The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-24
IMPORTANT FROM NEW ORLEANS.

IMPORTANT FROM NEW ORLEANS.
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New View or the Southern Question-
The Dissolution OF the Union Called
For by Commercial Nccessity-Senator
Seward In Favor OF an Expanded
Northern Confedcracy, to Include the
British Possessions-The Southern Com
federacy to Extend from Mason and
Dfx0ns Line TO the OrInoco-The African
Slave Trade TO be Reopencd, csc., sc.
OUR NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.
New ORLEANS, Jan. IS, 1901.
scutherner, with political, pecuniary and patriotic
interests identical with those who surely and revo
caby sunderDg the bonds that have united the States Of
America into confederation which has outvod the exi
gences Of the age We live IN address his letter % your
valuable and influential paper, in order 70 supply void
Of information which ought 70 have baen led long ago.
is evident that popular sentiment at the North as well
q large portion Of the masses at tho South, nave
failed hitherto to seize upon the true key Of the difficult
ties agitatg the republic recent soourn Of several
weeks at Washington, and subsequently, unusual oppcr
tuntes of observation in the States Of Alabama South
Carolina, Virginia. Kentucky and Mississippi have fully
and completely solved, to my own mind, the problems
which Congress- the President and the Of journals in
the country, are vanly trying to work OUT and, as
tribute to the peace, tranquility, and maintenance Of
harmonious relations earnestly desired by every good
citizen, lay before you few facts, which no one can
carefully examine and attempt 10 gainsay.
The fundamental error into which the deplorable
vagaries Of journals and politicians North and South
have been Of late betrayed and which have nearly In
vowed US in civil with no really discordant interests,
but with every inducemen to maintain relations OF the
strctest amity together is the old fogy absurdy that
what has been must be; that change involves enmity;
and the exigencies Of national economy and growth
violent instead Of pcaccabe transition When fore
fathers achieved independence for the thirteen colonies
and for about aquarter Of century after populations
Of the States sparse all West Of Ohio common
territory; slavery institution Of very doubtful
economy anywhere; the cotton trade undeveloped
the mineral wealth Of Missouri and the coal fields of
Kentucky and Tennessee unexpored restrictions
existed imagined possible upon inter State relations
the idea Of the acquisition of Cuba the West India islands,
Mexico and the Central American republics, vague
and distant; national ambition bounded within the
narr0west limits the conquest Of Texas and the annex
alton OF California had not been thought Of excepting 10
involve in disgrace and ignominy the unfortunate states
man who, in the days Of Jefferson embarked invading
forces upon the waters Of the Mississippi and dlssou
tion Of tho ties which drew together by
instinct of sefpreservaon would have been the signal
for aggression from abroad and renewal Of external
All this has changed. The eagle eyes Of the Northern
States look northwestward and norhward and behold
there an endless cxpanse OF territory, willing with oa
slight display coyness to unite It's destnes with hers
forever. Canada, Nova Scotia ard New Brunswck pro-
vinccs fourishng, and needing but to be regrated
the tree of which they were branches, and whose
invgoratng sap Is only wanting 70 make Halifax,
Quebec, Montreal and Toronto the expanding rivals OF
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago belong and must Ia
evitaby be one day united with you, in common body
polite From the Potomac 10 the north poe from Cape
Cod to Vancouvers land identity OF interest Is the nsp
ration which cannot fail to accomplish destiny mani
fest the absorption Of Normandy and Calais was OF
yore by France and the uni6cation Of Italy win
prove, under Garbadi and Victor Emanuel Homoge-
ney Of character like religious and phianihropic sym
pahes similarity in the tenure OF property and in the
employment Of labor; unconscious blending OF
hostile shades Of political sentiment all point towards
autonomy distinct and perfect under which the regions
from Mason and Dxons line TO the open OF DR. Kane,
will naturally coalescc while they must remain in ever
lasting contrast with the South with few points Of sm
hrity in character but many ties in trade and com
merce
Peace between the North and South indispensable 10
the welfare of both The Southern States need your
manufactures and many articles Of Northern growth,
and your markets the natural outlet as your ports
the necessary medium, for the sugar cotton and
tobacco, with which, after few years, OF separate
development, we shall supply the world. Yes, the
world. This is the key to the movements OF great
Southern minds No ballucinaton can be more depor-
able than the prevalent suppositon that hatred per
Of our Northern brethren hes ct the bottom Of the ag
taton which has begun with the separation from the
Union OF few States but must end p the formation OF
Southern conederacy with aims as just and results as
certain, for benefit those which your Summers,
Haes, Stewards Lincons Wades, Washburns and others
have marked cut for you. Men like sldel, Walker,
Gwin, benjamin, Davis, Keitt, Rhett, Mason, Yuee
Mallory, Rovn, Wise and Bayard, have no,
toiled and Aborcd for years with view
10 destroy, but to build up. They have
not aimed at the extinction Of the gories that
shine around the liberties Of the American continent
to add ustre to them and 70 give to them increased
extension They have comprchended that upon CONNER.
cia development sagaciousiy and wisely fosered mus,
depend the future prosperity Of tho South and that just
long they remained appcndage Of states, whose
interests con.rasted in the very nature OF things with
theirs that developcment could not be obtained.
Gan the Southern States Mexico with the consen.
and aid Of Massachusetts,, Ohio and vormon-or even Of
Michigan Wisconsin and other non saveholdins satesY
Remember the strong opposition which the attempts 70
acquire Cuba have encountered at the hands Of
Northern representatives in Congress Even tho question
or Texas conyused the country destroyed existing party
platforms and created and embittered sources Of
political strife. But, believing as do the solid
minded cnterprising constructors OF the great future
ed6ce at the South that Central American empire,
which shall make of the Gulf Of Mexico lake, ard n.
cude in It's limits every acre Of Land, cvery estuary,
port and river between the ornooo and the Potomac Of
what avail could Northern joint stock legislation be 70 us,
within the next ten, fifteen twenty yearsY And, as
this greatest political fabric that carved out by
human hands, aided by the kind Providence which smiles
upon the efforts Of those who help themselves viii neces
sarly repoee upon slave labor; will involve the re
opening Of the African slave trade and the civilization Of
the unfortunate millions whom humanity would decree to
bondage, and whom only the narrow minded fanatclsm
Of handful OF turbulent agtaors would have from age
TO age buried in the darkness Of cannbasm, massacre
and degraded barbary what hopes are there Of symPa
thy or active sucoor from nation like that which you
are destined 10 formp
your Northern statesmen know and comprehen. the