The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-03


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The Principles of the Fillibusters,
Eds. Crescent-Fhe Delta devotes a column and
| malt OF Its Sunday mornings paper to the illus.
| tra'ion OF the wrongs of Cuba, and to the denun.
caton OF those who do not rush forward to redress
| them, and who even frown upon the utter disre.
gard OF the most serious and important obligations
evlnced by those who have engaged in such expe.
dllions as that which has lately disgraced our coun
| try Coming under its censures, may we claim the
| use OF your columns to express the reasons which
| have led us to that jud gment-reasons which we
would fain hope will prevent occurrences of those
degrading scenes, the full discussion of which will
at any rate, have the effect of depriving of all ex
cuse, those who would hereafter engage in them.
and branding them with the unqualified reproba
| ton of all good and true citizens. Henceforth
thoughtlessness and deception can furnish no anol.
ogy and those who lend themselves to such DESIGNS
must openly declare their utter disregard of the
most sacred social obligations.
The developments of the late trial have suf,;
GENTLY proved that, on the part of those who
planned and conducted the expedition which pave
rise to it, monetary speculation of the most extern
slve kind was the true object, and zeal for liberty
but the cloak which was thrown over it. The loan
of money at the very han lsome rate of 1000 per
cent. VIII furnish motive more consistent with
their business intelligence, if not as honorable to
their feelings as that to which they would now
pretend What American does not burn with in
dlgnatlon at having The fame of Lafayette and
hosclusko degraded by comparison with those
who could thus trade in the noblest impulses of
mans nature, and traffic in his Hottest aspirations
ia rnp n pnth I,,ab
he has been accustomed to associate with vr,ua
and generosity, bestowed upon those who ayailed
themselves of the distresses which they now main,
In such glowing colors to drive probably the bs rd
est bargain of which the chronicles of usurv can
furnish an example; one from which the most
heartless and unfeeling usurer would have re-
coed from the loathsome contact with which
Shylock himself would have shrunk AWAY
then with such pretences Strip the tawdry finery
from that figure which they would have us bow
down to and worship as the goddess of Liberty.
and let her stand forth the filthy and disgusting
prostitute which she really is Let not the portals
OF the holy temple of Freedom be profaned by thesa
money changers and usurers!
There is another class of men, however connecte8
with this business, to whose conduct the above
structures donot fairly apply Young ardent and gen.
erous, their fault has lain principally in the want of
reflection Governed by noble impulses, such as we
can, without shame acknowledge sympathy with,
and which wanted but1he control of TT ason TO have
been worthy of the name of virtue, they were Sc
duced from rectiiude by means of those very quail.
tiles which, under its guidance, might have and
may yet render them the ornaments of society.
Thus the most exalted feelings of our nature
too often converted into the means by which the cold
hea rtp Il H..
very fonts which should have covered with YER
dure and loneliness the pathway of life, are made
the causes of that aridty and sterilty which
actually mark it. 1t is from the full gushing
font of love, which might have made that woman
the tenderest OF wives, the fondest of mothers,
that the seducer draws the poison which is to blast
all her future life, and render her disgrace to her
sex, and an eye-sore to society; zeal for liberty
has been the instrument of conspiraors as we'll as
The watch-word OF patriots, in all ages and in all
countries. 1t behooves u.s. then, not to allow our
selves TO be swept away by mere words but calmly
to scrutinize the motives of those who would make
use OF US, and carefully to weigh the tendencies of
that conduct which they would have us adopt
We have already said enough in regard to the sub
ject before us, upon the first of these branches
and 1t Is to the second that we shall now address
ourselves
'i'o sase remark Oh one OF the brightest or
"a",i'S Vi 'iie Ihg''sh oehcn' mat to press for
"a'u ~ s'ea' pfihciple by breaking through
every other principle which stands in the way of
its accomplishment, is as little consonant with pri.
vate morality as with public justice" To do so
must ever entail greater EVIL than that which is
sought 10 De removed. vi this ruth history fur
hishes numerous illustrations, but we doubt whether
any OF them are better than the very one which
we are now discussing. For the last two centuries
1t has been the noble ambition of some of the
brightest inteects which have ever devoted them.
selves to the exaltalon of their Species to extend
me obligation OF morals from individuals TO
IONS, and to abolish the wretched distinction
when made That virtue in the minister which
wound nave disgraced the man. They have sought
from the principles OF morals to build up system
ii laws by The light OF which nations might be