New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-11
LETTER FROM LONDON.

Special 10 the New Orleans Crescent,
IoSDoN, Feb. II, 1861.
Mr.. Edgor-To an American writing home from
this great metropolis, in the swarming population
of which he feels himself quite lost, the first ideas
that enter his mind relate to home troubles.
These, indeed, are beginning to be discussed here
with much interest, for all whose thoughts or bust.
ness relations are touched by the disturbing intlu-
ences of our quarrel are anxious to be informed
in the premises. Our own countrymen-especially
those long resident Therapeutics to believe that it
is all but the offspring of political craft, and that
when once the new administration gets fairly in
stalled things will return to their accustomed hab-
its. Even our Minister resident here encourages this
| Interpretation, and the English journals take the
words of encouragement for their text. But I am
not sanguine. | am too recent from the scene
of conflict Besides, have witnessed and studied
its growth for the past thirty years. The real source
of the evil lies deeper than resistance to the fugi
| tive slave law, the passage of personal liberty
bills the denial of right to the common territories,
| or even the raid of John Brown. Though all these
causes of just complaint were removed, there
would still remain that bitter spirit of discord
which has been evoked by the fanaticism, the big
otry, Intolerance, contumely, and unmeasured
abuse of the North which even people less sensi-
tive than the South could not bear. You knew as
well as | do, that the English language has been
exhausted of its vilest and ercest phrases to give
expression to the denunciatons of Southern men
by Northern antislavery agitatOrs; that insurrec
ton, slaughter, fire, and the most frghlfu barbar-
tiles have been, and still are, invoked upon our
brethren. History scarcely furnishes us with
parallel of like luminosity and wholesale persistent
detraction. How can men and women live III
peace and amity with such neighbOra? II here in
England, the license Of few of the newspapers
aud one or two tory members OF Parliament, Civ
ing vent to their feelings of hostility to the En-
peror of France, alarmed the nation and drew
from ministers public remOnstranCes for fear that
the irritation thereby caused should lead to war
if this temporary disturbance was thought pro-
| Al
think of a thirty years crusade Of menace and
abuse, attended by acts of violence and incessant
intermeddng?
Hence, I cannot see how the South and the North
| can come together again upon any common
arrangement. The conduct of the Republicans
has been not merely aggressive; it has been decep-
| tive, tortuOus disngennous: and the great leader
of that party, William H. Seward who, to promote
| his own ambitious views, has mised the minds and
| ntlamed the passions of his supporters, being
about to be placed at the head Of the State Depart
| ment, we can hope for nothing in the way OF CON
| cession, or, indeed, of honest and open handed
dealing. From the tone of the press in support Of
| the incoming administration, | can auger nothing
hut war; and, in the language of Snrragosa, War
| to the knife, and the knife to the ht-" The plen
| uful denuncatons of rebel, traitor, disunionist
| etc. indicate the temper and purpose OF your as
| sailants.
But none of this is understood here. Nobody
can he made to see that, though slavery were all
| its enemies describe it to be, it is in no sense
amenabIe to Northern sentiment; nor, in perfect
union of the States under common constitutional
| guarantees is it the business or the right of one
STATE to take exceptions to the institutions of an
other State. Hence the want of sympathy that is
displayed in England. and hence the ''cant' that
is accepted for humanity and reason. That able
and malignant sheet, the London rimes Is jubilant
| on the occasion. 1t recalls to MUD the many
| b0astful sayings of the Americans in the days Of
| their prosperity. the many triumphS decreed over
| Old Euglands prowesS aud enterprise, md the
| taunts launched against her mehonored iustu-
INN qnIl T1tDs 1IIThF
| he pnt up that the waters OF oblivion might wash
| away the remembrance of them. / cannot deny
| that there is some justce-thnngh more OF VEN
| geance--in what is said, and | blush to own it;
| for whatever may be the causes assigned for this
| rupture the charge will he made upon the ground
| OF the incapacity Of men for seIf-gnvernment
Oddly enough, however. the English people
| have been for long time fatered by the present
| government with promises Of Parliamentary re-
form-thGt Is. further extension of the right of
suffrage and now that Pauerston is backlog out,
the DERBY or tory party propose to take up those
| prnmlses-nnt, indeed, with any serious intention
OF keeping them but as leverto lift ont the min.
iStry and help themselves into their places. If a
resolution of want of confidence should be voted
It would either break up the Cabinet or compel a
dissolution of Parliament aud an appeal 20 the
people. Should the latter act he resorted to, 1t Is
| said that the people would send in stronger OPP.
position than the present. Hence a break up is
| predicted, which, lending thus prematurely to
specuatnns respecting the future, there is an evil
dent puzzle in regard 10 who is to succeed to the
Queens confidence. Their ahlest man. Dsraeli,
holds position very much like that of Douglas in
| the United States Senate-respected hated and
feared by his own friends.
| The tendency of the English people Is to the
| adoption of q less expensive and more popular
| government. And to help forward this tendency,
England does want for agtators. 1t is possible
that the troubles of the American republic may,
| III some degree, check it, Bat, on the other hand,
society ia so constituted here as to be in danger,
IN any event, of permanent rupture and discca.
ton The legal disabilities one side, and heredi-
tary distinctions and privileges on the other, are
prone to breed discontent; and, from discomfort,
10 swell into an irrspressibe luminosity. AS the