New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-30


France, placing herself in that door, assumes to
us the attitude Of defiance. The day that France
takes possession seals the union Of two nations,
"wbo in conjunction can maintain 1cusive posses
sion OF the ocean. From that moment We must
marry ourselves TO the British fleet and nation.
1--WE must turn all our attention to Il maritime
% force and make the first cannon fired in Europe
4" the signal for tearing up any settlement which
France may have made
The danger which thus made Jefferson ready
TO forego his Partially for France, bis antpathy
to England and his dislike of navy, was hap
PLY ayerted by the cessiOn of Louisiana, which
Bonaparte dispairing of being able to maintain
New Orleans after the renewal of the war with
England, consented to make for the consideration
of fifteen millions of dollars. But even this acqusi-
ton did not at once eradicate all apprehenslons of
Western secession. The expedition OF Burr re.
yiyed in JefIersons mind new alarms on this
score. He firmly believed that it WAS part of
Western States, and he was greatly dissatisfied
that Burr had not been found guilty of treason
and hung upon that score.
Since that time the opening of 80 many new
routes Of communication by canal and railroad
have in O political and commercial view,
quite removed the Aleghanies from the map
All apprehensions of Western secession have long
since vanished from the public mind, to be re-
placed, however at the present moment, by o
threatened secession on the part of the cotton
States. In this emergency it is from the very
West ITSELF formerly the object Of patriotic suspi-
cions, that the most decided veto may be expected
upon this new movement. South Carolina and
Florida, even Georgia and Alabama might pos
siby be suffered to 60 if they will, but they
never can be permitted TO drag in their train the
State commanding the mouth of the Mississippi.
Whatever may be thought or said, rs to what
experience hitherto would be apt to set down as
the utOpian idea of peaceful secession" in its ap
plicaton to the States frat above mentioned there
can be no such thing as the peaceful transfer Of
the mouth of the Mississippi to foreign power.
What Jefferson wrote in 1902 is just az true now.
Indeed the spread Of population and civilization
along all the upper waters OF the Mississippi
gives it new emphasis We cannot allow the
mouth of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. We of the
East, nor the great and growing States Of the
West, can allow ito b. occupied and held by
o foreign power. The very same motives, acting,
too, with vastly increased momentum, which
would have made it necessary in 1902 to tear
up any settlement which France might have
formed there, would make it still more neces.
sary now to dislodge any secessionist power that
might attempt to take possession Of it, New
Orleans liz still that one spot of the globe
which nobody can attempt to wrench from us
without assuming thereby the position Of "Our
natural and habitual enemy"
Fortunately, however, there is but very slight
probability that the good people of the City of
New-Oreans, or of the State of Louisiana would
ever allow themselves to BIZ drawn into such
suicidal policy. New-Oreans contains a large
part of the white population of the State, and
her mercantile interests are largely in the hands
Of men of Northern birth who have not yet learnt
to sink all regard for the Union in devotion to
the imagined interests Of single State. The
sugar planters of Louisiana find their principal
market in the interior States bordering on the
Mississippi and its waters. So long as she re-
mains in the Union all the fanfaronade about
the monopoly of cotton, and the power thence to
be derived, comes to nothing. NewOrleans is
and must always remain the great cotton shipping
port of the Union.