New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-04
Neh 0rleans Bully Gresteltt
THE MEDTcnNE OPERATING.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, April 8, 1861.


THE MEDICTNE OPERATING. f5
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The following, taken from the latest number of
the Chicago Tribune received at this Office proves
that eyen-handed Justice, like good medicine, is
operating among the Abolition fanatics of the ex-
treme Northwest:
DUTY FREE.-Foreign goods, duty free, imported
by way OF New Orleans, have been received with.
in few days past by Chicago merchants. These
goods (cloths) were, OF course, received at ne"
Orleans, no questions asked, and small amount
of caution in shipment thence by rail did the rest
Manifestly this will be profitable mcthod Oh M
porting but at atpresent it will not DO 10 oohs. o.
since, if the Custom-house officials get ail alh.,ns
of what is being done, seizure OF these cohtra,
band goods will follow. No merchant possessed
of high moral sense would any more "ihinSly
cheat the Government under wpich ne nVes VI us
honest dues, than he wouid TOD ms paltner az u
his norter. but too many consciences permit dis
tinction hetween cheating the Custom'h house and
y cheating at the counting room While 1hdeea mere
ia none The present and prospective results Of
f,e +ro do in the Confederate States will call for
movement at washington loohinS " iIa oheoh, VI
possibly countercheck
Well gentlemen, you have just begun it would
anpear, to realize the beginning of the end"
We told you, a few weeks ago, that you would be
receiving free and cheap goods in Chicago, by way
of New Orleans in less than six months. ltseems
we were too cautious for the above extract shows
that, lust about the time we were penning the pre-
diction certain free goods had arrived in Chicago
Therefore, we made no mistake, although we were
not fast enough IT isquite likely the merchants"
alluded to by our foreign contemporary are aboli'
tion merchants but if So it must be admitted that
they have been surprisingly rapid in their move.
ments, They never stole negro, or helped the
thieving along, with greater celebrity, than they
+lo fnr da@ Mt free Oh
tanned in New Orleans.
The Morrill, tariff bill which is protective in all
and prohibitory in many of its features went into
operation last Monday. It is binding upon the
States acknowledging the jurisdiction of the Gov
ernment of Mr. Lincoln. The State of Illinois ac-
knowleges the legitimacy of that Government.
That is none Of our affair. The people Of that
commonwealth have the same inaenable right to
do as they please that we of Louisiana possess to
do as we please.
The tariff of the Confederate States is from
thirty-three to one hundred per cent. lower than
the Morrill, tariff. To this extent it holds out in
duccmerts to attract trade hither. Notwithstand-
ing Mr. Lincoln whether from sheer obstnacy or
downright imbecility, refuses to acknowledge the
Independence of the Confederate States, neither
know nor care which, immense amounts Of foreign
goods, suitable for all the markets of the South
and West, will be imported into this metropolis
paying only the moderate imposts prescribed into
the Treasury Of the Southern Confederacy, and
will be offered for sale to the general public
Those who choose to purchase, will do SO. Those
who do not, will let it alone.
If the Chicago merchants, or the merchants Of
Illinois, Indiana Ohio, Iowa. Wisconsin, Mime
sota Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Vir.
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas
see ft to avail themselves of the vast advantages
offered them by the Confederate States Revenue
Laws we shall endeavor to accommodate them to
the best of our ability, and will guarantee the
safety of the transportation of the foreign goods
they purchase from us to the line Of our govern.
mental jurisdiction. After that, they must take
care of themselves and their property.
As the Border Slave States will not tolerate for
an instant the presence of Black Republican
army of Custom House officers on their Southern
boundaries-and as it will require at least one
hundred thousand such functionaries on the line
which separates the Free from the Slave States
to prevent smuggling on an gigantic scale-wt
calculate to sell to the Western, Northwestern ant
Middle States enormous quantities of imported
goods Thus the people thereof will be supplied
federate States will grow plethoric with the eqnit
able duties that will flow into its Golfers in never
ceasing but constantly augmenting stream. Tb
will enrich u.s. who are rich already, while it vii
reduce Mr.. Ilncoln's Government to absolute
beggary. E
Neither the Chicago Tribune or its allies neet
talk about checks'' or Counter checks" The
period for such arrangements has passed. We art
masters of the situation" and we intend to con
tinue " masters" Let Mr.. Lincoln call his Con
press together, and let them remodel and reduc,
the Morrill, tariff. What will follow? Why, ou
Montgomery Congress will forthwith make anothe
reduction, giving foreign goods imported int
Southern ports an advantage of fully fifty pc
cent over the same description of goods imported
into Northern ports And so on, until absolute
free trade is arrived at, should it become neces
sary.
"Nobody's hurt" said Mr.. Lincoln in one of hi
speeches, while travelling towards Washington
"Nobody's hurtn down South; but if his Admin
stration can get along without money, and if th
New Englanders and PennsYvanians, etc, can &c
along without protection, we haven't the smalles
objection.
THE FIFTEEN MILLION LOAN.