New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-08
ESH .aN.D TRaGEDY.

f101sen ent, and had even 1ndulged mentally IN
some speculations concerning the superior eff
cacy Of Diplomatic notes to canonry discharges.
But it seems we have been mistaken, and that
question Of much gravity and Importance is
yet to come before the American public. In
the progress of these difficulties not only have
our vessels been warned off the fishing grounds,
but the & Great American Trngedian,' in all
the dignity of buskins, the glory Of tinsei, the
fury Of tragedy and the enthusiasm Of art, has
been sternly, arbitrarily, cruelty warned by the
British critics no longer to fish upon the boards |
of English theatres for glory and British half.
crowns and shiIlings. The information is start
ling. hut it is communicated upon the most re-
liable authority. M d sssJ n l..ss
The matter to adopt the dignity and gravity
Of . chronicler,) arrived in this wise. Some
time since, New0rleans had within her limits a
tall, graceful, 1.-THE, handsome, sociahle sugar
broker. whose fate it became to do the agonies
OF the Histrionics and who, in that excellent
association Of spirited young gentlemen, did
very cleverly, indeed, for an amateur-who
might be technically termed, dramatic green
horn. Forthwith, he felt q magical change
Vile traffic became nuisance. His soul scared
aloft, and held communion with Shakespeare and
Ben johnson was formally admitted to the
fraternity Of Beaumont and Fletcher; and emu
lated the glories Of Garrick, Kean, Talma and
Macready AS he stepped from sugar hogshead
to sugar hogshead, or from molasses barrel to
molasses barrel, he felt Us though he trod the
stage, every inch the peerless hero of the mimic
show. The sugar anger in his hand became, in
the rosy haze of dreamy fancy, the death deal
ing sword Of Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, etc.
The very Levee was but a theatre, and those
clever young gentlemen of the fraternity of
sugar brokers--great at boring. but all alive
for fun, frolic and an eighth advance llf selling
mind you, but if buying, quite the other way)
became the adnliring and applauding specta-
tors of his prodigious triumph
OF course something had to be done to obtain
relief from the perpetual fever Of stage-struck
ambition, and so, there was born a new candi-
date for histrionic honors. As one of those
waggish fellows, the sugar brokers, expressed it,
SC Buck leaped from the sugar hogshead to the
stage. and revealed to the world, for the first
time, that both were on dead level" Thes. b.
fraternity was in an uproar. A live genius
g the great American tragedian had issued
from among them. Some admired, and some
suggested that q silver auger should be pre-
scented, as an emblem Of the immense boring the
public had to endure from one so well profession
ally prepared
ssThe great American tragedian began his
work in conquering fame. The sugar brokers'
influence was all-powerful in NewOrleans; and,
of course, the press of this city spoke sweetly
and in pleasant terms of the brilliant star, the
light Of which was soon to illumine the histri-
onic world The newcomer was born g STAR"
and Memphis was 1--WE believe) the next place.
after NewOrleans, the said star 'irradiated
There the star played; and an ignoramus of an
editor having had (by said starr his attention
called to its brilliancy, when wrapped in Des-
demona's counterpane (rather too opaque and
anciently washed to be transparency was in
formed, in the most comniserating spirit, upon
his hesitating to applaud, that he was lamenta-
bly, deficient in appreciation Of the first order
Of acting. es
After this, time passed, and many communi-
ties showed themselves 6 lamentably deficient"
until finally, g the great American tragedian "
announced to Boston audience, that it and all
American audiences could not appreciate the
genius Of d native until sealed with John Bulls
ApprOUatlOu, WAllCA AS MUM PiOCSeo "
land to obtain, and then return to astonish
every body.
To guard against any charge Of rashness, we
must say, that when this determination was
taken, Mr.. Buchanan could have had no idea
that the fishery troubles would come to make
disastrous shipwreck Of his fortunes.
At first, playing in London, at the Maryle-
bone Theatre, he had "puffs'' innumerable
The Marylebone is minor theatre, and its
theatrical notices are left by the conductors of
journals to professional buffers. But after
wards ambition deposited him on the boards of
"0ld Drury ''-and there, he met the critics
and that terrible fishery question. -4
The critics did not like him, of course not
they sacrificed him as the first victim of the
fishery war. Hear Mr.. Buchanan himself, in a
letter to the NewYork Herald, on this point
The of the change attribute to a preiudiced
feeling against every thing American, growing of the
present political differences, dislike the part
critics to acknowledge Drury Lane any Shazsperar
actor except Engshman and to the base conduct o
some-whom blush to call my own conference.-the
where they have not and aud cir
cuated the malicious reports calculated foresta
public opinion and which, in the absence Of contradic
tion we're received as truths now intend returnin
home satisfied an American cannot receive fair play
art in London
The present polltlcal uinerenceS immediate
..the great American tragedian" upon IL,
altar Of British prejudices and bigotry. Moth
ing else could have defeated him. We deep
regret that the fisheries question should ha'
become so unfortunately complicated by il
volving the fortunes of " the great Americ'
tragedian," Mr.. Buchanan. The case of NJ
B. must after this solemn announcement
his own, become a national affair. The A
ministration must take it up; if it fail to do S
we beg g the great American trsgedian" to +
member how Forrest suffered before him, and
refer his case to the arbitrament of the Bower
b'hoys If he only concludes by winding hir
self up Ia Ia Kirby in the American flag,
can guaranty the result.
What just connection the British Governme
could see between g fish - and tragedy
can not tell 1t may pretend it thought "t
great American tragedian IS fish out of v
ter. and baited him with 'sputfers' at Marp
bone only to hook him as ga founder with c,
les at sold Drury.' The explanation is lame; q
the matter too grave for trifing. 1t has beco
national. To-day, the juvenile and honorat
the fraternity of sugar brokers, will meet at
A. NJ, under their shed, and pass appropri
resolutions, denouncing Queen Victoria, the i'