New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-18
wAsuaaToN CORRESPONDENCE.

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Monthly, afirms that ID the approaching mechanseal
| milenIum. slavery. whether Of man Or beast VIII
cesse 10 exi4t and that steam men and steam horses
viii rerf4r 4, ali the drudeerv Of earth Horses and
hod4carriers will become learned pundis, while cows
i and niceercooks rise to princesses and rulers Of
i Women Rights Conventions This i undoubtedly
70. for Yankee bssl. said IL move therefore that
The lirst steam man he newspapercofrespondent
for IL truth. nothing less potent than steam viii
/ eyer eosctualIy run der masheenn Of the human
intellect ID weather 50 swetering as this. The cor
respondent Of the Crescent finds to his cost that there
! Il a. immense difference between steam man and a
steamiug man. The former might do what the latter
feels he ought to do, but cannot. viz make his final
letter an interesting and instructive resume Of the
dopgs aud prospective effects of the first session Of
the thirty fth Congress whereas the latter, labor
ing under an Intensely nirst and bilious ncompetency
resignd his steeEpen scepter with a half hope Of
charity on the part Of those who have borne with
him 50 long. but with an almost absolute certainty
that they will curse him and consign him to the
horrid " land Of Hepzidam, where we have been
Jed to believe that the dreadful lion roareth' and
the mysterious q wangdoodle moaneth for his first
born " II 50 be as how this deporable fate awaits
your correspondent, be must cen submit, aud rest
forever more hereafter, satisfied that there Is Prov
dence which shapes cur ends rough, hew them how
We wil
In word, we may sum up the results of the first
session Of the Thirty First Congress thus coun-
try distracted, treasury bankrupt, corrupt party
stl in power, and but little hope OF better and
brighter day Kansas is not settled, Utah is not
settled, nor the Central American question, that
with Paraguay nor the new question with England,
nor the foreign question in any form. AS to internal
affairs, we find two provinces in state Of siege or
assault, treasury utterly Quilted, national debt
rapidly accommodating with adequate provision for
an increase Of receipts or reduction of expenses
want Of confidence in commercial circles. and want
Of confidence only in all existing but in all posi-
BILE parties. The Democracy indeed stand somewhat
irmer in their shoes than at the outsetting Of the
session-the anti-Lecompton split not having been
80 disastrous as was supposed; but a fearful ac-
countablty for federal extravsgance and cabinet in
competency awaits them. If the party shall be
sustained il it shall be retained in power it will be
not because men have confidence init, but because
In the party ux and turmoil Of iactous and uncon-
sodated opposition nothing that is not more unstable
and unreliable than Democracy can be discerned.
Good men, or rather men who are both good and
sangnine, believe that the elements Of pure and
firm party exist in the country, and that these ee-
ments can be gathered together and Fixed in an or
ganic and harmonious whole but wiser men per-
ceive no such shining potent in the political sky.
All IS dark there, and growing darker Doubtless
excellent governmental elements underle our social
chaos or are ntermixed With it, but under the Attain
team pressure Of that popular sovereignty to which
Democracy has consigned as, these elements must
remain conquered and dormant virtually non-exst-
ant without chance Of sufficient upheayal.
Here then Is the great danger Affairs from bad are
constantly growing worse, as popular sovereignty,
by virtue Of brute numerical force, pushes its more
and more perfect representatives into the seats Of
power, dspeing veness BY vileuess still more vile,