New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-01
POLICY or ,sRsaAr nRtrAlN.

pressed of the authority OF the Leautf " dlAkt
this statement thai paper We are informe' BY the
telegraph, raasserts its former deolara don witt
confidence and emphasis.
| We have no doubt Of the truth of the assertion
1 England takes no part, as a Government in on,
civil troubles, and feels far less Interest In them
ne suspect than our national vanity hes led us Il
| suppose. If we choose to t3ouRnRe one nation. i
will be all right with Great Britain, and if va
choose to separate into two divisions it will be al
| right again. She proposes to have nothing ia do
with cur polite al system, but only to contFf,ut
commercial relations With Us as long as they ar.
| agreeable and profitable to both nations
But when the Union is formally dissolved, ant
the machinery of the two CoRfederacies gets intI
full operation the svp,natbfes of Great RT;tain j
1 49,, 4, d, s;aat; "a, I'LL
.aey heishe II eiher aafecefoh VIII, we thlhk, oe
on the side Of the ConfedeTacy of the South. It
with Tie South that her trade relations gillbe mos
| nr,sfahIa IN ave,p rasnect Fron, +ba South IL,
1 : I, ."s.' '-
serves the great staple winch gives employment
| TO so many thousands of her people, and the fail
afe Ct Which' according to the admission Of a Brit
would produce, in some districts, universal dis
tress, bankruptcy and ruin. Add to this the more
liberal policy which the South will unquestionabI,
adopt in the matter of British exports--the NORTH
having ever been clamorous for high tariffs an6
the South for low duties-and it will appear tba,
everything conspires to promise that we will have
no trouble in regard to our relations with that erea
power.
Nor need we have any apprehension that The
institution of slavery will be an obstacle in the
way Great Britain. unlike the Northern states
regards Southern slavery as sometbnp with which
she has properly nothing ia do. Asa Covernmant
she has ma enonab If ananc;,a4 IN II 8bo,, ~
colonies There are anti.slaverg fanaf;cs tbere .,
here mi they consne themselves ~ i,dividn. u,
nositon- and 4ba Government as ,re1 from, i,+or
est nc from nroner sensa If international cov,it,
wonld leave ar institnt;ons u = a. sor,etbiro
which We arc alone rasnonsb1e for =
Another Canada nanar nnhlisbe5 j., o,of "
seems 10 think that some of the Nortbern statos
are eenteu,nlatino annexation 10 Tho Rrit;sh
sions. eWhile The North ana the South !, cave +bo
naner in onestion ], ssare IN the eve of civil ,zo
il il interesting ia learn Al we do IN mn, to,
eble authority that The laad;nq man Of Tho c+,to
IF Maine ara nrenariner tla wav for snnexotior -
the British American Union. # i the most bone-
fl movement If tbe bonr !, We ara sorrv - tbin1-
how disappo;nted orr Cana HIN neiqbhors Jill H.
if the annexation he ever ACCOMPLISHED sTbo,,
NAV now regard IL as II g honeful movement n
Get Maine. and probably all the other New Enc
land States but if they give them as mnob tronbla
as they have given us. and produce as mncb rns.
chief Canada viii have a ID poo9 old fine J, IF a
For our own part. we would rejoice to see the an.
nexation made. IT would be better for both sidee
The people Of New England are incapable Of GOV.
arnino.5 themselves a. bas taa, il r.
trial: and aDy form of Government whereby their
liberties are restricted. would be the hest tbine
that could happen to them.
In continuation of the friendly disposit;on of
Great Britain toward the South. we quote from The
New York Express tbe following:
The British Consul at Pensacola, IL seems has
officially "endorsedn State clearance to a cotton
l snip there, and TIE endorsement doubtless
nov hat Rr;tsb Gansnl na gSn ue,ese
such q proceeding, without having been nreyio1slv
advised by his Government And such being the
case Is y oL evidence taaL me British LION
IL sbr,f M II Southern no,ta IL "a
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The activity talked Of far eope dave nast con.
timed Yesterday narticuIarIv nm the Grand Ie,,ao
Tchoupitoulas, Povdras and New Teyee stroats
and other localities where the ereat Western hrsi
ness concentrates. IT has nat fallen To the lit of
historians to note larger business ar more ertar.
sye sales for anv previous month in the almost ax.