New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-17
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England could take advantage Of the North, and
that u she wanted portion Of the State Of Maine
including Portland harhor, aslice of Washington
Territory Or Key West, shs should embrace the
present opportunity. Various Southern Journals
expressed 4 perfect Willingness that England
should take as much Of the North as she pleased,
hut deoided objections were urged against her oc-
enpancy Of Key Vest Key West belongs to the
Confederate States; and although now in the pos
session Of onr enemies, is Just as sure to form q
portion of the Southern Confederacy as that the
| order IF nature will remain undisturbed. n
Wee the South really, do not care what be
comes Of the North, 10 e are left in the peaceful
possession Of our own portion Of the continent,
which includes the fifteen slave States, without,
indeed, Delaware TO vote to link her DIES
TIMES with the North. The people Of Maryland,
1 Kentucky and Missouri, are heart and soul with
the South, as will be shown whenever they have
IN opportunity to express theirsentiments. There.
fore, DIN Bull pitch with all the vim he can
bring To bear, but lie must keep hands Of 10 far as
Key Vest, or any other portion Of Confederate
Territory il concerned rs 3aA Il s5saei
ss 20 Illustrate the al,surdty of the Key West pro-
position OF the Tribune, We append tie following
outline IF 4 nice little scheme preached by the
New York Herald nj MI
that the Government Of France should be permit,
tied TO receive the Large quantity of tobacco owned
by il id the rebel States. We presume that ID re-.
quest to he allowed to do 50 would be attentiVely
fconside erred by the Government and, il other ma
tons made no objection, would probably be
granted upon proper proef OF French ownership
ot the properly being produced. The interests Of
the United States would not suffer by a delivery Of
the tobacco, and its want is causing considerable
sinconv nee IA France. N IS NJ IA ;T ri ss3
There are always two parties to q bargain, q
faetTthe Herald seems 10 hays lost sight Of. The
permission of the Lincoln Government, as. sug-
gestsd, would do the French not d particle Of
good, unless the ships they sent oyer to get our
tobacco brought with them certain articles Of
which we are in considerable need. II the French
want onr tobacco they know exactly how to get
in. Ifa the English want onr cotton, they, too
know exactly how to getit. There is nothing at
all 10 the way, SO far as we are concerned. We
are prepared to fill the English ships with cotton
If they bring us what we need. We are ready to
load TIE French ships with tobacco, cotton, or
anyt thing else we have, II they bring us what we
require. The fleets Of both nations are in South
ern waters, and can convoy their commercial
vessels into port whenever they see proper. Until
they do this and until their merchant vessels bring
cargoes suited to our necessities the Confederate
States have neither cotton nor tobacco for them
This might as well be understood first as last We
have no wish to exchange commodities with any
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naval stores and numerous other articles well.
known 10 lie commerce Of the world. ali ready for
transact business except upon our ewn terms. We
don't care about trading with peoples that appear
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