New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-27
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY q. 1857
MARRIAGES. AND DEATHs-We will hereafter publish the
simple announcement of marriages and deaths free Oh
charge. s.,is =43Issrtf 3tt,ss. "
Humbue Reform.

We are astonished to find that the very re-
spectacle gentlemen upon the Senate committee
for the reduction of the salaries OF ofhcers IN
this State have reported, as they have The
chairman Of that committee struck us MS re-
markedly sensible and deliberate gentleman,
the last to be Influenced by the rather dema-
gognical disposition to make war upon office
holders, because they were e-holders-gen-
!. tlemen freely selected by the people to transact
the peoples business
The supposition--the most foolish in the whole
range Of suppostions-of some gentlemen seems
to be that the people elect gentlemen to Offices
that are {or ought to beg honorable, only that
the same gentlemen may be pelted, held odious,
and disgraced If an election is in progress,
out sallies the demagogue or half-inebriated
brawler, and shouts at the stretch of his pre-
cious and patriotic lungs Down with the Of
fce-holders.' the same precious and patriotic
hrawler being Away crifcingly willing to
become one of the miserable class whom he SO
vehernently shouts out should be put down
Something goes awry; trade is not as brisk MS
it ought to be; State or Municipal treasury does
not overflow with funds, your patriotic brawler
has not5one dime for drink in his pocket, and
outhe comes into the highways, with his cry,
Wicked and accursed are all ofice-holders!'
The. outs are not ms and, therefore, feel
uncomfortably hungry; they must have some
thing taking" and then comes the enthusi-
astic howl of the hungry and patriotic s'outs y
Hurra! hurra9 hurra III" ''Down with
the of6ce-holders.' Hurra - Somebody
ought, after SO much voracious enthusiasm, to
grow feverishly desperate and terribly energetic
in behalf Of these disinterested gentry. Some
thing goes wrong--there is an overflow COM
mercial panic--an epidemic-any thing who
is in fault, Why, the Office holders, of course;
nobody else, nobody else could be- They did
not keep all creation in good order; they did
not provide everybody with ''Benton mint
drops" they have not scented the carcase of
the dog that was killed in g our alley last
night; in a word, they are ofice-holders and
have done nothing; ofice-holders never do. Ask
the papers--the unfed the hungry, the unter-
rifedly Independents they can tell you
Well, what will these papers tell you, we
mean the unfed, the hungry, C the unterri-
fedly 2 independent! Why, boiled down from
their soupe maigye" defamation, the sub
stance will be, g these miserable office holders
never feed us half starved devils The unfed
paper will tell you, g oh, Mr.. So-and-so is of
our pal ty: he did not vote us that nice little
job; we don't care about that; but, you know,
he is an office holder, and being as such, fair
game, we will give him dig under the fifth rib
you know how dignifed, how disinterested, how
impersonal we are; the thing shall be genteelly
done. Glow far need we travel for an illustra-
ton y Then there are four hungry mongrels
and nnterrifedly Independents they have
blackguarded gentleman through campaign
been entirely unnoticed by him and are aston
ished at his naughty impudence in refusing that
comfortable job to be done on such accommoda.
ting terms!
ii The fact of the matter is, office-holders are
miserable men, elevated to political purgatory.
They are nobodies. They are as bad as felons,
which is thus easily proved; both cost the State
some. money q. e. d, and there is no use of
further argument
But merely to vent our rage and to demon
strate our magnificent patriotism, let us shower
down on their miserable heads few explosives
They are worse than Turk, Egyptian, Malay,
Pariah. Ethiopian. They are public lepers
They are primo .facia rascals. (N.B. If they
don't advertise in our paper They are suspi-
ciaus characters; and the proof is that they
have, sometimes oftener than once, been &c taken
up by the people.
Upon the whole, there ought not to be any
office holders in any event. they ought not to
receive any compensation; generous patriots
ought to live on air and what Providence may
send This is our conclusion
This appears to be the conclusion of our Sen
ate's committee; witness the following schedule
of proposed reductions Asr -s