New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-12
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nEnanKAptg ARr1cIE FROM 1HF 1oyDox 1rHss.

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| lengthy article in the London Times Of Janu-
| airy 1s, on the domestic troubles Of the United
States, concludes as follows:
| II South Carolina secedes; if Georgia. Florida.
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas Louisiana foIIopr
| if Southern Federation be- formed, and take fts
place among the powers Of the earth there can be
no hope of keeping the border slave States. These
will be drawn by natural affinity to 7etaeh them
selves from the North and join the slavehoIdng
Federation North Carolina, Tennessee Kentucky y.
Missouri, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, will them
be dissocaseG from the free States Such an event
cannot be regarded without dismay by the most
staunch Ab0tionist. IL sEoztld. in fact, make the
Southern Federation the real United tdte8, az far
as territory present and prospective Is concerned
and reduce the North to what our ancestors would
have called a '' Ramp." The people of Boston Or
Philadelphia inightbe distinguished for their ability
and enterprise, bat they would belong to country
with hardly greater future than Canada. ECgy
natural advantage roaa be on the side Of me aaCe
States.
slip OF country composes the free soil Of the Amer-
can Federation. Only the seaeoast from the
British frontier to the Delaware--a few hundred
miles-be1ong to it, all the rest, stretching far
away down the Atlantic and along the Gulf oR
Mexico, is in the hands Of the slave owners The
mouth of the Mississippi is theirs the Missouri and
ARKANSAS the great arteries Of the West are theirs
Virginia pushes spnr Of territory to within less
than hundred miles of Lake Erie, and thus di-
7ides the Atlantic free States from the West IN
manner highly dangerous to their future nnion.
tween New York and New England on the one
hand and Illinois and the neghboring States on
the other, could long survive the total separation
OF the South. The North would have q territory
a5 struggling as that of Prussia, and the Western
region Wonld soon find it advantageous to dissolve
its union with the Eastern.
In the meantime al the riches of tie Neas World
a1oad be IN the grasp of The Soatbe7ners. Instead
of exploring the inhospable regions in the neigh
borhood of the British frontier which would be all
| that remained to the North, the slaTeoWners
would carry their :" undeDiable property'' into
| lands blessed with every advantage of climate,
| soil and mineral wealth. Texas has territory
| enough to make three or four great States. New
TONS Arizona will follow. MeEic0 mus has ID fen
years be conquered and The Soutiie7nera, birds Of
The most magnificent domain The Horld rropd
| controll The passage befeceen the teco oceans.
In short, if the Union lets South Carolina 70,
there IS no saying what will go with it. sisverT
well to speculate the return of an erring sister,
| but experience shows that seeessions, when3onee
made, are not easily recalled. II is The nature Of
cracks TO tctden, and both at the North and West
there are masses Of people 50 earnest in the ad-
vocacy OF strong measures to prevent disruption
that the President may beforced into active meas
ures. For our own part, whatever opinions aneri-
cans may have of English policy, we beg to assure
them that in this country there is only one wish
Should Providence decree it otherwise we earn
estly pray the separation may be an anicable one.
Civil war in furnishing country, and among a
| kindred people, can never be contemplated with
out horror by nation like, ours, and we trust that
neither the violence of the people nor the weak
ness of their leaders will bring this calamity on the
American Union.