New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-04-17

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II Mary Theodore was tried for larceav. foura
guilty and aentenced to two months ii the Parfss.
Prison. - : = = = =
guilty. = -'sS''s al@ i'u'''. 'n'
guilty. A IS AZ, 80 .'u''s
y z. Reidelhnher was tried for assault and bas
tefy put the showing was such tfaas tiIe rroxo
cutting attorney requested the jury to acsuit hirr
and the jury did so. ',ss : - e
hiacauiay's Opinion OF the United State.
Government.
The following letter was written in the year 1854
| by the late Lord Macaalay to HenFy B. Randall.
Esq, Of New York, the author of the Life of Jener
| son:
| You are surprised to learn that have not high
opinion of Mr. Jefferson-a am little surprised
/ at your surprise. am certain that never wrote
line, and that never, In Parliament, in CONVEX
sation, Or even in the hustings place where Il ID
indicating opinion that tie supreme authorftv N
State ought to be entrusted To majority of tig
4 citizens told by the head--in other words to ira
poorest and most ignorant part Of society. have
long been convinced that institutions purely demo
cratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or
civilization, or both. q
In Europe. where the population is dense, the eff
feet Of such institutions would be almost instata-
neous What happened lately ia France Is an ex-
ample. In 1S4S, pure Democracy was established
there. During q short time there was reason To-
expect general spoliation, national bankruptcy,
new partition of the SOIL a maximum of prices q
ruinous load of taxation laid on the rich for the
purpose of supporting the poor IN idleness. Such
system would. in twenty years, have made
France as poor and barbarou5 as the Carl0yingans.
/ Happily the danger was ayerted and now there
4 is a despotism silent tribune, an ensaYed press
have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a.
purely ddmocratic government here, the effect
4 wOuld he the Either fhp rlr4
/ der the rich and civilization would perish, or
order and property would be saved by a strong
military government, and liberty would perish.
/ You may think that your country enjoys an ex-
emptlon, from these evils. will frankly own to
/ you that am of o very different opinion. Your
fate believe to be certain though i deferred by
| physical cause. long as yon have boundless
extent Of fertile and unoccupied and. yonr Labor
| ing population will be far more at ease than the
laboring population of the old world; and, while
that is the case, the Jeffersonian polity may con-
tnue to exist without causing any fatal calamity.
But the time will come when New England will be
| as thckly peopled as Old England. Wages will be
as low, and will hactuate as much with you as with
us. You will have your Manchesters and Birming--
hams, hundreds and thousands q artisans viii a.
4 suredly be sometimes out of work. Then your in
| sttutons will be fairly brought to the test Dia-
tress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and
discontented, and inclines him to listen with eager
ness to agitatars who tell him that it is monstrous
iniquity that one man should have million while
another cannot get a full meal.
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and sometimes little rioting But It matters little.
For here the sufferers are not the rulers, The sH-
preme power IS in the hands of GLASS; numerous
indeed, but select of an educated class, of class
which is, and knows itself to be, deeply interested
in the security of property and the maintainance
1 of order. Accordingly the maleontents are firmly.
yet gently, restrained. The bad time is got over
without rohbing the wealthy to relieve the INDECENT
The springs Of national prosperity soon begin TO
flow again: work ii plentiful; wages rise and all
is tranquility and cheerfulness. have seen Eng
land pass three four times through such critical
/ seasons as have described. Through such sea-
! sons the United States will have to pass in the
course of the next century, if not of this How will
/ you pass through thems heartily wish you o
| good deverance. But my reason and my wishes
are at war and cannot help boding the worst.
| 1t is quite plain that your government will never
be able to restrain distressed and discontented
ern%ea 9 haa ss rs s @se sre aWags
| majority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will
come when, in the State of New York, a multitude
of people, none of whom has had more than half a
/ breakfast, CT expects to have more than half a
dinner, will choose legislature It is possible to
doubt what sort Of Legislature will be chosen? On
one side is statesman preaching patience, respect
for vested rights strict observance Of public faith.
On the other Is q demagogue ranting about the
tyranny of capitalists and usurers, and asking why
anybody should be permitted to drink champagne
and to ride in a carriage, while thousands Of
honest folks are in want of necessaries. Which Of
| the two candidates is likely to be preferred by q
i working man who hears his children cry for more
/ bread
i seriously apprehend that you will, lii some
i such season of adversity as have described, do
things which will prevent prosperity from return-
ing that you will act like people who should, in
year of scarcity, devour all the seed corn, and
thus make the next year year not Of scarcity but
Of absolute famine. There will be, fear, spolia-
ton. The spoliation will increase the distress.
The distress will produce fresh spoliation. There
y nothing 70 stop you. Your constitution Y All
sail and no anchor. AS \ said before, when d 80
ciety has entered on this downward progress
either civilization or liberty must perish. Either
some Cesar or Napoleon will seize on the reins Of
| government with strong hand, or your republic
will be as fearfully piundered and laid waste by
barbarans in the twentieth century as the Roman
Empire was in the fifth-with this difference, that
the Huns and Vandals, who rayaged the Roman
| Empire, came from without, and that your Huns
and Vandas will have been engendered WITHIN
your own country by your own institutions
Thinking thus, of course cannot reckon Jefter-
son among the benefactors OF mankind. readily
admit that his intentions were good and his abiii-
ties considerable. 0dious stories have been circu-
lated about his private life; but do not know on
what evidence those stories rest and think it
probable that they are false, Or monatronsly exag-
gerated. have no doubt that shall derive bott
T pleasure and information from your account 0i
him.
/ THE LOVE OF WoMAN.-Ohi the priceless value
of the love of true woman! Gold cannot pur
chase gem SO precious! Title and honors con
fer upon the heart no such serene happiness. Ii
gratitude, with corroding care gather thick around
and even the gannt poverty menaees with his skel
eton finger, 1t CLEANS around the soul with an an
gels smile. Time cannot mar its brllliancy, dis
tance but strengthens its influence. bolts and bars
can not limit its progress, it follows the prisoner
into his dark cell and sweetens the home morsei
that appeases his hunger and n the silence m n; &.
: midnight it plays around his heart, ana IN nis
7 dreams he folds 10 his bosom the form OF her Wno
still though he sGs woTd hs ss s aa Rands s0as u
Hawai- one Is soft 10 the weary limbs of the sick suf
and s potiaa TSs lsw hy fss
d;nsted nv her brings repose to the fevered brain
and her words Of hind rasise sha, s me
: eamnassjonjnr Womans first great fralty, had
planted this jewel in ner breast, whose heaven.
Q remembrance Of the fall. by building mp in his
heart another Eden, where perennial flowers for
ever bloom and crystal waters gush from exhanst-
less fountains. fStratton.
An old bachelor who had procured a marriage
license for friend, while ganeing over it, was
heard TO solleqaise thus : s. Can't do it-would