New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-22
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Mississippi but NOW Of California, delivered q
lengthy and powerful speech in the latter Slate
ii defence Of the great principles of the Ameri.
can organization. We laid the speech aside al
the time we received it, with the view Of extract.
ing literally from it rs occasion might serve
but some one. utterly regardless of the proprie.
ties Of the editorial sanctum, has laid violent
hands upon it and carried it off. We would not
however, were it in our power, punish the cul.
prit with extraordinary severity, fer the prize
was . tempting oue--the intellectual feast most
admirable. We are, therefore, constrained to
the nse of extracts which we lind floating
through the columns of our exchanges. some Of
which We append, remarkable for beauty. power
and eloquence.
After showing, beyond peradyenture, that
the TIVE old parties had suhseryed the obiects
which led to their creation; after proving incon.
testbly that both had lost, with the loss Of their
old and mighty leaders, the patriotism, single
ness Of purpose, and absence Of sel6shness,
which formerly characterized them. that. as
the lions and eagles had passed away from,
earthly scenes, the owls and the iackals had
taken their places; that corruption had crept
into places where stern integrity once ruled su-
preme; that the ancient landmarks had been
well nigh obliterated, and that the practice Of
the present was mainly at war with the prac-
tice Of the past; that patriotism once meant a
true and loyal devotion to the country, without
regard to self or pelf, but that it now only sir
nifed devotion to q particular party, to the
interests Of o few traders in politics, who, re-
gardless Of all things else, only sought their
own advancement and ACKNOWLEDGMENT; that
tie present ofiee-seeking faction, styling itself
the Democratic party, was no more like that
party in its halcyon, Jacksonian DAYS. than
daylight was like darkness, or a healthy person
like one diseased in every part of his body that
it was but the rotton debris of . once naughty
and gallant organization, led to the battle by
noble and glorious leaders !; that it could no
more carry the country through the approach
ing crisis than it could beat back the surees of
the ocean when dashed into wildcat fury; and
that the American party was the only party
equal ito the emergency. >, Throughout, the
speech Is marked by e1oquence and power is
full Of the devotion Of the statesman and the
enthusiasm If the patriot.
The following are the concluding portions Of
the address, to which we invite particular at
tention. They are truly eloquent, and draw a
plain line Of demarcation between the love Of
country and, the love Of party-the latter of
which has been altogether too strong for the
we'll being Of the former, the past few years a.
Fellow czens Do you bIare us for desiring "a attatr
the objects which have now aveed to those for the
81 which the party has been organ
lied? Do censure US for loving our country more
than party cr prefesripg principles 10 MINES -fof being
anxious revive in our mass the apirit oil a,aera
nationality which hes been SO rapidly of late growing en-
fegbiea ameDg u.s. and which seemed likely Ia f.w
more become utterly extinct? Do you condemn Us for
warning sgust corruption for defending the
Of the laws and struggling with all energies for the
perpetueton Of the Union? cannot believe It, see
by unns akabe tokens that you too ar on the side Of
sour eouny tast you too are tired Of the accurssd
bondage Of party that you are willing commnRle your
Efforts with relieve native land from the CON-
terminating dominion of epois-pongers and secure 1t
against all Influences, either foreign or domestic which
may menace with injury or thrsatsn Ii with dishsnor
You portion Of the great army msrcan patriots
who have embodied themselves for the war openly to
prosecuted sgainst the enemies of freedom the oppo
of enlightened progress and the affiliated leeiops
Of cenuptioran knayery The great battle OF principle
Is encing. .aaesied sud sanercGs are in the
deidor fthsr lives, their forrunes their sacred
honor all cfs which they know to be in danger
The example Of forefathers is before u.s. The light
q history ifamnes our pathway The voice Of our be-
byed cpuafIy the of all that be
Edear frWSrn All good openly and ferveptly
ssmpathsIs with The trucking slaves Of faction aud
the nereenary mnions Of mammon already trembling
at approach Tho embodied msiesty Of the American
people is With us for counsel and for conflict Let us but be
true to pur~lyes, and suca triumph wll he achieved
adv rsaries sha gill the world with astonish-
dent tEinmph which generations OF true-heared
Americans yet unborn shall rejoice and exult when
who are how living struggling the happiness and
glory Of country sbaI have mingled dust with
the PATRIOTS and good Of tine earlier and better
daysof the rpuhic " lsz .s