The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-21

public euiiclently Indicates the fate of Mr. Walsh.
That paper deals with him sterny and indignantly,
as unfit represent the Republic, by reason of the
sympathes he has manifested for the Gauss Of des-
potism in the late struggles of the people against
tyrants in Europe. Without assuming that what
the Republic says always expresses the wishes or
purposes of the administration, it is toleraby GER
tain that devoted adherent would not openly de-
nounce as unworthy of trust, an officer whose re-
moval is not certain. The public sentiment will
strongly approve Of this act
Mr.. Walsh is a man of talents, great infor-
nation, indeiatigabIe industry, and has done the
country service, on former occasions, by his writ
ings. His Appeal from the Judgment of Great
Britain was an opportune book, conceived In
patriotic spirit, and executed with vast amount of
research. He collected an immense amount of re-
criminative material, with which he successfully
repeled the systematic attacks of the British press
! upon the institutions and people of the United
States, and turned the war upon themselves with
Judgment and spirit. Il was the more creditable to
his heart, because Mr.. Walsh belonged to the old
federal party, whose affection for England and
English institutions was leading topic of reproaCh
against them by their adversaries. MIR. Walsh
never was very active partisan. His sluggish
temperament and the literary tastes which he sedu-
lOusy cultivated, forbade it. Though never dem
ocrat, he was a cold supporter of Mr.. Adams, in
which disappointment in obtaining the mission to
Mexico had some share. Being also a Catholic,
the language employed by Mr.. Adams, we think
in the Panama matter, which was offensive to the
Catholics, helped also to ALLEVIATE him. On Gen.
Jackson's election, he wrote series of articles for
the National Gazette, of Philadelphia, which he
then edited, from which it clearly appeared that he
was not at all dissatisfied with the defeat of Mr.
Adams. The attack upon the old federal party,
with which Mr.. Adams closed his canvass, was also
extremely disasteful to so steady federaist as Mr.
Walsh.
But in his career at Paris Mr.. Walsh mas never
been popular. His manners are not ngratiating and
he has of late years become exceedingly deaf As
the correspondent of the National Inteligencer for
series of years, his letters acquired wide repu-
taton, for the uness and accuracy of their infor-
nation upon literary matters, and as a good digest
of foreign politics. In the then state of Europe
attention on this side of the water was not Sc
intenty fixed upon the character of the various
conflicts and the principles involved. 1t was mott.
ced, indeed, that the writer of those letters was
never hopeful on the side Of the people, was dis.
trustfu of all excitements from below, and afraid
more of the movements Of the masses than of the
combinations Of their oppressors.
| But during the recent astounding events in Eu-
rope, all hearts in America have sympathised with
the German, the Roman, the Hungarian, against
| the league of kings and priests, and they listen
with Impotence and anger to the voice of any
American, from abroad, disparaging the struggles
! Of the weak, and lauding the purposes of the
tyrants. The letters of Mr. Walsh, which contain
! sentiments at which republicanism revolts, have
accordingly made him odious, and a hearty, undi
vided public opinion requires his recall.
There is nothing in this which can be justly
charged with infringing the right of private opin.
ion. Mr.. Walsh may be an imperialist or a mon
archist, and express his opinions without obstruc-
tion That is the liberty of speech and opinion,
with which no government ought to interfere.
But a government founded as ours is, on the prfn-
ciple of equal rights-and originating in the right
of revolution against oppression-cannot consist
emily or honorably keep as its representative a
man, however amiable and honest, whose daily
conversations deny and discredit the land of his
BIRTH and gives encouragement to systems and
principles which it abhors. 1t is right that the
appearance Of official sanction should be with
drawn from the man who speaks coldly of the
gallant Hungarisns, and looks for hope TO the gooC
order and conservatism of Europe in the magma
nimity and moderation of the Emperor Nicholas