New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-24
THE PROGRESS.

If wisdom come to oil, it must come of time,
labor, experience, reneetion-n mot Of the want Of
them. For the same cause (youth) which, ac-
cording to Young Americas, makes 1t more capa-
bic chan older people, would, Of necessity, in
like manner make Boy America superior to both
and Child America superior to all.
Youth and presumption have been usually
considered as likely to 30 together For high
spirits and want Of experience generally beget
self-confdence which, Of course, breeds q scorn.
of all instruction fren others and especially Of
such 81 others have always been accustomed to.
look I'd and the counsel Of men ripenedi
into sober and real capacity, BY toll, by prac-
lice, by knowledge, BY the adding, to all that
beys know, d multitude Of those high things,
which only matnred men can understand or be
Y The very argument Of 4 Young America" only
testifes 10 d far more extravagant presumption
and therefore b yaster folly than even youth
ever before ventured to exhibit The argument
ii wretchad: but were tia Thousand fold better,
Ii would still DO worthless, 81 having no fact to
stand upon,
no conceive how Or why youth should make
men capable and wise, rather than ripeness, -
impossible. But Wa can believe what we don't
understand rive dis sufficient facts, then, and
Wa may still admit your unintellgible theory
NOV. what has Young America, Young Eng
land, Young Ireland, Young France, Young
Germany, or Young 1taly ever done, since first
such j party aprang up! Il has done nothing but
to make the grandest beginnings and the small
est endings ever seen
What has the head and front Of Young Amer
ica, Nh Douglas, done, compared with old
Clay Or old Webster or old Jackson Done
Why, he has done nothing but to upset himself
and ing in the FIRE all the fat Of his own Presi-
DENTAL prospects.
They have done nothing in politics, but to gel
themselves defeated. What else have they
done Nothing in Letters; nothing in Art o.
Science Not having time to touch in detail OF
all these we will only set forth the present stat'
oftwo things, as produced by what Young Amer
icascails s the Progress"
We have reached that stage in Literary
Production and in Government, which Away
closely precedes the extinction Of both the ags
Of Facility when all Gun write little, ans
nobody much; when each can rule little
yea, about as well as his neighbors, and there
fore every body wants to try his hand at IT
Authority and fame those almost superhumal
gifts-have come TO be things Of which ever.
man deems himself capable, and seeks, there
FORE to take his share: tho result of whicl
most discreet system Of things is, that nobod.
can write and nobody can rule. For could al
men b celebrated, there were an end of renown
and if everybody -blackguards and all--wer
kings, there would be no more sovereignty
While general mankind held their peace, me
had an awe Of that respectable silence, an
seldom addressed the world except when the
had something to say to it; but in an universe
hubbub, what fool can hold his tongues wht
wise man will be heard ! In such o state
matters, the sage ceases to attempt instructin
and the good leave governing to the shallo
end the knavish. Then comes that fast-al
proaehing consummation, foretold in the lit
rary prophecies of the Dunciad, when
Nor public flame private dares to shine,
Nor human spark Is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo thy dread empire, Chaos is restored;
Light dies before thy uncrsating word:
Thy hand, great Ausrchs let's the curtain fall
And universal Dafkness bures all
To this are things fastening, with all the
fnight--to an universal confusion, literary al
nolitic. religious and moral; a grand state
topsytursy, of wrong side-outwardness, and
hinder. end foremost And this helter-skelt
of the mind and higgledy piggledy Of the mora
they call /. the Progressm Whatremedy, ho'
ever? what helpa 10 lament, to reproye,
only to irritate it, TO incnr unpopularity,
draw upon ourself. out of love for juster ide
and an order of things no longer possible no
ever better, the reproaeh of being "a lagga
behind The age and its advances, o votary
exploded notions, Of absolute rules, Of o FIX
and inyariabie system of mind, modelling all
literary production end all its social scisn
upon master. pieces thatare now dull, a heroi,
grown ridiculous beauties in Art which by di
OF purauing perpetual purity Of style conder
themselves, Of necessity, to GOODNESS, rigid
and r1enotony in a word fogyism, literary a
political"
Capt Goodspeed. of the brig james Williar
from Vera Cruz, has our thanks FOR bun
Of Mexican papers.
The steamboat H. u. Bacon has our thai
far St Louis Republican Of the 10th.
We are indebted to the Clerk of the steal
Sc. Nicholas for ST. Louis papers Of the 18th il