New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-05
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Msu Orleans 9allu Crescent.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY !, 1851.
RrcoNsTRUoTIoN.
ne New york Tribune, some time aEo, declared
Tint dissolution Ut the Union would result n The
establishment Of two Ccnfedefacies, one q me
North and one III the South the free States const
tutinE ths former, and the slave States the iatfcr
The Cincinnati Enquirer. however, objects TO the
proposed alliance Of Ohio with the New England
states, aud thus enters il protest against the ar
Eangement:
W. can assure the Tribune that in the event OF q
issolHtofl ii need not atter itself that the Union
wiIsplt with the grain like pine plank, into Zee
snd slave States. Not at all. The ConfedeTacy
once disrupted The compact destroyed - tiese
States revert to their original condtieG ana Their
Sfufara movements would be governed BY interest
aSagle, 10 which geographical position past rela-
items. commercial manufacturing and other indus
trial relations would enter largely ato the consld
Grafton of new associations. There never was a
greater eeiision than 10 suppose that the great
States IN Ohio Indiana Illinois and Iowa would, in
the event of dissolution unite their desslnles with
New England i sectieR in which the North-west
has bms very limited business CONNIE ton.
The Tribune may speak for New England, but
we protest against its speaking for united North.
The late election has apparently increased the area
Of HE Tribune territory bat Mr.. Greeley should
remember the uncertain tenure by which party
supremacy ii maintained. Ut is not an uncommon
thing for greater crowds to be at the death than at
X the birth of monsters Six months hence Will, in
all probability, witness the death and burial of the
present dominant political menstrosity, which
seems to have been sent asa messenger of wrath
to disturb and chastise an nEgrateful and com
1laining people, Should . dissolution OF the q MON
occur before the counting Of the votes OF the
Electoral Colleges in the presence OF the two
kaf
Mr. Lincoln, the grayests questions may arise as to
thesatsts III the several States toward another
and the whole. That's tter which has not been
discussed, hut We Doubt not will be, and we would
counsel The Tribune not to calculate too securely
on a Union of al the Nerthern or Free States, in
one confederaey, in csse the present Union shall
be dissolvedsS # 5s5s s.s
Here, III will be observed, the Enquirer asserts
thas there never was o greater delusion than 10
suppose the orthwestern States, in the event Of
dissolution, will 20 with the States os New England
They have no business connections in eommea,
says the Enquirer, and NE suppose the alliance
would be repudated BY the Northwest, almost as
vehemently asit weald be By Us Of the South.
The New England States seem to be having a
hard time of it. lot even the Northwest will have
anything TO do with them. The South has been
tired ef them for years, and now the Northwest
throws them Of, and rejects their alliance, They
are III 4 fair way to be politically tabooed put into
coventry and expelled from all political associa-
ton with the other States of the old Union. The
best they can do, perhaps is to accept the g pro
lection !, of Canada, become a subject province,
and be presided over by pro-eonsnl ii the person
os tile mulatto Ham1n.
In the political reconstruetions that are about to
fike place, we think it most likely then, that the
slave States, with the exception Of Delaware, viii
ali be united in Southern Confedaracy, while the
North viii be split into three br four distinct noti-
cal divisions. New England, unable to stand 4 on
her own bottom with no employment for her
shipping, no fishing b5unties, and no market for
her manufactures, win hayeto annex herself to
Canada, Or stay out in the cold and freeze. The
Middle States Of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
wanna and Delaware, WiIprobably set up business
on their own hook. The Northwest will coRsti.
tuta another subdivision, and the Pacific States |
another The Territories, III good time, viii unite
themselves with that division which most nearly
aasimilates to them in political ideas, and borders
them geographically. There ought to be nothing |
to disturb the harmonious operation Of all these
various political communities
There il some substantial ground for the obiec-
items which the Cincinnati Enquirer raises to a
union Of the Northwest and New England for,
with the exception Of The sentiment Of hostility to
slavery, there is nothing in common between the |
two SECTIONS. The Northwest is an agricultural |
region almost exclusively, while New England
liyes BY maausactnres and shipping. It is the in
terest Of New England TO have high tariff on i'm
poftaticnB, while it Is the interest Of the North |
west to have no tariff at ALL Were the two united /
New England woud be peTpetnaly seeking to |
Ia haHfG or
ing the South do III the old Union that Is, bear all
fhs burdens III Government for the benefit Of her
shipping interests and her manufactures Tho /
Northwest is not SO able to stand this rank inius-
tice and imposition as the South has been, and
would not stand ii if she were
for the bitter hostility to slavery which exists
in al the Northwestern States, their true and
proper political relations wonld be with the States
Of the South. This it is which viii keep US apart.
We cannot live IN fellowship ana association with
q people who make war upon ns and our property,
and complain Of US because we choose to have q /
social system different from their own. But for
this, as We have said, the alliance between the
Southern and the Northwestern States would be
natural ana agreeable Both sections DEPEND
mainly upon agriculture. Both are interested in
having the least possible restrictions upon foreign
trade and commerce. From their geographical
position they ought to be friends and allies But
their hatred Of slavery will be an eternal bar To
the Union. The South, once free, will never con.
sent to DO tied up a gain with people who seek to
disturb her repose BIZ making war upon her
cherished institution. But there Isl nothing which
LIQUID properly interfere with the peaceful rela-
lions Of commerce between the Northwest and the
South az they existed in the old Union, nor do we
believe there will be in the new Confederacies
Rhich Will follow the reconatraction that is now
going On.
HOME CORRESPONDENCE,
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NEw onLEAss, Feb. 8, 1861.
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