New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-04
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 4. 1862.
Flacide, his Attorney, and the Supreme
e Coprt.

& Consists Of . legal argument which Mr. Pl,
eide never troubled himself to make NJ
Placide must repudiate his attorney, or he mu
BE- responsible for him, We agree with h
attorney, that the Z abusive hand bill y may |
may, is, very harmless. . It is ridiculor
that either should attempt to bring SO eminer
y md able gentleman into odium and contemp
" because he rendered q judicial opinion.
We have now before US copy Of the amusn
hand bill. signed in the proper name Of tn
attorney Of Mr. Placide 1t is addressed g 7
the Honorable p. "A. Rost. Associate Justice {
the Supreme Court. 2
It opens in the following singularly imperti
nent style. Wequote the exact language of tn
hand bill:
You promptly disposed yesterday of the applies
ton for reearng in the case Of Emeie Drevile dit Baro
Us. 7. Placide, in which your for Judgment
doubt owing to the moisture your glasses though
PENDANT not disposed to ascrbe the hostility Of you
establishment TO spirit of competition. Heis aware tbs
tse taking q the American Theatre on recent occasion
was the act Of individual member of your company
The letter portion Of sthis question, as
plainly appears, refers to Judge Preston, in hi
speech upon the Convention question. TIL
sentence Immediately succeeding is no less i'm
pertinent and offensive. We give it literally
& italics and all
It the first night Of the italian Opera at th
Varieties and the manager was, believe consoed b.
your personal attendance know at any rate that OF
the nights 81 Maria de Rod when the Ballet appeared
uer in attendance 1mpeed by the same generosity
the proprietor Of that institution visited the American
the Associate Justice starring it before iscrimi
mating audience.''
This is what we call, rather cool defiance
Of the grave respect which free and intelligen
community habitually pays to republican
Judiciary.
The singular placard proceeds in the follow
ing Language. It should be recollected that thu
placard is addressed to Judge Rost. The quo.
tation which we make refers to Judge Pres
ton, beyond all doubt or contradiction
Your ustrious colleague that occaaion imagined
horrible thing Of your court and then forth
sasp this distinguished elephantine performer striking
&c attitude rather ungracefu for the stage this S-
august tribunal had encountered successfully any sore
temptation or had merely had opportunity to take
bride was not depicted BY this great That in his
of brbes Is obvious by the text and considering how little
connection it to have with law and indeed with
comon sense the proposition was natural enough But
courts never take brbes than they perform
theatres Either would be the individual act Of the mem
Der and your taking brbewoud disgrace that
disgrace you.n
This would seem the furthest limit of private
insolence to judicial decisions But the Ian
guage Immediately following is the most singu-
larry outrageous, and libellous, and black
guardish that could possibly be addressed to a
gentleman Of the judicial position, and of the
many eminent private virtues, Of Judge Rost:
II is not however my intention to advance the impn
aton which to have been either apprehended or
invited by your colleague. Judge who, from whatever
motive dsregards or perverts facts and adopts Illegal
TO make an act Of injury appear plausible
could add but little to the weight of his by
the taking Of bribes But where there is one man who
viii not avoid the taking of brbes there are fifty men
Who wiz not avoid the admiration and the pursuit bal
let girls your name is enrolled upon the list of sapdns
Who compose the latter suffer to congratulate you at
least upon your alleged exclusion from the other,'
Next we have the following choice declaration
as the opinion Of Mr.. Placide's attorney:
Whatever associations, In your mind may have OBJ.
your Of facts impaired your feeble
infected and sicky character of its product capable Of
demonstration'
Then we have this distinct questioning of the
yeracity Of Judge Rost !:
You elsewhere speak Of this witness as unmpeached
Ais testimony contradcted in its material facts by
IS well IS in itself But notwithstanding this
and his stisafion of the dismissal
you say ne Is unimpeachedn
Somewhat to substantiate this, we have the
following declaration in reference to the sstrans
cript''--a statement which must be amusing
enough to every practical lawyer
The Transcript contains evidence that subject
.na nave learned BY inquiry at the clerks office Of the
any part Of the Court any body for the Court non
coy cody else has ever called there to examine the orig
nal, pending the appeal.' |
~ i. sa
me next thing that we note is q plain charge
Of dishonesty against Judge Rost and his asso-
ciates Of the Supreme Bench.
upon these assumptions you refuse to- reverse the
appealed nom and proceed gradually to the
And again we have this style of language.
provision, y etc. W '''A's-"' 'i's
And, again, we find this impertinence adj
dressed to Judge Rost
you sitting IN Judgment in the last resort declare
NY contract contains clause, that the party who
commits breach of it shall incur penalty Of fifteen
hSt t;c the other perhaps strange
marks upon itn N''''oe ~ A''Ae "os''a r.
ana, yet again, we find this
nd not you or the Chief Justice read the plaintiff
tsf or in looking for pretexts upon which to us-
yo Donation to Miss Baron Of large sum out of the
uu you Iali TO consider that those
@ might % Investigated But if you neglected to in
Yourself that Miss Baron herself alleged notice YOU
les' knew that 1t had been nowhere expressly denied
. This is not sufficient, but additional vitupera-
sion must be heaped upon one Of the judges of
the supreme Court Of Louisiana.
Inc following impertinence concludes this
singular hand-bill.
The Importance of exposing an interruptions ;neum.
Don't, Is precisely commensurate to the imnor ~ L.
Office ask to believe assertion for AL ~ u,e
mathematics and prove every proposition 500 -
Sir, in the early part of this article ;n,m.,a A.,
motlve TO which your Judgment has been yenarail, |
ascrlbed II there be other motives they are best ino1
70 ourselves and freely concede to you all the graSca
ton they afford Whilst !, in my sleeve wholly Indifferent
70 your future acts of reprsal for which shall nnn;h
tion.'' f' s'isa-
Looking at the extraordinary character of
this hand bill, its unmeasured abusiveness, its
gross impertinenee, it may be asked why we
should condescend to notice it. We answer, that |
its nominal author subscribes himself the attor-
ney Of Mr.. Placide-the Proprietor of one of the
most largely frequented Of our places of public |
amusement. The principal irresponsible for the
agent Mr.. Placide lives upon the favor of the
of New Orleans. When he makes
he affairs Of his theatre warrant for gross
md abusive attack upon member of the Su-
,reme Bench Of the State of Louisiana, he be-