New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-23
OF III" \
The Presidents Axiom.


The Delta is certainly thorough going par
tisan subaltern. For right or wrong, through
good and through evil report, it puffs and exalt:
the President and his aids-de bureau in all the
phases of their political career.
We cannot recognize the doctrine of praisng
ones friends, whether their conduct be right OF
wrong, because we think it subversiye Of all
morality, This is so plain, that it needs no ar,
gument to elucidate it. The commonest mind
must embrace it instantly We have no objec-
tion to a mans sticking to his friend, even when
that friend is wrong, for it is at that very crisis
that he needs the support Of a friend and it is
the duty of the one to endeavor to persuade the
other Of his error, and correct it. If he fails in
that, and the erring man is incorrigible, why
here his services as friend are at an end and
SO we apprehend this doctrine will apply as well
to political as personal friendship.
We are led to these remarks by perusing in
yesterday mornings Delta, under the imposing
head g 4 Political Truth, a phrase attributed
to President Pierce, viz g Sir, your friend is
good man; but in these days no one is neces-
sary to the public good--he is not indispensa-
BILE"
If President Pierce did utter the above, he
doubtless meant it to apply to the particular
man that was pressed upon him. But his par
tisans, eager for any occasion to puff and praise
him, seize and exalt it to the dignity of a
political marin of profound wisdom, which de-
serves to be engraven in marble and placed
conspicuously in the Washington Monument
If President Pierce meant it as such, he GER
talnly uttered nonsense, and we should doubt
his sincerity for his previous words and deeds
belle him-and so do his partsans belle them
selves; for il cannot be believed n moment but
that his party consider him necessary to the
public good-indspensable They have said
so some thousands Of times; and had we the
time for investigation, We could bring up the
record in proof
The Delta, in its Juror Of praising the head
and front Of democracy, writes the most unten-
able nonsense we have lately seen. 1t need only
be read to be condemned by every man who is
possessed of the slightest sense Take the fol
lowing phrase; . The universally of activity
and talent destroys the reign of indiyidualsm "
Nonsense. 1t would, indeed, be lamentable il
it did But that is untrue it increases it,
But We turn to the & Political Truth : In
these days no one is necessary to the public
good-he is not indispensable. We presume
President Pierce does not mean to convey the
idea that in by-gone days of our nationality
individual men were not indispensably neces-
sary, He will hardly deny that immortal
Washington was indispensably necessary to our
safe conduct through our revolutionary strug.
gle--that Hamilton, Hancock Adams, Jefferson
and all that glorious fraternity of patriots
were indispensably necessary CONDUCTORS in the
conduct of the war, and the formation and estab.
lishment of this glorious American Republic
In these days the President means, no one
is necessary to the public good Why not in
these days Of irresistible progress: If this be
his position, he spoke nonsense; for it must b,
clear as sunlight, that every individual Of
talent is necessary and indispensable to the pub.
lie good, to originate, mature and enact meas.
ures for safe conduct through the tempestuous
sea Of progress which surrounds us; and al
and every man, be his talents what they may
to aid in carrying them through. Doubles
the President believes that his Services in thu
Mexican war were necessary for the public
good; and so they We're, in connection with the
hand Of volunteer soldiers who fought and bled
and conquered there. And doubtless the Pres
ident and the democratic party considered his
election to the high office he fills, as necessary
and indispensable to the well being and pros
perity Of this republic. Time will show whether
the opinion was correct.
The . Delta in its unmitigated strain Of
nonsensical laudation, goes on to say: Hero
worship has no longer an existence, unless in
the brain of Thomas Carlyle; and the commu-
nifty regards itself its own am, as the great
first principle in all political action" Surely
tho Delta has not forgotten the laudation.
which that journal and its democratic confrere.
poured upon the head of the resident as q
hero Of the Mexican war In this article be.
fore us he lau1s his hero, and yet tells us thai
= hero worship has no longer an existence
We reply that it will exist SO long as the editor
Of the Delta exists, and so long as the worlt
stands
The Delta" makes another wise remark
which we must notice on the way "Tht
United States can prosper after the death Of
those citizens who hold the most prominent po
stions, and wherefore Because in these days
no one is necessary to the public good-he is not
indispensable. Repeating President Pierce,
political truth" Tis certainly a wonderful
discovery that Of the " Dclta,'' that the worlt
and governments have gone on for ages and
can and will most probably advance, although
The generations Of the earth continue to die of
and are succeeded by new We deny, however
his political truth, which he gives as thu
reason, viz : Because no one is necessary L
the public good he is not indspensahly neccs
5ary.
We insist that Clay, Webster and Calhoun
were indispensably necessary in their day ant
place to the public good. They filled the place.
Of some Of the WORTHLESS who preceded them
and now we have to wait the DEVELOPMENTS o
time to show as who will fill their places Nom
have arisen as yet, but doubtless time and occa
sion Will bEing some forth for there can be no
doubt that some such wise men and sterlin.
patriots are now indispensably necessary to the
public good. H.
WASHINGTON, JHRe -, ls53-A rumor pre-
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