The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-13

lew days since, from friend and relative Of mine
in the state Of Delaware. 1t is chiefly important
at the present moment, for the boldness and ntelli
gence with which it discusses number of the most
interesting and prominent subjects that have been
lately agitated in the civilized world Coming as
it does from a man of profound learning, who has
filled the highest relations in the Legislative and
Judicial Councils of the country, and who has sus-
tanned during long and eventful life, reputation
of the most exemplary purity, its views and illus
tratons are entitled to the closest attention. and
will indeed, from their own merit, command re-
spectful hearing. Superadded to these considera-
tons, however, / may remark, that the writer
of the letter has ever been an influential men,
Der of the great Wing or Conservative party of
this country and that, from the time he entered
Congress, in the early part of President Monroe's
administration, down to the present day, he has
never faltered in his adherence to the policy of
National Bank, and of "judicious,' or, as the
democracy have always termed it, protective
tariff In May, l843, he wrote me his views in
relation to the total discontinue of the Harrison
policy and they were published in the Bee
of this city, in June, think, of that year, accom-
panied by some editorial comments of that paper.
Referring then, to the utter failure of the Wing
party to cOnsummae any of its favorite measures of
policy, he said at that time
This political disaster fear might say National ca
amy is attributable to the unsafe principle rather dere
LECTION of principle which, in the Wing Convention directed
the selection of candidates for President and Vice President
making this selection without regard to fitness for the
office, with a single eye ed captaRdalm 1t was supposed
Gen. HanisOn's military might carry the nation: pro.
badly secured Pennsylvania and lost Virginia Mr. Tyler
taken bait for Virginia she Wing at the time,
but changed, mprObaby through such nursing
There nothing known the
date toward the important of National Bank,
udcOus tariff adequate protect against the unsafe pro-
secutiOn of foreign commerce. leading depend upon
for what the proper of domestic
would more advantageOusy supply and keeping up course
of trade forever presenting against balance of debt.
There assurance from enlargement and grasp of
mind that they would cast behind them the partisan slang
manufactured for the peudice of the superficial the
evOence that directs itself against everything that the
garb of wealth. has the appearance of prosperity In the
result the giant efforts of the election campaign OF 1870
have produced two miserable abOOn the Distribution and
Bankrupt Acts. The fate of the Tariff is in doubt shall
not be surprised if be Overhrown The National Bank
postponed for years, if not forever abandoned"
The foregoing extract is sufficient TO mark the
party attachment Of the writeT-and now proceed
to his late letter of the 10Th ult. He says:
The commissions Of Europe; the apprehensions
bly, to be entertained respecting the issues of these convu
slons; the peculiar character and influence of the English
government, investing Institutions with higher
making their preservation and improvement matters
of unspeakabe TO all who desire the happiness of
Under our Institutions all human prospects
bright; far government concerned the condition of
man. very many important respects cannot be bet
tered The people fully protected in all their rights and
left at full liberty all their and powers TO
improve themselves morally and sociaytake of and
accumulate prOpery-ain their children do good and
muncate hindered by government in nothing reasonable
and proper and scarcely made to bear any burden.
see in the party ranks in which out and
Cas- your candidate for the Presidency On party grounds
stand opposite But twenty five years since rested from
politics. IvOe at elections, endeavOng to form just Opn-
ions. am rather lOOkeI-on, than party in interest.
There view of this next election taken by any one,
which, think deserves much consideration. Ii under.
stood Gen. Cass violent oppOse of the general policy of
England believing dangerous to the welfare of the world
Not that he would have collision with England in
but that he would direct the moral influence of the
nation to different objects from those to which the moral in
uence of England directed, and to counerva not up
hold that moral influence On the other hand it is believed
that if the wings succeed eecng Gen Taylor the moral
influence of thna will have the aims the moral
influence Of England. In the present state of the world
this matter is of unutterabe concern.
The doctrine of England is REVOLUTION but RE.
FORM. Certainly plausible and to unhinking men,
sufficient. But what will thinking say to it! When
Lord John Russell the people of England not re-
UoioR but reform, and when the opponents of Ievou-
ton and advocates Of order urge that the evils demand
form but not revolution 1t Is common admission that there
eUS that ought to be remedied Then what are these
evils? They consist of these items OF the population of
England and Ireand-amounng about twenty four mil
Ons sixteen millions (wothrds) in state of positive
suenng-whOut the decent comforts of fe-mOSt of them
in absolute want -Four millions are under much driving
it requiring and panstaking good management, close
ugaity and unntemng diligence for them to live with
olerabe comfort OF the remaining four millions,
great aluence condition to indulge in all lux
uTy and all in plenty We have then the true picture in
twOhird of the population in the prvatiOns of penury
onehaf of the other third straitened hanassed with diff
Cues in making out hard living and the remaining half
of the favored third consisting of in the spendo of
pnncey opulence of Others in the Injuries of Astounding
wealth. and Others the enjoyment of full competence but
except in this aforementioned half can fnd none in Eng
land and Ireland in the and plenty that marks the good
ivers of our nation In country slaves have little
if any experience of hunger these twOhirds of the popu
aton of England and Ireland have no knowledge of full
meal They chained TO their condition; they are pre-
cluded fiom ameloraon The accounts which we receive
when Parliament investigates different sections of these
masses distressing The intelligent traveller informs u.s.
that citizen Of this country could live surrounded with
such extreme misery the nabobs of England in their
palaces the midst of the sight would embit
ter existence and he would fly from it when he found he
could not reeve What has produced this state fittings
of misery respects twohrds of the peopeOf hardship
respects onehaf of the remaining third and of most
equal condition of the little remnants state of things
which the nomenclature of charity is stigma benevo-
lence- RAGGED SCHOOLS " and in which the object of
charity scandal to benevOenCe, for it to the
miserable to their misery make them content with suffer
ing What has produced this state of things pervsrng
lgon into cant, and charity into fraud The is
found in the immense burdens crushing the peope-sur-
rounding with splendOr but not allowing to the
sufficient wholesome food placing family vast
palace while it cOnsgns forty families to damp cellar,
contracted in space and unvsed either by light air.
These burdens consist of the national eeb of countless
amount it be set down in figures, but the mind
form idea of the sum-it is E7e8 447 9O0-neaTy eight
hundred millions Of pounds sterling, with annual interest
of upwards of twenty nine millions pounds erng-in our
money the of the debt is nearly four thousand mil
lions of dollars THOUSAND MILLIONS !! and the m
erest yearly about hundred and forty millions oil do
lars Add 10 this the church establishment OF more IMAM
forty millions of dollars annually the and navy more
than fifty Millions and the support of the royal family and
other expenditures These from the people, not mere
y the sweat of the ace-they wing the heart Dooa they
lessen every meal they deprive Of all comfort
The Question then is What reform can there be?-the
National Debt or its interest These cannot be touched the
faith of Government is pledged: all law and justice would