New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-26
sEnAroR HAMmoNp oM gnoEssIoN.

The following extract from letter lately writ
ten by Hon James II. Hammond, Of South Caro-
lina to a friend in New York, explains in brief
terms the causes of the whole Southern move
ment
You are right in supposfng that the eZaggera-
tions Of the Northern press--permit me to say its
infamous ISLANDERS and lies on the South-have
greatly assisted in bringing about the present state
of affairs. But the causes lie deeper. The North
has always sought to stare-and to have the lions
share-of our productions, and seeks it now.
Slavery ia not sin. Read the Bible-with your
own PLATA Interpretation, if you are believer in
reyel&tion--and you will see that Moses and the
Israeites, Christ and Paul, did not so consider it,
All this is fully set forth in sermon by the Rev.
Mr.. Van Dyke, in Brooklyn, on the 9th Of Decem-
Der last. Get that and read it. If slavery ls an
evil, it is an evil for us, and leave US to grappe
with it. 1t is mere question of politics and econ
omy. We feel fully able TO manage it. if we are
not disturbed hy outsiders. We think it n blessing
TO white and black here. We don't think at all
whether it il an evil with yon. That ID none Of
but just let US alone with it, Anybody who can
put two ideas together must know that we are as
much bound TO it as Mazeppa to the wild horse.
Come what may there is no riddance.
We dissolve the UniGn--and it is forever di3
solved, be assured-to get clear of Yankee med
dlesorneneBs and PuritancaE bigotry-I say this,
beiTg half q Yankee and half a Puritan. We abb
solve yoa, by this, from all the sin Of slavery and
openly before the world and in the sight of God.
Let us alone We shall make no war on Jon. Let
us work out our salvation in our own way. We
agree that you should do the same. And, let me
tell you, that if there is any attempt at war on the
part of the North, We can soundly thrash them on
any field of battle, and not only that, we can give
them to Jean Jacques, and leave them to manage
that.
We know our strength Why, we export over
two hundred millions Of produce, which the world
eagerly seeks and cannot do without. The North
exports some sixty millions. in competition with
the European producers. The North, without our
custom for its manufactures and our prdduce for
its commerce and its exchanges, is neither more
world. To that it has come on an infiiel and alb
sract idea.
Mr. Hammond thus shows that we not only have
the right on our side but the emancipation Of the
South from the bonds Of the old Union will be as
productive of injury to the North Of benefit to
us. Of that the North itself is now becoming con-
vinced. Their disgust at the Southern movement
is by no means lessened by the discovery.
| Tt would be as well, too, for the Northern and
the Border slave States to take notice of Mr.. Ham
mond's declaration that the Union is forever dis
solved" That he speaks the sentiments Of South
Carolina and of every other seeded State, there
| can be no doubt. Those who imagine that any
course whatever that the Border slave States nigh
pursue would ever induce the Confederate States
to return to the old Union are making grave mis-
take The separation, like that of the American
colonies from Great Britain, is perpetual.