New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-13
a srEoK M THE POLITICAL HORIZON.

Hcnceforward until another fancy rules the hour
with despotic sway the Gothamitish beanx are per
mitted to promenade the crowded streets of their
dusty metropolis without danger Of having their val
liable brains baked by the ardent rays Of the mid
summer sun, the beamy arrows which he launches
with sptefu and concentrated ferocity in those lat
tudes as 1t were to make amends for the brevity of
his reign by its decided and tyrannous character
Hitherto the diiletant of the fine art Of fashion have
resgnedly sweltered through the dogdays upheld by
the satisfactory consciousness that they were mar
tyrs in the cause to which they were pledged but
henceforward duty may 80 hand in hand with com
fort, for we have the recorded authority of the New
York Express for the pleasing announcement that
it is not questionable to carry umbrella in
the street to keep off the sun the masculine gender
may do it as well as the feminine, without being
vulgar
Fashion is confessedly eccentric to degree in Its
whims and vagaries, but is rarely without some
reason more less plausible to render for its edicts
but we should like to know what reason under the
it could have had for prescribing the use Of UNI
brellas to keep it of in New York city, and branding
them as vulgar and altogether unworthy of being q
part OF the summer promenade equipment Of gen.
teman. They certainly do not injurously affect the
impression Of his presence, unless they are cotton
pent ROOFS huge and faded; and they are assuredly
powerful allies in securing comfort We cannot think
why the sensible habit Of carrying umbrellas should
have been so long frowned upon by the Northcoun.
trymen, unless it was because it was Southern fash.
on and therefore unworthy their adoption. Perhaps
this was it after ALL and if 80, then we may consider
the kindly feeling toward umbrellas as being omin.
ously significant, as having political portent, as
manifestation Indicative Of growing feeling of ami
ability toward the South, and may conclude that UNI.
brella toting will become political test-the um.
brella toters ranging in well sheltered phalanges in
the ranks Of the proSonthern sympathizers and op-
posed to those who religiously and upon high sec.
tional grounds regard the parapluie as mschievous
and designing propagator Of pro-slavery principles,
and who will conscientiousy scorn its contact, but
prefer to walk through drenching showers rather
than accept the protecting Intervention of SO wicked
and incendiary an emissary of the diabolic arch
end Who the chief architect in putting up slavery
platforms, did nefarously incorporate the umbrella
plank Herewith, insidiousy crafty and dishonora-
bly, to attack them the sly and do them the exceed
ing and vital damage which so subtle an invention of
the enemy is well calculated to.
So 1t may be, until in 1.-The streets of Boston man
will no more dare to sport an "umbereln than one
would to wear hostile cut of beard in the domains
Of the late King Bomba. Down with the umbrel
las T. will be the mob shout when stranger dares
to hoist the weather shielding Southern standard and
down it will come not only from its state of expand
ed dignity, its spread eagle extension but down into
the gutter and beneath the feet Of indignant and out
ragged patriots, its whaebones broken, its staff shat
tered its fabric dishonorably rent, and its desecrated
remains dragged in brutal triumph through the be-
fouling dust The umbrella is but speck in the pc.
litical horizon as yet but it may "spreadn until it
| overshadows the whole country like the canopy of
the sky its agitation sending forth the thunders of
discord and the lghtnings of strife.
It is our present intention to address letter to
Judge Douglas, asking him to define his position on
the umbrella We also would be delighted to hear
from Senator Slidell and Governor Wise.