New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-20
oUR MISSIoM

If our friendly adversary of the Baton Roug,
Advocate has taken half as testify as has don,
our hostile friend of the Gazette Of that ilk, GU,
laughter at both about the grand mission b
our country, we have certainly 8" brought al
old house about our ears" The latter Gas will
be seen below takes in quite high dudgeon cur
harmless pleasantries, After copying part Of
our article, he thus gives vent to his indienN-
ton
Our ancient friend of the Crescent is at his
usual work, He has armed himselfwith IRONY.
all over like "quills upon the .f2etfstl porcu-
pine He deals in nothing but satire, inveo-
tive or sarcasm: they form his whole stock in
trade the entire inventory, wholesale and re-
tail. lie is like one let loose from certain snstf-
tuftons in a peculiar mental state as likely to
wound friend as foes
Now, if the editor of the Crescent had exer.
clsed one hall the acumen, in seeking to dis
cover the true meaning Of our article that he
dld to make it the subject of biting raillery, he
would easily have discovered our meaning. The
mission we intended to designate, as the peculiar
mission OF America, was one of peaceful inter
nal development and rational progress: One
winch should develope our commercial, mineral
anu manufacturing resources to the highest
pitch OF perfection: a. development which should
make " the desert blossom as the rose'' mis-
SION 70 prlng our immense forests and prairies
unuer the dominion and cultivation of civilized
man One which should hold united, the North
ana South, the East and West, in the strongest |
Donus OF fraternal union and fraternal regard /
Ihis We have ever understood to be the received
CONSTRUCTION OF the mission Of America, among |
me teachers and doctors of the law. in the whit, |
eanhedrlm. A part of that mission is to afford
70 the prosecuted and oppressed of all lands, n
sS,e asylum from tyrants and despots. 1t con-
sisss aiso IN teaching other nations the lessons
VI iiseoom and the benifeence of republicanism. |
buttons WI NM VI our ihsti-
e1es s, noe consist in mounting the Rosin- |
Nv. ~ hiipusterism and Don Quixote- like ri
ns unt9usn the world to free ALL whether thew |
wan. 70 pe free OF not. We have no patience
a anu iess laith IN that SYSTEM which seeks to
&c $500 " men, and to bring home to them.
It's blessings withbayonets and bnllets w 'i'''"'
We denounce all conversions maSa ,
apostles. NOW have we satisfied your exce,l Il,
lsslmo as 10 what we mean? Is our yb;e,eran,,
suinelently orthodox to suit your fastid;onys
palate Ferhaps you have mission to fnIfIi
ana " a confounded queer thing" at that r.
your mission 10 interpret anew the faith once
delivered to the wings Shades of Webster and
Clay come forth and tell US of this new nront
s et and the inspiration that burns upon his
Ups u! Might Cowpers allusion to Dsam
swift he held, to be of legitimate application
TO the Crescent?
But might instance here St. Patrich,s denp)
100 often rails to crafty his spleen.
m Most s!rtsts are indeed public Scoitrge;
n mneir mtidsd physic is farrier's purge;
nueir sSflu temper turns soon as stirred
Ahe mix OF their good purpose, all to curd''
Our friend need have no fears of matrimo.
MAI union between US and the Advocate, There
is already betrothal between that nsne, and
the Courier. The bans have been hmbl;sbad
the license procured, and Gov. Hehert viii ner
form in a few days the ceremony We p w;l,
take care that the Crescent shall bava an ;n WI
tation? That shall be our mission, Inv
There now! our two young friends had tor.os
with grand inde6niteness, about Americas
mission and we wanted to make them ex.
pound themselves little: that was all Ono
of them has. accordingly, explained himself, as
above, and much to the purpose Let us see if
the other will, in an opposite sense, give us an
equally good " History of Missions" We doubt
it.
Meantime. we are glad to gather, from one of
these authorities, that our mission is, to stay
home; mission to mind our own business one
b let other people do the same; mission not