New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-01-18
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tFrom the London Times, Dec 20
Hcould have been an easy task to write the
message just brought to us from the New World.
. A ghastly wound yet unhealed. was not to be laid
open; the flowing lava and burning ash were to
abe lightly trodden on; but it was impossible to
forget wholly the four most terrible years in the
worlds history. So the shade is present, though
unnamed, like the one who was at the table or the
freside yesterday, and will never be A1sin. From
its beginning to its end the war is kOrrid chasm
in the Presidents message, to the brink of which
he must approach again and again, if only to turn
away. He findsa necessary relief in dreamy aspi-
srations and hazy commonplaces, which we can
only say were never more exeusable.
President johnson, while crying down the notion
of State sovereignty, points out that it was ex-
pressly provided no. State should levy duties to
clog the transit or check the prosperity of the
neighboring States. But no political formula, no
deed Of special compact whatever, could prevent
one State from being SO differently circumstanced
II rom smother that the same Union tax and the
: same tariff might enrich one and imp0verlsh the
other, and even aggrandize one at the cost of all
the rest Before the war is many months over,
the President boasts that the revenue already paid
by the loyal States exceeds by many millions that
ever paid before by the whole Union. But let
anybody glance over the immense and very ire
gular area covered by the States, and say whether
q it will ever be easy to devise fiscal stem which
will press equally on all, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, from the st. Lawrence to the Rio Grande.
For the present the American government looks
with neighborly pity on the internal troubles of
Mexico, but it invites all nations to take refuge in
its charmed circle, and Mexico, we presume, Is an
expected guest. But what ystem Of taxation, OF
even of government, will serve equally for New
England and the ancient empire partly Spanish,
partly Indian, under tropical CLINE The further
the Union pushes from its center The more will it
encounter that vast variety of conditions which tax
the utmost skill Of statecraft and defy constitu-
tiOn-mongers. When the material is widely differ
ent and the circumstances are still more SO, the
arrangement can never be symmetrical, the Union
perfect, or the working quite smooth Nor can
anything be done for all time when the materials
are ever changing. The President breaches to the
States honlily upon union, disinterestedness and
mutual forgiveness They are to acknowledge
only one sovereign, and that is the Constitution Of
the whole Union. y
They had better listen, for they must. The con-
sdemned felon will never hear another Sermon so
he may well attend to this 1t is the only plan of
life left. With all our heart we advise the South
ern States to accommodate themselves to their
hard circumstances. But their utmest submission
will not use and assimilate all the and con-
ditions of the New World or give eternal and uni
yersal efficacy to paper constitution We have
seen ii once out of gear, and we danot ourselves
see IN that misfortune and its temporary cure, a
perfect secarity against another. M
5 FINANCIAL TREAsoS.-Fhe edtGr OF the Bien-
vile Messenger, in speaking of the twenty thou
sand dollar restriction in the q Amnesty Procla
nation, says:
There may be crime attached to the aequiremen'
OF property; but we were never aware thai the
possession of a certain amount of property was
treason. Ii such is the case, the world, his wife
and all OF his grown-up children daily striving
to become traitors-by holly pursuing that gildet
banble-wealth