New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-20

Edftoy 60ss5sey; The rnost singular specta
Gle perhaps exhibited 70 repu5Ijesn p rse.,I..
may now be wltsessed in Mlssisaippi There
have been weeks 1t 8 time 1t acksan. vber n,1
State officer was at Fis posi-, sbur rom Il. i
Governor down to the lowest official were pcr.
amtniating the State, vfitifying and aefan,ne
the best and pureeJ men OF the c0msnon wealth
men who assisted them into the Offices thew
hold, men who never held Offices themselves or
desired TO, men who are TO themselves in point of
patriotism, talents, political and persoral hon
esty, ss hyperion t6 q sseyr; aud for no o her
reason under Gods Heaven than bat they belong
% .ne american party and believe and mean to
lnaass,a' a.. y .nas Americans shall rule Ameri-
ca. oucn spectacle wsss probably never seen
oeIore In republic We know that the Roman
Empire used 70 De Knocked down in the army ID
tne hi9neSt oiaosf put that was after the influx
Of foreigners had destroy ed their nat;onal;,. -
it will ours, If their encroachmcnts are ,,ot
stopped. -
Inc sight is pitffuf and disgusting and NJ.
wonder the people turn from them with sicl
heart for the late OF s.Repnblic reduced 40 low
The American party never was born H
sprang, Minerva ike, rom the bead Of Joye.
aud has staiked ,lger the land, aud cid parties
have crumbled under his tread, and old parti-
2Ans anu ofacs holders who have grown plethoric
ana mpudent st the public crib, are struggling
against ~, 1leking and scratching with tine des-
Peratlon OF starving hyenas; shame and de-
| eency. tney ever hsd auy pretensloBs to even
| 'hsse negauve virtues, are qaite forgotten, and
% hide her own corruption, like she seuttle6al.
| they throw out their spawn npon the Americans'
but Il will be of no avail-ths people are aroused
and love of country will ultimately prevail over
Lloveof party. We may be beat by The Uatron.
age of Office, By the desperate efferts OF ,ereien
and native enemies-by foreign gold and native
frand, but we will Ultimately prevail, or the
hopes Of liberty are set To- ever. Look back ID
\ ihISt0rV-l01k along he rtts cid ort al
| and see the beacon lights held ont ON the desc
late sites of ruined cities and ad empires, and
| there read a lesson. Look at Greece as she was
IN the time of Pericles, aud then trace her de-
gradation from the time when Themistocies, the
great Lecofoco demagogue of antiquity revoked
tine laws against the influx Of strangers, and
made citizenship cheap in Athens. Sparta held
her own long sitter Attca had sunk under the
| intrigues OF the surrounding States. Lycnrgus,
their greatest law giyer, had bound them BY an
oath TO keep intact his laws till he returned,
and then went away and died in Asia Minor,
and had his dust thrown into his own Esean,
80 that no prefext could be had for the Sparlans
| 10 break their faith-and one of his laws was
| that no stranger should hold citizenship or ao-
cumulate property in sparta. They kept their
nationality as long as they we're Iaithful 10 this
Law, but when they hroAe it they fell, not by
| foreign invasion, but by internal commorion.
Dracoslaws were written in blood, and Milriades
was tyrsnt, but we'd might the degenerate
| Greek Of far sfser times sing; =
@,Fis something in the dsarrn of fame
Though linked among fettered race,
sf To feel at lsast patriot's shame,
Even while Ising sufuse my lace. s5, sssa
- s1* .. aQ* g.s
The tyrant of the Gbsrsonese
| Was freedoms bravrs nobiest friend.
That tyraat WA Aiisiades l7rs4 ='gi.Tis
o, that the present hour would lend
Another aespot o. the kind
sEcn chains bis were cure to bind .-. r
tsrant-bus cur masters then
Were still 1t feast cur c5tniryme IN ~ t1.5el
i What is trus- Of Mississippi is true Of Louis
lana in more than one respect. Our most i'm
portant State officers have been absent IRON the
capital the greater portion of the summer-off
electioneering among the people--wnen they
were elected to discharge certain prescribed du-
Ties in certain prescribed places, for WHICH the
i people are taxed 60 Iaise the funds