The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-07

Patriotic and E.oguent.- Oliver P Baldwin,
senior editor of the Richmond Republican, deliv-
cred in that city, on the 10th of August a eulogy
upon the life and character of Gen. Zachary Tay.
lor, pamphlet copy of which has been kindly sent
to u.s. We publish the closing paragraphs:
" know that the hour is dark, that sectional
passions are aroused, and that the future seems
pregnant with disastrous results But let us not
even permit ourselves to dream of such an event
as the dissolution of the American Union. Frater-
nal love, torbearance, reason, save it, when
even wisdom and eoquence would be of no avail
Let the eyes of each section be no longer blind to
the virtues and open to the faults of Others The
trenchman may rise against his Government the
Hungarian may seek to throw off the thraldom
OF Austria the Polander may struggle to regain
his nationality; but if we permit this Union to
perish until every constitutional and fraternal rem
edy has been exhausted, shall present the first
example in the worlds history of people who
were rebels against themselves who were satiated
with the sweets OF liberty, sick of peace and wea.
ried with prosperity. Never have people been
blessed with such blessings as we have enioyed
under this Union; never have people been cursed
with such curses will follow its dissolution.
Surely it cannot be that all our endowments OF
civil and religious liberty of peace and plenty are
10 be sacrificed by the madness of a few men who
make war alike upon the Bible and the Constitu-
tIon, and who would involve in the same ruin the
shrine of religion and the ark OF liberty Surely it
cannot be that Europe is slowly advancing in
rational freedom by the light of our example, we
should, with own hands, extinguish the beacon
fire which guides world on its weary way. Did
your footsteps wander in foreign land
Doubtless many grand and impressive object you
there beheld, hallowed by the moss of antiquity
and wreathed with thousand beautiful associa
tions. Beneath the solemn shades of Westminster
Abbey, on the immortal field of Waterloo, at the
foot OF st. Peters massive pile, upon the plains of
Marathon, you have bowed your head in venera-
ton OF genius, learning Plety and valor. You have
beheld many gorgeous spectacle of wealth and
greatness, of power and pomp-but tell me- among
them all, did you ever behold a sight that stirred
the deep fountains OF your heart and the blood
boiling with proud emotion through every vein, as
when, upon some lonely sea, you met one of your
national vessels the stars and stripes of your coun-
try flowing freely out over the frowning battery
and the mountain wave?
And shall the time arrive when YOU must
travel through the world and meet no more that
flag when neither sea nor shore shall its
meteor glories fall upon the wanderers eye
when the American shall pass through the world
worse than an orphan, man without country
Must ever be condemned to feel that the national
structure IN which | dwell is not the one which |
was built by the apostles of American freedom and
cemented by the blood Of its martyrs; not the one
of which Washington laid the corner stone, but OF
which Jefferson and Madison were among the
chief archiects-not the one which was lliumlhed
by the wisdom of Marshall and echoed tne thun-
ders of Henry eloqueuce; not me lfs' ehpie'
which stood upon the Mount Zion OF our Ameri-
can Israel, its magnificent altar cleaning through |
clouds of patriotic incense, and the heaven-enkin-
died fire of freedom burning forever upon It's shrine
no. not this temple but some humble ediice, |
without an altar priest, like that in which the
drsconsolate Jew mourns his lost jerusalem and, |
hanging his harp upon the willow, excaims |
How can | sing the Lords song in a strange
land J." And must not only give up my portion
in the flag and history Of my country, but must |
yield my interest in any of the consecrated spots of
this loved Republic? Must | stand on Bunker
Hill and Lexington, and be known as a foreigner?
Must the man OF the North press the sod of Mount
Vernon, and mournfully exclaim, This is no longer
my country" Must the world renquish its only |
rallying ground of free principles? A voice rises
from the oppressed millions of EuroPe-Take not !
away from us only city of refugee From
dungeon vaults, and from the ashes of holy martyrs
comes a cry - Destroy not the only home of
religious liberty From the ruins of ancient
republics, melancholy notes of warning float on