New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-12
Whence Come the People2


Many very discerning people-people who looked wise,
and hence thought to be exceedingly knowingsaid
during the of the last epidemic that New Orleans
was ruined-that ii had got bad name-that its COM
merce gone its people scattered to the winds or gath
cred to the grane death and that for all prosperous
ntents and purposes defuuct in the abstract Such
people contemplated the aspect of things around and
reasoning fom cause TO effect after the of the
philosophers decided as we have said They looked
around upon the wide desoation that encompsssed all
about, and drew their inerences from sights as seen
They gayety thronging our streets, no fair
divines dashng along the thoroughfares no bellies in
ball beaux behind fast horses rushing along
fashionable drivesno any thing of business life or ami
nation Theatres were closed business houses double
locked and in the parlors Of the wealthy where before
were JOY aud laughter the spider his gossamer
chitecture Where were the drays aud their swearing
sweating Jehu's that wont to thunder along the
streets rolling up clouds of dust and DINING the civic
with their hdeous rattle Gone to the pound and their
drivers back to undstngushable dust and where rat
tied the car Of commerce. rolled the dull sounding
tires of the deahwagOns with 5Sser solemn motion to-
wards the grave Nv
People might have seemed very right in predicting that
the days of the city prosperity numbered Around
wide depopulaon Not an echo of gladness sounded
throughout ali the wide wilderness of habations unin
habited
In the csmeeries-b5ueyards by profaney called
and not inapproprateiy--down through mud and mire
sunk ten thousand newmade graves to receive ten
thousand bodies bodies Of men and women not year in
the city and chiefly of the young who here
make their fortunes Some might think that such whole
sale depopulation would have left enough living to do
the work of seputure and thit the stricken metropolis
had realized the maledicton let the dead bury the
dead - Not so where the Dragons teeth were sown the
field bristed with crop of armed and where swept
the scythe of the Destroyer harvesting its thousands
stt.-
with steady tread Ten thousand new-made graves
ten thousand vacant places at domestic hospitable
boards leave no vacancy in the Like
flock to the scent Of carbon flock the people to l the
places and the voice of wang is drowned by the
ringing Of Bachsnaiau laughter For wheresoever the
carease is there will the eagles gather together But
few weeks are given sorrow when srghtway the city
like buxom widow, nervous with amourous life dofS
her mourning weeds and puts her gay trappngs for
another bout with pleasure and for another season
sou-delshting dsence Light springs out of darkness
Whence come the people The streets througed
with hurryinr crowds and every where is babbe of
voices Business awskeus to new life rents up and
there rush of anxious tenns for all sorts of
ments No nook crauny in whateyer reketty habita
ton but is engaged exoIbitaut hire. People herd
in narrow rooms and quarrel among themselves for the
monopoly of all sorts of discomtorts
With all tbs evils that fell upon the citypague pesti-
mart At the wharves float vessels Of every nation the
Levee is encountered with the products Of every latitude
the bustie with active and idle thousands and
business and pleasure join hands together There is
end to the long procession Of trampng crowds and
| wonder whence come all the people!
Still more at this wonder when approach the annual
ides for the choosing of rulers for the people and
imagine that the gathering Of the clans will be small be-
death has thnned many Ten thousa nd people
have died, numbering among them full three thousand
men-suragans having voice in the choosing Of rulers
We think that they will up sparsely The death Of
three thousand stawart warriors might well thin the
ranks Full three thousand have got their discharges
from the grim orderly Death who has mustered them
but the evidences their enlistment preserved Ito
wtpapers comforting citizenship and handed
to the recruits who buckle the of the fallen
prepare battle in the quarrel Like forest
leaves in Autumn the formers hosts scattered-lkt
forest leaves in springtims they bud out in added
bers The worlds surprised that there should be many
Independent suffragans.
All this proves thing. All this have we been aim
ing at by the process crcumbendbus in remarks pre-
paratory pide that New Orleans Is not dead yet-tha
pestilenoe and famine not sap her prospery-tha
misfortune not wither her renewing youth sh
that within her that Ponce de Leon sought for
vain among sylvan oudes ofthe yet virgin America
the principle of perpetual juveniiity She can plum,
herself what Hours boast orestored perfection afe
each rough with mi.ortuue aud pestilence
There Is reeupersve energy in her natural position tina
will always make her a queen among the proud cities Q
the lana. Let Us hear then, hoong from human
ovsof decaying prosperity and with our great ma
tura and attractions for the alurement Of popu
lstou let wonder be awakened to whence com
the neOpla ''f