New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-29

when we come to consider how natural is thu
feeling to wear honors in their newest gloss
and to display q new uniform or
freshly acquired authority to an admiriny
world, this disposition on the part of tn
martial ruler should be regarded by the publ
as an evidence of commendable ambition
And besides, the people should consider tina
there is sometimes natural awkwardness il
some persons when suddenly transferred to t
new field where duties of novel character
are unexpectedly thrust upon them:
New honors come upon them
Like our strange garments-oleaVe not to their
mould
But with the aid of USE"
But when familiarized with the strange gar.
ments, it sometimes happens that even
though they may not be an apt fit, the gar.
ments are worn with some grace. We remem.
Der very distinctly the emotions of pride
which agitated our young heart on coming
into undisputed possession of our first set Of
marbles. We have no doubt, now, in our ma.
turer years, that the unreasonable Joy we
manifested on the momentous occasion must
those who witnessed the manifestations Of
our youthful delight. We were not less
pleased when we afterwards fell heir to ou1
first drum, and the artificial thunder which
we made on the occasion, while very crafty
ing to us, was perhaps not so agreeable to
others. In like manner our frequent demon
STATIONS with Chinese fire crackers, while
perhaps exciting unreasonable annoyance and
apprehension in others, oceasioned us the
most hilarious enjoyment. These were but
the natural ebullitions of our juvenile feel
ings and we would have thought it an evil
dence of the most intolerant spirit if our dis
position to please ourself and to annoy others
had been received with any special show of
impotence. But we have found that the mass
of mankind are usually very tolerant of these
eccentricities of youthful genius-and we
think like commendable spirit should actu-
ate the press in their criticisms on our modern
governors, when first playing with their newly
acquired toys. And with what joyous feelings
we remember the time when, Just emerging
from youth into early manhood, we were first
permitted to bestride steed of our own!
With what pride we taught him the manage!
How delighted were we when he learned to obey
the rein! What pleasure did it give us to see
him champ the bit and alternately to obey
the spur and the curb, as best suited our
varying will
In like manner our people should be taught
to look patiently and approVingly upon those
who have but newly come to power, and to
consider that it is very natural and very praise
worthy in the young and the unskilled to
attempt to attain, by experience, that perfec-
ton in the art of government which, unlike
Dogberry's reading and writing, does not
"come by nature" Though it may at first
seem to be little hard on the subjects of the
experiment, it will soon become q second
nature if they only learn
That the body public is
A horse whereon the governor doth ride,
Who, newly in the seat, that he may know
He can command, lets it straight feel the spur.n
The public should even be taught to mani
fest proper sense of gratitude for being
selected as the steed, whose patient suferings
may be made the means of teaching their
youthful riders a degree of perfection in the
art of government which must, in the end,
reflect credit upon the powers of endurance
and the dociity of the belabored and iaded
steed.
But even if the souls of the Iuckless sub
ects Of this experimental polity should weary
with the constant repetition of the severe
5rials upon human endurance, the tortured
public should be taught to believe that these
playful equestrians are but missionaries in
disguise, sent amongst US by philanthropic
people to wean us from the Elusive dreams Of
,arthly happiness and induce willingness
o risk the tortures of the neither world |
ather than be led a willing captive to the
oft allurements which might induce us to
ling too tenaciously to the Establishments of
arth. In this view of the case the public
mind should be led to contemplate martial
aw as "atoad which, though 'ugly and
enormous, wears yet precious jewel in his
read" the sight of which may insensibly
cad our minds to the contemplation Of the
lopes and the splendors of another, and it
nay be, Of better world, " where the
licked cease from troubling and the weary
re at rest.
General A. s. Lee, who is stated to be a