New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-21
THE DAILY CRESCENT.
TUESDAY MORNING. FEB'Y q, 1854.
.Ma1YoM.aL LaW .aBROGarED.

The Delta Of yesterday evening, in brlef
comment on one of our articles of that morning.
INDUCES us with some pregnant intmafions OIL
Young Americas ideas about the present seate
OF National Law, throughout the world Our
good friend talks as follows:
Our neirhbor of the Crescent justiies his
course in tlenouncinr the Cuban invaders in an
argument which cannot easily be controverted,
to wit that such designs being wicked in their
motive and object, ought to be condemned by all
journalists who regard their duty to the public
AZ a consideration superior to their interest.
He concludes as follows:
sspsak out, brothers OF the pen Gently bat boldly
not as meaning to offend but to inform, Everybody
wants the truth he does not it, only needs
the Let them have it. For
ALI ali bat truth drops dead born from the press
Like the Last sermon or the last address,
II our neighbor will only agree to admit that
others may as honestly defend and justify what
he no doubt honestly and periodically denoun-
ces and condemns, the matter is all straight,
and the Press stands fairly on this question
Now, we consider that GO the country which
the Crescent says 'shas never injured u.s. is an
usurper, having right, title or interest in the
island of Cuba; that its possession is injurious
to the interests Of this Republic; and that those
who aid in its overthrow deserve high praise
aud glory. If the Crescent can overthrow tins
with something more satisfactory, pertinent and
logical than the old fogy cant about the laws
of nations, we should be satisfied that TWAS
not only honest in its convictions, but that they
were reasonable and well -grounded-
The Delta says, IF the Crescent can over
throw this (the Delta's view with good logic,
it will be content. We assure the Delta that
we have no expectation, nor even wish to get
the better Of any body, with worse logic than
theirs
Now what are our adverse propositions?
The Delta's is, that Spain sis an usurper
and has no right, title, interest, in the Island
Of Cuba,' although she holds it, and has held,
by the same title (only much o1der) as we hold
the United States by and that her holding it
being injurious to our interests, we hayea right
to take it away from her.
Our proposition is, that nations right in its
dominions cannot be set aside, at pleasure, by
another, which is bound to it by the faith Of
treaties, not pretended to have been broken by
the nation of the first part
We will argue the matter no further than by
thus stating it. The Delta has objected to our
logic well, we will use none but that Of clear
statement.
The Delta's logic Of calling our arguments
"fogyism" and National Law g cant I" is, Of
course, obnoxious to no objection whatever; but
sound enough to rejoice the heart, and exalt the
understanding of Aristotle himself
There is an admirable confusion in Young
Americas ideas Of young and old. 1t seems to
think that itsrobber doctrine of helping itself
to what it likes is the most recent Of discoye-
ries! Yet what do these inventors mean but
what Wordsworth wrote
For why! Because tho good old rule
Eufices them-the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can
AS for the rest of its doctrines, they are such
as, in point of novelty, ascend to the time of
Night, the eldest, and Chaos, the most muddled
of things.