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

from each individuals impression of what is right
or of what he may think his interest. This, it i,
evident, is utterly incompatible with the very exi,
tence OF society. If it is said that they would moi
extend it further than the law in question: the repv
is manifest, that they responsible for the logica
consequences Of their principles and that there i.
no just principle which will enable them to nullfy
this law which will not equally avail John Smith
to set aside the statute against petty larceny, which
stands in the way of his designs against his neigh
boris pocket.
| 1t is question, too, on which the true philan-
| thropst-he whose feelings controlled in some
degree by his judgment, and such one is alone
worthy of our complementary well pause wheth-
er 1t will be comforting benefit upon the Cubans
to hit from them the yoke, heavy and calling we
may deem it. There is probably nothing which
has inflicted greater curses upon the world during
the last century, than the efforts of well meaning
but ignorant and misguided philanthropy, to ameli-
| crate the condition of The efforts to suppress
the slave trade have only increased its horrors and
extent; the abolition of slavery in the British West
Indies has almost entirely annihilated their produc-
ton, while it has sunk him whom it was intended
to benefit, to still lower depth of intellectual and
| moral degradation. Whilst then we have as much
sympathy for the oppressed as any of those who
make a profit of their misery, we cannot but ask
ourselves, whether if these designs be prosecuted
to successful issue, it will prove beneficial to the
Inhabitants of that island? The condition of the
former colonies of Spain exctes in the most Sc
rious apprehensions. To them liberty, instead of
blessing, has proved curse. They have receded
on the scale of civilization, and their territories are
IL IL So oF Al
their more active and intelligent neighbors We
fear that the anarchy, the same retrogrsssion
which marks the history of liberty in them, will
take place in Cuba, unless an American population
be established there which shall have the entire con-
troll OF the government. In that case, we shall
have contest of races one struggling for mastery
the other for existence. The energy and activity of
the American character leaves no room for doubt
as to the result. The present population of the
Island must be swept from its surface or sink into
the condition of an humble and degraded class
We have space but for one other of the consider
atoms which influence minds, and that is one
which is peculiarly interesting to the South. An
institution exists in midst, the very essence of
which is despotism. For this we are not respon-
slbe. Unable to rid ourselves of it except by pro-
ducng evils in the comparison with which it is the
greatest blessings it is left to but to mitigate it,
and we can properly condemn that fanatcism which
would produce unmingled destruction in the pursuit
OF fanciful perfection. Do We not see, however,
whittier this mad zeal for liberty, which would
PROSTATE in its all other obligations lis taking
US Had we not lived long enough to have be-
come familiar lied with the inconsistencies of the
human mind, even when acting free from the i'm
pulses of passion or interest," we should have been
surprised that journal which claims to De, par er-
eslense, the advocate of the South, should contnu
ally promuge opinions which sweep away her
rights and leave her very existence in precarous
condition. CENSOR