New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-06

From late number Of the New York Evening Pos
we extract the subioined startling item:

From late number of the New York Evening Post
we extract the subjoined startling item:
JUVENILE CRIMrNALs.-We yesterday published the
details OF the robbery of Italian, who was enticed
into dark alley leading out of Baxter street. where
he was knocked down and robbed by three boys with
an adroitness which would do credit to experienced
criminals. The great number of juvenile offences is
one OF the most alarming features OF crime IN our
city. Our readers will recollect that on Monday we
published account of burglary in the 4th ward,
by three boys the Oldest of whom was only thirteen
No small share Of the petty offences adludcated IN
special sessions are committed by this class some OF
whom exhibit klessness and an indifference which
are characteristic of the most hardened in vice. In
1856 about twenty per cent. of all the persons fully
committed for crime in this city, under twenty
years of age.
the most dangerous criminals, by sending occa-
sionally to prison for fifteen years. or for life but it
seems that for every one thus disposed Of multitude
is growing up to the same career. There are thou.
sands of children in our city far removed from the
better influences of civilization as the inhabitants of
the Feee Islands, and the agents of our benevolent
societies engaged in their enlightenment find mission
airy work as abundant as if they were in Hindostan.
The Post is strong Freesoil paper. It never lets
an opportunity slip of casting ilInatured filings at
Shareholders 1t is continually sneering at the South.
It can never see any good in us and always makes it
point to magnify errors, without regard to rea-
son, truth or occasion. In its eyes, because we hold
slaves we are all evil, and only fit to be illuminated
and slandered, by the super-righteous men of the
North. Yet, upon its own showing, state Of things
exists in its own city in regard poor free white
children, which proves them to be worse off morally,
mentally and physically, than the much bepited
Southern slaves! 1t admits that s there are thou
sands Of children in (their) city as far removed
from the better influences Of civilization as the in
habitants of the Fejee Islands, and that missionary
work" is as abundant in New York as it is in Hin
dostan.
Under such circumstances would it not be well for
the philanthropsts of the Post and the philanthro
psts of the Freesoi party Of the North generally to
look at home, to cure home diseases and eradicate
home cancers before profering dstastefu advice to
their more healthy neighbors Common decency
dictates that they should to say nothing Of
humanity; and if they let this large army of little
white sayages grow up, leprosied all over with moral
pestilence, and expend their sympathy in bewang
the condition of the well cared for and well trained
slave, and in denouncing the people Of the South,
they will deserve the contempt and execration Of
mankind, as well as the severe chastisement Of an
offended Providence.
These children, whose woful condition is barely no.
ticed by the Post free white children In the scale
of being they were born the equals Of chill
dren Neither on their forms SKINS nor mental and
physical conformation has nature stamped an unmis
taxable and inefacabe brand of inferiority Not SO
with the negro. On him. far back recorded time
throws any light on the mysterious subject the negro
in shape intellect and color, has borne the badge of
serytude and degradation. Except under the whole
some restraints of slavery the negro has never i'm
proved. The African, in his native jungles, is the
same wild, brutal barbarous cannibal he was three
thousand years ago, and such he will continue until
the providence of an nscruable COP interposes for
his redemption
It will! be perceived, in the quotation from the
Post, that sympathy expressed for these wretched
white demisavages. The Freesoilers have no SYM
patty for anything that is poor and rhe. 1t is evil
dent fears are entertained that they will grow up
dangerous members of the community. We appre-
bend these fears are by means groundless. Well,
as they sow let them reap.