The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-11
The United States senate-sympathy with France.

While the people of this country, with one heart
and voice, are rejoicing over the downfall of the
most corrupt and corrupting dynasty with which
Europe was disgraced and exulting in the triumph
of liberty and right over force and fraud-whie we
are looking with hopeful anxiety for the permanent
and peaceful establishment of republican Govern
ment in the heart of the old world-the Senate of
the United States-the most exalted body in this
great republicans voted down. by a majority of
one, resolutions expressive of the sympathy of this
country with the republicans of France Words
| can hardly express the utter contempt which every
honest man will feel towards those who have been
instrumental in bring ing about such a result. The
pretence that should wait and see the result of
the experiment before we give the republicans the
poor aid OF cur appreciation, is more disgraceful
than even the act which it is advanced justify.
Had France reasoned thus, at the time of revo-
luton, We might still have been colonies of Eng
land. Had the people of France advanced us no
money, sent us no ships, lent no soldiers, what
would we have done Had France not gone to
war with England at that particular juncture, and
mostly account, who can say what would
have been the issue of the contest between the
feeble colonists and the undivided power OF Eng
land1 And when peace was finally concluded. had
France not insisted on the acknowledgment OF
American independence, sinequa non OF The ar
rangement, who can say how long the terrible war
between the colonies and the mother country would
have continued But the medal is now reversed.
The SONS of the sires who aided us when we Were |
weak. who cheered us when we Were despairing, |
who spent their treasures in cause, and mingled
their blood with ours on the battle-felds of the |
revolution, now engaged in struggle as glori-
o,ls against odds, it may be, tenfold more powerful
and we must wait for their success before we can
give them even our sympathy! Shame! Eternal
disgrace, upon the mind that could conceive, and
the man that could act upon such a plea How will
it sound abroad! How will the imperial and king
ly masters of the earth rejoice when they hear that
the American Senate has no sympathy with liberty
in France7 They will be strengthened in their
hatred to all liberal princples-they will be en-
couraged to interfere for the suppression of the re-
will be melted to give way to that
nerciess spirit of vengeance with which they pun
sh every assertion of the rights of Humanity. And
he people of France! They who fondly dreamed
hat they were following in footsteps; that they
were but carrying out the great scheme of human
which we had begun, and that how
yer Kings, and Emperors, and Aristocrats, might
rown and rave, they were at least secure of our
pprovng smile, with what responding bitterness
viii they not learn this disgraceful-ths ungraefl
ote I
Wait until they are successful before we express
ven our sympathy! When successful-trium-
fan over all internal and external foes, they will
o longer want it. 1t will lose its vaIue-they will 5
EEK the friendship of less calculating lands and -
e will find, when too late, that we have not only
cted ungenerously, but judged by the most pitfu {
andard, unwisely. Thank God the Senate of
re United States are not the people thereof-nor do
ey represent the people They may refuse to ex- i
ess their appreciation, but their masters will undo a
eir bungling work, and do it better What the n
enate have withheld, every hamlet village, town, IN
I'd city, in this broad land will give and give it al
18th no chary hand. The spontaneous, heartfelt c
'tburst of a whole peoples praise, admiration and
mpahy. will be conveyed in tones of thunder. in
ross the broad Atlantic, to strengthen and cheer f,
If struggling brethren in the old world, in their "
title for Liberty, Equality. and Brotherhood tic
has hc Senate! s. Tiue la Republque - de