New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-03
Hlouivooal Candidacy.

The Delta, Of yesterday, has one of its char
scteristically kind articles, for the benefit Of
c,sr ,chig friends. The sside-thrusts are
sverv well put in; and, with the coolest face of
perfect impartiality, any quantity of hand-gre-
nades and bomt.shells are cast into the wing
camp. Done like tssthe Independent Delta y!
We expected no less ss8
We illustrate Speaking of Mr. John Cal
houn, the Delta insidiously says, saying nothing
Of the kind for any other wing candidate:
The last named gentleman additional claims
IN the fact that has been Of the most faithful
and efficient champions Of Consolidation"
Well. what kind Of Consolidation IA Con-
solidation which should erclade or include La
fayettes That is the question. The Delta
very unnecessarily brings it forward. We
had no idea of touching it at all. We were will
ling that & by cones should be by -gones :" and
the Delta has the best Of reasons to know with
what unselfsh liberality we have lately fore
borne to allude to the opposition, which, from
.political and sectional feelings warred upon
the inclusion of Lafayette. But when it has
the face to put forward G the last named gen.
tleman,'' NJ Calhoun, in comparison---a COM
parison most insidious, unwarrantable and un-
just---with his competitors for the Comptroller
ship, as the special advocate and champion of
Consolidation, we feel bound to interpose with
question That question is: Did not Mr.. Cal
houn prepare bill for Consolidation, in which
Lafayette was no more mentioned than Congo
Did Mr. Calhoun ever do or risk afterwards one
single thing in behalf of the inclusion of La
fayette. We know what these questions imply
to be true.
Further, if Mr.. Calhoun and some others,
favored by so warm an advocate Of wing inter-
ests as the Delta, expect the nomination Of a
Wing Convention, they havesto answer one or
two very plain questions. Will they honorably
abide by and support the nominations Of the
Wing Convention They cannot get round TINT
question; they cannot play fast and loose y
Rumor says upon the streets, that the Delta's
candidate, Mr.. Calhoun, has two strings to his
bow that if he cannot get the wing, he will
take the democratic, mountaineering he de-
clares himself g fish, flesh, or fowl according
to the chances of &C pot-luck. Rumor may be,
and we hope, for the political consistency of the
gentleman, is, wrong. But we assure him, he
has to calculate on large democratic aid, or else
he must distinctly repudiate what Madam Ru-
NOR asserts Unless he does, there are hundreds
of wings, who do not wish to be compromised by
a political eunuch, and nomination or no nomi-
nation, will vote against him.
We think we understand why &C Consolida-
tom is thus insidiously and nnwarrantably
dragged into the question of candidacy. There
has been hungry and voracious cutlery against
office-holders and g the Second Municipality
clique"--the whole thing meaning that gentle
men were too good whigs and too Independent
of certain influences to be permitted longer to
hold office. These gentlemen having, at the
same time, worked as ardently, and more eff
GENTLY, than Mr.. Calhoun or the Delta, for the
plan of Consolidation most useful to the whole
city !; and their labors in this behalf having
been heretofore subject of accusation against
the columns of the Delta. Behind all this lies
an autocratic moneyed power which raises hue
and cry against the very influences, which it
designs to impose upon the people, and which
makes and has made, certain editorials in GER
tain journals.
One of the plans of this autocratic moneyed
power, this discount despotism, was, as we had
ample reasons to anticipate, foreshadowed in
yesterdays Delta. In other words, wing gen
,tlemen are to be invited to take upon themselves
q double candidacy--to play political circus
riders upon two horses to run for one thin,
first, and, if unsuccessful, to run for another
So selfish, grasping, voracious a disposition
would make q man utterly unworthy of an.
Office and would insure the defeat Of any on
manifesting it. If outside influences press i
upon any wing to make him assume any sue
double-faced and distracting position in ref
erence to his party, he can count on its bitter
tho odium of FIJI 7. minlpU M n
certain defeat.
For ourselves, we say plainly: We are no
bound Or bonded to any party, but we scorn
game Of deception, double-dealing, distraction
and treachery. A man so hungry as to run frs
after one Office, and then after another, to worl
double-candidacy, is too selfish and profes
SIGNAL an office-seeker to meet with any thin
but our most determined opposition; and on
opposition is the more determined where the in
fiuences which lead to this game are so note
riously quasi-whig and purely democratic. W
warn our wing friends to look out for circular
.tpriyate and CONFIDENTIAL from one who hf
repudiated Them and should be repudiated |
them.
So we stand in reference to the wing party
the present contest. When our democrat
mode, the manner, and the circumstances, sha
govern us in making an equally plain definite
of our position in reference to them. We mut
prefer an open manly wing or democrat to
canting candidate, striped with g independence
and humbug; frisky. political ourang- outan
We wish the people to vote for a man.
PROFESSOR GLippoN's Lncruns-The Twelfth and last
the course OF lectures on Egyptian Archaeology
l'vered last night at the Lyceum Hall There was We
full house The Professor that the subject on exbl
ton of low origin evidenced by the coarse textu
of the linen in which it swathed The red appes
anceof the hair he said occasioned hy the bitum
in which it was embalmed etc. etc.
The lecturer proceeded to give
as to the number of mummies to be found in tho tom
of Egypt They numerous that they were MS
for fuel, which, to many, looked like making Esh OF
of Craze subject The next of Lyceum iectu
will be delivered by Mr. Lawrence Smith.
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We were favored last evening with call from
Hatch, of the Baton Rouge Advocate, who is in town
business connected with his excellent paper. Our
chants will find the Advocate excellent medi
through which to make known their business to the
zens in Baton Rouge and vicinity MIR, H. is stopping
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