New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-19
YoUNG AMERICA.

YOUNG aJMERIC.a.
The communication OF our unknown friend
who signs himself fNooG, is worthy If 8 place
in our very conservative columns For be it
known, if not already known, = to all those to
whom these presents shall come greeting that
ours is little the most conservative paper in
existence, except that of our venerable old
masters of the 1ntelligenccr, at place called
Washington. To them we bow as older, ADLER,
better deserving cong syatives. For none have,
SO much as they, preserved, through all defec-
tions Of others, all mutations of that shifting
thing, popularity, their mistaken fidelity to the
true public cause, the calmness of their public
wisdom, the clearness of their public integrity,
the gentleness and humanity of their private
virtues. If there be men, in all our wide and
multitudinous range Of public journalism, who
have, far more than all the rest however able or
honest, stood ever true to duty, to honor and to
sense, it is (as the Press to which they are an
honor will say with one voice. Gales & Seaton
Them-different as we are in the heat of many
of our public convictions-we but initiate, in
our general notions. Would that we could al
ways initiate their gentleness, their wise and
right moderation, their abundant charities of
public life; charities often SO hard to be pre-
served in the condition of our Government and
the unworthy treatment which they have so
often received from its minions, at once servile
and insolent.
Others may-before the impudence of those
political Upstairs who call themselves g Young
America % and manifest all the rashness without
any of the innocence of youth--shrink from the
nick-names which they bestow (their only argu-
ments) upon all who adopt not their headlong
theories we ourselves accept, as q credit, all
reproaches from such q quarter and rejoice in
their epithets. The only honor which such
people as they can bestow is that of their CEN
sure. He cannot well be wrong whom they dis
approve.
In word, we are Though somewhere about
the age of the chief and impersonation of Young
America, Senator Stephen A. Douglass thor
oughly an Old Fogy; and even exult in that
designation. The time, thank heaven has not
yet arrived when Age brings no wisdom, Ex
perience no competency, which might not be
equally had without them. In order to know,
it is still necessary to have labored in some
proportion to ones knowledge: in order to act we
must still have not mere untaught vigor but
practice. For though public affairs among us
be sadly at SKIES and sevens, they are not yet
gone SO utterly mad as that men will, upon the
grand theory of &c Young America, :" be taken
nm to direct them. merely because thew know
nothing about them.
Our correspondent, though clever. is, in some
points, wrong. There is no further need to be-
labor those who designed the Bedini riot that
was to be. That conceit has been etFectually
taken out of the anticipates that entertained ii,
They have been made. by the Quick and strong
public indignation which was the sole answer
TO their abominable appeal. to quake at their
own folly; to know that mob-law is not going
to be suffered in this city, and that there are
here full ten thousand brave men who will have
to be crushed before any visitor here-any man
who has trusted himself beneath the sacred pro-
lection of our laws, can be set upon and publicly
butchered by banded ruffianism Bedini or
Gavazzi, what cares New Orleans which Let
either come to U.S. and while he shall conduct
himself legally, no matter who may print or
placard or roar or ehafe or threaten, out
rage or even indignity shall not dare to APP
proach him; he will
asita safe as in senate-house.''
But, next, our correspondent is not warrant
ed In laying this intended crime at the door of
Young America" There is no proof that the
juvenile has had any thing more to do with 1T
than has the class OF stlll smaller boys 1t may
seem strange that, thinking so, we nevertheless
allow iaeos to give the political greenhorn and
scape-grace such trouncing But we do it
upon the tatherly idea that a logging can
Il he d;d III aeserve i today. he will 10.
morrow.
Finally, we beg to suggest to Incog that he
may venture not only to comfort but even to
divert himself at the diminutive uproar which
the big school-boy party in politics and their |