New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-23
Nsn Orleans laiIg Ctestent.
s0NrETIIINe pRAcTIoAL,
lsl,N MORNING, JANUARY 2a, 1861.


" house Committee of Thirty-three, il we
.,s efust that very unreliable vehicle of news the
..ssfaph, =. has ae last made practical proposi-
M, ,,pu--a practicgl proposition and sensible one.
:. NV report is That it has been recommended to
opugfess to Provide for " Convention of all the
osales With view to peaceable secession, to
portion United States property, settle the terms of
4 rciael intercourse and arrange permanently
- sar' 70 the navigate" Of the Mississippi
MsssIhls is the first sensible timely proposition
that has been made yet. 1t recognizes the fact
officially, that the Union is dissolved and that it is
impossible to reconstruct it, and that we had there
fore better divide the assets, balance the books,
and wind up the partnership.
10 this complexion it had to come at last, and
we are only surprised that Congress should have
taken SO long a time to find it out. Probably when
on the same day the delegations from three or four
states, in both Houses, formally Withdrew from the
Hais OF Congress, the Black Republicans began to
believe that there was really" something in it
and for the first time became conscious of the fact
that the South, instead of joking, was most &C.
rionaly and terribly in earnest.
This proposition is of course, only the recon-
mendation Of committee. 1t has to pass the
ordeal OF the House and the Senate and receive
the sanction of the O. P. F. before it can be carried
INTO effect. If the Black Republicans are wise
Iiey VIII lnterpose no objection to it; and if the
ola Public Functionary wishes to distinguish his
Administration with one sensible act, and not per-
my tlt 70 go out Of power with the execratons of
a" PaFllea, he will make haste to agree to peace
aoie and fair division Of Union which has stood
everything In the way of danger until it got down
W MN, and then could stand no longer and had to
giYeup the ghost.
me common property of the Union belongs to
the South as we'll as the North It has been
bought with meney out Of the general fund, and
TO this fund the South has contributed, to
say the least of it, her full proportion. We
petieye that the South, sooner than remain in
the#eld Union any longer, would surrender its
Whole enerest in this property if it were necessary
10 secure her political independence. But as this
is het necessary, and as the South means to have
neg TAR proportion of what belongs to the old
partnership; the sooner the arrangement is made
lor lair, peaceable and honest division the bet.
ter VIII be, IN every respect, for both sections
tereiore, we say again, this proposition is
piactcal and sensible one. This is, in truth the
only thing that can be done. Give us What we are
ehEtled to of the public property of the late
MON, and OF the common territories, and we will
undertake TO say there will be no difficulty about
tfte navigation of the Mississippi. We have never
proposed to interfere with the navigation of the
1isef IN respect of Legitimate and peaceabIe trade
ana commerce; and those who are now making
such an ado about it in Indiana and the other
Northwestern States had therefore just as well
dry up" If there be no greater difficulty than
thatinregard to the navigation Of the Mississippi
river, the arrangement of the terms of separation
caubesoon and easily made.