The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-09

the french captains and army in their way SO
will itbs until the two classes or professions are ex-
tinguished and banished from the face of the earth
| When the French army was first sent 10 Rome, a
| thrill of wrath and Indignation shot through the
whole body Of the American people, Shocked and
| enragsd at the idea that government protesting
TO be republican and democratic should be 80 false
to its promises, to its principles, as to as
sist in crushing liberal movement and in restoring
| an exiled monarchy, it was long before we could
| recover our reflection and ask what was to be the
end Of all this baseness and ingratude on the part
of the French Government? It was easy, how
ever, to perceive from the beginning, that II the
French army did succeed in capturing Rome, there
was great likelihood Of quarrel between the Pope
and his foreign supporters. In such an event, so
many antipathies would be excited, so many jeal-
ouses aroused and so many repugnancies mani
tested, that secret dissatisfaction, if not an open
rupture, might have been safely predicted. Rome
fell, and the French entered the city. The priest
and the soldier, the Italian and the Frenchman, the
delivered and the deverer, found themselves face
to face. Is it wonderful, then, when success had
| crowned French Intervention old dislikes revived,
| and old hatreds were kindled!
1t was natural for man who had been driven
from his throne-who had been forced to steal from
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country-to imagine that when he regained the
sceptre and re- assumed the sword of JUSTICE it was
to establish sterner sway and more arbitrary
| authority than any he had previously exer
cised. 1t was not reasonable to suppose that
Plus the Ninth would return to Rome with
those liberal feelings and progressive princi-
pies which, it is said, characterized him when
he first took the Papa keys and felt the glittering
tiar brorE Msr nban NTH
times; and he who, in the day of triumph and sue
cess, had been styled the most liberal Prince of his
time, might very we'll become, under the influence
of exile and misfortune, the sternest despot that
ever Numbered bulls from the Vatican. Certain it
is, that if Plus the Ninth assembled the throne with
liberal feelings for the Roman people, he has
changed very much since that time and those
principles could not have been very firm and
expansive, which it required only tweIvemonth.
of trial and suffering to oyerturn.
If Plus was the man his friends have represented
him to be5why did he not check the commission of
the Cardinals in their career of arbitrary cruelty
and Jesucal despotism! Why has he pursued
course which even the reactionary Louis Napoleon
finds too harsh and oppressive Why did not he,
who has often boosted his paternal affection for
his people, interfere to save the vanquished Romans
from the vindctivs Cardinals, who, too cowardly
to fight, had only rgappeared when foreign arms
had forced an entrance into their sovereign city!
But no the gody Plus approved all his Cardi-
mails had done, and scornIng French remonstrances,
told the triumphant army that he needed not their
assistance, since he had two millions of Austrian
and Russian bayonets at his disposal. The meek
and humble Plus would become another Julius,
and, exchanging the crosier for the sword, march
at the head of Northern barbarians to take posses
| sion of the city God had given into his hands, A
| little reflection, however, sufficed to change the
resolution of the incipient PapaI Captain, and it
| was not many days ere the grumbing Plus humby
accepted the conditions of Louis Napoleon, who
demanded the dissolution of the Cardinal Commits
sion. At length the French Government has
played a generous part towards the Roman people,
and practced a clemency which it would have
been graceful for the Sovereign Pontif to favor
before he was forced by foreigner to spare his
vanqushed subjects. The letter of the French
President, and the policy he has driven the Pope
to pursue, is one redeeming fact in the career of
Louis Napoleon, Let him continue TO pursue the
course he has promised in his letters to Ney, and
the time may come when the liberals of Europe
| and America will forbear from Cursng the name
of the republican who sent his cOuntry's armies to
the conquest and overthrow of neighboring
democracy.
New YoRK PoLITIos.-Aftsr reading the ad-
dress of the Wing Convention of New. York, we
do not think there will be any more argument on
that score, about the antslavery tendencies of the
Barnburners and Hunkers, who lately coalesced at
Utica. The Wing address consists mainly of an
attempt to prove that they are your only true oppo-
nents of save.extension, and that all others are
cOunterieits and humbugs. The Democrats are
just aa stubborn in declaring that the only practi-
cal slave extensionists are the Taylor men. For
our parts we do not believe there is any practical
difference between the pares on that question, at
all. The antislavery sentiment pervades both
and the exception attempted in favor of the Demo-
cratshat they do not make ta test of party amounts
to nothing at all. As the sentiment is overpower-
ing in the party, the effect in nominating and elect
ing candidates, and thus directing the whole ac-
ton of the party, is quite the same as though the
party had formally adopted declaration of party
doctrine to the same effect The minority of the
party, who may be opposed, will of course submit
and assist. The action Of the North on this ques-
ton will be unanimous, and can be little affected
by the predominance of this or that party in the
elections
CANDIDATES Douglass L. Rivers has been
Representative
the next Legislature. AT a meeting of the demo-
Gratis of Tensas, on the ID inst, John F. Harper
was nominated as candidate to represent their
parish in the lower House of the next Legislature,
and delegates were appointed to attend the Con-
vention to be held in St. Joseph on Thursday next
for the purpose Of nominating democratic cand-
date for the Senatorial district embracing the
parishes Of Tensas and Concordia On the same
day, the ID, the wings held meeting at ST. joseph,
and nominated Samuel-S Bowman as a candidate
to represent Iensas, and approved of the nomina-
ton by the wings of COncOrdia of George c.
McWhorter as a candidate for the State Senate.
The MOBILE AND Onro RAILRoAD.-The Board
of Directors ofthe Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com
pany have located the general depot at or near the
intersection of Hunt and Royal streets, Mobile.
Another contract, as will be seen by the advertise
ment of the company, will be let out on the sth of
December, for grading sixty-two miles Of this road