New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-23
GREATNESS TO ORDER.

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them" The
mvrad .mndedn must have added the last clause OF
what we have quoted with prophetic view to Its
pertinency in this age and this Countrywide patent
factory Of great men. Not year, scarcely month,
passes but some political or other eruption occurs,
and from the popular and heated comnotion Of the
masses some hitherto unknown individual ia elected
high into the zenith Of publicity and is great mani
at once-for in this age and country notofiety is
greatness go be not the notorety Of crime 50 posi-
tive that even the unconscientious public cannot wink
at it. The patent machinery for turning oot great
men is the newspaper press, and it may proudly boast
that its workings have been brought to the most
efficient perfection of operation for it can take In
hand the most inferior material Of humanity, turn it
over ndustriousy, run it through few times and
submit the finished result of its operations to the ap
plaudng people az great man, made to order to
meet the emergency in double quick time, an honor
to its workmanship and competent for the pur-
poses designed as any other machine. The news
papering process that he undergoes brings him ont,
draws up to salient point and observable elevation
whatever pretenson to excellence he may have, and
carefully smothers down out Of sight any adverse
quality. So it is that ninetenhs OF the public men
politicians and others become great"
The Democratic press is unequaled for its ability
in manufacturing political greatness, and might be
safely backed against all the potentaes in chrstendom
and heathenesse, with all their wealth, order and
other glory-conferring powers at command, for ma
king notabilities. might be said that it, too, has
potentate to help IT, but King Caucus does none of
the work he merely recommends the material as fit
and the press goes to work it, with the confidence
inspired by often success, and from the human clay
occupied by an ordinary soul and intellect constructs
miracle of every psrfection-the body OF an Apollo
gifted with the oratorical abilities of dozen Ciceros
the law-giving wisdom of several Soions, the stern
frugal patriotism of sundry Cincinnatuses and the
sefsacrifcing devotion to the public veal Of reg
ment of Deciuses Ito pluralize Ia vulgate)
The approach of Presidential campaign is the
time when the greatness productive powers Of the
Democratic press most in requisiton, for great
men then wanted expressly to order to enact the
executive automaton in the chair of Federal State
and 1t trumphantly vindicated its ability to turn ou
good job from inferior material when it exhibited
as chef deurres of its ingenuity and application
the fresh and hot pressed greatness of its Polk and
Pierce, either fitting the Democratic necessitie
of the times as perfectly as of our first cloth
iers coats do happy customers back. Just nov
the patent factory is waiting for some rough stock
work up for the emergency of 1885, and doubtless i
will soon be selected, turned into the hopper in
caucus resolution report and the grinding commenc
and finish up political image, to be crowned will
the tinseled modern cap Of liberty and grace th
pageant of the 4th Of March, 1861 an impromptl
Cesar-to look down from his sudden hight OF
Douglas, Wse Toombs, Brown, Cobb, and othe
unrewarded but more deserving leaders, each o
whom may exclaim with the disappointed bitterness
of Cassius-
:" And this
| Is become god: and Gas sius is
| w,etchei creature and must bend his body
If Cesar carelesy but nod on him.
aud humbly accept the "Chiltern Hundreds G
cabinet places, missions, and other bones which ma
be distributed after his new highness has been servet
We are curious to see what item of the human ma