New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-21
WErToNaL DEVELoPMENT.

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II, every country, 70 far back as either his.
tory On legend runs, there has been q constantly
growing, understandable and indefnable longing
for Increase ind development. The broad acres
which were sufficient for the ambition Of the
father and which amply rewarded his lifelong
labors, dWarfed in their constant display before
the son, and led him to look for other fields and
plains, to which he might spring from the step
ping stone 81 his Childhood. Abraham, Laban,
Moses nearly two thirds Of the worthy land;
holders immortalized in the sacred history, felt
themselves. oppressed BY the res gustae and
marrow circumstances Of home va accordingly
took mp the shovel and the hoe, with such plain
and speckled kline as might come to hand, ana
sflibustered against the Philistines, the moab
ties, Or Rhomsoeyer else saw fit to pray IN 9
different style from themselves. So did good
David; SO did Solomon; and, following history
into profane times, SO have all nations that have
ever grown. Rome was the result Of romance,
If Romulus ever lived Of rape, i the sabines
had existence AT all events, the empire was
the fruitsof III incessant filibustering mot only
against the thirty kings, overwhelmed both in.
the Tiber and ii Macaulay' s legend, but also in
stern battles which colored with blood the fair
est plains from Numidia to Hispania. Greece
grew BY conquest; SO did Spain $50 did France,
from Clovis to Napoleon; and England, from
her first battle against the Picts to her last
against the natives Of India, has been nothing
other than d national Incarnation of the lament
ed Drake-has been steadily, unWeariedly, in
defatigably patching On, here and there, little
tracts Of land, that afterwards form the nucleus
for new nations. BY what other right than that
of the flibuster does she hold Canada, Austria
.lia, South Wales, Malta, Gibralter; aye, even
Scotland and Ireland 555,
We, ourselves, have grown much in the same
style, buying Or conquering taking Rhode
Island from the Narragansetts New York from
the Knickerboo kers; Florida from the Spanish 7;
Louisiana from the French !; Texas and Cali
fornia from the Mexicans, and from the English
those thirteen original States which made the
nucleus for all the rest all, primarily taken
from their rightful Indian owners. The Portu-
guese, when their galleys rounded the Cape de
Verdes with 8 proud pennant, acted in precisely
the same manner. The Dutch have Guinea and
their isles in the Indies by no other tenure,
In fact, the governments Of to-day, ignore the
fact as we will, pirate Of ibsrty and free
DOM battle once begun" how much-soeyer VIC
see ft, is nothing less chan q result Of fibust.
ering of that national Development, which, BY
the very laws Of its being squeezes the weakest
to the wall, appropriates his goods and grounds
and makes him newer Of wood and drawer o
water where he had originally ruled.
| There is Q reason for this, q sense and jus
/ tiee in it, however unwilling we may be = SCI
lit The original freebocters went to their con
! quests with the sword and scriptures united
exclaimings the world is the Lords, and th,
II fullness thereof" The latter-day imitator
4 and descend have stuck to the sword, bu
let 90 the scripS ntanting themselves will
4 the assuranq HI might is right; that tn
4 world needs sss ael aimed and populated ant
made profitable sair logic has consisted Q
hard blows and TIER excuse has been gildee
1 with victory 1t Was Tot, and is not, in the as
Il sertions Of the immediate actors that the true
i justification lay, butin The fact that contri
button is made to the cause Of human progress
Il every instance where decay Or innate weakness
: gives place to strength and good warm blood
Y Weakness, whether physical or intellectual
does nothing, accomplishes nothing, is effet
! and emasculate, worthless. Let it be don
r away with in Nationalist in natural life. Th
2 tree is uprooted by the Seeding, when til
= former has rotted the young phoenix spring
" with fresh life from the ashes of an exhauste
vitality, So, when o country has tottered to il
!, downfall and trenbes in its knees the best an
e kindest thing it do is to roll out Of the va
= that something stronger may stand in its plact
1e We are not the advocates Of national forays
= Of crusades by the stronger against the Weake
le In the light in which we have viewed it, how
y lever, there is patent reason and sort Of just
q fcation for those movements and revolution
which have rooted out rotteuness, that life, Ell
q leroy and vitality might be planted and ha,
I room in which to grow. Ez45 .s3' r.. s ~.