the Mississippi River
was in the possession of different powers
The acquisition of Louisiana by Mr. Jefferson,
was the browning glory of his life, and the most
important act in the history of the United States
since the adoption of the Constitution. The man
who can at this time talk coolly of the division
of the Mississippi, proves either his want of pa
triosm, or his shameful ignorance of the past and
present condition of the West.
Housekeeping youths have ever homey wits
&c The iethean virtues of the Mississippi )" is q
most unfortunate term. A river which bears OH
Its bosom commerce of $500, 00O, 900, is entitled
TO any other epithet.
The Editor is equally unfortunate in his allu.
sions to other rivers. What does he think of the
Rhine, with its custom houses at every league
levying tribute on every passenger and package
Or, perhaps, he reads with pleasure, the sanguin
AIRY battles on the Rio de la Plata. The valley of
that river, is divided among some dozen States,
and affords admirable illustration of the effects
resulting from partition, by political boundaries OF