New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-09-17
THE UNITED STATES-ENGLAND-
WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

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In q late number Of the Westminster Review. after
some mention of the difficulties between the North
and the South and glance at the Kansas troubles,
etc. tile subjoined excruciatingy profound observa-
tions are INDUCED in: stR
Ia A for u.s. we decline to prophesy amidst dire
confusion, and under the shadow Of so black thnn-
der.cload The one thing we are sure of is that the
old constitution laden with new corruptions cannot
serve and sustain the Republic. We believe that II
| radical reconstruction is not Immediately agreed
upon, there must be dissolution of the Unlonmthe
slave States being subject to the curse OF military
| despotism and the peris of servie war ~ nardiy
appears that there can be question about TINS, Dnt
OF the issue we cannot venture to vatlclnate. Our
trust is that the Abolitionsts will not abate Jot OF
that strong will which renders them the real antag
onists Of the South that they will press on the
more strenuously as the critical moment dscloses
itself and that by unfolding n the sight Of all men
country they may justify that instinct of the highest
minds in the Old World which has recognized them
amidst the depressons and obscurites of a quarter
of century OF adversely, as the ten righteous men
who should save their city.
1t was just such remarks as these, made by the
London Times and other British journals, that turned
large portion of popular sentiment in this country
in favor of Russia during the progress of the terrible
war in the Crimea. Wanton, uncalled for and insult
ing slurs, upon our institutions, government and
means of defence and offence produced revulsion
that was felt throughout the entire struggle. Our
citizens would have been almost unanimously in favor
Of the triumph of the British and French arms, but
for the outrageous course of many of the English
journals.
1t matters little whether the Westminster Review
declines to prophesy not Its evident Ignorance
of the true state of affairs in this country renders its
prophecies or non-prophecies worthless Its idea
that if radical reconstruction is not Immediately
agreed upon, there must be dissolution of the
Union, is really amusing We can assure the Review
that there will be dissolution of the Union be-
fore there can be any "re-consttution, radical or
otherwise, of our national organic law. If we
not get along under it, we will have to separate.
That is fact as fixed fate. Neither the nation
nor the civilized earth-nether Christendom nor
Heathendomcan furnish the equals of the trainers of
that matchless instrument. Any effort to reconsti.
tute it would prove lamentable failure.
The assumption that the q slave States,'' in the
event of dissolution, would be subject to the curse
ola military despotsm and the pers Of servile war;"
are equally unfounded and untenahle. Possessing
the finest country the sun shines upon in his durnal
course through the heavens, with the most fertile
soil and genial climate, producing almost exclusively
the four great staples that the commercial world is
most dependent upon-cotton, sugar, tobacco and
rice-raising more than sufficient to feed our popu-
aton, with an opportunity of almost illimtable
pansion-with stores of mineral wealth. of every de-
scription, boundless in extent-with q capacity to
manufacture far beyond the ability of any other
country under the sky-and with an intelligent and
enterprising populaton-we could construct gov
eminent that would challenge the earths respect and
admiration, and build up for ourselves structure of
wealth. happiness prosperity and power that neither
ancient nor modern history would furnish parallel
for, p.
The Review is strongly English in its nature and
tendencies. 1t considers the little island of Great
Britain worth all the earth put together yet, it evil
IDENTIFY wishes the Aboitonists of the United States
in their nearous designs, when their success
would amount to the abolition of slavery the abolition
of slavery would amount to abolition of the cotton
crop Of the South and abolition of the cotton crop
of the South would bring immedicable ills upon Eng
land Such is the shortsghtedness fanatcism brings
upon otherwise intelligent, honorable and patri-
otto. n.