New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-17
ST PATRIcK,s DAY

This is the anniversary of the far-famed
Patron Saint of Ireland--a day very naturally
held in respect and generation by that large
class Of our adopted fellow-citizens, who claim
q their birth place the first flower of the earth
and first gem Of the sea-" st. Patrick may be
fairly classed with the men Of original minds
and bold hearts whose names stand high in his
tory q the friends and benefactors of the human
race. Alta period when England was still sunk
In the depths Of pagan barbarism, when Ireland
was stranger to all the sublime truths of chris
tianity, and to the hallowed influences of civili-
1ation which follow in it's train, he visited the
Latter country as an humble missionary. The
puxity of his character, the force of his elo-
qusnos and the fsrvor Of his piety made an in
dslible Impression upon people whose sympa-
thiss and sensibilities are ever keenly alive to
"a that d manly and generous and pious. St.
Patrick implanted in the Emerald Isle the seeds
ef faith which will never be obliterated, and
which has hitherto impaired, and will ever i'm
part to the Irish character, that substratum Of
genuine piety which, notwithstanding all their
errorS isso strongly characteristic of the nation
There Is, perhaps, no country in the world in
which, as Americans, we feel more deep and
abiding interest, than in the adopted land of St.
Patrick. From no other portion of the globe
doss tho stream OF emigralon 10 our own coun-
try gov 50 copiously, and We do not hesitate to
say that no class of emigrants are, upon the
whole, more conducive to the material interests
Of the country. or more honestly and patriot
ically disposed to sustain our republican insti-
tutions We do not mean to insinuate that they
Ars, as . class, by any means exempt from
errors and imperfections, resulting, it may be,
from an unhealthy social and political organiza-
ton in their native Land; but we assert, without
fear Of contradiction, that the energetic indus
try, the unfeigned patriotism, the frank, impul-
sive, generous temperament which characterize
the race, are most useful and excellent in
gradients in the formation Of a national CHAR
setter. zsS
The history Of Ireland possesses melancholy
interest, to which we can ,soescely ind a paral-
lei in ancient or modern tt41se Though peo-
pie proverbially brave they have for centuries
bowed beneath the yoke Of a foreign power.
No nation has produced more devoted patriots,
more brilliant orators, more astute lawyers,
nore profound statesmen, or more gallant SOL
6esa Yet they have ever proved incompetent
to the maintenance of their own liberties, rights
and interests. We trust better era is dawn
ING on their future, and that in the progress Of
social and political science, they will not be left
an Ahab among the nations. We look forward
NTH proud coincidence and sanguine hope to
the influence and example Of our country in
eneliorating the condition Of Ireland, and every
Absr oppressed nation upon earth.
1his day the sons Of the Green Isle will cele-
trate socially and nationally the natal day of
their celebrated Patron Saint-and they win 50
caehrats II. Is TO draw no line Of distinction be-
tgDe thsneelvss sad any other class Of Ameri-