New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-25
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e New York Herald Of the 10th publishes III,

ITarf bin 81 the North and that of the South side
by side ia order that the contrast may be the more
striking. And it thus notes the difference between
/ them.
1t is impossible to deny to the Southern tariff an
disqualification of craftsmanship, enlightenment.
| wisdom and a knowledge of governing great and
enterprising people, which are wholly wanting in
/ the other document.
| The tariff Of the Washington Congress is the
most Ignorant, useless, laundering and pernicious
nactment that ever Goncoctesi for the ayowed
purpose of lettering the interests of the country
On the contrary, the tariff of the Montgomery Con-
| gress is sound, practical and ineligible measure,
aud as such it will command the admiration of the
| statesmen of England and France and all the COM
mercial nations of Europe. They will discover
| from the comparison. that the art of Goue77,nent
Is nth The South and not sDith the NORTH and they
VIII be guided by that conviction in their policy
| regards the two sections.
That is strong language, but it is the truth The
Herald proceeds to show, what we ourselves
showed a week or two ago, that the effect of the
two tariffs will be the injury of the North and the
| corresponding benefit of the South:
| The combined effects of these two tariffs must
be to desotdte The entire North to stop its importa-
| tons, cripple its commerce and turn its capital
into another channel; for, although there is specie
now lying idle in New York to the amount of
nearly forty millions of dollars ana as much more
in the other large cities, waiting for opportunity
of investment, it will be soon scattered all over
the country, wherever the most available means of
using it are presented, and it will be lost to the
trade of this city and the other Northern States
| There is nothing to be predicted of the combina-
| ton of results produced by the Northern and
Southern tariffs but general ruin to the commerce
| of the Northern Confederacy. France and Eng
land, IN U1e,o OF these taco measures TOLL find but
little difficulty ao1C In recognizing the Independence
OF ne Contede''ate States of the South. The states
men OF these nations s care nothing for our eternal
niger question. Their own commercial interests
abroad are all in all to them; and indeed upon
| the subject of negroes, both the American Gov
ernments stand now upon an equal footing mas
| much of the Southern, as well as the Northern
Constitution prohibits the African slave trade
The tariff of the South opens its ports upon fair
and equitable terms to the manufacturers of
foreign countries, which it were folly to suppose
will not be eagerly availed of; while the stupid
| and suicidal tariff just adopted by the Northern
| Congress imposes excessive and almost prohibit
tory duties upon the same articles. Thus the COM
| hination of abolition fanatics and stockholders in
| Washington has reduced the whole North to the
verge of ruin, which nothing avert unless the
Administration recognizes the necessity of at once
calling an extra session of Congress to repeal the
/ Morrill, Tariff, and enact such measures as may
bring back the seeded States and reconstruct
| the Union upon terms of conciation Justice and
| right.
The only mistake the Herald commits in the
above is in respect of bringing back the seeded
States" Congress might repeal the Morrill, Tariff,
or do anything else, but it is too late now to talk
about reconstructing the Union. The only possible
mode in which the Union can ever be reconstructed
is according to the terms and conditions of the Con-
sttution Of the Confederate States That Constitu-
ton provides for the admission of other States.
The Northern States may possibly apply for ad-
mission into our Confederacy when they find out.
as they soon will, that they cannot get along BY
themselves; but, when it is recollected that two
thirds of the House of Representatives and two
thirds of the Senate the latter voting by States.
are requisite for the admission of new States and
that there is no security that the Northern States,
if admitted, would respect and observe the new
compact any more than they did the old one, their
chances of admittance into the new Confederacy
are rather slim There many people in the
South, in fact, who regret that the Constitution
did not, in express terms, inhbt the introduction
of any other but slave States into our new Confed-
eraey. There is no use in talking about recon
struction of the old Union. The provisions of our
Constitution may possibly admit of such a thing
but it will be on our own terms and with our new
Constitution as the organic law. In no other way
is it possible and it is not at all probable in that
way.
But not alone in regard to the tariff that the
Herald discovered the superior wisdom of South
ern statesmen over those of the North. See in
what emphatic and unconditional terms that paper
endorses and commends the Southern Confed-
/ eracy:
There is no point of difference beteseen The Con
stitttion of the United States and that ,ciich has
been adopted bg Tie Southern Confederacy. in
aclich the provisions of he latter are not an i'm
I prouealent Upon ha former.
The politicians of the cotton States have PRO
ceeded quietly to establish au Independent Govern.
ment and to form Constitution which ia model
State paper. It preserves all the best features of
the original compact with certain requisite addi-
tons. The Constitution Of The Southern Copfed-
efdcy as as perfect as d'ay sach Instrument can BE-
IT emhodes the ideas of the fathers of the repnb-
lie, and offers the very best platform for the politi-
cal discussion that will be carried on between the
North and the South during the next year or two.
So we advise everybody to take the old Constitu-
ton and the new and compare them critically
The Southern politicians have done their work
well
Even the Black Republican papers have been
compelled to admitthe excellenctes of our Consti-
tutionin many respects, outside of the provisions
in regard to slavery. When Northern papers thus
express their admiration of our work, it is passing
strange that there should be Southern men-hap |
PLY, fewln number--who growl and quarrel over
1T, and attempt to detect imaginary flaws in an in
&strument which is q model of wisdom and of en-. |
lightened practical craftsmanship.
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