New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-20
THE CUB,a LNUa SION.

We live in the midst of q city and we write
for region, whence originated that unnappS
expedition against country that had never
injured us, in which persisted so many brave
but misguided men, the victims OF q cause that
was not theirs. the yiolators Of duties that
were If. in speaking of them, on the few occa-
sions when we have done so, we have given
pain. where we meant only to do good and to
perform what we knew to be faithful public
mart, il is the misfortune of the times and the
country and of course our own; but not
our fault. For the very condition of things
which makes it most improbable per-
sonally impolitic--to speak, makes it shameful
to be silent. We will not, on the one hand, be
all the while thrusting into peoples faces vain
circumstances, against which are closed the
ears of all but those who need them not nor
can we, on the other hand, always forbear our
warnings, however certain to be UNDECIDED, ex-
cept in the unjust displeasure which they excite
towards us. Men do us wrong, when they I'M
thinkingly visit upon us their individual ILL., will
for speaking frankly out, upon such and all
other occasions Let them, before they do SO,
pause and remember that we are but doing,
and doing with regret, the manly duty Of our
vocation. For what Milton so nobly says is
certainly as true rs possible of him who, as an
editor, must be continually advising his follow
citizens of public concerns: 6 Surely to every
good and peaceahle man, it must IN nature needs
be hateful thing to be the displeaser and mo-
lester of thousands much better would it like
him, doubtless, to be the messenger of glad
ness and contentment; as is, indeed, his chief
intended business to all mankind, but that they
resist and oppose their own happiness But
when God commands to take the trumpet and
blow dolorous or q EARRING blast, it is not in
mans will tohat he shall say, or what he shall
conceal
There are, it should be remembered, probably
quite as few Of editors as of other people in this
country, who are entirely ungifted with the
perception Of their own interest, or Invested of
all regard for it. While every body else around
him is eagerly pursuing almost that alone, why
should an editor slight it, by writing what he
knows to be unpopular He can only do 50,
because he prefers to consult the public advan-
tage rather than his own.
Nothing can be more necessary, in q free
country, than that the press ,unwarped by private
ihterests, hhaeterreu py popular passions,
should, with an equally high intelligence, pro-
bity and courage, pursue, undated, the course
of honor and Of truth, convey faithful informa-
ton, form on everything right opinion, and
then speak it out manfully but decently. What
are we for, if it is not for this? Is there such
superfuity Of truth, such an excess Of sense
abroad, that the press is required to dilute the
public draught with lies Has nonsense fallen
short anywhere, that the press must supply it,
by the daily batch Is there, suddenly, such
lack Of deceivers, that, to recruit their ranks,
q general CONSUMPTION of the press must be re-
sorted to- Are all the demagogues dead, that
we, the servants Of Intelligence, must take up
that respectable trade and 60 to wheeling, as
I we were otice-seekers: No: the very CON |
rary Of all this is the fact; and 50 little is at
,est, the public supply Of right information
rom other quarters, that the press should be
Flowed to contribute all it likes Nofear Of an
Nor would it hurt our beloved
country. @"....
Speak out. brothers Of the pen Gently but
boldly not as meaning to offend, but to inform
Everybody wants the truth, or, if he does not
want it. only needs it the more. Let them have
t. For "@
All, all but truth drops dead born from the press
Like the last sermon or the last address