New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-12
J. old ami Young A1nerIea.

The St Louis Leader contrasts the respective
merits Of Old and Young Amerca in the following
style; ~ a. :.
everybody who Is in his senses. To those who are
not, we shall NOS argue; since they all prefer II
already,
Is exemnlitied and embodied In the difference between
4 Hope and Fruition. Old America is only what we
already have enjoyed; and certainly that is vastly
4 little in comparissn with that Young America gives
rs by the figure Of anticipation. Old America IS at
| hest our mere cash ia hand, our hard money, oul
houses, lands, and everything that we have realized
| Young America is, promises to pay, the rag mill Of
The paper currency Of politics. Old America was
good plain, substantial, hearty, odashioned dinner
Young America invites us to prodigious supper o.
wind, a Barmecide feast Of imaginary danties. Now
who win compare our poor enjoymepts with oul
grand expectations, our attachments with our hopes
Young America is an expectation /; and it is our ex
pectations which are the chief scarce of human hap
piness.
Bodily and personally, the difference between thu
two can be made still more palpabe. That knayisl
and shallow set OF people, those drvelers who found
ed our institutions, after fighting for them Ole
America and the sages, the patriots and the heroes
who are pulling them down, are Young America
WASHINGTON is the image Of the intensest old fogy
ism while Mr.. Stephen Douglas is the sublime rep
resentatve and inventor Of Young Americanism.
Old America went about with heavy burden o.
knowledge on its back and the shackes OF sense and
morals on its heels Young America has cast them
all off and runs light and unfettered.
And what after ALL is the march OF mind but this
What signifies the spirit of the age If dispirted
world is TO the gives Of cid grievances assumed
for it by another generation the bilboes forged for 1t
by its athers2 No; reason and history, Cobbet and
Greeley Walker and McNutt, reject alike, as totally
undemocratic, the sergile supposition. Everywhere
thought has at last broke jail and burst the old prison
bounds. Old prejndices but chains which tie grow
ing bigness OF our limbs has burst. 1t Is time had
knocked off the manacles of matrimony along with the
tramnlels of all other tyrannes 1t is true when God
said, Z" Increase We and multiply" he as good as said
''marryW but Eoisa in Latin, Rousseau in French
Nautilus in prose, Shelly in verse, Goodwin, Wolsten-
craft, Greeley Il Co., in what is duer than prose
while more frantic than verse say, Don't il is a
very foolish business. Twill get you into trouble
and especially into the worst Of all troubles, domes
tic lis life of scolding, squalng, Stops, swad-
dEngclothes, Of candles, cradles curtain-lectures,
Grim. cons; doom of much debt and no diversion ;
condition OF woe and washing days, of long bills
and short commons--except those commons which
are not short---namely, Doctors Commons. What
but a wife brought Hercules and Sampson, Lord
Byron, George the Fourth. and Sir Francis Bnrdett
Job the Tishbite and Potiphar, Meneaus of Sparta
and the uxorlous King David, Marc Antony, and St.
John the Baptist, Peter the Third and Pope JOAN
0thello and Monsieur Laiarge, Agamemon and Sir
Peter Teazel, the good Socrates and Cardinal VOL
sey, Macbeth. Punchineo, the deserving Werter
and the discreet Blue Beard, to an untimely end
Fill the earth, indeed! Fill hdde-sticks! No; fill
your fobsi Posterity did you say fig for pos
terityl IT'S mere fam. What has posterity done
for you or me2 Why, you're posterity, I'm pos
terty and very great regard and gratitude, to be
sure, have we for our parent, the pastW
!" Six feet in his boots ~ exclaimed old Mrs. Bees
wax What will the imperenee of this world come
to. i wonderI Why they might just as reasonably
tell me that man had six heads in his hat.n