New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-10
aw @stsas ash Crescent Saturday sapug September TO- 1859
THE SPIRIT OF Pre- SREss.

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The world ia Uettnp ahead fast. for mora money
ia avery av henv mt IN the prandcst Of the eQiti
mate r,scs az money wit ito devotion to the pur-
uose AZ getting the world ahead. It, withd avail from
the selsh inject or individual ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and
ia axnenditnre controlled by that aumus Of public
anirit which ia mart of the definition OF that ndef
n;ta Init most convenient word "progrcss, direc ed
FIR the greatest good Of the greatest number in &C.
c,r,r,ahinv great worls Of Improvement and extend
n, tba area Of enlightenment. BY the ruling Of
destiny tina bosom of the earth held concealed Its
v..4 vse,th until the nineteenth century came, the
anoch vhen ia boards could be revealed that their
nse should further the prosperity OF all mankind, and
not serve merely for the enrichment OF few despos
Who might be able, robberlike, to grasp with the
arone hand Of abused power nor ss the incentive to
npine and bloodshed perpetratcd BY buccaneer ad-
yenturers. Time was ripe, and tile earth gave up its
Californian and Australian tire: .ures to the guardian
ship of the enlightened nations and men Of the nine
teenth century, to become the instrument OF progress
Their discovery n those regions at once tempted the
march of progress 10 those directions which most de-
manded its inn0vating presence, and guaranteed its
maintenance and and though It 10 dilcuit
for we denizens OF the Atlantic world 70 come TO
proper realization Of the condition Of advancement
already attained by the Pacific world, SO paramount IS
the idea that our quarter OF the earths surface
Europe and Eastern Americas bound for all time
~ almost monopoze the fact and spirit OF supreme
enlightenment, yet generation or so will see nearly
as popuous, and as refined and commercially and po-
cay nations the coasts OF either side
Of the Pacific as now dwell on those OF the North !
cko Eav an Of
vast ocean than they are on this. The great commu-
mites that have been tlanspanted there rather than
grown will thrive more vigorously hence onward thhn
most of the old nationalities of Europe, for they
have not to strive against the traditions Of political
barbarism which are not yet rooted out, that hold
those back but may increase and flourish without let
or hindrance under the fostering auspices of demo-
cratic institutions enjoying the acme Of civil liberty.
California is thus situated now and the promise of
the times that SO will he the other countries along
the coast of the continent and Australia ALSO for the
years may be numbered with reason in the brief es.
innate, that she will hold allegiance to the British
crown. As it is, she is getting along WELLS in ac-t
| vance of much of the world in getting ahead.
| But we alluded to the prevailing humor of the day
Of putting money to grand uses, of looking rather to
the general and public beneft1 to whole countries or
sections which will result from great enterprises than
to the probability of dividends, individual pro6r.
We remark as characteristic OF the day, that men
invest their money 10 schemes for the general good
knowing that SO far as direct returns night be ex
pected they may as we'll toss 1t into the bott0mless
sea but they are filed with the spirit of progress
farther nnrsnadinp their selves that
honsGt v ;nd;roct,v o.crna n tbam and thot tba;r
n,ono, co.t rnon tho vote, az !, wera will retprn
o,,ar n,anv dsvs that e sncb ! lono ra;lroad =
~. ...a., 1s.s 80 :. ~. AZ e -.
DULL or snch canal aug az tne COST OF
revenue, that the price of property will be enhanced,
or business stimulated or that in some way or another
,hay iii roon r;ch ret,rns perba,,s thav NAV nv
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perhaps tney may noe' VI perhaps 'neil Explorations
profit of their fathers adventure Yet in any event
t,ov hove dome vol, in violating the carefo no,icv
'uey na.e wv. W ., ~ W. ~ NJ
which financial moransts OF Tue school OF foof
| Richard inculcate, for Though themselves might
| have been somewhat the richer, a whole nation
r,ora no Tho mower in lacl. of the great work To
Wva. 70 'ne po.. .asn VI n ,ns "o.A ~
which they gave OF tnelr MEANS Inc pohsical econ'
omist will agree with the theoogian that, man IS the