New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-24
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every way be6tting the elegant and poetic PEI
isics of bold buccaneers, the praises Of Young
America, Of the Juvenile principles OF Govern
nerst as compared With the honest old dullness
Of those obsolete people Of . few years naeks
whom that philosophic young statesman, exs
consul George N. Sanders, and the Delta %
finely denonnce, 10 fegies But while the Delts
lavishes mon those old lights IF the world and
,,lemioodsof Fame the becoming contempt q
I'LL young men for everything less rapid than
thensel ses. it hestows upon US, to our thinking
more IF TIE ethereal than Of the solid much
flowery fancy. no substantial fact and In a
word, favors the world with great deal that
might make rhyme and nothing thatwill make
reason.
We ourselves, however, only understand the
prose of politics, not its poetry, and the history
Of Government, not its prophecy. Leaving to
our neighbor, therefore, that whole domain d
the Imagination over which it expatiates, and
abandoning to its. eneomiums of Young Amer
lea the entire boundless realm Of the possible and
iconjsctnral, We, who deal only, in public mat
tiers, with the tangible. will endeavor to ser be-
fore plain folks, in merely the humble light d
reality, the decisive reasons Of practice why
& Young America should be preferred to Old, by
every body in his senses OF those who are not.
we shall say nothing since they all prefer II
already.
Metaphisioally, the superiority of Young over
stlla Americas can lie we'll embodied in the differ
encc between Hope and Fruition- Old America
is only what has been realized; and that is
vastly little in comparison with what Young
America is doing for us by anticipation Old
America is our cash in hand, our hard money /;
I Young America is promises to pay, the rag mill
Of paper currency Of politics Old America
was a plain old fashioned dinner; Young Amer
ica is a supper of wind to which we are invited,
with q prodigious bill Of fare. Now, who does
not know that Hope, Expectation, is the CHIEF
source of human happiness And what is Young
America but an expectation
Bodily and personally, the difference between
Old and Young America can be made still more
ualpable That knayish and shallow set ofpeo-
pie who founded, after fighting for, our institu
tions, are Old America; and the sages, patriots
and heroeswho are pulling them down are Young
America Washington is the image Of the inten
sest Fogyism; Mr.. Stephen Douglas is the sub
lime representative and inventor of Young Amer
icanism.
Old America encountered itself with burdel
Of knowledge and the shackles Of sense AM
morals. Young America has cast off all these
and goes light and unfettered,
What, after all, is the March Of Mind bu
this What signifies & the Spirit Of the Age,
if dispirited world is still to wear the gives 9
old grievances assumed for it by another gen
GRAFTON, the Spanish bilboes forged for it by ii
fathers, No: Reason and History, Goblet
and Jefferson, Dallas and McNutt reject alike
as totally undemocratic, the servile suppose
ton Thought hath at last, everywhere brok
bail and burst the old prison bounds. Havn'
We flung off all the chains Of old Prejudice
Hayn't we knocked off the manacles Of Matri
lliony, with the trammels Of thousand othe
styrannies Assuredly we have God sai9
Y Marry n'--that is, increase and multiply
which, in his language, meant the same thing
4 but Eloisa in Latin, Rousseau in French, Ma
thus in prose, Shelley in verse, Goodwin, Wo
stoncraft, Wright, Owen s. Co., in what's dulle
than prose in order to be more frantic tina
Yerse, shy, 6 Don't It's q very foolish bushes
Twill get you into trouble, and especially in
4 that worst Of all troubles, domestic troubl
Ills q life of scoiding, squalling, smoking
leaps, caudles, cradles, curtain lectures, cri
cons IT'S doom of debts without diversion
condition of long bills and short commons
except, indeed, those commons which are n
short namely, Doctors Commons,
What but wife brought Hercules and Sam
SON, Lord Byron, George the ", and
Francis Burdett, Job the Tishbite and Potipha
Menclsus of Sparta and the uxorious Xii
David, Mark Anthony and ST. John the Baptis
Peter the III and Pope Joan, othello al
Monsieur Lafarge, Agamemnon and Sir Pet
Teazle, the good Socrates and Cardinal Woolse
Macbeth, Punchinello, the deserving Werth
and the discreet Bluebeard, TO an untimely EN-
- FIJI the EARTH indeed Fill fiddlestick
No fill your fobs Sc Posterity," did you sa,
Rosterity. indeed! A fig for posterity Ills
mere fam. What has Posterity ever done
you or mes Why, you're Posterity, I'm Pt
terity and very great regard and gratituc
to be sure, do aee show to the Past
We lay before our readers this morning
address Of the President and Directors of /
Pontehartrain Railroad Company tothe Co
mon Council of the City Of New Orleans, r
ative to the proposed construction of the Ra
road from New Orleans to Mobile. The matt
has been referred to the committees of the Gou
Gil, and we have no doubt that they will give
full, liberal and impartial examination
We have only casually glanced at the dr
uments before us, and will be most happy to
the enterprise when we are apprised of the ter
upon which the City is expected to suhscri
As yet the Company have not furnished the p
gramme of their proceedings, and we would
glad if they would do so.
Weare in favor of all and every kind int
nal improvements that are likely to develop
vast resources of the South. and will gla
push on this undertaking when furnished v
the necessary data to venture with safety.
ARRIVAL or DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS, -
Empire City brought from Havana among
passengers the extraordinary vocalist, La s
norita Donna Isidora. The vocal powers of
young artist are most perfect, in point of ext
sion, quality, expression and execution. Whe
ever she has sung. she has received the N
unbounded applause and public favor
public and the press of Puerto Principe, VIII
she gave several grand concerts, speak in
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