New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-28
Correspondence Of the Crescent.
BosroN. July l6, 1854.

and OF the slavery question In general, spoke
to you of little but the Southern error in all
this matter. l held up to you any thing but
pleasing picture of your own conduct, any thing
but an agreeable prospect Of the consequences,
past and impending. / am far from being such
novice in public affairs and the popular pas
sions as to fancy that language like mine will
at all delight you, Well do ] know that the
way to your affections is q very different one.
Few people are wise enough to listen without
displeasure to him who tells them of their foles.
The powerful, accustomed to the voice of adula-
ton, are especially impatient of the unvarnished
truth. Had meant merely to win your favor,
nothing easier: every dog of demagogue, that
only knows how to fawn upon you and lick your
feet, abundantly understands the easy art Of
captivating you. tbs ss as easy as lying" and,
indeed, is little else. What but this is, every
day. lifting to the very heights of public favor
and fortune more knaves and blockheads, inca
pable Of any other art, Of any other service
BY what else than by asserting to whatever was
popular did Van Buren, ever arrive at supreme
power? You cannot point me to a single act Of
true faithfulness to public duty in his whole
career. A life Of lies and Of the basest political
trucking, unredeemed by single useful or
honorable public act, was all that could plead
to the people for James K. Polk: Yet that
alone was enough to confer on him the sovereign
dignity, in preference to citizen the ablest.
the truest, the manifest, that has, since the
time of George Washington, adorned or en-
lightened our public Councils. Mr.. Pierce
our present glorious ruler, had shown him
self in civil life just enough to establish the
fact that he was Insignificant, and in military
command just enough to prove that he was nc
filter for war than for peace: but what then
He was known for a sycophant of the multi
tude, for creature as intent to cajole as he
was incapable of serving them; and that was
all they asked, in order to give him huge
majority over one whom war, peace, and per-
sonal virtues the most unblemished, crown with
undated honors. In short, you prefer the
sweets of fattery to your own good, your own
safety; and SO notorious is this, so obvious to
any longer speak necessary truths to you in
stead of the lies that you love has needs to be
either consummate ass in his ignorance Of
those before him, or to be, like me, totally in
different to the popularity and the success Of q
day. l care not q fig to please any body but
the really worthy and well-judging. To the
opinions of no other sort have I ever, in my
whole life, for one instant knuckled. | hold il
my praise; I am proud of it, and proud o
nothing else; that long and much as l have
discoursed to the people in print. have yet tc
write the first line written merely to pander tt
popularity. am a free born citizen; Truth is
my birthright, and, please or displease whom il
may, it shall never be taken away from me
1t is the very breath, the very life of free ma
tions. Nothing else can have made or will evel
keep them free. And yet how many, tina
court your favor, dare utter it to you None
there stands the fate Of Harry Clay, beacon OF
the bare rock of truth, to warn all future poll
teal navigators to trim their sails wide of tina
fatal mark. There, shipwrecked even earlier
alone (for of course | put Washington out of al
parallel) exceeded even Clay in the ability ant
| the brave fidelity of his public services. meal
Alexander Hamilton: whom else could I mean
To his matchless genius alone do you owe it tina
| your Governments mere project and scarcel,
| d hope, as it came from the hands of its grea
authors-ever took form and mechanism. Il i
he and he only who was workman enough t
/ execute its complicated parts, put together tn
vast untried machinery of our system, an,
make it run. While every other such grea
enginery has grown up, bit by bit, under man,
hands and in a series of ages, he literally ex
| temporized ours, perfect from the first, and ye
without model. All this-an amazing tri
| umph of skill-he accomplished, in the yer.
| face of whatever that democratic crew, t
| whose denunciations you have ever since give
| him over, could do to make the Government a
| impossibility. He succeeded, iR spite of them
and what is his reward? To have his nam
handed down, among the people whose seeon
great benefactor he was, as a political by word
as the worst enemy of the very government
which he created; while, by one of the stranges
of successful falsehoods, they who did thei
direst to throttle that government in the arm
| of its parents and nurses, now pass for its ten
| derest guardians and sole relatives
| Now, all well-informed persons know ever
word of this to be the exact truth and ye
such among you is the victorious force of false
hood, that not q syllable of what say will fin
credit among the common people, against part
lies that have striven for sixty years, impu
IDENTIFY setting all fact at defiance.
Think not that l am indulging in an aimles
railing at our country or at party. Our coun
| try is, to my mind, in too sad condition fc
| any child of hers to add uselessly to her II
proaches and, as to party, l am sorry to So
that think we have arrived at conjunetu1
when party itself is about to be swallowed u
in something still madden, more unprincipla
and more destructive-a contest of population
and of sections, fear we are much nearer
civil war than almost any one seems to apprt
bend. In my next, then, / will endeavof
show what are the great undiyulged causes
the present disastrous state of things; fro
what national errors they spring; and what,
any, must be their remedy.
IL SEGRETAR1o
THE Coon NOT DEAD YET.--From all parts
the State, says the st. Louis Intelligencer
the 18th inst, the news comes in more an
more cheering. The Wings never had bette
chance of carrying the State than they ha,
now. We believe there is an unusual degree
harmony and good feeling in our ranks, and
only requires that this should continue and |
made perpetual to give US the ultimate an
complete control of the State This speaks we
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