New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-20
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Mr.. Jefferson, In one of his letters written soon
after the Louisiana purchase, predicted that i the
Union were ever dissolved and he minated that
such thing was not at all improbable there
would be two Confederacies formed, one OF the
Atlantic or Eastern States, and the other OF the
States lying in the Mississippi valley. Mr. Jetier-
son was far seeing statesman, but he did not see
quite far enough when he ventured this prophecy.
Al that time no one believed that q great anti
slavery political party would ever be organized in
the North or that a sectional majority would ever
attempt 10 rule over the Union. There was fanat
icism in the North, then, as there is now but it
was latent, so far as slavery was concerned. 1t
expended itself in other directions. Even then, it
persecated people for opinions sake, religious or
politcai-but it had not reached the sublime
audacity which it attained in later, years.
s, Besides the North had not then discovered what
a mine of wealth there was in the South, nor how
probably it could be worked through the easy
credplity and patience of the Southern people,
after the discovery was made. Mr.. Jefferson was
hardly dead before the truth began to be known
to the enterprsiDg political sharpers and swndlers
of the New England States, and they forthwith
began the work by 50 shaping Federal legislation
as to grow rich, themselves on the proSts Of the
Mr. Jeferson7s anticipated division Of the Union
would undoubtedly have taken place, sooner or
later, but for the fact that antisayery fanateism
| has infected all the Northwestern States to as
| great an extent even, as il has New England.
Only few of the Northwestern people know to
what an extent they are plnndered by the East
| through the forms Of law the great body Of the
i people, in consequence of the ingenuity of the
system being profoundly ignorant Of it. Hence
1.-the diverse interestssof the Eastern and Western
states are, for the present, lost sight Of and swa
i loved up in tie whirlpool Of Abolitionism,
The general rule Of emigration is, that it follows
tile parallels of latitudes Ohio Indiana, Illinois,
| Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan are settled up by
the descendants Of the old bue.law and blue-light
men Of New England, and they carried with them
to the West the same prejudiees, the same intoer
aRee, the same social despotism and pharisaical
morality that they had INDUCED in Yankee land,
| and plentiful supply of which they left behind
them. Hence their ideas about slavery naturally
run in the same channel. It is probable they
would have in time discovered how different their
political interests were, and thus Mr.. Jefferson's
prophecy might have been realized, but for the
fact that everything else has been overslaughed by
| the rage Of their Abolition fanatieism.
| Az it is, we look forward to the day when they
| will repudiate their Yankee allies even more in
| dignantly than the South has done The establish
ment of the independence of the South will break
down the Abolition party of New England, be-
cause then there will be material for it to work
upon, and no excuse for keeping up party based
texclasively opposition to the South, the South
being no longer subject to their schemes Of plum
der. The fall of the party drives Off necessarily,
! the States of the Northwest. The Yankees, with
their natural instinct for plunder,wi seek to in
denaaify themselves out of the West as far as they
can, for what they have lost by the withdrawal Of
| the South. Northeastern and Northwestern inter
ests being diverse and clasiing, the latter will be
compelled to seek security and justice in a sepa-
rate establishment and Confederaey Of their own,
or else submit, as the South so long did, to have
their industry made subject to Yankee control and
| enjoyment.
lfMr. Jefferson, therefore, had said three or four
Gonfederaeies instead of two, he would have come
nearer to hitting the nail on the head. The sue
cessfnl withdrawal Of the South from the old Union
leaves it shattered wreck, and its component
parts will drift off in various directions Bat for
| the preyalence in the Northwest of Yankee ideas
instincts and meannesses, there might be union
between those States and those of the South, be.
cause their commercial interests are the same
1 But that homo eneity of population. which is es.
sential to n stable and peaceful Government, is
lacking to such a degree that we trust never to
heara proposition for such a Union even preached,
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