The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-04

8lleNuINSf tuisul6ulilk q new wall lAFtus hpA
alliance the certain recOufce Of the colonies in a
conflict for the dismembsrmento Of the British EN-
nire. The connections of goodwill which were
hen commenced, have continued since, through
al changes Of dYnasty and government. Underline
absolute Royalty, which, from motives of State, that
our gratitude never serutnzed very closely, made
war on our behalf and loaned Us money under tie
Republic, the Empire, the restored Monarchy,
the second Revolution, and the third, although
sometimes treated with caprice and selfish I'M
kindness, the affections of the people, and
the policy Of the Government, of the United
States, have always turned to France. We are
taughtin our schools and learn instnctiveiy IN our
earliest lessons of public history and Political duty,
10 remember the French people as great and
generous ally and friend, to whom gratitude is due
for the powerful share she took in the achievement
of our national independence, and with whom we
have a stronger sympathy ofTepRblican ideas than
with any otherPeople in Europe.
These sentiments still continue, and it will NOT
be diplomatic quarrel between the two Govern
ments, or the bad faith and insoence Of Louis Ma
poeon, that can embtter the feelings Of the Ameri
can people against the people Of France However
the Governments may have, differed, the two ma
tons have always cherished an anxious wish for
friendly relations. Indeed, since the beginning of
these CONNECTIONS, it has been the people who were
in friendly alliance Of goodwill, while hardly ever
have the Governments been in unison of feeling or
without some cause of dissension or GOODNESS
The measures Of astube and selfish policy, which
led the Royalty of 177Tto assist revolutionary Re
public, would have won from us but little affection
if it had not been eountenanced and graced by the
noble and enthusiastic gallantry Of individual
Frsnchmen who brought their swords and their
wealth to our cause, without any sympathy in the
sordid reasons of State Lafayette and his generous
oompeerB, in winning the love of America by
their uncalculating zeal for liberty for its own
take-inads whole nation forget and forgive the
long intrigues by which, French craftsmanship
labOredaro make the American Revolution subser-
Went to Bourbon interests using the prospects Of
Spanish alliance, and the hopes of areoogntion of
Independence by Spain, as the means for obtaining
REIMBURSEMENT Of territorial rights, which would
have confined the United States to narrow strip
on the Atlantic coast, and given over the whole
country beyond the Aleghanies TO the dominion Of
the House of Bourbon, then reigning over both
France and Spain. History, too little searched
shows us also thatt treaty Of peace, which closed
the war Of Independence, would not have been
concluded without enormous sacrifices by the
United States, had not the American diplomatsts
broke through the meshss ofintrigue by which the
French influence had surrounded them, and Sc
cured the rights of their country against the
manBuvering policy of the French Government.
The people of France were our friends--the~G
eminent embraced our cause from policy, passion
and interest
The French revolution brought the two people
more directly into unison of feeling; and, long
after its glad promises of a vigorous and orderly
system Of free government had BEEN darkened in
in blood, and It's successive rulers had forfeited the
regard and outraged the moral sense of.America,
the feeling Of aectiOnate interest in the people of
France, Of earnest prayer for the restoration of
law and the establishment Of liberty, continued
strong in the hearts of Americans. During the
dazzling pageantry Of the Empire, Americans sym
pathised much more heartily with the Jacobin
Emperor than the hereditary despots against whom
he warred and even when his daring schemes for
the destruction Of British supremacy made him
lawess invader Of neutral rights, and subjected the
United States to series Of aggressions and indig-
mites it is not to be denied that the national pulse
beat more warmly on his side than,o on thatof his
gFeat adversary, who was also ours and that al
the fall of Napoleon, the American attachment I'd
France was little abated by the diseords and ermes
towards us which had marked his career The
Government again bore the evidence of all that
was unfriendy; the people were still our brethren
and friends Neither under the restoration, nor
under the monarchy of the barricades was there
much concord of American feeling with the French
Government; but in both we were necessarily
watching for some melioration forthe people. The
Joy which filed the country when Charles X was
driven out was only exceeded by the EMULATION
with which we hailed the expulsion of Louis Phil
lippe, the recreant citizen-king. Both will be
excelled in the demonstrations of sympathy and
gladness when the false republican, louis Bona
parte the ally of Russia and Austria in the rees.
adjustment Of the despotsms which the French
people had pointed out the way to abolish, shall
share the fate of his kingy predecessors in exile
and be hooted for traitor from the fair land he
has done so much TO regnalavs and disgrace
Again will our oft baffled sympathiss with thu
French natiORfbresk out into chorus of grat0la
ton with them forther victory over another falst
government.
OF all wars into which this country could b,
drawn--by misfortune or folIy-nOne would be more
repulsiEe to the masses Of both nations than one
with our ancient ally and friend, the French ma
tion. A great deal ought to be borne with hel
imprudent traiorous rulers, short Of submission
TO indignity, unreoanted and unatoned for, rathe
than that the people should be thrown into bloody
conflict, and the flags which iloated together a
Yorktown lead on opposing fleets in fratricida
war about etiquette. Happily, there is no rea
ground for apprehending any such calamity. Tn
petty cause of discord affords nothing on which tn
French Government could make decent pretex
for ohlipiDp its desnofc cnnfadarafes with a ,nra
upon rspubliesnism in the New World; and w
rely on the moderation and dignity of our owl
Governments TO keep clear of anything so absurd
in this day of civilization and christianity, as
war about punctilio.
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