New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-15
49, EEnERAL coaeans So.

Events of 50 great Importance and significance |
are transporting around US every day that we are
apt to lose sight, to some extent, of those which
are taking place at Washington, the Capital of the
late Union. Yet, some of these latter are not al
together without interest.
Prominent among these Is the admission of Kan
sas into the Northern UEion as State, After
long trial and tribulatton after being for seven
years the football of politicians and parties afec
giving more trouble tnan any other Territory ever
did, after teing cUssed and discussed y until the
popular heart became sick at the mere mention of
| the nawrc, Kansas at last reaches the goal for
which She has 80 long struggled-that Of admis.
sion iato the Union. But she reaches it Just as the
Unio1 itself is,disrupted. Just as she enters the
Unian by the back door, seven of the other States
have walked 'eut at the front,
She is adn&tted, too, without any attention being
paidto therrovisions of the English bill. That
derful piece of legislation, Notwithstanding the cid
Public Functionary was pledged to it, seemed to
have beer altogether ignored. Kansas has been
admitted with the Abolition Constitution, and &C
eording to the Abolition schedule; and therefore
the aot,of admission is triumph of Abolition over
the DIG Public Funetionay, and one, too, which, by
his signature to the bill he himself tacity admits
into the Union is, however, something Of mystic
ry. AS territory all her expenses of legislation
and of civil administration generally, were paid
out of the Federal treasury. As State, she will
have to pay this out Of her own pocket We have
before US the late message of her Governor, in
which he states that the entire revenues for the
year preceding were only little over three thous-
and dollars! This message was written before
the political trogbles of the times, recommended
! that, if the Union be dissolved, Kansas should go
with neither section, but erect herself into an in
dependent nation! An independent nation, with
an annual revenue of three thousand dollars would
| be splendid spectacle indeed. This is the State
| which has iGst been admitted into the Union her
| people in most deplorable condition for want of
the necessares of life, and general distress perva
ding the Wfole population This is the State whose
two Senators will sit side by side with those of
Virginia and Kentucky, their votes equally poten-
tia in shaping the legislation of the country! How
do Virginia and Kentucky relish the association?
Besides the admission of Kansas, new Tariff
bill proposed by one Morrill,, of Vermont, has
been presented, and will doubtless become a law.
This bill gives immense dissatisfaction to the com.
mercial interests of the North, and the mHtterngs
of the storm of remonstrance in that quarter are
already heard. We are glad of it. We suppose
Of course, it makes everything else subsidiary and
tributary to the manufacturing interests of New
England. We suppose, of course, it repeals or
reduces the duty on sugar, by way of spite to
Lousiana-these wonderful statesmen and econo-
mists not rejecting, perhaps, that Louisiana can
get along without the duty on sugar a great deal
better than they get along without the five mil
lions of revenue year which that duty puts into
their Treasury--pa particularly their revenue will
be cut down seriously by the prohibtory duties
which they have put upon certain articles of
Northern manufacture.
This is about all that the Northern Congress has
discussed, besides the political events of the times
Meantime Lincoln is arranging his Cabinet and
preparing his inaugural, and threatening coercion
and war, just if the revolution in the South were
a matter Of but little moment, which will be easily
suppressed, if it does not die, ITSELF of hamilton
How grave mistake he and his party are making,
time will show. But, at present. they seem to be
either stupidity ignorant perVersely blind. Let
them go ahead with their admission of bankrupt
States, and their pundering Tariffs. The South is
delivered from their tolls and now aud forever she
is free.