New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-09

IHE ATTKHrTEn CREm4TIoy m AEtr.w1tfxnr
Mr.. Pfeil, husband 81 iii deceased fadv r.
burning Of whose body in Milwaukee yeSs,t1v
was prevented BY the police, has replied h the
coarse and savage attacks msde unor,3 hin, bv
several newspapers, 10 manner 10 nut the h;e,.
loted and ignorant writer's to shame, If thev are
lcspable Of such d sentiment He shows by .bs
afHdaYits Of physicians and others that ID was
the earnest desire Of the wife that kerF body
should be burned, and such was to have been
his own funeral rites had shs been siie surviyor.
| He argues the propriety Of such disposition Of
the dead by reference TO sanitary laws, the cus-
toms Of antiquity, and It's harmony with re.
fined poetic sentiment. We give q paragraph
from Mr. Pfeirs letter published ia the Sentinel
when stood nourDfuilY, and flled With heart
rending grief by the deaeisbed of beloved wife
who had expired in my arms, after having taken
q last farewell forever from al she loved, from
me, from my two little ones, the pledges Of cur
love, from her friends and from the world, j
could never dream, ia those hours of agony,
that already on the next morning. fierce fanatf-
ciayn, out-doing in its frenzy the barbarity Of
ths dark periods Of the riidle ages, would ven
ture 10 intrtlde over the threshold Of private
| house, consecrated, even amongst savages, in
| ouch times, 70 peace and mourning, in order not
only both to espy ny dofngs in preparing, and
| p disturb TIE fulhilment Of the last request Of
the deeeased, fer the purpose to degenerate and
fssify the facts, and excite in that way the pre-
Judices Of Ignorant people against an act of
/ piety, at the request of o faithful and 1ovinc
lconsort IN the hour off death. :
| a SEAsesAgLE REBBgE Dissoir,,,e ~
| U,sion.-It is funny to hear, says tbe Richz
mond Wal Dispatch, the complaeent and dac-
/ matte manner in which gHndry poIitfcians II
| the North and South talk Of dissctyiur she
Union. They speak Of the matter as il IL were
one of the easiest things in the world, snd s. If
| they could do it That is the grand mistake Of
| these malcontent political agitators They
imagine that they hold the destinfes of this vast
Republic in the hollow Of their hand. They
have but to open their mouth in nulfifysng
Congressional harangue, or an elaborate reyo-
iutionary newspaper article, and presto the
Union is blown into thousand fragments
They take no account of any ether moral forces
and elements in this great country than those
Of an omnibus load Of Catalines, who, even il
each had power for ruin es strong as his VIII,
would not be able to displace the smallest Stone
in the vast temple Of the American Gonfederacy
Outside of this knot Of disc0htented and aspir-
| ing men, lies an immense body Of She American
people, as unmoved and Indifferent to the mimic
whirlwinds which rage il tbs contracted minds
Of few nullifers as the ocean Is TO tempest
" = asaiyes-ss DSaySe uns honlAfy ifhAscan Ee
broken ID the golden chain which unites our
glorious band on Repnbl blican States, the Ameri-
4 can people must be consulted- the mighty mil
lions of farmers, mechanics ard tradcsnisn. tie
laboring and producing classes, the men who
| have interests to be effected BY change Of
Government, and who have not tie most remote
Intention Of permitting those interests to be
tampered with without their knowledge and
consent. Whenever the Union Is dissolved, 1t
will NOT be dissolved by Congress- The peopIe
vas their work they built it up; ii is sonse-
Grated by their blood all their earthly treas-
| urea are deposited in it. Depend upon it they
have authorized no man nor set Of men, either
in Congress Or out Of it, directly or Indirectly,
| to pull down that structure That is work
| they reserve to themselves.