The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-11-10
Few are the ills that men endure,
That laws can either cause or cure >

| but each mans fate depends mainly upon himself
We hope, therefore, that our friends of the victo-
rious party will use wisely and moderately their
victory and that our friends who are defeated will
not at once give way to despondency-imagi the
country ruined-lose their confidence in the capacity
of the people for selgovernment and let their dis
appointed patriotism prey upon their vitality to the
injury of their personal interests, without advan-
tage to any body else On the contrary, now that
the matter is irreyocably decided, let put the
smile of content, drop all chickering's and hard feel
ings, endeavor TO say our prayers with clear con-
science and buckle to the stern realities and every
day business of life
Some wise man once said that he was the true
public benefactor who made two blades of grass
grow where one had grown before, and we think
that the best patriot is he who improves his country
by the digent pursuit ofhis own welfare in the thou
sand branches of industrious enterprise which
are open to all 1t must be confessed that we have
oflate had rather surplus ofshowy and windy pa
triotism speeches. songs, hurrahs and PROFESSIONS
are all very well in their way, but they too I'M
substantial for long continued and general use it
is well, therefore, to return at once, and with
good grace, to the less ornamental, but far more
useful, modes of manfesting our love for our coun-
try and mankind.
In a contest such as the one through which we
have just passed, the position of an independent
paper, pledged to take no part in the strife of par
ties is one ofpecuar delicacy and almost thankless
labor. Be ever so upright and impartial, and men,
in the heat of partisan zeal, will find something to
carp at and condemn A simple fact which may
tell against one the other side if published will
be laid hold Of by some eager Pathfinder, as an
evidence that you are enemy in disguise, or that
this, that or the other person connected with the
paper, is making of its pretended Independence
to further his own views. That The Crescent has
not escaped criticisms of this kind we know, but we
know, also, that they have not been deserved. Di-
vded in political sentiments as the propnetors are,
and DOING in their personal exertions the best they
could for their respective parties as they have DONE
they have been perfectly united on one subject-a
determination that the paper should be kept free
from the passions and excitements of the hour and
aoot from all particpatiOns in the canvass in order
that might secure the confidence Of all as faith
full chronicle of the important events daily taking
place-that Its statements might be relied on and no
one have to complain that he had been misled
by any thing found in its columns How far this
purpose, firmly entertained has been carried out we
willing to let all Of all parties in their cooler
moments, decide As it has been for the past, so it
will be for the future Having passed through the
ordeal ofths canvass unscathed, there need be little
apprehension, that we shall succumb to weaker
temptations, and hereafter deviate from our pre-
scribed course. We intend to follow the advice
which we have given to Others and so take the past
and present it is, without regret, complaint or
murmur, or without any very strong manifestations
of rejoicing, and to endeavor to see how far we can
serve our country in time to come, by disseminating
useful Information, laboring to enghten the people
and improve their condition, advocating those mea-
sures which we believe will be beneficial to the
commercial, manufacturing and agricultural inte-
rests of our common country-n short, by making,
if can, the Crescent the best newspaper pub
lished.