New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-05
sTlep 0rlealts 9aiIg Crestsnt.
THE TRUTH roLD rERsELY.

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1861.

The New York Evening Post, although intensely
Black Republican in its tendencies, has ever been
consistent in it's advocacy offree trade. In one of
its recent issues there was a long and able article
exposing and condemning the stupid Morrill, tariff,
from which we extract the following paragraph:
As it is It is now a stumbling block in the way of
any proper and efectual settlement of our contro-
versy with the Southern States. Asthings now are,
the prospects for the commerce Of this city are so
discourdging as 10 call forth one loud cry Of alarm
from al Glasses of 0n, citizens. For zoe ADe 6y
commerce. and by COMMERCE WITH TIE WHOLE
WORLD. Take that from US, aud e1e,y andna,'y,
eUety trade suffers, Nor is this effect contned 10
the limits of the city, or Of the State of which it s
the ornamentand support. There is hardly an IRON
establishment or coal mine in Pennsylvania, or
loom in Massachusetts, or n forge in New jersey,
tnat does not eelthe pusation OF its arterlal oIood
flowing directly fromthe greatheart of the metrop'
oils. If that becomes torpid, woe to the eXtrehi-
ties. A uumbness will come over them which no
warmth of protection can remove.
aGentlelnen Of the Post, do not waste useless
words about 4 any proper and eflectual settlement
Of our (your) controversy with the Southern
E3tates.p The only g settlement that can now be
made, is an absolute recognition of the indepcnd-
ence and sovereignty Of the Confederate States and
then advantageous commercial treaties may be en-
tered into but not until then. You may repeal the
Morrill, tariff bill thousand times, if that could be
doue and the act or cts would not weigh feather
with the people of the South. They have taken
their course, made up their minds unalteraby to
pursue it,and come whatmay, they viii not swerve
The breadth of hair from the determination they
deliberately concluded upon.
The Morrill, tariff bill was simply stupid blum
der made by the Black Republicans of Congress-
That is ALL It has weakened Mr. Lincoln's ad-
ministration, and strengthened that of President
Davis. It has taken money from them, and given
it to US. 1t has created revenue for us, which
viii become enormous in few months, while their
revenues will decrease until they reach the dimin-
'utive standard OF their exports proper. To this
complexion IL must come at last, and the New
Workers and all others interested may well as
not begin to prepare themselves for the E ire
pressibe" necessity that will soon be upon them.
The New York Evening Post truthfully observes:
'sWe live by commerce, and by commerce with
the whole world" This is an undoubted fact.
But two.thirds Of the importing trade of New York
viii Be taken from you aud transferred to South
ern ports within the year commencing April lst,
Rl86l for the new order of things will force imports
: to the points the exports which pay for them go
from unless, indeed, that great city secedes from
the Northern Confederacy and declares herself an
absolutely free port Nothing else can even par
TALLY save her.
Why, for instance we know OF bets that were
madea day or two since, that foreign goods i'm
ported into New Orleans, under the Confederate
States tariff, would be offered for sale in New York
within ninetydays. OF course, if Lincolns Custom
house officers can first seize and then prove these
goods to be contraband, they will be confiscated
but as that is almost impossibility, in one case
out Of hundred, imagine all risks will be run.
Let the Post calculate the amount of the exports
Of the Confederate States alone, leaving out OF
view the cotton, etc, of the Slave States, which
have not yet seeded, nine-tenths of which will
come here for export, and it will then be able to
arrive at correct estimate of the diminuonin its
import trade, which is bound to take place within
the year.
If the New Workers will be able to live by com
nerce" with the whole word' after their i'm
porting business is mainly destroyed, we shall be
much gratifed, for we bear no ill-w to the city
New York. Buff, unhappiIy, the opposite shoult
prove the case, we only say that the section il
which they live first provided, and then invited
them to the entertainment.