The daily crescent., 1848-09-27


We have lived too long in the world TO be sur
prised any thing and were, therefore, in nowise
astonished at the article in the Delta of yesterday
morning. We confess, that under ordinary circum-
stances, the tone of the article and the assertions
which it contained might have awakened some
unpleasant feelings; but when we saw, by the next
column of the same paper that the editor had read
regularly and consecutively'' the nnety-Odd
published columns of Col Benton's never-ending
speech on Gen. Kearny, we felt disposed to make
every allowance which jury would in the case Of
an accused in whose behalf the same fact had been
pleaded and proved. No conviction could be oo-
tanned, and no punishment would be inflicted, IN
case like that. The party would be turned over as
subject better calculated to elicit the skill OF the
physician than to tax the ease OF the sheriff 1t
could only have been owing to partial hallucina-
ton of which this extensive reading was the cause,
or to a general arrangement of the mental faculties
of which it was only the symptom, that the editor
of the Delia in the face of the proofs before him.
could have asserted, in relation to the Sierra Madre
business that the Crescent expressed opinions
which, to his simple mind looked not only like an
approval of the whole affair, but strong expression
of confidence in its successor that men went
down to Corpus Christi, no doubt under the inlu-
ence, in part, of the Crescents endorsement of Col
Kinneys ability to carry through this enterprise
that g this mad and reckless enterprise was in
stigated in part" by this paper. These assertions,
applied to a paper which has always ridiculed and
opposed the Sierra Madre project, on account of
one short paragraph of news, containing express
sion of opinion at all, by paper which in season
and out of season has been harping on the Sierra
Madre string, are rather inexplicabe on any suppo-
sition of mental sanity and we greatly fear that
the disastrous effects which it is suggested were
wrought in the mind of Col Benton by the explo-
sion of the "peace-maker" have attached to our
contemporary by reason of his too ardent study Of
that characteristic effort of the great COlonel-the
Kearny speech. We assure our neighbor, if it will
in the slightest degree tend to restore the equbr
um of his mind, that in the publication relative to
Col. Kinney, which he takes so much at heart, we
had no intention of interfering with his possessions,
borrowing his thunder, or inhabiting any of his
castles in the air. The Sierra Madre Republic shall
be- for aught that we care, exclusively his own No
one shall march, or fight, or run, hang, except at
his orders-and we will wait, before we publish
any news from that land of dreams, until it shall
have been authenticated by his endorsement No
other person is so well fitted to describe events,
whether past or future, in the Sierra Madre Repub-
lie as he who carries that country about in his own
proper cerebral organization in that particular
part of it which phrenologsts have mapped out and
devoted to the use of the imaginative faculties.
Know, then, all nations, that the Sierra Madre
Republic belongs exclusively to the editor of the
Delta-iti is his creation, property, dominion. From
him you must receive all intelligence of events from
and concerning that gorgeous land-with him you
must open all diplomatic intercourse, and regulate
all the commercial relations you may have with it.
1t is his alone.
There, we hope that is sufficient, and that unmis
takeable symptoms of improvement will soon be per-
ceptible in the columns of our worthy contemporary