New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-26
T,R, KANE,

The treatme.n which this gentleman has received
at the Of the Usited States Senate, furnishes
another instance of the proverbia ingratitude OF
puhsics. His sefsacrfcing and heoric abors result
ing in the grandest achievements of the age and con
feing upon his country THE highest honors in Arctic
discovery, have entitled him to place in the hearts
of his countrymen and to all the rewards his govern
ment can afford to bestow. Well, how has he been
rewarded The fact seems almost incredible that a
wise and just body Of men, as the United States
Senate is presumed to be- should have decided that
beggarly compliment of medals was sufficient &C.
acknowledgement of the extraordinary services of this
man of genius, yet, they did 50 decide, y s-et
g The House, a few days ago, passed by a large ma
joty resolution for the purchase of fifteen thousand
copies of Dir. Kane's work, the q Arctic Explora.
TONS" and it was lost in the Senate OF the intrinsic
value Of the work ITSELF it be safely said that
nothing has ever been produced upon that subject
that can at all compare with it but it had still
stronger claim to the consideration and patronage of
the government. 1t possessed a national value, not
exceeded by any work ever published by order OF
government it is imperishable evidence of Ameri-
can intelligence, enterprise, courage and perseverance
It is record of humanity, generosity and deeds OF
daring whose memory will live green in the hearts OF
when the petty placeholders who thus pronounce
upon their merits, rot in obscure graves,
"The world forgetting, by the world forgot"
To Senator Brodhead, of Pennsylvania, is due, we
believe the peculiar infamy of having been foremost
in opposition to the bill. In obtaining its defeat he
experienced, doubt, the despicable qualification of
vain and shallow mind in triumphing over worth
and intellecthe could neither appreciate nor under
stand The numerous friends Of Dr. Kane in all parts
of the country Qor every lover of the great and the
noble is his frend) are justly indignant at this mean
and unworthy reputation Of his claims upon the coun
try. They have before them the fact that this same
Senate voted an appropriation of $4,000 in money to
Commodore Perry, furnished him with thousand
copies Of his own book and incurred cost in publish
ing it of nearly quite half million dollars and all
for service in no degree so arduous and perous as
that Of the Arctic expedition it would be difficult to
remove the impression from the minds Of many ofthen
that interested personal motives have been instru
mental in causing this strange discrepancy in the
treatment of two equally deserving public men Of
genius. @ Es
In view of the enormous expenditures made by
Congress for printing, in wretched manner all sorts
Of documents and speeches, it would seem the mos
ridiculous plea they could possible set up agains
supporting such work as that of DR.. Kane, tina
the publication department of the government re
quired retrenchment. Yet that was the objection
made, and the only one, to the appropriation Hat
the printing contract been given to the maneuverine
government publishers in Washington who fire
quenty make fortune by single. job-it would
beyond question have been pushed through the Sen
ate, and would have appeared in the miserabl,
shabby style of the Patent Office reports, etc.
This action of the Senate is simply another illus
tlation Of the disposition among our public men tt
carry everything to extremes, and to appropriat,
money for all purposes but the right ones Had il
but been proposition for the purchase of worth
less strip of territory, or to pay swindng contract
ors for work never performed, the appropriation
would have been made and the treasury would have
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