New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-11
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Observation-Disclosures is IT? |
Whatever partisans may affect to think Of the
present American party of this Union, we do
not think there is one in the opposing ranks, no
matter whether native or adopted citizen, who
does not feel in his inmost soul, that the ohJects
principles sndgends of our organization, are
founded in and upon the hottest laws Of nature,
and are sustained by all the instincts OF patriot-
ism, honor and truth
1t cannot be otherwise. The feeling to which
va a,lnae neryades the whole human race. civil
;vaa ar savage. 1t embodies an attachment
second only to that loving child bears loving
mother--a true, noble, affectionate, intelligent
mother-who, while she learned him to love her,
pointed out the pathway which alone leads to
honorable distinction; who taught him to be
virtuous and upright; who guided his youthful
steps in ways of rectitude; who impressed upon
his young mind lessons Of purity and elevation
and warned him, oh, how earnestly with all the
gushing love only o mothers heart can expert
ence, to beware the Wiles of deceitful world
Such is the character of the devotion noble
son Of the soil bears to his mother soil There
is that about it which takes the man back as far
as memory enlivena the careless glae Of infancy,
and each old familiar object becomes more ana
more interesting as years and years lapse be-
fore the never ceasing march Of time. His
attachments strengthen as the seasons render
him less interested in earthly things; and even
now, there are venerable octagenarians Of the
revolution, trembling on the very verge Of the
grave, whose old eyes will kindie and whose old
blood will course more rapidly through their
aged veins at the mere intimation of o slur upon
that Union for which they periled their lives
and sacrificed their prime!
1t was fine thought-a magnificent native
American thought--that of the So called savage
Tecumseh, who, seeing that no chair had been
provided for him at council with Gen, Harri-
son, declined the seat hastily furnished, saying,
as he reposed himself upon the ground: /" The
earth is my mother, and 4 acsN rest upon her
BOSOM In this brief, but sublimely beautiful
sentence, the untutored red man of the forrest
inculeated a lesson which thousands Of our
eountrymen would do well to study and prae-
tiee
Commodore Decatur also Illustrated the same
Unborn, inbred principle, in his famous senti-
ment, which will live as long as the memory Of
his glorious deeds, and they will be cherished
by history up to the " last syllable Of recorded
time" Here is what he said My country
May she always be right--but, right or tcrong,
| MY COUNTRY r ls5535
| This was the sentiment Of q true son Of the
sofia loyal and faithful child Of the soil-who
regarded his own country as better than all
other countries, and his own countrymen and
countrywomen as superior to the men and
women Of all other nations. He desired his
country to be right. and his countrymen to be
right, all the time, but if they got into diff
Guilty, all he had to say was--"right or aorong,
mig country.
| Here is the essence of the Americanism Of
1 the present day. Here is developed, from two
opposite, yet distinguished sources, the very
starting point Of the American organization
lope Of country! That very identical spirit
and when it ceases to be prevalent to animate
and inspire, there will be nothing left worth
caring for-created the much abused and ca
Collateral issues may have crept in, and party
/ spirit may have exercised some influence, buI
| the organization would have never known vital
/ ity, combined with power, except for the net
1 ural, all-pervading instincts Of nativity, tt
| which We have hnrriedly referred.
The Americans Of the United States feel tina
they are bound to their own country by ties
and duties, and loves, superior to all other obi
cations They wish to govern their native land
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