The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-10-24
oar cs.asry abroad.

Our Ceuntry Abroad.
We seldom. or never, Of laie. look over the
dssailaf y the Eoeeign Nevs, without fsslins .
6tlnsnt of 61e that we are an Anarican.
The day of sssering Depreciation has gone BY.
Our country be- conquered reluctant admiration.
Russia and Austria hate our free progressive
principles, but fear our growing power. Turkey.
the land of semi-barbaric absolu,ism, has quick
echo for our generous sympathies for freedom,
and yields to our national protection the leader
Of the Hungarian Revolution. France, in the
hearts of her susceptible people, cherishes for o.
frasernal sympashies. England recognizes in us
10 great and worthy rival, and no longer sneers
1t % - semibarbarians and laggaMs in the
race for power and glory.
Upon her own soil. at her own challenge, in
the Worlds Exhibition, we have competed sue
cessfully with England in arts and manufactures
on which she most pridss herself. We have
won from her reluctant rivalry q confession of
superiority in many things in which she never
dreamed that we approached her. An American
has defied and overcome her most celebrated
l locksmitha An American has exhibited to her
Ia specimen Of carpe. manufacture with which
she has nothing to contrast An American has
shown her farmers how, by the use of American
machinery, they, may most cheaply and expedi-
| tiously gather their harvests. An American has
defed Britannia on the element which she
boasted was her home and on which she ruled I;
and there an American vessel has proved itself
superior to any competitor she could present. In
all that is practical or useful we have confess.
eddy achieved a fair position in the industrial
comparison Of national advancement.
| This is Aattering enough to our national pride
but our moral position and our moral influence in
Europe-wherever civilization is known-is more
iattering yet.
In this view, we were forcibly struck in read.
ing an article from the London Times, comment
ing on recent visit Of our Minister, Mr.. Law.
renee, to Ireland. The Times says his progress
through the island was almost royal in its charac.
ter. It says:
"Mr. Lawrence finds himself received with al.
most the honors of royalty. Railway directors
and corporations give him special trains, banquets
and addresses, and every city prepares ovation.
1t adds that England grows dim and distant in
the Imagination of the Irish, whilst the New
World rises bright warm, cheerful and near to
their longing visions; that Lord Clarendon could
command no such demonstration as that rendered
to our Minister; that Ireland this day is mere
nursery Of citizens for America, soon to be a de-
populated waste Of bog marsh, plain, hill, valley
and decaying villages and cities. But the Times
always ungenerous and depreciative Of American
glory, draws not the natural differences which ar,
most to credit. 1t is not in the United State,
alone that rich lands lie unbroken by the plough
and inviting the laborer to come over the ocean
Mexico has fairer domain, with as bright sun
richer SOIL and vegetation SO liberal as to be al.
most spontaneous but Mexico, republican though
she may be, is not the Land of Promise to the
throng Of eager and hopeful emigrants. The flag
Of England floats above a domain as fair. The
wide extent of Australia offers its thousand
brilliant temptations but the Irish emigrant is moi
tempted by them. The honest philosophy of tn.
matter makes the immense tide of emigration set
ting in upon our shores daily testimony to oul
possession Of things higher and nobler than mere
richness Of SOIL extent of territory and healthines,
Of climate-free speech, free thought, free move.
ment perfect equality and the entire liberty and
uncontrolled influence Of the individual The EN-.
grant comes hither, and is man. He has bis
distinct and unfettered social influence; he thinks,
speaks, acts, as be pleases always respecting laws
which protect others no more than they protect
him. The shadows are lifted from his path, and
he walks, unbent in servile dependence, before his
fellow men.
The Times cannot or will not see the repub.
lican democratic freedom, which is the glory Of
our land and its conservation in the enthusiastic
sentiments of the intensely sanguine Irishman.
Austria pays us a higher compliment The
merciess opprsssor Of the Hungarian, the reckless,
tyrant of Italy, she places upon the paths Of our
citizens, whenever found in her limits, the strictes.
watch her well-drilled police can keep. She fol.
lows them with suspicious, she annoys them with
arrests, she persecutes them with imprisonment
until, forewarned, they avoid her as they would a
cavern full of darkness, perplexing windings, rep
tiles, and all uncleanly things. The presence Of q
single American upon her soil, is to her horror
and terror. She feels the sting of Webster.
Hulsemann letter. and writhes under its con.
tsmptuous castigation. She knows that we ofTel
secure asylum to the Hungarian patriots she
bates, and that she cannot threaten or awe US a.
she would Turkey.
But for this Switzerland and Holland rves u,
noble acknowledgment. The former from hel
thousand mountains sends US cheers of sympath,
and friendship, and old Holland, famous in middle
ages history, and rich in resources, sends us I
special embassy to ask commercial relations ane
friendship. Venice, watching her enslavers, speak.
to us in something like the echo of her ole
renown, and the exilss Of freedom crowd to oul
shores. Respected, feared everywhere England
France and Spain, even nnder the serious provo.
cation Of the Cuban invasion, even in view of our
plain march to the dominion Of neighborhood ter.
ritory, in Mexico or Canada, when already we
spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific, hasten to
deny hostile intents, and to conciliate our favor
We can vindicate ourselves. Our voice is in the
Tulleries. Our emissaries, native to the land
crowd Ireland. France is ours through sympathy
Switzerland comes daily nearer to her natura
friend. Extremes meet, and Turkey comes I,