The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-17

NUMBrh VIII
In this age of universal improvement and of har-
| monizing the most heterogeneous things, we need
not wonder that some of our modern iranscendent-
alsts have discovered ornaments for the beautify-
ing of sin and reasons for the exaltation of human
depravity.
In accordance with these, what can there be
more beautiful than the ravages committed by
beastly rabble in Philadelphia and an outraged mob
at CINCINNATI Can there be anything more sub
lime to behold than to see-our court benches lined
day by day by a demoralized crew, food for jails,
dungeons and the gallows, Can there be any thing
more edifying than these novels and mudholes
around us, filled with wretclles abandoned to
drunkenness and despair, where you may
90 swinish multitude'' waowing in its shocking
denominations What do you say to those chart
table hospitals filled with victims of loathful dis
cases. spreading horror and infection far and near
What do you say to those beings, made after Gods
image, ironed in yokes, rottng alive on foul straw
under ground, or dangling from the high gallows
scarecrows for the birds of heaven, and fit spec
tacies TO amuse and instruct dandified and fash
ionable world What think you of those black
hearses rolling through your streets conveying thou
sands Of victimized men and women to their eternal
quietus, perhaps to something worse! Surely the
man who can perceive nothing sublime, nothing
beautiful in all this must lack the refined taste
which graces the delivery of some of our modern
orators and philanthropists
Who then, seeing that all these things are neces-
sary in this, our world would rise up in condemna-
ton Is it not by the proper arrangement of these
that true picture of life is formed and light and
shade exhibited in all its variety! What is there
so bad that cannot be made the foundation of some
good What vice is so degrading that cannot be
transformed into an instrument of virtue! Is it
not from the lowest sink of beastly degradation
that we have seen arising the most beautiful organ
ization of modern times, mean the noble organ
ization of The ORDER OF THE Sons OF ] EN-
PERANCE, aas<a
That organization. however, does not owe its
origin to the admiration of the beastly vice of
drunkenness, but to its adherence and 1t is the
more admirable that this Order has not been created
by moral philosophers or by pious churchmen, but
by human beings who were considered past re-
demption by both. II it was not so, the advocates
of mans " total depravity'' might still have some
to advocate their hopeless creed; for if il is
possible for such men to rearise to the full dignity
of manhood and shame these theological babblers
of a counterfeit Christianity into an acknowledge
ment of real one, why should we despair to cause
the better tendencies Of man to work out their own
salvation; to unite with their fellow men to become
co-laborers frsm competitors; to harTnonize their
faculties, to organize their strength, to combine
their forces for common object, and to Danish from
their assemblies every thing that tends to disunion
and Reorganization
And though it can not be otherwise than that all
those horrors produced by the malfolnation or dis
organization of society must have their charms for
some men, for it is by these they live and prosper
and grow fat; and their very existence depends on
the continuation thereof yet this can be no reason for
us to become the advocates Of "laisseZ faire" The
instinct of the lower creation tends to its preserva
ton by the congregation of unitary particles
while the instinct of reason of the higher creation
tends to harmonious cooperation !; and 1t may be
observed that nothing is so much dreaded by arbi-
trary rulers and despots than this tendency of men
when they ripen for sefgovernment than this their
clubbing together for investigation and trial For
by taking counsel together they led to acting
together; this leads to the forming of Tiles of ac-
tom submission to rules leads to unity; unity in
its progress to harmony; harmony to beauty, to
excellence and to the perfection OF human nature
on its ascending scale
A glance at the proceedings OF the Northern and
Eastern cities of this continent demonstrates the
process by which men arrive at this goal The
subject which appears here in its first dellneation
has there advanced TO visible reality. Here we
have seen few weak efforts made in the exhibit
ton of the suenngs and privations endured in the
isolated condition Of the aboring classes; there we
may see already the blessed fruits and the happi-
ness produced by THE HARMONIOUS ORGANIzA-
TIoN OF LABOR. CHRISTIAN BURGHALDKR.
MISSISSIPPI LANDs-There have been sold of
the 100000 acres, since the first Of this month,
42SS 1900 acres and that the payments for the
same were as follows: In specie, $2756 IS; in
Planters Bank bonds, SlO,SlS so; and in coupons
of interest on the same, S49l0 43.
SWORD PREsENTATIoN.-A splendid sword was
presented to Lieut.. Col. Castor Meares, by com
mittee of the citizens of Wilmington, N. c., on the
Sth inst, for his gallant services in the late Mexi-