New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-24


freedom that ours do; they are countless and flowing
from the bounty and providence OF great God, are
spread from valley to valley, from mountain to noun
tain, and from sea to sea. Do we appreciate them
Do we recognize In our hearts the great source from
which we derive these nestimable gifts? Do we
cherish thatove and attachment Of country we should
do? Do we not yield in the security Of ipdivid.
ual prosperity, too much to temporary discourage.
ments and slight disgusts? Do we not too much over
look that if our institutions to endure, to be firmly
fixed in the hearts of the people, the people must not
overlook the obligations Of their political condition
Where every citizen has voice in the government of
his country he should not fail to exerciseit. He should
assert it with the energy and the purpose of the am
bilious and the patriotic statesman struggling for fame
He fails in duty to himself and to his posterity when
he allows indifference to displace his zeal, much
he would fail in duty to his country by refusing to
bear arms in its Defense
Agitators will never cease to threaten the peace
and tranquility of our country. The election Of a
President from the Soutb is to ALLEVIATE the North in
its allegiance to the Constitution and the laws and
the election OF Northern is to be the signal to
dissolve the Union. But where is the bold Caesar who
will attempt to violate the sacred sanctuary of our
freedom 1t has withsto0d all trials, survived all at
tacks, and gained strength in every conflict Who's
so blind and misguided as to suppose the people of
our great country, yes my friends the people Of the
majestic whole and not its factions, Will ever be dis
loyal and unfaithful to the Union of the stars and
stripes of that proud flag that has carried the fame
OF our benefcent institutions of liberty, and their
peaceful achievements to the farthest ends Of the
edTtn. VINO can compute tue enOle59 caamltleS OF
disunion? The dismemberment Of the Republic into
separate confederacies not alone Of North and South
hostile preparations Of bordering States large stand
ing armies unceasing and vindctive wars, and, in
the end military despotism standing triumphant on
the ruins of liberty.
Whenever the Union falls, liberty will perish with
it. 1t will prove the natural death OF free govern
ment.
All local preiadices, all geographical distinctions
should be discarded to avert this awful calamity and
it will be averted Fanaticism has exhausted its
power and is on the wane, the South will and must
stand united on the great principles of its equality and
bers the union of all the States will be assured and
bound together by the golden ties of commerce. the
dspensation OF enlarging intercourse and the ada
mantine claims of interest.
In our day, all acknowledge the power and spirit
of commerce, but we are not more advanced in
knowledge OF its great principles than the ancient
Greeks and modern Italians. When compare our
resources with what they possessed and their
achievements, they seem incredible. The sixteen
States or commonwealth of Greece were contracted
within territorial limits not large as those of Lou
isana This small peninsula, this nursery of genius
and great men, reared cities and PLANTED lourisbjur
colonies the shores of the Mediterranean and Eux.
inc seas and to this day the world has never ceased
to admire the marvellous achievements of this famous
race and its unequaled glory. In generation, and
during the lifetime of Pcrcles, Athens alone founded
| more public edifces. constructed more magnificent
monuments of the arts, than were instituted at Rome
from its founding to the age of Augustus Caesar.
Commerce was the key to this. Its profits
siderable, and its principles were established into
science OF the highest repnte and the most illusri
ons citizens did not dsdain to engage in it. The
fleets of Athens the ancient empress of the seas,
achieved the freedom of Greece the trophies of Ma.
rathon were eclipsed by the victory of Salamis :
thousand ships, for well / know the number
Two fun ired more oersprehd the m 4in'
If commerce made the Greeks the most eminent
equally conspicuous. not only as to its power its
wonderful adaptation to multiply resources, but to
overcome all obstacles, when it the chief policy of
a State to nourish and protect it. The example of
the Venan prosecuting war of twenty -four years
in the seventeenth century against the Turk and
when he stood as the first and foremost military pow.
in the world, is the most instructive lesson in his.
