New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-09-12

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spirs dspondsncy, sbounds almost equally in
what shonld oure it. It l. not pure tragedy
such Is the rules Of Art require; but Of the
mixed, the ghakspsarean sort, in which Pathos
and fun, mirth and tears, ars very prettily
mixed up and shake hands, all the while Over
i ono half Of what We call cur Government, 1t is
|difRcult for any sober man mot to weep; over
the other hall, who oan Be grave
Il what. far example, can be more farcical than
tbe ARA which our rulers have been and are
Ixvipe themselves, and which our people are
hehoidine with admiration, about Austrian
Tyranny and Russian rapacity of territory
The crime Of Austria consists in not letting her
/ self be dismembered of certain Disconnected
| parts Of her empire. Kossuth and Mazzini want
| TO do for Hungary and Lombardy just what Mr..
Calhoun wanted to do for South Carolina and
Secretary Davis for Mississippi Yet all Union
lists think that if the Secessionists had actually
taken up arms, to fling off the Union, they ought
to have been subdued by force. Now, if Free
Government may resort to such means, why not
an arbitrary one' But" cry our people,
ready as if with triumphant distinction,
L" what right had Austria to Hungary or Italy ~
Sweet friends! the same right as you to Caro-
| lima and Mississippi: no better right than We
have to the territories Of which we lately robbed
Mexico. When We bought Louisiana and her
people Of Bonaparte, we hold that we got good
title, without asking their consent at all,
although they were not even dscontented with
their master who sold them. As to Russia, she
| ID wicked and far-stretching power, who dares
| to entertain schemes of dominion almost half
as wide as those which zoe are openly proclaim
ing as our manifest destiny Some say it's
her fate, too, to lick up all the weaker nations
near her. But she, at least, has wit enough
not to avow such purpose. My dear COM
patriots since you are not more righteous than
Russia, wish you were as sensible! IT'S bad
enough to be. in principles, a robber, without
being, in addition, such fool as to publish it.
Certainly, the Manifest Destinarians set up
prerence, to justify their deeds of aggression
and rapine, done or meditated: they are going
to seize upon countries. merely to make them
free-out Of pure philanthropy. Very nice
talk: but still all such excuses are but the
casuistry which may be heard in o cave of ban
ditti How dare men utter, in a Christian land,
such impious trash And why is it tolerated,
unless because all national sense and morals are
giving way' Is it with the bloody hands of in
vaders, in carnage and desolation, over ravaged
fields and RACED towns, staying the peasant at
his hearth-stone, the priest at the altar, vio
lating the women and numbering all the bravest
defenders of their land-is it THUS that we are
to carry to the nations the pure and benifcent
lpresent of Liberty None but cut-throats can
propose, none but the heartless listen to such
abominable plans Either we are to march to
this universal dominion, as conquerors; or we
must steal into it, like thieves. In the first
case, we shall be met as even the most abject
people meet invaders, with the iercest enmity
Of whatever, in the land we assail, has one
spark Of valor or patriotism. None but traitors
will welcome us none but towards will survive
our success. 1t is, then, upon the bodies of all
the better children of the soil that we are to
erect our freedom for the degenerate residue |!
| charming consummation of your philan-
thropy But there is second case: you will
not attack them in this manly fashion you will
steal in. You will, in the guise Of peace and
f commerce, under the favor Of treaties, foment
: discontents and foster the idea of Annexation
; among them, until gradually, by the help O.
| secret Juntas Won can get mn an insurreet on
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