The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-08

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y -.. Sr.-.1 ~, 81 ereyous was the evil, that
4 !. ls.-.. ,,scsssarv for the people of the upper
TO .,,src. seetion. to appeal to the Legislature
n =. -.ss,.c,,n And 40 apparent was the course
= ,r,,s.s;or. that the Legislature passed the law
Or Idv;d;no the CITY into separate Municipalities.
y The consequences have been most happy--the
feuds and eaousies between the different sections
Q have died sway--national preiudices no longer
nourshed by selfish interests are fast disappearing
The three Municipalities have each regulated their
own local affairs. Why should the system which
has worked so benefcially be now abandoned?
Why should we return to a form of government in
which we OF the Second Municipality are to be in
the minority? But tits denied that we are in the
minority. II il our rule 10 sustain our assertions
by facts. The new charter. section IS" In the
frat election which shall take Mace under This act
each District shall be entitled to as MANY Alder
men AZ il il pow entitled 10 Representative. in the
House Of Representatives Of the State The
statute of the State which xes the representation
, gives To- thu First and Third thiyteea. and the
Il Second slsvsn. See Acts of 1s4s n d Constitu.
tion Ar. 8.
II is true that after the first election. representa
ton will be regulated BY the number of votes and
then. perhaps, the Second Municipalitv NAV
have majority; but this is extremely doubt
full. During the coming wear all the impor.
tant legislation will have been perfected Is
it reasonable to expect that the oity Government
will select our Hall and offices for its use {?
. VIII the representatives Of the third section con-
sent to transfer all the city offices to LAFAYETTE
/ Square. On the other hand, should the Second
Municipality ever gain the ascendancy ii is morally
i certain that we will insist on having the CITY Offices
j up town Hence will be kept up continually tina,
local strife so unpleasant in itself SO injurious in its
consequences to the CITY. Each Muuieipalitv now
E regulates its own affairs-under the new system
this power is transferred to the City Council
Who will best understand the wants of each SEQ.
, | ton Of the city?
: The prca. argument is econOmv II has been
urged that the present system is unreasOnablv ex.
! pensive, There are three Recorders and three
Councils, three Treasurers, three Comptrollers.
We have dared the Delta the sole advocate of con-
! solidaton in the Second Municipality to 60 into
an account with facts and figures 1t had the
courage to say that the expenses of New Orleans
were within $4,000 as large as those of New
York. Fortunately we had provided ourselves with
The official blue-book of New York. and we invited
i that paper to publish the summary of expenses
contained in that account 1t has not answered our
$ proposition. That account would show the enor.
! nous expenditure Of New York. One third of tn
: cost of paving is included in the expenses of New
Iorleans. In New York the proprietors of the
property pay the whole This is uniust-and every
eIman's sense of right cries out against it, But
! adopt that rule here-give to the public paved
streets free of cost and the public debt never would
: have grown up. Adopt it now, and taxation will
be at once reduced one half
The new charter deprives the Third Municipal
,, ity of Recorder Is there any Justice in this
: Is it expected that the two Recorders shall do ali
1 the business now performed by the other three
without any increase of pay 2 And so with the
other offices it will require about the same num-
Der of persons as clerks to perform the duties now
performed by the officers A few thousand dollars
will undoubtedly be saved ; but for this economy
the Second Municipality gives up the exclusive
control over its own local intsrests-its beautiful
+ and costly Hall will cease to be used for municipal
a purposes = the improvement of its streets and
q wharves-the sale Of the batture and the ordi.
nances in regard to the buildings to be there erect
ed--and last their noble system of public schools
i. | the ornament and boast Of the Second Municipal
lity-these will all pass from the control of our owr
2 people, and be governed by the majority composed
y of the First and Third Municipalities III.
e New Orleans differs from other cities in this
that those races who chiefly CON ose its population
live in different sections the Second Municipality
Al | is inhabited by the Anglo.Saxon and Irsb-by
'n those who speak the English language, and whose
II affinities and sympahies are the same. The First
is colonzed by the French, many of whom look for
We ward to return to France and who annua v carry
iii away with them laroe fortunes accurorIa,sd hara
=, - 0 N ,ue - noi
70 De el9oyea ana EXPENDED elsewhere Inc 1hrd
y Is inhabited by the spanish population.
y In the Second Municipality are all the evidences
IN of a permanent population. Men surround them.
selves with the eomforts of bame bers thew rosan
ID l,a al = cs.a,s .od 49, :. f. -
re ~ "'e' eA'e ~ ou sOqu 'ie' " uie mere tuey
he educate their children. As ACQUIRE wealth.
N liberal share is invested in houses furniture and
all the means. appliances and Inquiries Of life That
eyersh anxiety to grow rich and to leave the conn
trv has eiyen place to healthier and calmer feel
ling. Twenty wears ago this was mot the case with
The American sdven,nrer, ht with The ;ndorend-
snc. ~ ,bs;r ~ ~ o; .nd 10 -,
movement man bav. found Ns,y C,,le,n.
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