New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-16
The Crescent City-Mr. Law and his state
mems.

TsoIa The Reguouc.
The opponents of the Administration are
unremng in their efforts 70 nisrepresent lis action
IN relation to the Crescent City. We have so repeated
y exposed the lnsccuTacy OF their allegations thai we
have telt disposed to permit their subscqusns statements
10 pass unnoced believing that the country appreciates
the motives and credbty OF the parties engaged in the
and cunhdcn; that the result-which yet
TO ccmc-wi justify the pursued by the Govern
men end establish the truth OF all tha we have urgct
in is defense The importance attached N some quar-
ters 70 Mr. George Laws latest ayermcns seems, hsw
ever 70 require yet another exposure OF the want Of
fairness and fidelity which have tlroug hou chsrst rzei
his movement in this matter His statement Is IN this
shape
OFFICE OF THE L. :. Mail STEAMSHIP CoNriNY.(
NLw-loR Nov. Q, 1852
Inclosed dispatch received from agent at New
ORLEANS by telegraph by which IL sppear5 that while the
Acting Secretary of State C. NJ CoIad giving the
Spanish Minister st :, sshngon the Assurance thl Capt
Crescent City and not b. again allowed to retu he
putting forth in the official organ OF the Administration
vndcate the rights Of American citizens and
the honor Of flag At the time sso h. was en-
deayorug privately 20 have this company dscharge Pusr
Smith and Captain Porter from the Crescent City
TO the Georgia. both of which the company declined
doing behaving then, they do now. that II clstng
an unjust censuTe upon respectaoe citizens who had only
done their duty to the Government 10 their employers and
to their country. This the object IN teegaphiug for
Nh Roberts, the agent OF hs company to come 20 Wash
ngtou and the removal of Captain Porter and Purser
NJ Conrd All these scts show how far our cs s
can rey upon that functonary for the vndcatOn NJ their
rights AGAINST foreign and now feebe mel
fciert Government must become, If influenced
Very respectfully, your obedlent servant,
GEORGE LAW, ProsIdent
All the material points in this statement are incorrect
We understand that Mr. Conrad did not inform tlc
Spanish Minister that Lieutenant Porter ami Purser
Smith should not be again a9'ced to return" to Cuoa.
The Spanish Minister Was informed however that these
parties would not again out IN the Crescent City AMI
for This assurance, grounds existed which believed
10 be yelid. In regard TO Lieutenant Porter, h was
known that he had been rregulary transferred from
the steamer Geors ia-to which he had been originally
assigned by the Navy Deparmonto the Crescent City;
and he bad himself requested 10 be restored TO the com
mlnd OF the former vessel. 1t was known further, in
reference to Purser Smith, that Mr. Roberts the agent
of the Company, while in this City hal declared thar il
was not the intention OF the Company to send Smith
again IN tie Crescent City, and that he, too, would be
transferred to the Georgia
If we are not msniormed, this declaration made
by Mr.. Roberts to at least members of the Govern.
mont. The came gentleman also stated that Smith
On the preceding voyage only because the person
sppoItedn his place had suddenly been seized with
illness The supposition Ut the company al the time
being that certain documents which Lieutenant Porter
had transmitted for presentation to the Captain General
Of Cuba would have sat fed him that his suspicious in
regard 10 Smith unounded, and therefore, that
the order Issued against him would be revoked. We
think that these circumstances viewed conformity,
ranted the only communication made TO Mr. Calde.on
de In Barca upon the subject.
There is manifest absurdy in the idea conveyed by
Mr. Law that the then Acting Secretary OF State
promise 70 the spanish Minister, thN Snltn would not
lie again allowed" TO return TO Cuba Mr.. Conrad AMI
Mr.. Coderon both knew that the Government have no
control over the employees of the company. and
means of preventing Mr. Smith from going 10 Havana
il he thinks proper to do
Mr. Conrads letter published by Mr. Law IN conncc.
ton with this dipach is sufficient TO satisfy any one not
resolved to persist in incorporating the Government
IL shows that the Executive took immediate steps 10 OBJ
tain full INFORMATION concerning the Crescent CIy-that
then addressed communication upon the subject to
the Government of Spainthat the answer TO that
munication has not been receyel-1nd that, whatever
be III character neither the honor the interests of
the country win be neglected. The country. think,
will regard these assurances satisfactory; all the per
versions and wishes OF Mr. George Law TO she contrary
notwithstanding.