New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-19
Unwarrantable Abuse,

There is one paper in this city-and that is
the True Delta--which never loses an opportu-
nifty to assault any prominent whig, and in as
saulting such it generally chooses some staid,
quiet man Of family, and heaps upon him every
term of vituperation and indecent abuse We
have noticed this fact before Now, cam
paign is opening, and this True Delta is again
beginning to attack prominent gentlemen, whose
crime is active labor in the whig ranks, and
who offer the temptation of peaceable and quiet
citizens, totally averse to difficulty.
1t opens chiefly upon Mr.. Lathrop This
gentleman may have his faults. We know he
has some. The chief one is a disposition to
legislate too much; but this arises, as will be
plain to every ir-minded man, from a sensi-
tive zeal to meet all the acquisitions his con
stituents may make upon him. This is Mr.
Lathrops great fault--a morbid sensitiyeness
upon the subject of failing, by some possibility,
in the perfect discharge of his duties Hence,
he is one of the most untring, Jealous, devoted
and industrious members of the Legislature:
and, with the best ofmotyes, legisates too much.
But in the eyes of The True Delta, he has
another objectionable fault He has never
SoiASlAiUoOu ~ ny liberal adyer-
tisements; and he is supposed to be connected
with prominent citizens-gentlemen who have
been, time and again, endorsed by majority
of the peoples votes-and who, regardless OF
The True Delta's begging appeals or yitupera-
tive threats, have pursued the even tenor Of
their way, and refused to recognize either The
True Delta or it's conductors The True Delta
is not slow, however, in tracking up whi2
Sheriff, or a wing Constable, who have adver.
Using to give, and in offering to them terms
most ruinous to fair competition in the trade OF
printing.
II the editor or editors of The True Delta had
TO endure one-haf of the vituperation he OF
they pour out upon peaceable and quiet citizens.
he or they would represent to the public Il case
OF outrageous persecution Whatever may
be the faults or merits Of Mr.. Lathrop, there is
no more quiet or mofensive citizen, and The
True Delta would never have spoken of him AZ
it has, had it not known the fact, sucb tbino.
are discreditable to the press of New Orleans
and deserve the severest rebuke.
Inadvertently and blunderingly, by descrh.
ing Mr.. Lathrop as the chosen spokesman Of the
active and prominent politicians Of so large and
populous section of New Orleans as the Second
Municipality, The True Delta pays the gentle
man it attacks a high compliment A contempt
ible or an ordinary man would not be put for
ward by shrewd politicians, to occupy such q
position
This paper proceeds, in the most reckless and
ignorant spirit to charge that the wing major
ity in the Legislature will not pass law organ,
izing d system of Free Banking. Well we
suppose and hope the said wing majority and
the democratic minority will do no such foolish
thing as to pass General Free Banking law
under our present Constitution In the last
elections it was argued, unanimously by the
wings, and to some extent by the democrats.
that convention to form a new Constitution
should be held, chiefly that we might give con.
fidence to those willing to engage in Free Bank
ing, which we could not do under the present
Constitution. Through thick and thin, mud