New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-28
n nayoTroN 70 ONES NATIVE LAND.

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Aastsugh II "a shqsshs diaaSparable. If natI
criminal. Tor az AaSfiean to Indulge IN any
saelinps Of pride towards his native land, Or
exuie III and glory oversize unmatched achieve
.msnts Of her warriors and statesmen, still II
may not be amiss to refer to the manner IN
which that feeling Is cherished BY the natives o.
all other countries. That peor privilege, We
believe, ia stilIaccorded us. We who are citi-
seus Of the United States BY the aaccident Of
birth p may yet praise the, peers md great men
Of foreign clip.ss without being arniahiy styled
musderers, assassins, church burners, dark Ian
ternites, eto.
peyotson 10 the land Of ones birth is the high.
81 ana holiest Of human duties second only to
I That the mortal owes to his God or the child to-
Lis mother In all lands, ciyiliaed or savage,
this feeling Of devotion hassbeen cultivated and
Ironored, and the man or men most thoroughly
imbued with 1t were thought worthy Of the most
iillus,rions distinction were regarded as the
trusss patriots apa safest repositories of the
public interests while those holding antipodal
sentiments we're looked upon, and often pun
ished, as the basest and blaokest spostates that
ever disgraced the earth.
Walter Scett--the 'sWizard Of the North
once sang, in reference to glorious old Scotland
ooh Csledouia I stern and wild,
MI IL nurse for u poetic child 4&
Land of brown heath mad shaggy wood,
| Land OF tns mountain and the flood,
Land Of nlp sisss! nliat mortal hand
4 Can 4 a unite The Jifiai baad
i Thu knits me TO tay ragged strand ~
4 And nc mortal hand did sever, or could
sever, the oyerfowing love which Walter Scott
bore to the land Of his nativity. When age had
Ioysrtaken HIM; when infrmity was pressing
hard upon hira; when his mighty intellect had
| become diInmed, by labers and struggles, and
adyersity; when he, the foremost man Of all the
earth, was lingering, as it were, superadous on
ifthe stage, visit to the South Of europe was
recommended, and there the undisputsd Napo-
/ leon 1f the realm Of song and romance repaired
| in quest of health In the hope that change OF
air and scenery might tend to the renovation Of
his agsd and overtasked frame But all was in
lrain. II was too late. The great old man felt
| I'LL end approaching, and-whatwere his orders
| ~ His attendants $50 Scotland teScotland II
said he, in tones Of unsurpassed emotion. Once
| more he wanted to breathe the air be inhaled in
his infancy. Once more he wished to gaze upon
i grand and magnificent scenes his matchless pen
4 had made immortal Once more he desired to
look upon Tie blue skies which bent over, and
the noble mountains, rivers, dales and woods,
!. which adorned and beautihed the glorious land
4 Of his bir H. And, finally, be sought to yield
his~lifs TO tho God who gave it upon the soil
\ which had been made iliustfious by his genius,
4 and where he had gathered an those glories
i which will make his name lustrous through ell
i coming time. Even Whilethe death damps were
upon his brow, his saatirisn, stood forth in bold
i relief. He wanted to die at home, in the land
Of his childhood. Hence he said :. To Scotland
to Scotland!''
The same feeling which lent its last impulse
to the heart of the, poet, exists, to greater Of
\ less degree, in the heart Of every human being
a The longing for, the attachment to, and pride
in, the spot that marked one's nativity, ia never
obiiterated while the gushing tide Of life courses
Eheaithfnliy through the veins The hand Q
death only snfices to eradicate it, as our illus
tration fully demonstrates d \ T7s Il a 1
Asnatives of theseil of this country 1--WE homo
bsph sentiments We deem them worthy Of oil
n Recommendation We look upon them as tn
inaex Ut true manhood and honesty And, w
woAid no more oopfie in the american, or tn
IrishnSap, or the English man, or the Scotch
man, or the Frenchman, or the German. whe
/ no matter what the changes in his condition {
location, does npt feel an interest and take
pride in the land upon which he was born, tina
/ We would In an escaped convict from the PEN
| tertiary.