The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-24
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respondent Manahattas - letter.
France.

society, that it has come TO be established as an
iucontrovertibIe political maxim. The recent re-
volt in Paris may be consdeied still another evil
dence of the same great truth and ought 10 sur
prise no one for it is but the natural result Of the
revolution which drove Louis Philippe from his
throne 1t is true that the Instruction was sup
pressed, and equally true that the middling and
wealthy classes, who are naturally conservatives,
have succeeded in maintaining their position and
depressing for time the spirit Of progress
inc momenarily their socalled rights-that Is to
say perpetuation of the social abuses which have
for so long made labor the slave Of capital. But
the people. although defeated, are not subdued;
they still live feel the pangs of hunger, and to see
around them the luxury Of concentrated wealth,
and we are much mistaken if the, struggle be not
again renewed with quite different ending. 1t Is
useless TO designate the men who, were concerned
in this attempt as mere rabble, melted to despe
rate acts by the gold of Russia, Of Henry v and of
Louis Napoleon, or by the hope Of pillage i'll the
event of success. Such view Of the causes
of the late instruction is short-sighted and I'M
unphilosophic. Men do not fight for nothing;
they do not engage in ratricidal strife without an
object or merely elevate this that pretender to
power We must look deeper than this for the
trlle cause of these great and mysterious events.
They may he explained in a very few words by the
answer of the OuUrier, when asked why he fought
- Better 10 die from RlISket tall than from hia-
GER" said he. Can any one ask better eNpana-
ton than this? No! the workman was right 1t
is indeed better to die by the sword than 10y starva-
ton, and where there IS only choice between
these two methods Of escaping death, we cannot
doubt which alternative will be selected. We
must confess that the closest application of our
discriminating powers enable us to see no
difference between monarchy and a republic, if
the people starve under each alike. We can see
no greater sacrilege in attacking a timorours and
retrograde republican Government, than in over
turning a throne we consider the one to be as
sacred a duty the other And the French As
sembly had become both fearful and retrograde
concate the property-holders and the capitalists,
| it forced Lamartine, Ledru RolIin and the whole
Executive Committee to resign, and proposed to
replace them by such men as Theirs and Barrot
both known and avowed mOnarchists. This fatal
! measure was the proximate cause of the insurrec-
! ton, and consequently the Assembly itself is re-
! sponsible for the thousands Of lives which have
been sacrificed. Revolutions cannot 20 back
wards" and any attempt to force them to leave
their natural channels and return upon themselves
must be productive of the saddest consequences.
10 make rs believe that those who had the chief
agency in the affair, We're the partzans Of Louis
Napoleon and the Duke of Bordeaux. The absurd
ity Of this needs no better refutation than the as
ton that such contradictory elements could be
found combined in the ranks of one party. The
idea that the Napoleonists and the Legitimists
could fight side by side in the same cause is too
ridiculous to be entertained for moment by any
| Rriti Tba fact
gagged in the recent revos were the very same men
who had achieved the revolution of February, and
proclaimed a Republic from the galleries of the
Chamber of Deputies They struggle now for the
same principles to preserve which they combaued
then to establish-the true q" Repub6que Democat-
igue et Socjale."
1T. ToBEY-We had the pleasure of meeting
Yesterday our friend VIM. c. Tobey lof the 4Ih In
fantry), on his return from Mexico. His PhiladeI-
phia friends may rest assured that 4" John Of y ork
is wel-conditioned, although somewhat thinner Of
flesh than he was previous TO his expedition after
that elephant"
Of We are under obligations to the steamboat
Missouri for late Louisville papers.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.-At a meeting of this So
cetv for the redemption of Ireland, held last even.
ton, Mr.. VIM. McCluskey was called to the chair
The minutes of the last meeting having been reaC
and adopted, the Chairman arose and addressed the
audience in a short but pertinent speech. The
meeting was then eloquently addressed by DR.
McCracken, Mr.. Coleman and others. After somt
unimporant business, the meeting adjourned unit
Sunday evening next
OLYMPIC THEATRE.-This evening, for The
, second time, will be presented the Fairy eXtraya
ganza of 8 Fortmio and his Seven Gifted Ser
wants - previous to which will be presented TIN
thrilling drama of the So Bear Hunters; or, tn
Fatal Ravine" Between the pieces Miss Fam
Deering will dance the g Cachucha.'
MODEL ARrIsTs.-The performances at No. g
st. Charles street, this evening, for the benef
Of the managers of that establishment.
; ~ The steamer Little River was sunk on tn
Q 18th inst, two miles below Twelve Mile Bayou
e The steamer Annes, Capt Crocker, which arrive
IS here yesterday, brought down 81 bales of cotto
e from the wreck.
STEAMBOAT SUNK.-The steamboat Milwaukee
from Cincinnati. with large cargo of lumber an
in other freight in attempting to go over the falls
ne Louisville, the Nth, struck rock while in II
i Indiana chute, and sunk in about five feet water
Id
u MILITARY DISPLAY grand military displa
r Is to be made on Boston Common, in the latter pa
IA OF this month, ON the occasion of mastering II
Is regiment Of Massachusetts Volunteers out of Sc
NJ M. vice. The troops will remain in camp week
he two previous to their final discharge in order pc
y init them to recover from the effects of the voyaa
IN
re L. S. STORE SHIP REIIEF.-This vessel, Lie1
ce Com c. II. Poor arrived at New York on the Il
ed inst from Vera Cruz, June 8th with so or 80 81
rat seamen and marines from Alvarado and the nav
en- hospital. The Relief has been absent upwards
he two years. John CALDWELL hospital steward, di
an at sea on the 18th June,