New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-16
Neh OrIears 9aiIp Grtsttnt.
UNION on r4E snurl1.
NEsDAY MORNING, JANUARY lo, 1851.

the Legislature Of that State, gives it as his opinion
that if the Union be dissolved, there will be four
new Confederacies instead Of two. Believing that,
in this opinion, the Governor is in error, we make
the following extract from his Message, expressive
Of his views this point, for the purpose of sub
niting brief reioindcr
Can ii be supposed that dissolution Of the Union
can end in the organization of Northern and
southern ConfederaCy, embracing the States and
Territory on this side of the Rocky Mountains? ]
entertain no such opinion. I consider it not only
possible, but highly probable, that when disunion
snail come, we will have four organizations nde-
pendent and distinct. The States and Territories
on the Pacific, by reason of their locality and isola-
tfon, will form one. The Now England States,
With New York, in consequence Of their identity Of
opinions the subject of African slavery, and
their other fanateal ideas of like kind, will consti-
tute the second. The border slave States, with
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Missouri, and the north
western States and Territories, will form the third.
The Ohio river, q great highway, owned by Virginia,
furnishes q COMMON bond of union between several
OF them--the Missouri river another great high
way, is q bond Of union between others--aud as
these make up the Mississippi, TINT great valley
WIN sooner Or later form a union with those with
whom they trade, and whose interests are therefore
common For this organization, New Orleans
would be its chief city. Il would be the exporting
and Importing city for the States in existence and
Ihose which may be hereafter formed out of the
immense unsettled territory which it would pos.
sess. Besides, the unsold public lands would in.
Vltepopulation, and their sales would furnish the
means to defray Government expenses in part at
least. Kentucky and the North western territory
originally formed part Of the domain of Virginia.
This organization will keep her united with what
formerly belonged to her, and constituted part of
5her territory. The cotton States would form the
fourth.
All these Gonfederacies being thus formed,
although Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Misss-
slpp might ut first attach themselves to the cotton
State organization, q very short time would elapse
nffI6 find IN ha tn THAR iDtnr
10 connect themselves with the border aud north
western States. Their trade, their interests, their
business relations, are with those States and all
upon the waters Of the Mississippi and its tributa.
iias must necessarily be united. If Louisiana
remained in alliance with the cotton States, her
great city OF New Orleans would have to compete
WithMobile and Charleston for the export and i'm
port trade, and the most she could hope for would
be third OF it.
Such az arrangement would be followed by
struggle for the key Of the gulf {PeRaacola) and
the third organization would have it, cost what it
might IN treasure and blood It would be too i'm
portant an acquisition to give up to the cotton
s5Ssnate Confedefacy, without desperate struggle
are my speculntions as to the results that are
s& follow dissolution Of the Uuion. These results
Esrsl bad enough, but may he much worse. 1t is
#Sesg given 10 US TO read the future. We may, how
ever, speculate about il.
According to this then, the four Confedcraciea-
into Which the present Union will be diyided--will
he, first, the States and Territories on the Pacific :;
secondly, the New England States and New York,
third the border slave States, with New Jersey,
PeansYlyaDa, and all the States Of the Northwest; !;
and, lastly, the Cotton and Gulf States.
This division, however, the Governor does not
think will last long He believes that Tie States of
Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and mississippi
although they would Join the Cotton Confedcracy
atffst would soon find it to their interest TO with
draw from that, and unite their deatinies with the
Border State Confederacy, including the States Of
the Northwest.
In all Of this, in our opinion, the Governor is
wrong. He is wide Of the mark in his predictions,
and his reasons for thus thinking are altogether
unsupported by tho facts of the case.
ID the first place, if the Border Slave States
Withdraw from the Union, as we think they will
without a Doubt It will be done in order to get
kelesr Of the anti-savery fanaticism Of the North
ind If that fanaticism is any the less virulcnt in
ths States of the Northwest than in New England,
va have never seen the proof Of it. Take the
Northern halves of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and
alof The States of Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin
ana Minnesota and there is just as much Of the
rank poison Of AboIitionism among the people as
in Maine OF Vermont. In some places it is even
worse. We would sooner be tied up in The old
Union than to enter new Confederaey into which
those Northwestern States were admitted. If Gov.
Iachar has at all studied the philosophy Of recent
political events, he must have seen that the same
causes which compel us TO separate from New
England operate, in al Ehor force, with respect to
every other Free State and that unless we intend
tocnt loose from them all-egery one Of Lhenl-it
i sinlply ridiculous TO cut loose from any.
But The reasons which induce the Governor to
believe that tho four States Of louisiana Arkansas
Texas and Mississippi, will withdraw from the Gull
eonfederacy, in order to Join his impossible Con,
federacy Of Border and Northwestern States, are
30 unsu',santal that it is scarcely necessary, in
ths region to show what little force tAey have
those acquainted with the agriculture and the
commerce. Of the MississppfValloy will scarcely
be able TO repress smile when told of the States
of ofLeus;ana, Arkansas, Texas and Mississippi, that
ttheir trade, their interests, their business re-
saons''a are, 10 any extent, with the States north
N the Ohio river. Here in New Orleans, which is
tue 8ltrtpot OF the productions of the Mississippi
Valley, we receive from the Northwest scarcely
anything beyond some bread8tuis and bacon A
large quantity Of our hrcadstuB even, we get
from Mssonr, Kentucky and Tennessee. The
principal business OF the four States aboYs named
their chief business alTost-s the production OF
cotton. This cotton comes to this city and is
shipped to Europe. Everybody knows that the
bulk o oar trade here consists in cotton sugar and
tobacco-pyoduotions which none of the North
western States make. And everybody knows, fur
ther TINT the most Of The productions Of the North
west, consisting of breadstufts almost exclusively
80 eastward by the Lakes to New York. instead
Of coming down the Mississippi river to New
Orleans
Therefore, there are no commercial relations, of
any considerable value, existing between the
Northwest and the States of Louisiana, Texas
Mississippi and Arkansas. Oven, however, il there
were-even if they were an hundred fold as vau-
able as Gov. Ietcher supposes, it would not make
the slightest difference. These four States GO
ing with the other Southern States into SoutAerr
Confederacy--a Confederacy erc5l,siUely Southern
1t ID not considerations Of trade and commerce
that are to bind States together in the new Con
federacieB that are to be formed. 1t is something
altogether higher and holier. 1t is the resistance
10 an organized attack that is to be made by
sectional party, not upon the material Interests
alone, but upon the rights, the honor, the manhood
and The integrity Of all the people of all the slave
holding States.
An argument based upon considerations of dol
larsalone is the thing which will now be heedet
by the Southern people-nor will they be in
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