New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-06
n Morning RambIe.
For the New Orleans oresceut.l

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n Morning Ramble.
For the New Orleans Cresceutl
How pleasant the thoughts that arise at the
mention Of stroll, amid sweet spots and tranquil
scenes, before the busy world has awakened to
knowledge of day; before man, crazed with
ayarice, lust of power and love of tyranny-his
whole nature warped by the unchristian, inhunasn
and base passions which he has allowed to obtain
| the mastery over his better impulses has risen
| from his feverish couch, to rush forth to battle
| with his fellow creatures for the attainment Of
his unhaiowed aspirations. When the rambler
can reflect while gazing on the slumber- wrapped
city, that though the many thousand human
souls around him are totally obliviOus to pass
ing events, and even of their own existence,
that there is an all-wise, all-powerful and
all merciful Providence watching over them, in
whose hands they are safe. awoke few
mornings since before the new day had been
ushered in by light and while retiring nights
sable mantle yet hung over the surface of the
earth, to carry into effect determination formeda
short time previous, to indulge in the pleasure a
morning walk ever has afforded me. l directed
my steps toward that, to me, most enchanting of
localities, the Jackson Square, desiring to again
experience the delightful sensations that thrilled
my heart when ! FIRST, from that beautiful position
beheld the sun rise. As ! entered the gate,
CHANGING around the pretty little square, with its
many serpentine walks of SHELLS, laid out 9Th
true artistic taste and in the most striking aud
pleasing manner, with its beautiful shrubbery and
trees TRAINED in many unique and fantastic shapee
With its generous supply Of sweet ana fragraH;
roses and last though not least its fine statue Of
the " Hero of New Orleans, the chiyalrous hon
eft Andrew jackson. | thought that no square
had ever seen equalled it in beauty. The statue
Of the man Of the iron wilt surrounded BY
beautiful trees and tasteful shrubbery set in tht
center of the most lovely square of the magnifi
cent city which he so nobly defended, was enough
to send thrill Of honest pride through any hear
!, susceptible Of generous sentiments. ! felt happy
to see that the gallant " Crescent City, had no
, forgotten the hero who saved her the
humiliation of capture at the hands of a
! foreign enemy that New Orleans still revered
the memory of him who never ,despared
of his ability to defend her. Noble follower
in the footsteps of Terentius Varro, who in the
darkest hour of her peril, when the Carthaginians
were, we might say, laundering at her gates, did
not despair of the republic of Rome. While gaz-
ing the bronze cast of the noble features Of the
departed hero, sighed to think that no fit sue
cessor has appeared to take up the sword that
death has wrenched from his grasp. and like him
to fight for the right, in the forum and the halls OF
legislature, as well as on the ensanguined field of
battle. Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble
bloods" was the cry that escaped the lips of the
noble, high-minded Cassus, while contemplating
1.-the degeneracy of his day. How applicable is the
sorrowful exclamationof Cassus to our own dis