New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-24

sparkled ever SO much at navigating by the
"great circle" or shown what is the sea-poliey
of dealing with winds and currents, can esteem
him any great land-light of policy. For surely
there can have been few vainer visions of
I dreamy science than that about the River ANA
| zon and Southern trade thither, with which he
he has of late been amusing himself and the
wiseacres of Memphian and Charlestonian con-
| ventions. g Direct trade for the South, for
| sooth Why, countries that are in their senses
| rejoice to have trade of any kind, mediate or
| immediate; and contentedly leave it to find its
own way. That, it will instinctively do It needs
no telling its g Account Sales give it all the
information it wants, of where and how to ship
To them only will it hearken, and will heed the
counsels of Charlestonian conventions lust
about as much as the annual armies of wild
geese or whooping cranes would regard the ad-
vice Of us featherless bipeds below, about the
course in which they should steer their far lighs
of migration. But the Lieutenant and his COM
peers think to change the course of trade, by
their discourses! Let them talk to the winds,
and try if these will veer let them admonsh
the Gulf stream or even some of Mr.. Maury's
lesser sea- currents, and if such will shift at
their suggestion. But besides that, these folks
are mere philosophers, whose speculations
whether about Commerce or Governmentl have
for ever come to nought, what are they but
Free Trade philosophers and where-while
they are Matching those vain empires of a
Southern commerce-is the great fundamental
idea of their whole system gone, the & Laisses
nous tdsre,' the Let us alone" principles
1t has all vanished as ever do their most rigid
distractions, whenever they have any interest
of their own, personal or public, to effect.
We're | not accustomed to see people, in this
country, the ncessant dupes of every fussy false
hood, should marvel at witnessing the facility
with which the valley of the Mississippi, and
you of Louisiana especially, have lent your
selves to this South Carolina humbug In
general, whatever is set on foot there may be
fairly regarded with suspicion; for that State,
under the blessed guidance of her present coun-
sells, seems persuaded that her own good is to be
sought only in what will hurt the rest of this
Union To break that up is, unquestionaby.
Of late, her great aim and she engages with
in little that does not look that
way. Such is her favor towards whatever she
liked in the late Charleston convention--the
Amazon project, "direct trade and all the
rest But, above all, l have wondered that
New Orleans should fall into these schemes
For what can be more visible than that while |
they are designed against the Union in general !
they are aimed at her in particular and meant |
o make South Carolina the seat and centre of |
\ new empire of Commerce as we'll as Govern |
nent F? To her (South Carolina) what does |
Direct Trade mean' Why, nothing in the |
world but g trade to Charleston Mr.. Maury's |
dea is little different: for, by direct
jrade,' he intends also :" trade to Norfolk" In |
short, the whole plan is, practically, but one to
make trade for these two places, that have it
lot, at the expense of two others New York and
New Orleans) that have
So much for the first and longest urged por-
lion of this airy scheme The second is with
iue reverence to its worthy inventory more fan
astic still, and of just such special fantasti-
aness as might well strike with its irresistible
.bsurdity every man who has ever had the hap
sail Gas have just done) 1900 miles, in infinite
omfort, upon the mighty Mississippi, along a
alley the most magnificent in the world, and
ct, over great part of its matchless course
,lmost as untouched by cultivation as when first
met, above 300 years ago, the astonished view
Il that bold adventurer who only discovered it
Q leave his body in its waves and the strange
ale of his misyenturous enterprise on the page
history.
Now, what man with q thimbleful of brains
his skull but knows that the great stream
hich sweeps by our very doors is, as a theatre
enterprise merely (apart from all that has
ready been aceomplished), worth ten or twenty
Id the remote Amazon and its wastes it's end
SIS tracts OF inundation, its pestilential banks
lat are neither water nor land its half sub
erged forests where people can only live by in
lbiting the trees with their brothers the mon
'ys, or by turning amphibious with their
usins the crocodles
Upon no people did Heaven ever lavish, as it
IS done upon us, all that wealth of soil and
tuation which can be bestowed without ener-
sting and depraving men. Of those fertile
'rtions of the earth where, from tie mere soft
ss of the skies and exuberance of Nature, a
ople will not rapidly sink into supineness and !
wish etfemnancy, we possess far the most
VIZ ee VIC Pussess II, afintnreatened by
y power that can rival US; blest with insti- {
tons that might themselves make wise peo-
Q grateful on even q barren territory, and
lich we can at will carry within our own ,
atchless domain, to such height of wide, of |
lid and of sober greatness as the world has q
yer before witnessed; and as if conscious in the l
IRENE OF these advantages, as even beyond
r hope of ever exhausting them, we insist |
on calling all mankind flor even China now
mes) to gratuitous participation in them We c
e, in short, heirs so unimaginably rich ths.t {
choose to give away our estate to every yslp-
ond conner, and to disinherit our own poster ,
:, in favor of hordes that nobody in his senses a
uld have Yet, in the midst of all this there I
Ems to rage among us boundless passion for I
other countries and for desertinp
r own! What land of folly was ever curst a
tn SO strange or so wicked an I'M atuation
hat have We nationally (not to say, honestly,D t
desire or to hope abroad, which we cannot v
silly obtain, in far better degree, at home
Ii. SEGRETARIo. a
NAVAL lNTEI.LIGENcE.-The United States o
op, of-war Cyane is now lying at New York "
the Battery, preparing to sail in n few days q
Nicaragua, according to government orders. :.
Q Cyane is an old vessel, and carries the I