The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-20


Mr.. A. o. P. Nicholson lately delivered a eulogv
on the life and services Of the late President Polk
The address was delivered at the request Of the
Tennessee Legislature now in session at Nash
vile and day or two after resolution was intro
deeed into the Slate Senate to print one hundred
copies for each member Thereupon a violent par
tisan debate enaued; and in the course of the dis
eossion all the terms Of reproach and abuse applied
10 MI Folk during his life were heaped upon his
memory Just after the very persons uttering them
ao assisted IN paying outward signs of respect to
me deceased. The resolution in the Senate was
considered test question, and was, as the body is
wing lost bya strict party vote
VERY nght-minded man, removed from the
scene Of tois party discussion, must perceive the
ilupfoprlety not to say the mpolicy of the course
pursued by the wing members of the Tennessee
senate. Indeed the Memphis Eagle, firm and
decided Wing paper, but remarkable for the general
tone OF fairness and candor which pervades it.
strongly censures the wing Senators for their con-
Duct and hopes 0or when its article was written
At had not heard the fate Of the resolution that the
opposition would be Withdrawn and the printing
ordered. No whig, however decided may be his
party convictions, will, if possessed of ordinary
generosity and common feeling, approve the vote
which the heated partisans of the Tennessee Sem
ate have unfortunately recorded. Nay, such vote
as this demands the reprobation Of the wing party
lar more than Of the democratic As men, all must
be shocked-by the indgnty offered to the memory
OF the late President bat the wings have right
to complain that the wing Senators have injured
the wing cause, and, permitting passion to usurp
the place Of reason, have taken part calculated to
throw odium upon the opinions they advocate.
And this opposition of wing Senators has only
as was naturally to be expected, aroused the enhu-
sasm Of their political opponents and now the
democrats Of the Legislature, and of Nashville
have determined to print thirty thousand copies Of
Mn. Nicholson's Eulogy, This is not ALL The
Eulogy is not to go forth alone. 1t is to be pre-
faced with the speeches of Messrs Zollicoiler and
Iipton the two wing Senators who most warmly
opposed the printing, and the speeches of the demo-
cratic Senators to be given also. See, them to
what condition the wing Senators are reduced by
the display of an unreasonable party passion.
Tker speeches are to be circulated by their polti-
cal opponents. The very words which they uttered
IN depreciating the fame and services of Mr.. Polk,
are to be used for extending the influence OF Mr..
Folks principles and measures. Thus it is, that
party passion mars the progress of party prinei-
pies, and men in Masses as well as individuals are
taught that the violence of instincts, unguided by
reason, and unrestrained by conscience work only
selt-destruetion and seEruin
Wherever the fact of this senatorial vote shall
penetrate what will be the first thought of all men
Of reflection in regard the opposition the resou
ton for printing encountered? VIII they not
think it strange that any portion of a party, and
that portion forming part of the Senate of sove-
reign State, should so much fear their adversaries
as not to desire the circulation of an address lauda
tory of the services of an illustrious deceased
Viii they not ask whether it is necessary to hack
and hew the reputation of the dead as we'll as that
Of the living, in order to effect party ends and party
purposes If party is to be thus insatate in its
destruction; if it is to be the mere agenhor Will
flying every exalted repHtation and of pulling down
every high name let throw the idol to the ground,
and aceursed be he that would gather up the frag-
ments and attempt to reInstate them on the
pedestal.
As citizens Of this great republic, we thrilled
with indignation at the attempt to degrade the
illustrious name Of James K Polk No matter
what his party opinions were, he has done great
and notable things for these United States. Under
his Administration carried on the most sue
cessful and brilliant war in which the country was
ever engaged The boundaries of the republic |
We're enlarged, and region annexed to our
iormer territories, rlvang in richness the Peru of
the lncas and the Mexico Of the Montezumas. Is
it fitting that Americans should be ready to detract
from the merits of such citizen Especially is
such conduct pardonable in the citizens of
State whose interests he has so often advocated
whose name he has highly illustrated, and in
whose bosom Tepose his mortal remains The
cheek Of every Tennessean should burn. the wrath
of every Tennessean should be aroused, when he
hears OF the treatment his great fellow-citizen has
received at the hands Of the Tennessee Senate.