New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-25

change Place, near the Post-ofhce, done up in
strong wrappers for the mail, if required. The
present number is an interesting one. a
The steamship United States, from Aspinwall,
now overdue four days, had not arrived at the
time Of cur going to press,
i ARRIvALsor THE PAMPERos--The steamship
Pampero, from San Juan, arrived at the South
west Pass yesterday morning at 9 O'clock
bringing l26 passengers, but up No II o'clock
lastsnight had not arrived here. @She has been
detained, We suppose, in the river below BY the
fog. a, q. &
THE DELTa' s. I~ag5 s0F -a:aT1o.a's.
Our friend of the Delta, highly cultivated
and intelligent as he is, cannot, by any posi-
bility be ignorant that what he now sheyes
aside as of no weight, and now sneers ut as
ridiculous, namely: that great code which we
oaIl the sLaw of Nstiens,'' is not merely
thing of yesterday, but the very noblest and
strongest growth of time, Of reason and of
humanity Iii is the very gospel of all humanity
wrought civilization, and, indeed, Of all the
principles from which eyer flowed that freedom
which the Delta admires-- unless, indeed, it
means, by thatssacred word, nothing. but the
wild liberty of savages, or,the yet more brutal
lawlessness of mabs and seditions 4
WHAT is National Law Will the Delta tell
US s. Is it, as the Delta half intmates, come an
tiquar lumber Of the Greek or Roman days?
some foolery Of the dark or middle ages ?--some
nonsense Of the monks or, the schoolmen b
Or, at least something earlier than the pres
emit lights Of knowledge and against theexist-
ing rules Of 'aorals between people and people?
The Delta knows full we'll that, of all the
great moral sciences which have successfully
SERVED TO lift mankind 10 higher and surerd es-
tinies, it is the very last -insented dating back
butte Grotius, or about 1880: that it first
sprang up in republic; that it drew its first
hints from the rulesof peace and Justice TOWARDS
each other, instituted by the Greeks in their
seyerai confederacie the Amphioty onic, Achge-
an and others: that the sage,ymagnamimou
practice of ike principles by republican Rome
was the second great sourceof these rules: that
as, in those remote times. the voluntary setting
mp of this imperfect Law of Nations was what
chiefly distinguished the races that acknewl-
edged III by their humanity from the Barba.
rianss and BY their freedom from. the slayish
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civilization be doomed to run out How, then,
Us it to get nnsty, as the Delta suggests that it
has grown Or who is, at his pleasure, to alb
lrogate = as Young America presumptuously
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Thou shallow youngster, that hast, as little
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