New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-01
THE DAILY CRESCENT.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH i, 1854.
JOURNALISM ~ MEXICO.

We have received from one Of the proprietors
the prospectus Of the Heraido, . new Gary
journal, about to be begun, in the cry q
Mexico, under the skillful editorial direction 9,
Senior Jose A. Godoy, with ample resources anu
upon the most liberal plan, as TO ao1iVity Oh
management and that attention 10 news anu
,,onoraI infellipence, in which the gazettes of
oar sister Republic are SO deficient We say
.our sister Republic; for sisters of that sort
often marry dictator, without changing their
name. IT'S but sort of left-handed wedleck,
sucb as soverelgns often contract. Nay, we
ourselves did not cease to be called q common
wealth, while General jackson lorded it over
I'D, and was the United States-the 6 true rep
Tesentasive'' of the people, the great arbiter Of
the Constitution, who executed the laws. or not
as he understood Them and who publicly
styled our government his government" Be.
tween him and the less passionate, partial and
overbearng Santa Anna, we can see little essen
tiai difference, except that the one is needed by
his country and the other was not Both tram
pied on the laws when they liked. Yet the one
did it in a country where the law is accustomed
to have every strong mans heel set upon it; the
other, In country where it is not But let US
turn back from dictators to journals for, after
all, Byron, little adapted, says truly;
Each brute has its instinct: Kings is to reign
To reign! In that word, see, " ages, comprised
The cause of the curses all annals contain,
From Andrew the dreaded to John the despisedi
AS to journalism once free in Mexico--it has
come to pretty much the same pass there as it
has ia France In both countries, the Press
pushes its liberty to extreme license, It has
paid the penalty of becoming o mere instru-
ment of perpetual faction and disorder: that is
to say, it has lost the liberty which it SO much
abused. just the same thing had happened,
and ever must happen, to the nations themselves
for which they wrote those nations had abused
their freedom, and consequently lost their free
dom. The journals could not expect to escape
the fate of the country
In short, the press in Mexico had made itself,
like other leaders and meters of constant
petty instructions, the bane of all Government,
good or bad As in France, weak Govern
ment could not stand it. and strong one would
not. As long as none but the former sort came,
it crushed them as soon as one of the latter
sort arose, it crushed the journals that is,
forced them to say nothing but what it choose tc
let them say. In both countries, there is acen-
sorship; and no journal can be published until
it has deposited sum of money Tin Mexico
$30OO) in the hands of the Government Thi.
is forfeited, as soon as anything is published
contrary to the public tranquility; besides thai
the newspaper is seized, and it's conductors sub
iected TO prosecution
Accordingly, the Mexican newspapers indulge
little in politics and, indeed, indulge theii
readers no great deal in anything else The
design Of the Hc,aldo seems to be, not to write
freer politics, but to give a journal more Of our
sort, and full Of news We wish our Aztec
brother all success, and e make long arm t
shake hands with him