New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
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snetal Correspondents Of the Mem Orleans Grrsrent.

wAsHrNeros, May l, 1854
Even as write, the solemn peal of the bells
continues to remind this community that good
man has gone out from their midst The Rev
VIM. Matthew has been cofineeted with St. Pat
rck's Church, whose cross is visible from my
window, for the last fifty years, and he has left
behind him works that do praise him. 1t is
that one of his religious persuasion lives so
as to overcome prejudice and command univer-
sal esteem, but in his case this result was at
tanned, for he was not grasping and disputatious
but tolerant and charitable, exemplifying his
religious belief by his life rather than his words
The lines Of Pope will justly attach to him:
Far modes of faith let senseless zealots fight
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
1t is settled, i understand, that the President
will veto the bill granting land to the several
States of the Union to be used in ameliorating
the condition Of the INDECENT insane. When one
considers how vast the good that such measure
would secure to these sad and helpless beings,
how wretched is their present condition scat
tered over the whole country as shown by the
narrative of Miss Dix, it seems impossible but
that any heart must beat with joy at the pros
peet of being identified with such wide act of
benefcence as this law would forever secure--it
is piece of pure, disinterested goodness and
stands out SO conspicuously from the great mass
veto, when the subject was under discussion.
never occurred to anybody. When some one
asked President Monroe where he would find
authority for the grant of an estate to Lafayette,
MS reply Was-in the obligations of national
gratitude.
endeavor always, as principle Of self-res-
peet, to speak and write respectfully of the
President of the United States for the time
being, but if Franklin Pierce sets the resolutions
Of parcel Of Office seekers at Baltimore, not
only above the deliberations Of Congress, but
higher than the obligations ofhunanty, he will,
in my Judgment, show to this country and the
civilized world that he is paltry political driv-
eller, who never ought to have left bis county
court practice. His brother, the farmer who
drives cattle to the market, would act right
from instinct in q question Of this kind.
To-day Mr.. Slidell has moved q step forward
towards flibustering. He desires to get the
Act of 1878, which makes unlawful all private
armed expeditions against nations with whom
we are at peace, suspended during the recess OF
Congress, for certain purposes This was the
substance of his resolution as reported to me
for was not in the Senate at the moment) and
suppose the plain intent of it to be, Cuba,
The nation at large will revolt at this; the SEN
timent of Burke that nothing can be political
y wise which is not morally right is toe
grossly outraged by these spasmodic efforts to
wrench this jewel from the crown of Spain.
The how and when are not fully determined
but the Nebraska bill is to be fshed up from
the Committee of the Whole, if possible, and
brought to a vote in the House 1t will be an
occasion of great excitement, if the attempt sue
eeeds. CHRoNICLER.