The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-11-03
The New Orleans Courier and James r.
Freret.

If the Courier is not helping Mr.. Freret's cause
by its course Of abuse, we have no experience in
political matters. The most trivial matters are
brought up against him-the most common place
and unimportant acts are misrepresented, and tor
tured into the matter of accusation.
Every paper in town-even the Courier in the
early part of the canvass-has borne testimony to
the manly character, the honest convictions, the
liberal disposition, the many social virtues Of Mr..
Freret But how does the Courier act now, at the
tation? The Courier says that it has heretofore
made the charges it published on Friday, and that
they cannot be explained away refuted. 1t
may safely stick to that; it may swear to that,
left for Mr. Frerets friends to explain or the pub
lie to examine.
We answered two Of its charges, which were
so ridiculous upon their face although calcula-
ted to deceive the unthinking)-as not to require
a laborous examination of Legislative records. We
showed how supremsly ridiculous are its charges
against Mr.. Freret Of prescribing the press, and
being the enemy of the volunteer soldiery; and it
cannot answer-does not in its Saturdays issue,
even attempt to answer our explanation. Had
we time to go into an examination Of !egislati We
records, and did we not know certainly that, at
this late hour the people will not pause to
examine the merits of necessarily elaborate
answer, we doubt not that we could show tina,
nearly all, perhaps all, as fiimsy, as grossly
and designedly distorted, the TWO we noticed
| on Saturday evening.
But suppose Mr.. Freret has cast some injudi
cious and unwse votes-admt this for argument
! and what then! Why Mr.. Freret is shown to be mo-
wiser than all the rest of creation" as indeed he
would have to be wiser than Solomon to vote RICH
always on the thousand and one, big and little, ques
tons which come up before State Legislature
| Every man of common sense knows that.
But decidedly the smallest thing we have seei
for some time, is the Courier's notice Of the fac
that Mr.. Freret collected debt by suit, with tn
demagoguical comment upon the Sherff's adver
tisement which it quotes) that the following
/ 0Hcdl uOCuIlcHt Will SHoW that pun PcoPic oouie
times fare badly in his (Mr. Freret's) hands
Rich and poor people sometimes collect debts b
suit; and if the courts of the country give theI
Judgment, and the debtor has property lin this
apparently even unimproved, idle real estateD
must be very lawless spirit Of demagoguism who
abuses man for collecting his honest debts.
This mode OF attack upon Mr.. Freret will nj
make character for the Courier or capital for i
party; and when the Courier's correspondent
quote native American letter of VIM. Frere
and say that Jas P. Freret must be held respol
sible for the act of his brother, they make Il
warfare upon Mr.. Freret still more wantonly a
surd and unjust. We may state in this come
ton and in honorable contrast with the course
the Courier, that an advertisement responsib
signed, charging upon Mr.. Marigny (Mr. Ferret
opponenn serious and wanton pecuniary inju
to a poor man. was refused an inserti IN on al
terms by the press friendly to Mr.. Feret al
was emphatically discountenanced by the mel
| bers of the Wing Central Committee. Here
an honorable contrast. Docs the Courier THU
| abuse is to defeat as old, well-known, and an
v able citizen as Mr.. Freret?
At tho old Game. = The Courier appeals