New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-14
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A NOR FatVEsTEisN REPUBLIC,

IA I-N
The telegraph announces that Fremont has been
removed from the command of the army Of the
West, very much against the will Of the people of
the Northwestern States, and that there is some
talk in those regions Of cutting loose from the
wreck Of the old Union, and establishing new
Empire in the Northwest with the disgraced Gen.
eral at its head. The project seems to have been
Matched some time ago4for we find among the
foreign news letter from Paris to the London
Post, dated as far back as the 25th of September
in which this scheme is OPENLY alluded to. Here
is an extract from the letter referred to s aS -
French Canadians are to be met with in Paris,
and from some late arrivals by the last trip of the
Great Eastern, had occasion personally to aseer-
tam from them that Canadians of whatever origin
looked forward to an enormous development Of the
carrying trade between" Europe and the far West
by the lakes and St. Lawrence, as a consequences
Of the disrupted Union. They allege that the Erie
Sanal and its terminus at New York, as well as
other feeders OF purely artificial line of European
intercourse. must be superseded'by the superior
Northern facilities which nature affords to the
jewellers beyond the Alleghanies. 1t is further
anticipated that the far Western States-Nebraska
Wisconsin Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and
ohio.must eventually secede on their own hook ,
and form q great Western Confederacy. on the
tariff question, and on the simple ground of free
trade with Europe through Canada. 1.-THE great
6alIiornla pathfinder, Gen. Fremont, is an embryo
PRESIDENT at the sources of the Mississippi ready
for the embodiment Of this natural destiny Of the
far West,'' and should his late proclamation he
dsaYowed at Washington, will realize it as sure
as the devils in Lineoln.n So 81 +
There is yet another element of secession j.,
somehow overlooked in the hustle of warfare I
allude to the Mormon population at Salt Lake
which Is sure to assert its own independently of
both North and South. s5, 49, .s....f. +
Fremont's proclamation has not only been " dis
avowed," but Fremont himself has been degraded
from office. The deed has been done, ON the hap
pening Of which this Northwestern revolution was
to take place, and it is aggravated by the suhse-
qnent military disgrace of the offender. TO have
his proclamation dsavowed was blow at FIRE.
mont, but to turn him out altogether was still
seYerer one. He is now in position to take adj
vantage OF popular passion in the Northwest, and.
il he will bide his time, may yet be able to realize
the destiny here alluded to, of military Dictator
ship. sst IT
But the time is not yet. The outside pressure of
the war keeps together the Northwestern and the
Eastern States, and nothing else but that. AS soon
"a that pressure is removed the natural desire of
the West will be to escape an alliance which i'm.
poses upon them heavy burdens and but few bene.
hts. When the war is endea--and it is bound to
end some time or other-and national debt is
piled mp, which will Cypress heavily the agricul-
~ interests the time will then be sroptious for
Fremont to put himself at the head Of a popular
movement in the Northwest and induce them to
cut loose from the old wreck precisely as the South
lhere is no identity of interests between the
planning communities of the West aud the manu-.
lactnring communities of the East, and experience
showed IN the old Union that when the two came
together IN antagonism, the former always went
down. The East will endeayor to make the West
pay the expenses of Government, just as the North
made the South pay them in the old Union; and
the West, never being strong financially, must
either consent to be kept poor all the time or seek
remedy il revolution. King Abraham may find