tory of the resources of commercial State The
cnst of this war was computed at two hundred mil.
lions of gold orins-a sum in days, taking into
account the difference in the value of money equal
to six hundred millions of dollars. If the ancient
Greeks and modern Italians wtha commerce limited
to two SEAS obtained eemnence over all other ma.
tons in arts and arms by means of their commerce
and without the agencies OF the compass, of the
printing press, of electricity and steam, what will be
the future of our counry blessed with an enlight-
ened Christianity, with mild laws, with the great
| agencies of modern discoveries, with territory of
boundless extent. with climate of every variety,
and sustaining countless productions, with flag that
carries protection in every sea. AS nation we are
in infancy, and yet what the wonders of our
achievements? What has dug our canals, spanned
our rivers, and built our public ways? What has
Of
continent from solitude, almost within the lifetime of
man? What has reared onr fourishing cities? What
is it that collects and distributes the fruits of the
husbandmans toll? What is it that sent forth our
fleets whose canvas whiten every sea The spirit of
commerce. commerce, the mother of dominion that
spreads knowledge, that duses the arts of civilza-
ton that the missionary to the ports of all nations
to proclaim the great truth of unryalled progress
of our gigantic and peaceful power.
You are among the representatives, of this mighty
spirit which suhdued the hIede in ancient time
| which humbled the Turk, and which broke the do
nlinion of feudal power-which liberated and eman.
cipated Western Europe from its expressions and
barbartes and whose beneficient sway is extended
through every artery of our existence a people
and nation. Commercial faith stands high in New
Orleans; in no place does confidence, in large and
important transactions, prevail so extensively and,
he it said to your eternal honor, that in no city is to
he found fewer examples among the merchants of
the abuse of this confidence. No testimony is of
higher authority than my own engaged for nearly
twenty years in the most extensive business, had
| every facility Of knowing all classes, of appre-
ciatng and of learning their affairs, and in this long
integrity, and l can add another authority, vene-
rated and respected by all. The late and lament.
ed Chief Justice Eustis told me, few months SINCE
that during his judicial term of seven years, but two
cases of fraud in commercial transactions came
before his court, and the offenders were strangers
Boast of your ourishing trade. of your augmentire
fortunes great as it is, it snks into insignicance
with the distinction you have won in preserving the
tiho VI uiSu ihtcStltJ' HdFc styleu
you the representatives in this commercial emporium
of the power have pictured, but, in your calling,
how many are your important duties? Its neces-
ses well as its wants, oblige to reciprocal good
faith and mutual reliance and support, and hence,
willie in no pursuit is integrity more an element of
Success in none to be found higher examples of
conspicuous intelligence and liberality.
The narrative of the voyage of an Indiaman from
Boston to the ports of Chill aud Peru from thence to
Canton and back to London, is a commentary itself
OF the latitude Of Unlimited confidence in commerce.
Merchants and agents residing in distant nations con.
fdel in; exchanges to be made in the commodities OF
various nations, and finally brought back in the teas
and silks Of China, to he disposed of at London and
restore the capital of the original adventure from Bos-
ten Imagine the skill, knowledge and fidelity need
ful in the management of such voyage, which, in
its process, mutpies transactions fer hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and sometimes millions. Can
any system be more beautiful? Can any human EN-.
pl0yment require more knowledge, more Judgment,
skill and foresight? Can anything contribute more
to the benefit of nations than the employment of op
lcnt merchants in finding out and providing for their
wants? Can any ag ncy even equal it in its power
dinse the blessings of useful knowledge and of the
arts best calculated to advance and ameliorate the
condition of our race? The merchant while be seeks
his own Profits in these enterprises is trained to cal
cuate and make losses well gains. He is ofteer
from the circumstances of his profession in condi-
ton to extend relief and to be relieved. Call it neees
stous if you WILL but this begets the habits and the
willingness to serve others, unknown among ether
classes of society. In all ages and among all nations