New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-15
ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION.


1t is within the memory of all how few years since
this whole country from sacarrappa in Mane to sacra
mento in Caiforniathen only geographically known
was agtated by great question which puzzled profess
ora perpexed philosophers and served bone of
tention among the people generally. 1t sprang, like
modern Phoenix from the flames that devoured great
portion the city OF New York. and has yet been
dehntvey settled. The COURTS grave Judges learned
lawyers accomplished attornies and anxious spectators
all interested in IT, and differed widely the poles
10 their opinions That question Was whether sapetre
would explode! The arguments on either sdeare they
not all recorded at length in the New York Reports,
where they may be enghy read readily passed over?
Before that time the world had known but one question
Of equal doubt and equal equpose which involved the
existence Of such man as Homer-whether he was an
actual being of flesh blood and bones merely myth
by the side Of Romuus and the other fair creations of old
humanity ,.5 5..4
Our more actual age disosrds the subtlstiss of the
schoolmen aa well their distractions and rsnsments
II lets philosophy and metaphysics take Of them
selves and seeks to know whether Ia better for fat.
tsning hogs than sw whether subso blowing 10 better
for improving land than the old style Of open burrows
whether common manure is more fsrtilixng than guano
or compost II bothsrs itself with troublesome refine.
snts Of the fancy, but goes, with determination and
into the solution and resolution Of prac
teal problems takes the workmanship Vulcan to defy
the wrath Of Jupiter and makes Neptune bear on hii
broad bosom heavy cagoes of cotton rather than wave
bis trident and sound his wreathed shell for the guidance
Of new Argonauts. ~ q
fresh evidence Of this materiastic tendency Of thu
age has been placed under observation In the follow
ing profoundly philosopho and very practical enquiry
that dsconsolAte Individual has propounded for 60
luton;
Whether strickniha what the police gives TO dogs won
ride Please put In your paper how this s for II frid
strcknine Ia pizen, then go agn sasseugers in total
55a.s 5=#t a a5s5s 5n Yours till piKened.
The question is natural one worthy Of grave con
sheraton The individual whose intellectual organiza
tion--working In the sphere Newtons and Des
cartss though with lesser range andin contracted
mits--has propounded interrogatory which has 90
to many, but which brave heart before dsret
give ntteranee to- deserves well Of his fellows Hs ID tn
Galso Of his bold Spectator deter
mined to gaTaniss and drag out for public exainatc,
tie great fodder problem Of the century IT ID not mer
momentary matter, nor monetary one but affects tn
lives the honor and the welfare Of the community
large, sassengers are SAFE all rightf sasssnsers'
unsafe through the nstrumentsty Of pixen or b.
virtue Of natural nozouuness and Inherent arsenc
sumptuary laws should DO enacted to prevent then
from being distributed free gratis for nothing in on
public Streets otherwise the valuable lives Of many Nigh
DO shortened by more subtle poison than that which
killed Genaro To be- not to be-that is the quss
tonh Whether by the consumption of asassepgersn Ii
their fried state, mems lives are abridged widows en
orphans created domestic felicity rudsly ended publ
prosperity inpeded and the civilization Of the oentur
sent back behind the American these In
errosaores wrapped up in the absorbing ntsrroga
tory awhether strcknne what the police gives to dog
won't pssn the human specie after the sassengers hs
been frides Native Amercansm and Know. Nothingisr
stands at side unaffected by the result hut the hun
CRY multitude who, landing here penniless fnd mot on
gold lying loose on the ground but tempting provisions
soutey about the Streets with
profuseness of lberaty is trembingy alive to the de
cision Of this death interrogatory In this ligh
1t rises above Its mere monetary character and
the consideration of those disciples Of Escaapus to whoI
committed the Of personal health and the protec
ton Of public life.
1t Is this latter confederation, whose ramincstion
reach from theowest to the highest and touch not on
our ctys prosperity but In degree affect the per
mansnoy Of national constitution as well as the CON
situations Of Its people, that has induced us to give to h
question the benefit of circulation and the promi
Of our columns. Its solution is In the hiohes
degree, naedfu sassengerites aud antaasseng srtes
makers and entersfrom the millionaire In his luxuriou
dningroom to the seayengers dog on the GOLD street
under an Indictment sky, in dark night-al are alik
In having science decide the ysxed question
and give her final voice Whether strioknine what III
police gives 70 dogs won't pzen the human specie afe
the passengers has been fride?n
We pause for reply. st 5#
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