New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-08

We are to have this in religion also--if the ehurc
and civil government cannot carry out their prir
/ ciPles, why then we must have irreligion and al
| archy.
We must and we will have free speech and
free press. am opposed to neither. But shal
| never, for these reasons, allow that men ought Il
be released from q just responsibility to religion
| and morality, the requirements Of law, or tn
| healthy and conservative obligations of moderl
society. The freedom that ia abused to the end
| OF defamation, strife and sectional anmosty, il
| worse than the restraints of despotism. We mus
have rules of conduct, precepts of morality, law
! defining our civil duties and political relations
which it ought to be considered crime, under AM
circumstances, to disregard, and the infraction 0
ought to excuse.
| The most melancholy accounts continue TO bt
received from India respecting the progress of the
famine. The crops in the north have entirely
| laed, ana the continuation of the drought in thu
south threatens like calamity. 1t is estimated
| mat i've hundred people-men, women and chill
dren-persh daily from hunger, and that full forty
millions OF souls are exposed to be cut OFF in the
same dreadful manner. Every thing, indeed is
being done, both by the rich natives aud resident
Englshmen to abate the calamity. But relief car
reach but comparatively few. The export of rice
and other grains has gone on until the present. and
ne country Is left with but few resources. Many
inhabitants in remote parts of the country cannot
be reached by any means in possession of the au
thorties, and whole villages and even cities, are
exposed to depopulation. Not only human beings
put inc brute creation necessarily suffer and per
| ish since their food is burnt up by the sun
every green thing, deprived Of moisture, is with
cred and scorched, so that no nutrment remains
in it.
Over those vast plains the air sweeps like the
breath OF furnace, and even in the jangles the
tiger pants beneath the oppressive air. Along the
water courses and canals alone strip of verdure
appears, and the herds gather there with the fam.
ishing people, often but TO die. And these bright
spots amid the universal steriity seem to show
the magical and almost creative power of water in
those tropical regions, while they awaken many
ungracious reflections upon the pernicious effects
or the English rule in India. The native princes
VINO understood the wants Of the country and its
exposure 10 drought, caused canals to be dug and
other means of irrigation to be established in those
parts where water was scarCe-the latter by
means Of wells and hydraulic machines. But the
English, whose sole object has been to dethrone
the princes and seize their territories and treasures
have suffered those of irrigation to go to de-
cay. They have been engaged in war and intrigue
and nave sought rather to subdue ana impoverish
the country than to benefit it. Their boasted inst
tutions Of learning and religion have made no i'm
pression-n0 lasting impression, certainy-upon
the native population, for their rapaGity and cru
city have counteracted all efforts in that direction
The late Sepoy war is sufficient proof of this to
any reasonable man who may desire to doubt it,
1t Is that thirst for gold, of which British writers
accuse every other nation, which has carried "a
pine and war into every country upon the face OF
the globe under the red cross of ST. George that is
now devastating the East. England, unGnestiona.
bly,, ia great nation, and her history is illustrated
by great men and great deeds but for all this,
her policy towards other people has been agrees
i've cruel and destructive. And no man who
calmly surveys the current policy of her Govern
ment can accord her reputation for humanity and
consistency. II she has been systematically fanat-
zeal on the subject of African slavery, she has on
all other points, showed herself the foe Of popular
liberty and free Institutions. On the continent OF
Europe she has been the first to encourage revo-
l1tIons and the first to f0rsake them in their hour
of need.
1t s, therefore, an awkward moment for English
phlanthrOpistS TO date upon their love for free
dom aud adherence of slavery. No amount, in
time or numbers, of negro vassaage can equal the
wholesale expressions and atrocities of the British
national policy. And yet letme add the qualifying
remark, that England has done all this for the sim
pie reason "a reason that might apply to any other
nation under like circnmstances-that she has
possessed the power to do it. Every other ma
ti0n-trance, Austria. Prussia, Spain, etc.-has
acted in like manner to the extent of its ability
A permanent majority in your country might do
the same For it is human nature to Justify the
use OF power to obtain the objects it DESIRES no
matter how used. Thus every man in England may
be humane, generous, kind-hearted person: and
yet the nation under the guidance of policy thrift
and pride, become an instrument of unmtgated
evil. believe that Engshmen, as individuals, are
aboIItonists; but as nation, they are ready to
sink entirely out Of sight all considerations of prn
cpe, for the sake Of their interest. Indeed if the
truth must be confessed, nation as one among
the great family of nations can subsist and attain
power, upon mere princpe-unIess that principle
always accord with its interests.
The Duchess Of Kent mother of Queen Victoria
is dead. The court will, of course, go into mourn
ing. II is required as mark of honorable respect
but we do not suppose is test of countrys grief
The London Times is as much at loss to discover
what Mr.. Lincolns policy is, from the substance O
his inaugural, as am; and, so far as can see as
yon are. 1t says very truly and justly, In Mr.
Seward, the President has chosen man whom the
commissions of the country have terrified into mod
Grafton. He has been overcome by the complete
fnllilment Of his own prophesy"
The same paper says, with some little bitterness
in its tone, :" So we fear q sapgunary conflict is
really becoming imminent, and that the interests Of
this country will be strongly secured to that dyi
zion Of the republic which hugs and fondies the
eternal cause of slavery"
The trouble of the Times is, that it has made q
great mistake heretofore in assuming that Govern.
ment would not recognize the Confederacy; and
now it eats its own words with as i'll grace as
Pistol ate the leek. a. T. K.