The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-18
The Crescent and its Assailants.


In the speech Of Mr. Perry Warfeld, published
in the Delta Of Yesterday morning, the following
passage occurs, in the midst of some declamatory
paragraphs about pretended distractions thrown in
the way ofthe prosecutors in the Rey abduction CASE
1--WE also might complain that a portion of the
press Of this city have been subsidized TO exculpate
the accused, and have continued from day to day,
to teen with articles calculated to influence the
minds Of the judges and the public, while the
matter was undergoing judicial examination. The
indeeency and mprOprety Of such course are too
maniest.to require further comment"
This broad charge of corruption is undoubtedly
intended for this paper, The Crescent isthat poF-
tion of the press which the orator declares so pos
idyey "have been subsidized The grammar is
his No other paper has taken any pains to stem the
floods OF violent and unreasonable prejudice with
which the case has been urged by the coadiutors
of Mr.. Warfeld. One Of them, who is a great adj
mirer Of Mr. Warfeld, and if we mistake him not,
very much in his confidence in this matteF-being
we believe, the hoaxed of Laborde--has written to
! the Free Trader at Natclez, under the signature
Of Pepper" chuckling over the direct application
OF these slanderous terms, at the time they were
| spoken, to the Crescent, Dynamo. They are now
in print, with Mr., Warield's sanction; and we are
bound TO say of them, that they contain charge
is the coinage of his own invention, or was picked
up in some obscure quarter, unworthy of notice
It Is specimen Of that insolent license Of calumny
in which inferior practitioners of the bar otter
indulge in order to give the appearance of force
weak argument, or a touerng case. It has no
a particle of evidence, or the color Of a fact, By
which to sustain it, butts false altogether, in Who'll,
and in detail, in every form Of assertion or infer
ence ia Whchit can be clothed. There is no ex
cuse. for Mr. Warfed 10 utter such Islander an,
where and we seize the earliest opportunity, ate
it is made public, 10 put our mark upon it plainly
so that he cannot mistake us.
What his personal motives are for the unscrupu
lous course he has pursued in this matter, we shal
not pretend to describe, with all his airs Of know
ledge, But we havea shrewd suspicion, that h
acts as the instrument Of petty clique, to whor
the Crescent is an object of jealousy and hate
The dignity Of that service is an estimate to b
made by the gentleman himself There are mel
ambitious of the priesthood, in country whei
the god is monkey. The subsidy "-perhal
the lawyers might call it the s. honorarium ''-f
such work, ought to be ample
But beyond this wanton aseription Of conuT
motives, Mr. Warield ofends Justice and trut
sull further in the paragraph we quote. He charg,
, that the Crescent has teemed with articles duriT
the tendency Of the case to influence the judg'
and the public in favor Of the accused. Nov
he knows that before the institution Of this suit, an
4 while it has been under examination, large pa
q the city pressdi teem with articles abusive