New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-27
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Ed. Crescent-Sir: A certain train of ideas
having come to my mind, I have spread them on
paper and submit them to you to use as you
please. I am old resident, identified with New
Orleans, and nothing moves me to this but the
good will have for the place as a citizen
A late Madrid paper (he EDoca) states that the
Spanish Government about to favor the city
of Havana, by granting it the privilege of a. En-
trep0t of entering for expectation, free of duty
cotton and coffee of foreign production This will
make Havana a great depot for Rio coffee. It
will also give our cotton planters another market
OF support to depend upon, besides their own ship
ping pOrts-a market where stock will always
be maintained, diminishing that at home, and yet
not weighing on the markets of consumption.
This move is great one for Havana, at the same
time that it is matter OF congratulation for all
Southern commerce, for it inaugurates that liberal
policy OIL the part of Spain, which, if followed up,
IN unison with ourselves, will bring out and de-
velop the resources of all Southern America, for
our mutual benefit Let intelligent and practical
minds examine the question, and l believe they
will see that the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of Havana and
of New Orleans may be worked simultaneously,
and may be brought to promote the good of each
other Through Havana and its Spanish mer
chants, we can best reach the Spanish Main, and
secure, under the most advantageous and favor
able auspices, their trade as consumers of all the
productions of the Mississippi Valley. We would
contribute to the improvement and welfare of that
large portion of the American hemisphere, (yet
comparatively quiescent and with which we
ought to be most closely allied. Commerce, the
retnements and blessings of happy social cond
ton, the power of virtue and principle, are to
achieve 4his victory. Havana should become
station,' "stopping place." for our steam
communication with Europe, be this connection
kept up by Spanish Confederate steamers or
by line of combined or international char
acter.
We ought to foresee that New Orleans Should
become great mercantile emporium. We should
take the matter under adyisement and at once COM
and take up this labor of love. " Our CONNER
cal community, in body, ought to be alive to it
they should encourage every willing mind TO be
active, and invite them to submit suggestions Our
Chamber of Commerce might come out the
field, and lead the onward march, naming stand
ing committee of their own members TO study and
devise, and ever to be on the watch, jointly to
work out with the course Of time, and constantly
| to be pushing forward this glorious object. Should
this be approved of, think it would be desirable
to have for cooperation corresponding committee
formed at Havana, composed of Spanish mer-
chants. Their " Juna de fomento," an institution
something similar to our Chamber of Commerce,
| might be addressed on the subject.
The attention of our Government ought to be
| solicited, aud its support and helping action OBJ
| tanned. The interests of our whole country might
be promoted. Further, it occurs to my mind, in a
| political point of view, and as affecting the present
| moment, that perhaps we might expect (should
these ideas prevaiD that the interest and good will
of the island thus secured, and the not distinct
| but perfectly analogous policy which attaches to
| and which harmOnizes with that of the island,
might bring about that Spain should take the iui-
tiative at an early day Of inuHing the European
| Powers to recognize our independence and ma
| tional organization.
| \ N.