New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-20
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assuming to be statesmen. There were, to them
no Arcadian colorings, no Utopian glories q
mellow shades Of Atlantis in its conceptaen, ~
instead thereof, vain yagaries Of men VINO Fouio
re. enact, NOT only Aristogiton and Hsrmooius,
out also Scion and Lycurgus, on new conti-
nent. and in 4 larger theater. The great men,
as wel, as the masses Of Europe, looked on the
cbe,ne as ahsurd and iejune, and treated it with
der;s;on. Nevertheless " the child was father |
70 III man. and Che great edifice has grown |
more strong and symmetrical each succeeding |
year, until it's grand proportions overreach all |
those reared by the old world. though strength |
sned by centuries Of careful labor.
There 10 not now, nor never has been, any |
SO elastic. yet 50 cohesive--so liber-
al, yet so frm--so grand in its proportions, 50 |
minute in its details-so well adapted to the
wants Of the people and their protection, as this
one which was. in the teeth Of derision and con-
tempt, designed by American architects BY
them constructed, and by them ornamented
It stands now in the van Of the age, and is look
ed up to with hope, with fear, With triumph and
with trembling by the millions whose fate is
more or less directly dependent upon its perpe-
tuity. Il
The trans- atlantic state feeling with regard
il the United States has wonderfully changed
since Benjamin Franklin wore his plain clothes
at the Tuilleries, and Paul Jones plowed the
waters Of the fast anchored isle with the Bon
Homme Richard Then we were looked upon as
Cloths, yandals and savages, thoroughly unelT-
ilized and hardly worthy Of notice. Now, We
have become 80 powerful, and consequently
popular, that English presses and peers sigh
because our sympathies are not altogether with
them in the existing warthat French minis
tiers and academicians find reasons for writing
about us, and the learned refugees Of all coun-
tries find causes why they should favor us with
their sympathy and good advice. Thus We
have, at one time and another, had De Tocque-
vile, Brougham. Guizot, and other eminent
statesmen, to treat Of the peucliarities Of our
Consultation and the workings Of our Govern
ment, from the first primary caucus or party
meeting to the absolute DEGREES Of Congress and
the consequent action Of the Executive. We,
have had the TRADES Of Dickens, Trollope, Basil
Hall, and other literary worthless, with regard
| to our social condition and last, but not
least, the generous and disinterested advice Of
Kossuth, Mazzini, and John Mitchell, as to what
ought to be done in order to render the United
Estates subservient to their views, plans and
political Vaccinations
The country has grown cut Of its former insig-
nificanoe, and come to be considered power
among the nations Of the earth. The wisdom Of
the worthless, who planned with so great a fore
sight for the future, has been acknowledged,
and between what may and what is, as to our
national Importance, there runs as deep ditch
as the one which divides Valhalla from Niffel-
heim-Heaven from Hades.
| 1t is to be remarked of this strong foreign
American appreciation and regard, that it is all
interested, and that the teachings and transae-
| tions with which we are favored by European
tutors look altogether to some end Of personal
profit. The singers, lecturers and essayists
come here to make money, and having accom-
plished their ends praised our lakes, noun
tains, prairies, progress and refinement, and
poeketed our credulous dollars--they return
home toyent their spleen and give tongue to their
| long prisoned ire. This 10 all natural enough
| in its way, nor should we And fault with 1T. We
are less lenient in our feelings however. towards
those political high priests who come here on
alleged pyramids Of mercy and philanthropy,
teaching us how to preserve and how to use
those existing Of ewn, which their
countries could never acquire, and then remain
| ing to villify, or departing to abuse us for not
considering them better authority than Washing
ton, Jefferson, Hamilton, and the other sages
who hewed out Of the rough what Locke with all
his learning could could not produce, nor Talley-
rand with his. great disarmament comprehend.
/ Such were and are Kossuth the Hungarian and
Mitchell the Irishman. Money they have both
made here in abundance; but moves. thank God.
in this country is not political power; The one
from his quiet retreat in England-procured and
paid for by fictitious Hungarian bonds -fayes
in the columns Of the New York Times against
the American moye = chiefly because the
American people will ndc fsags intoa war te
create Hungarian nationality. Fhe other IL
occasional letters to journal no was forced Y
quit, runs rabid because Irish independence i
not to be built up by American bayonets. Thus
both of our political Archons, foiled in Their
personal plans by the wisdom Of the people and
the policy Of the Government, repay kindness
with abuse. and benevolenee with bitter reVil.
ings. The lesson is . good one, and will show
Americans tho gist and tendency Of all that i'm.
passioned interest that has been manifested by
the great outlaws who have come among US, with
honeyed words and red-republicanism, to make
puppet and automaton Of the only powe,
where strength, liberty and intelligence, are al
combined. The foresight and wisdom Of tn.
founders Of our Government was fully equal t,
the cunning Of these foreign revolutionists, VIII,
cannot discern between liberty and license, no
in any degree approach to an understanding Q
the spirit Of our institutions
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IBERyILLB NOMINATIONS. - The America
lparty of the parish Of Ibervills have nominate
Messrs. John s. Barron and b. s. Winn as Re
presentatiyes TO the Legislature. They or
both good men and true, and we doubt not will
in the next General Assembly of the State
Iprove that their constituents have done well i
| their selection
| IETER-0 OCEANIC SHIP CANAL.-The Washing
ton Star learns from reliable source, that som
( enterprisng citizens of the United States an
1 New Granada have discovered and explored ii
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