New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-08
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A FALSE PREDICTION.

A FALSE PREDICTION.
arbc time Ii at hand when the so.cuaed American
Banner shall be ramped deep in the miro ignominious
defeat and dsgscewhen there shall DO NONE SO poor as
to DO It reverence"
We came across the foregoing sentence in the
columns Of an exchange paper, some days ago,
and cut it out with q view to its publication
We now carry out chat view, and call the atten-
ton Of the public to the strocions sentiment it
contains. We have never known anything Of
the kind to excel it, in bold, rank, unmitigated
depravity.
But, to adopt the only construction the best
friend Of the writer could desire for him, and
there ID no loophole for escape. He has effectu-
ally imprisoned himself. The 6 banner alluded
to can be none other than that used by the
American party, and they use but one, and
one only-the Star Spangied Banner of their
native land No other flag floats from their
masthead. No other symbol woos the breexes
Of heaven over their places Of meeting. No
other emblem - and none other is needed
graces their council halls. The star. gemmed
signal Of freedoms might and sovereignty is all
and all with them. And well may it be, for no
such standard ever glittered in the sunlight
since the morning stars first sang together for
| joy over new born world.
| But this writer and We are sorry to say
there are many like him for wretched, parti-
san purposes, when not single principle is
| involved, SO far as their side is concerned
boastingly and arrogantly predict that such a
banner & shall be trampled deep in the mire
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| ing, rash and unpatriotic men! Trample that
| flag in the mire = deep in the mire - Of dis
grace! May the spirit of patriotism forgive
| them, for they know not what they say or do.
Before that banner is torn from its lofty height
and trailed in the nlire of disgrace
aFull many pennon shall be torn, ~.
And manya knight to earth be borne,
And many banner rent.s
Hundreds Of thousands of gallant hearts
throb and bound OF the thought Of it. 1t in
spires proud and glowing recoileotions. Hun
dreds of thousands Of strong arms are ready
to protect it to the death and hundreds of
thousands of eyes are Watching it with ON in
tensity and an eagerness not surpassed by that
Of the poet Key, when, from his foreign prison
ship, with strainiDg eyeballs he sought to pene-
trate the gloom Of the morning to discover if
the flag of his country still waved majestically
from the ramparts Of q beleaguered fortress,
or whether it had gone down before the fearful
bombardment Of the night previous 70 the
young patriot, seconds seemed minutes, and
minutes days, and hours weeks-as with beat
ing heart and almost maddened brain he
watched the dappiing of the gray tints Of the
eastern sky into day, and awaited the beams
Of the morning sun to clear away the mists Of
the waters that INSTRUCTED his vision in the
direction Of the object upon which his whole
soul was conferred. At last, at last-but, oh,
how long it seemed to him Ibis wish was
gratifed. His own glowing lines best describe
his feelings:
On the shore dy through the msts on the deep
Where the foes naughty host In dread silence reposes
What that which the breeze oer the towering steep
As it itfnlly blows, half conceals half discoses
Nov, it catches the CLEAN Of the MORNINGS first beam
In full glory reflected now sh,neson the stream,
'Tis the star-spanged banner OBJ, long may 1t wave
DER the land Of the free and the home OF the brayen
That is the self.same, identical fsg, the
American party is now fighting for and under;
and as Great Britain, aided by many thou
sands of foreign mercenaries, failed in the FIRST
and second attempt to trail it in the mire Of
disgrace, we imagine little need be apprehended
from the anti Americans of the present era.