New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-23

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4 Constitation Organizes the Supreme Court with
81 odd apsShSs ths ia present one with
q fbur. which lesses ! beautiful chance for an
I, eousi division and ! valueless appeal 81.
Bit il nptics. briefly, . few Of the NONSENSE
tcal objsctions 10 tho halforasy, and allviolent,
4 vitupsrssise snd demagoguical denominations Of
Il III @Mlotponents Of the new Constitution.
i 1st The Total Population Basis. We do not
approve and never. have approved Of it. How
ver, we do not deem il necessary to dll child
because it has a crooked fore-fnger. M
Now We prefer the more sensible operation Of
attempting to straighten it. In like manner,
We prefer resorting to the improved facilities 81
amending the Constitution, to remove this fea-
ture, rather than to kill the whole instrument
outright. But the assertion that ss it reduces
the white man to an equality with the negro
is gross untruth and humbug. No negro can
vote under the new Constitution, las every man
of common sense, in q slave State, ought to
know and every man votes one vote, no more
and no less, whether he owns thousand slaves
| or not q single slave. The total population
basis was adopted only in an effort to save New
Orleans from unjust restrictions, and it soi1 be
speedily amended.
"a. Banking. Here, again, there has been
the most wi1lfu1 and reckless Misrepresentation
The new Constitution does not authorize or
countenance continuance Of the present ssys-
tenn Of State Banking, and it requires q rather
hardened cheek tosay the contrary We quote
what it says; al
Article lis Corporations with banking discounng
under general laws; But the Legislature shall both
procide the registry Of all bills otes issued put
ciatic as money and shall require ample security for the re-
6 REGIsTRY,n SAMPLE SECURITY" required,
redemption g in specie'! Why, this is Of the
very essence of G FREE BANKING, the best and
most popular system of the day, and as unlike
the present system as day to night
Again:
Article 119 The Legislature shall have power to
recy the suspension Of specie payments by any person.
association corporation issuing bank notes Of
description idssssa 81
d 50, the new Constitution makes the payment
Of specie peremptory.
\ And lastly (and all we find in the new Com
stitution) 20 9aliasa sae q Aeas B
Article 100 In case Of insolvency Of any bank or bank
ing association The bill holders Mere shall be entitled to
preference in payment all other creditors Of such bank
association Il
Article 1911 The Legislature shall have power to pass
such laws as it may deem expedien for the relief
revival Of the Citizens Bank Of Louisiana and the
already passed for the same purpose ratified and
frmed Provided that the bank is subjected to tho
stituton.'
E Now, we would ask of Messrs Warren 3.
Noise and Seth Barton if they did not labor to
secure the introduction of that clause about the
Citizens Bank They are two prominent demo-
Gratis, one Elector for the State at large, the
other law partner Of Hon Pierre Soule, achois
largely interested IN Tie fate ct The Citizens
Ban, and mast probably does not care to see it
annihilated.
Louisiana voters look at the contrast be-
tween the present and the new Constitution.
See, how, in the main, the latter is superior to
the former
Note that the ud-tongued originators of the
agitation against the new Constitution here, are
chiefly men of anti-slavery origin, anti-slavery
education, and ingrained anti-slavery senti-
ments, and that when they condemn as g infa-
nous 2 the total population basis, from the very
violence of terms, they logically suggest an
attack upon the representation Of the South in
Congress What is e infamous . in one place,
must be SC infamous everywhere s
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