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

antcipatiens Of the tut they hooS at the orthodox
teachings of experience and have graduated (a with
first honors) in the school Of Manifest Destiny What
they understand by Manifest Destiny it is indeed difficult
to determine Certainly not that overrung Providence
which and directs the onward progress of Humap
ty For though the philosopher who takes expanded
view of the whole broad field Of human experience,
exemplifed in the grand panorama Of History cannot
fail to detect the subtle influence of Divinity cooperating
with human free agency to produce inevitable results
yet he cannot fail also to remark that this superhuman
power longer exerts itself in the performance Of stu
penduous miracles whose sudden and unusual nature
would attract immediate attention to their author but
rather seeks to conceal itself by moving towards its ends
so slowly steathiy and insensbly that the philosopher
only identify its agency by tracing subtle
ton between events far separated along the solemn march
of Time. Indeed it would to initiate the example
which great philosopher recommended to his fellow
1t were well says Bacon if in their innovations
would follow the example of Time ITSELF which indeed
nnovateth greatly but quietly and by degrees to
be perceved.n Alas our modern Manifest Destiny men
hold to such sold Fogyn creed as this They
the "fastlne." The Providence of Young America acts
upon the ntuitions Of men, points out miraculous ends
and demands miraculous to accomplish them,
1t believes in cops deat in revolution, rebellion and
higher law. 1t believes in blood and gunpowder in
shaahs and broken pates It bellicose spirituality
u
Wthal it is exemplary legislator-it makes its
laws and calls upon his honor Judge Lynch to execute
them Bah this Manifest Destiny is nothing but a
cloak which to carry out their dangerous
designs 1t is patry gubteruge by which they seek to
shuttle off their sins upon their God and Maker 1t
is white banner of truce under which they sneak
ncendaris and lawess violence 1t is something
than deceit it is profanity to talk of Manifest Destiny
Men anticipate the action of Divinity in the
affairs Of Humanity that subtle reserved right which He
retained his grant of Free Agency Man by which
might work good out of the er that man, the
thoughtess exercise of his powers often entails upon
himself God intends that His interference should be
SEEM though not unfet lest He should impair the conf
dence of in his free angency and thereby destroy
the foundation of all Moral Law.
Without advertng to the infinite forms under which
Young America presents itself at the Nerth including
Abolition. Woman's Rights, Spiritual Rappngs Indel
Conventions, and all their tangled isms will do
than the justice to say that the South they bet
ter breed Of dogsn Indeed the majority of them
gallant, noble fellows; and if wished regiment of men
to follow the white waving plume of modern Murat
into the very jaws of death itself should make the
lisment among the Young Americans of tho South But
these qualities only give them greater power for purpg
under the accursed natuaton which besets them Min
gled with them numbers of low incendiary vaga-
bonds who feed upon the public disorder and atten
cOrrupllon 1neSe arC1-e0emleS OF all law and order
understand the generous weakness Of their associates,
and make their hot Southern passions the instruments
accomplishing their own base designs. That the of
Young America in their hearts true lovers of Liberty
and honest haters of Tyranny, man reasonably
doubt But in the Of conduct which they to
have marked out for themselves they certainly the
worst enemies of human emancipation. Every act of
violent license which they commit in violation of the
laws Of their country s deadly blow at the vitality of
Republican Institutions, and impeachment thrown in
the way of their progressive expansion. 1t is step
towards that anarchy which the friends of tyranny have
fine experiments in segoyernment Every report of
such acts which the Atlantic makes the Eu-
ropean monarchs feel rmer their lettering thrones
and sensby mpedes the tide Of intelligent public opinion
which is rapidly setting in towards Republicansm and
which unless Republicans themselves hur it back upon
ITSELF must eventually overturn the topping citades
tyranny viii American freemen do anything to prevent
retard this " consummation most deVoutly to be
wished Then let them close their to the base in
situations Of lawess incendaries Let them appeal to
the intelligent conservative liberals Of Europe in the
only language that has had have weight
with them ayng their fears and reassuring their hopes
by proving practicah that they may escape from tyranny
without falling into anarchy, and that the security Of
life liberty and property a may be protected under the
Bgis of Republican Institutions The appeal to mob
Bedni is appeal in favor of anarchy and of its ally
tyranny Will the friends of Liberty treat with the
silent contempt which it deserves? INcoG.