New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-26

doubt, hard beset by the only real afilction Oh
the Press, delinquent subscribers--thus oemoah
themselves, over its imaginary grieis
s,.vrnv ov rur PnKs-The perssn who penned the
following deserves prnsion They are our sentiments
Yes every word Of them none ~ .v pansr .xcept
those Who have had experience. The writer says;
II know slavery upon earth IKE that attendsnt
o ,evspaper life whether it be directors or tubor-
climates Your task Is ended your responsibility
never secured the last days work forgotten at the
tomorrow waits devour your thoughts
and snap up morscl of your vexed existence
different to praise aud lion hearted to bame-stl will
the human frame wear out before time your body
il not your mind, exhibit some symptoms Of dry rot
Courage, brothers! Bear up! What says
the noble poet of the day about other sharp and
bright things'
But the sword out-wears the sheath
And the soul wears out the breast.
But shall we, for that, have no swords nor no
souls: Or what, again, says great Milton Of
his eyes worked out in defence Of the public
cause'
Cyrac this three years'-day these eyes tho clear
To outward view, Of blemish or of spot
Bereft Of light. their seeing have forgot;
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
OF sun or moon or star, throughout the year,
Or woman Yet argue not
Against Heavens baud viii. bate a jot
OF heart or hope; bat still bear up and steer
Right onward What supports me, dost thou ask
The conscience friend to have lost them overplied
In liberty's defence, my noble task ,
OF which all Europe rings from side to side, mask
This thought might lead me through the worlds VAIN
Content, though blind had no better guide.
Milton, then, had Gas he intimates) ven be-
yond the consoling thought of the great name
which his labors had achieved in noble cause,
something yet better to animate him. And by
this he evidently means, first, devoutly Chris
tian mind and, secondly, the next most sacred
and elevated Of ideas-thlt of duty; which
was the next great principle of his life, and
probably never once violated, in his whole ca
reer, public or private or literary. That noble
idea is clearly what has made the true superb
GRITTY of our race 1t has never been SO supreme
or SO active among any other people; and they
have been great in proportion to the individual
instances of it. We might point to many; but
q newspaper is no place in which to run the
risk of being tedious. So we turn to liveler as
poets of this matter and ask our respondent COL
leagues whether the editorial life cannot be
made to afford abundant compensations for all
the ills of which they have given such gloomy
enumeration!
Is it nothing to sit on high and be the daily
oracle of thousands Of readers, whom, if you
give yourself the trouble to be solid and honest
you can make believe every word that you utter
Or suppose you be not wise but witty; is not the
anguish of invention which every joke costs you
overpaid by the assured merriment with which il
will be received at thousand breakfast tables
and in half as many coffee housesi You can each
day, put right and useful thought into a
countless number of heads which, but for you,
would never have entertained the like. Is not
that a great privilege You may, durnally, light
up smile on a multitude of faces which, but
for you, would have no CLEAN Of the sort Is
not that great pleasure If you have merit,
in what other pursuit is it so sure to be hailed
If you have none, where is the lack of it more
indulgedi What can better engage the efforts
of him who would do good to his country or his
kind What is surer instrument for him
whose malignity would love to depraye or to
damage either or both If you have large
views, the Press can find them scope, beyond all
things: if you have narrow ones your cireula-
ton will soon suit itself to them and crcum-
scribe you, to your hearts content If you love
work, what better sweat-cloth /? If you are
lazy, what contriyance of ease superior to the
scissors There is no vocation where it is more
worth while to have brains; nor none in which
one may more easily do without them.
But there are thousand other satsfactions
which are to be found in the Press. Would you
be rich 'Tis a ready means Would you be
poor Nothing affords surer " road to ruin ;
In it, you can make reputation, not only fol
yourself, but for your friends, and manufacture
great men, without the least expense for mate
rails