New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-04


lfags, brought about by she secession movement
But nothing has aroused or red our trans Atlantic
cousins So much as the Morrill, tariff, which is now
in force throughout the old Federal Union. The
great revenue act Of the last Congress- Of the
United States of America has aroused England.
The feelings in regard to it were only in advance
of the bill, as being expected to become q law.
The talk on the Liverpool flags was strong, and
that old and substantial representative of the Liver
pool merchants, Cores General Commercial Ad-
yertiser, which we have known for over forty
years, INDUCES in the following language regarding
secession negroes and tariff The italics used in
the extract below are our own:
The last news from America is fully as important
as any which has reached us since the election of
Mr. Lincoln to the Presidential chair of the United
States. The Legislature at Washington was
gagged in the construction of tariff most inimical
to the interests Of the non-manufaeturng States,
and not less SO to the interests of this country.
Such tariff must widen the breach between the
North and South, and must enlist the aympathies
of the whole commercial world on the side of the
latter. Itplainy demonstrates thatthe question of
slavery, as domestic institution, is not the only
one which renders q reconciliation impossible be-
tween North and South. Their material interests
property in slaves not incudea--lie wide as the
poles asun1er. And if EMBELLISHMENTS pro-
fection--be held to be the true interest of the
Northern States, then there can be no community
of interests between them and country like Great
Britain, on whose banners are inscribed, Free
trade with all the world But Nth the Southern
Cofederacy acose interest it is to sell as The ra,o
material of our industry and TO Dug our marntac
| ta'ed goods, there must spring up spontaneously
such close alliance arh Great B'7tGit as tptR rem
der the grasphlg shness of The proeconist States
huTffiIto no one but themselves. Can we hesitate
/ for a moment, when asked to decide into which
scale we will throw the weight of our moral sup
/ porta On one scale upfted by President Lincoln
/ prpfn tn NAT ipflu OF
| whatever cost-although by its measure we may
increase huudred-fold to our own people the cost
of many ofthe prime necessarles of life" 0nthe
other SCALE upiifted by President Davis is engray
ed M Free tradeno duties except for the purposes
of revenue full supply of cotton for the mills of
Lancashire, and an open market for the products
of its looms, This suicidal tariff will etfectually
isolate the North, and seal it against the
| of the world, and the very attempt to introduce
such a measure demonstrates the necessity of a
separation between. the Southern and Northern
States Such an outrag eously extrayagant system
of protection as it embodes, furnishes the South
with sufficient Justification for its firm resolve
never to re6nter an union so destructive in its
operation to their most vital interests The South
5efn States know well that the commercial inter
course between them and the manufacturing eaun-
tries of the old world, especially Great Britain,
cannot be too untrammeled by fiscal regulations.
The commerce killing tariffs Of the North are hate
full in their eyes. What interest have they in the
iron foundries of Pennsylvania, or the cotton fac
tories of Lowell? They care not to protect the
shipping Of the North. Their object is orr object
only more naturally theirs than ours, to sell in
the dearest and buy in the cheapest markets Of the
zworld.''
Y We, therefore, confidently assert that the ques-
ton of slavery is not the real bone of contention
between the Northern and the Southern States
The question at issue is that of free trade or pro
lection SO Unsuitable in its demands and so selfish
its exelusiveness as to impose prohibitory duty
on articles in the production of which it cannot
hope to compete with those who possess infinitely
superior facilities for the work Our policy of free
whatever difference of opinion once existed
on the subjects now irreversihle; and while we
will extend the right hand of fellowship TO those
who embrace it, we will turn the cold shoulder to
those who would give us stones for our bread, and
scorpions for our fsiles-who would sell Us all the
products of their industry, batreceive none otours
in return. We cannot find language sufficiently
strong to express our detestation of scale of
duties which is intended to exclude from the mar
.kets of America the products of England, of Ger
many, and Of France; and we must wish God
speed to the new Republic Of the South, which
must triumph in its contest with the Nprth--be-
cause its might is in its right 1t is amentable to
think--we write more in sorrow than in anger
thntsa great people like the Americans should so
far lag behind the age so misunderstood the epoch
in which they live, and SO blindly rush on their
own destruction, as to adopt a policy so suicidal
to themselves so monumental, so indicative of q 4
marrow, selfish, nnenlightened spirit as that which
is embodied in the so-caed Morrill, tariff. G-