The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-08


| late proclamation of the President, has been ex-
cited BY the terms by which he characterizes such
expedtons as that against which it is directed, as
q adventures for plumber and robbery With
abored but Intellectual ingenuity, seeks to protect
its favorite schemes by the character of some of
those young men who engaged in the late expedi-
ton. But is not the sophistry of this palpable and
apparent! 1t is the very purpose of the President
to warn the young, the heedess, and the unrefeot-
ing, of the danger which lies before them, and 10
place the schemes, in the execution of they in
vited to assist, in their true light and in tina, in
which they will be viewed by the world. Unfor-
tunately it is but too often the case that our errors
and vices take their origin in the noblest impulses
of our nature, which, unless controlled by reason
| and judgment, are just as apt to hurl man down
inio the abyss of crime to elevate him to that
Hheight from which he may serve as light and an
example to his fellows. 1t is under the guise of
| patriotism that treason sufficiently conceals the
hdeousness of its features to commend itself, but
TOO often, TO the noble and hearted zeal for
religion has been the motive which has acluated
many truly good men to the commission of the most
horrible crimes of which history bears any record
Should the nobleness Of those, or the virtue of
these, prevent cur properly characterizing their
conduct in those particulars! Most certainly not
| We conceive, then, that the terms used by the
President do not necessarily convey the slur upon
the character of these young men, which the Delta
| would mpute to them. 1t is now well known that
many of them were deceived as to the real nature
| of that foolish expedition. AT the time, too, at
which they embarked in it, the subject of our neu
| trail duties had not met that full discussion which
| it has since received, and they had but the Old
| Rail of yha into
in it. The public mind has, however, since been
directed TO this topic, and henceforth no man can
plead ignorance of his duty, but in engaging in
such designs must openly proclaim himself con-
temner of that law which binds together in har-
mony the nations of the world, and of the law Of
| his own country. Notwithstanding the Delta's
boasts ofthe thousands who are ready to flock to the
| standard, we cannot believe thai there are many
americans who will thus declare themselves I'M
worthy OF .heir Dlf,h.fght' surely IT there is
obedience from the citizen. if is ours where be
ercjses his due weight and influence in the enact.
ment of it, Here more than in any other. sbould
oubc opinion frown upon that HIGHER law the an
neal 10 which chaIacterizes the fpatcism both of
the North and of the South, and which is but an
other name for lawlessness ITSELF While. then
we are disposed TO view with mldness the conducf
of these young men, we cannot allow any svmpa
ty for them to blur our perception of the real ma
lure of these designs, and we are forced to ragard
| in very different light those who have bean ,ba
active workers in setting them on foot. With the
generosity of those who are ready to sacrifice liz
and forune in cause which tbav doom, bo,,,,,,o
| enormously. TO be inst. we have snme symne,b,,
and while wa ara comn,lIed IN d;sa,r,o, Il, l.;
conduct for the want of that Indictment which alone
renders even our citizens safe TO ourselves and to
society, we do so with regret, and our censure 10
| mingled in some degree with admiration. But for
the mere Spectators in these enterprises for those
who, keeping themselves at safe distance from the
dangers, would convert them into the means of
amassing fortunes, we acknowledge no synpathv
we have no respect. Yet these last are the verv
men who are making The loudest protestations of
virtue and generosity.
'oh, for forty parson power to chant thy praise,
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nrou.d .bon,salvos u,,uo,,,,, ~ u'.h .-N. lla
and VIC cannot hrt fseI indian,n, =, La;,s. ;,,,a5
far having mated ont opr no;teness in r,ranort;o -,
their merits. We have received into our bouse
the homeless and destitute stranger wa have oo,
cred him when he was naked we have fed hin,
when he was hungry; we have cured him when he
was sick and we find that he has converted the
intimacy upon which we have placed him in opr
family into the means of lea ling our sons into vice.
Shall we be rebuked when we complain of his
breach of faith? Would we be Justly chargeabe
with want of hospitality should we even kick him
from our doors?
And now let us look for few moments at the pro-
gramme of the proceedings of these men, and see
desnerate Cnbaps meet +oge,ber in o,r oo,,.,..
and issue bonds upon the faith of the ,rbIio dor
OF that Island. SELLING these at the avorh,ont Is
count of ninety cents on the dollar tbo,, ac,,
sxnedition against il with tho f,r1s r.;sa, ~,
Whence did ,bev derive ,n,hort,, - - ~;
pledge? Had the exnedition snccsedoa and ,his
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