The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-01-06

First slver-shated Ph4bus took the plain
The Charleston News, speaking of the debate
on Federal Relations" in the South Carolina
Legislature, says;
Our opinion is that South Carolina will not act as
her dsn mi, demands Thousands Of her young Apoos
they will pause if TO Southern State. de.
nsnd pause. They willing show disposition
ardent will wait for Mississippi Alabama and Georgia.
During the siege of Troy the gods came down
to earth and played the devil with the affairs of
men, and Father Jupiter obliged to make
special decree prohibiting the eeestas from taking
part in mortal combat under pain of being thrown
sty-high,"
What god but enters yon forbidden field,
Who yields Bs4istnnee, or but wills to YIELD
Back to The skies with shame he shall be driven Is etc.
But we thought, after the wholesome warning
given them by the king OF the gods they would not
interrupt us at this day. More than score of cen.
turtles has passed by since the god of the silver bow
was seen shooting his arrows at mortal men, The
warning given by the tate OF Niobc and her child
rem has been long forgotten Even the voice of
Apollo has long been unheard upon the earth, and
the braces Of Delphi of CIaros, of Delos, long ago
ceased to give responses. We confess that we
hadho expectation Of seeing Apollo upon the earth
again
' But soft, behold, 10 where he comes again
like Hamlet's ghost when we thought him gone
forever. And not Apollo merely has come
but during his long absence from earth lie has null
tipled himself, till now we have an army OF young
Apollos twanging their silver bows They have
come down, not to pursue Daphnes or weep over
Coronses but the lords of the unerring bow stand
in the cotton fields and rice swamps of South Car
DINA, each OF them with
The arrow bright
With an immortal's vengeance in his eye
And nostri beautiful disdain and might
And majesty that flash their ishtninss BY.
Developing III that one glance the Deity"
Each one has hidden farewell to the weeping
muses., given parting kiss to Latona and Diana.
who hung upon the neck of each of Them begging
him not to expose his valuable person unnecessarily
and there the army of Apollos stands. with
100000 dollars appropriated for their subsistence
y tor some Homer TO initiate in his deathless line
the changing OF their silver bows See them as
they stand, each one an incarnation OF the Beau
tiful
" In his delicate Iorm--a dream of love,
shapsi by some sons, solitary nymph, whose breast
Longei Tor deaihless lover from above,
And msddened in that vision-are expressed
All that ideal beauty ever blessed, -
- lhe mind within lis most unerrthy mood,
, a ray OF immortality, and stood
starike around until they gathered to god i'
What can We poor morials do in Il contes, with
such an army' As Apollo in other days said 10 the
son of Tydens-
Distance immense! be; ween the powers that shine
Above, eternal, deahIess and divine.
And mortal mana wretch of humble birth,
a short-lved reptile in the dust OF earth .''''
But 1t Is a satisfaction To know that they are
willing to wait before they shoot-lhat they con.
sent for 4 while to
Brelthe their rage and hush the stern debate"
In the meantime, while they stand with bows
drawn, and nostrils snortng with " beautiful dis.
daini the DaphHes may roam unfolowed through
the woods, the Coronises may prove unfaithfII
without exciting jealousy, the Nobes NAV boast of
their children without being punished Apolos
Tyre viii be silent but it has not been decided 10
stop the music Of the spheres. Nor do we believe
that there is 10 bs any interference with either the
dinrnai or annual motions of the earth The Ohio.
We feel authorized 10 stale, is permitted TO flow in
its usual channel, whatever course may he taken
in regard To other rivers. Besides, the Phebus-
APo!ios will not always stand with their bows
stretched. Horace who is good authority, tells us
dat Apollo does not always stretch his bow
" Ncqae semper Arcum tendu Apollo" Louis
Vile Journal.