New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-09-17
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

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more certain to be speedily fatal than the
spirit into which this country is fast falling, as
to the conduct of what even more than the do
nestle policy Of nation must decide its fate.
| mean the principles which it directs Its
Foreign Relations, if these be wide and active.
For an ill administration of its Domestic Policy
will, for the most part. only forfeit portion of
its prosperity; but a wild and reckless course
in its Foreign Relations always puts in jeopardy
its very existence. Out of its internal good,
where this is most abundant, it may fling away
much, as we have been long doing, without
running itself but if it is rash and headlong in
its system of acting towards other countries, it
must soon go to destruction.
We have no longer foreign any more than a
domestic policy. All systems are at an end
the cutlery Of the danger, now this and now
that, is all; and chance, or the still binder
power of tumultuary nonsense, the reasoning
that goes by the roar, sits sovereign arbitress
OF all we design, of all we decide. We have not
warlike, we have not pacific plan and pur-
pose. We boast ourselves the second Naval
power Of the world; and we let the demagogues
sow mutiny among our sea dogs with an APP
prentice system, and cut the sinews of our SER
vice, by prohibiting those sharp and sudden
punishments which can alone insure safety in
the instant of the storm or the fight. Pres
emily. the crew, as the majority, will command
the captain, and orders in battle or in tempest
will be decided by vote and come from the fore
castle, not the quarter deck. So, too, on land
We talk of over running the earth, with what
can not properly be called an Army and when
we go to war, the dirtiest politicians are clapped
over the heads of those thorough bred soldiers,
who alone can sustain the honor of our arms
but, while doing it, are shamefully reduced to
see the reputation which they have earned, the
deeds which they have achieved, taken to deco
rate the brows of the Pattersons, the Buffers,
the Cushings and the Pillows! How can we
expect to have Generals, when we let man
who knows of no victory except of the spoils,'
nor a wound except that in the seat of his
breeches, drag ignominiously home to packed
court-martial the stainless hero of the most
wonderful of modern military expeditions, or
turn the SCARED veteran of Lundy's Lane into
public scorn, because he had dropped some
words about his eating soup" The country
that treats its great warriors in this way will
soon cease to have great warriors the country
that rewards its gallant and skillful young Off
GERS by setting every dog of politician over
their heads, will not long have any warriors at
all. We are to wage vast and glorious wars
without scientific soldier or disciplined
sailor; we are to beat the trained diplomatists
of Europe with slang -whangers of the " stump
we are to conduct the vast and wise affairs of
an empire that is to cover the whole globe, by
craftsmanship whose whole aim is Buncombe
Never before were such boundless aspirations
joined to methods so incompetent. We shall be
the establishment of mankind for our idle ex-
pectations of a greatness, of which we have |
flung away every element.
We had once great policy system of vir-
tue and freedom within, of wisdom, Justice and |
peace without. The noble mind of the first of
men and of citizens II need not name him)
planned it out of the great rules of whatever
was sage and good. 1t would have made us dear
70 the earth, the final blessings of mankind, long
abused by the glory of kings and conquerors,
'ernicious in proportion as they were powerful
And for what do we now pant to exchange that
noble possibility For wild dreams of conquest,
that beggar in their ambition those of Alexander
and in their bloodness those of that scourge of
God," Attila; while in their wild and barbarian |
rapacity they leave UNNECESSARILY behind the |
ravages of Ghongis Khan. What Caesar and all |
whom our humanity execrate as destroyers did |
at least as soldiers, we are to do as thieves and
steal where they subdued and for what is all |
this = "Oh tits to set men Free If that be |
your end, then, surely to start fair, you should |
begin by setting your own negroes free You
can't liberate the earth and keep them in bond
age. One or tother must be let alone. Never
can Southern safety consist with these things.
The empire which Young America and ''Man-
fest Destiny" offer to you will hardly have swal-
owed Cuba and few mouthfuls more, when it
must turn and swallow the South Not long
will it keep you even pour Ia bonnie 6ouche
lou'll be eaten as side dish, not reserved for
he dessert. Who are all these with whom you
re marching to emancipate the nations' All
Abolitionists, What is Kossuth! Avowedly, as
luch an abolitionist as a democrat What is
lazzini? The same. What are the English
.adicals and Free Traders, the French Red Re.
ublcans, the German Revolutionists' Idem
lem, idem. And what is the great Democratic
rinciple of Equality but Abolitionism' Moth
az whatever IL SEGRETAR1o