New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-01
,omE RnrLnor1oNs AND SOME QUESTIONS

\ belong to the American party. True, We De-
lieve ours the highest and holiest cause that
ever enlisted the sympathies Of freemen upon
this OF any other continent True, we have be-
longed to other political organizations and have
never been found wanting in an honest perform
ance Of duty. But we never were party men
on account Of a name. II was the principle
involved which received our support; and ever
now. while We are bearing aloft the banner o
the American party, and when we pledge our
4 selves to do all that honorable men can do Il
secure glorious victory, it is the principle W,
| are contending for, not the name. Principles
arc eyerything-names nothing.
Che daily and weekly course Of events, aftel
taking careful observations from all points o
the political compass, confirm us in our origina
opinion-that we were right. Everything goe
| to demonstrate the correctness Of that opinion
| We are in an American crowd, which association
certainly, ought not to be considered disrepu
table. We belong to q party that was organized
to protect the land Of our birth from threatened
ruin, and which owed Its origin to as pure ant
patriotic q desire to elevate and enfranchise al
mankind, as that which led to the initiatory
steps of the Revolution, and prompted the wri
ting Of the Declaration Of Independence.
Feeling this, and acting on these convictions
we have perused many Of the anti American
papers with unmingled modification. We did
expect that some native opposition editor would
discover that there were decent characteristics
belonging to his own countrymen; that there
| was something in history belonging to ourselves;
that we had a past Of our o,on, to which we
could look back to without blushing; that we
did not owe everything to foreigners and
adopted citizens, no matter how much they
were deserving Of applause; that the old, origi-
nal Thirteen, had not been entirely barren of
men-great, glorious, mighty men native and
to the manor born that the confederation and
union which followed have not only produced
States, but statesmen natives Of the soil
whose grand achievements would add lustre to
the history Of any land; that WAsHIHGToN-a
native-hadm made 3 mark upon the scroll Of time
which nothing but the wing Of eternity could
efface; that the warriors of Lexington, of Bun
ker Hill, of Saratoga, of Eutaw, and of York
town, were not forgotten; that the Adamses, the
Hancoeks, the shermans, the Pinckneys, the
Rutledges, and hundreds of others, had still
some claim to grateful remembrance; that
Henry once spoke burning words of eloquence,
fresh and glowing frow his heart, stimulating
our forefathers On to the desperate struggle;
that . native Of the soil, aye, native, pealed
forth freedoms war cry" give me Liberty, or
give me Death;" that noble sons succeeded noble
sires; that the matchless CLAY once reigned
supreme among our "Conscript Fathers'--
the mightiest of the mighty--the undisputed
monarch of the realm Of intellect, whose
genius, like the rays of the sun, irradia-
ted and en1ivened the whole civilized earth;
that the great Calhoun had won proud niche
in the temple of fame; and that the unsur-
passed Webster had erected for himself an in
tellectual monument that will far outlast the
granite that covers his mortal remains at |
Marshfeld.
Wehad hoped for some slight acknowledgment
If these facts on the part of the opposition-for
hey are facts, engrayen upon the iron tablets of
history, which nothing but the extinction of our
ace, language and lineage, can efface. The
,and Of the Almighty can alone destroy the re- |
,ord. The puny hand Of man is as helpless to |
he task as would be that Of nursing infant. |
When native American statesmen and warriors
ire forgotten, the tongue in which we now make
.nown our thoughts to each other will be num-
cred among the things of the past.
Is there an American who desires such a
eplorahle consummation' With sorrow and
with shame and regret, we feel con-
trained to say there are those who would, iudg.
1g by their actions, ignore the past with all its
tories, deface the immortal record Of the reyo-
ltion, repudiate everything that was or is ma.
i've, in order to achieve mere partisan tri.
mph, In which, so far as their side is concerned,
lot one single national or fundamental principle
5 involved.
But to the latter portion Of the subject mat
err with which we started out. We wished to
SIX the anti Americana" some questions" We
Fill proceed to PROFOUND two or three, in the
ope that little information may be youch-
fled in the premises
WASHINGTON, in his day, was accounted a man
parts, and outside Of the United States, he is
esteemed still. But did he not warn his
'untrymen against the " insidious wiles Of for
On inhuence"' Tt is so written down in his
.rewell address
What an unmitigated native American WASH.
GroN must have been 1t was only on account i
the accident Of birth - that he was born in
irginia! Why, had he been born in England. 4
i'd appointed to the command OF the invading | f
my to put down the native "rebels,n he .
'uld have whipped them to terms in short :
der |!
Then, there was Jefferson, author Of the q
sclaration of Independence. Did he not once q
ve expression to the wish that there was aan d
can OF flame" between the old world and the r
,wi la
Then, there was old JOHN ADAMs-one of the r
ny few the King Of England would not pardon. D
was bound to be hung, and why' Because a
took up arms to vindicate the principle that /,
le natives Of the Colonies were better calcula. v
d to govern the Colonies, and had better
GIT, than the natives Of Great Britain! q
The selfsame principle clear, distinct. and a
tact-is involved in the present civil STRUGGLE n
hich led to the bloody drama Of the Reyoln. il
on and the birth of freedom upon this CONT.
mt, Who shall govern Those indigenous,
those exotio' The future must determine,
orktoten Is near at hand. and the Washing
u or the new war nf inaependanca mill .oa,