The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-31

Sir Robert Peel is no more After three DAVIS
OF excessive suffering, at few minutes past eleven
last night the greatest statesman OF his time Quilted
the scene in which he had performed so conspicu-
Gus a part Even the anxiety and the rumors
which have penetrated every household since the
trst alarming intelligence will have failed 10 pre-
pare the country for the deporable result Except
indeed IN the field of battle never was the transi.
tlon from lie to death so marked and so touching
On Friday the House OF Commons which for more
than forty years has witnessed the ,riumpbs and
Teverses OF the great conservative chief was filed
with an extraordinary assemblage anxious for the
result OF a great political crisis Sir Robert adj
dressed them with an ability and spirit which re-
called his more youthful efforts and more powerful
days. 1t the first occasion for four wears that
elected any serious or direct opposition to the policy
OF her majestys present advisers and not to re-
open debate full OF mistakes and cross purposes
1t must be allowed that the speech was at least an
admirable defence Of the principles on which Sir
robert and his colleagues had ever proceeded. He
sat down, as our report says, amid cloud and long
continued cheering" Within a few hours The
statesman who had commanded the applause of
That listening senate a wreck of life and
strength, shattered, feeble, restless and agonized
he everish intervals past That heart has ceased
to beat that tongue is ever still. That ardent
spirit and capaciOus intellect are now in another
and an unknown world.
Strange that the bloodless field of statesman
ship death should so often come with the sudden
ness, the violence, and the anguish of war Chat
ham fell fighting. His still greater son sank under
the news of Austerlitz. Percival was assassinated
on the threshold of the house, his hand filed with
papers and speech on his tongue. Castereagh's
end was still more awful. Romilly, too, was a
statesman well as a lawyer Lord Liverpool
was struck down in the midst of his duties Can
nng Tell suddenly while soaring in the pride Of his
might. Husksson persisted terribly in the midst
OF his former colleagues BentincE aspred to be a
statesman, and died in full health, without mo-
ments warning. But who would have thought that
Peel would one day be added to the list? The
hero OF hundred fights still survives All around
us we see octogenaran generals and admirals sur
wing countless accidents of battle and of flood
and dying at last of slow decay. Sir Robert Pee
falls by sudden casualty, before his strength has
begun to tall, or his mind to decline Did not the
thought suggest murmur at the dispensations o.
OmniPotence, one might call it a waste of precious
power, mighty soul lost to the world. by the
merest trlte-by the silly panic or momentary i'm.
patience OF brute. How much had such mar
still to do! How many noble thoughts and splen
did anticipatons to deliver How many large view,
carefully elaborated What treasures of observa
ton, and acquisitions of political lore nav. what
mighty part he might still have played had oppor
tunity again invited, or necessity demanded his no
tent Intervention But in a moment ali mis- i
beyond the grave, and specuations which but YES
terday were real and probable, are now become m,
theme of the SCHOOL, boy.