New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-02
Truly a Nice Prospect!

Several intelligent gentlemen openly say ell'.''
il the Consolidation bill pass without including
Lafayette, ii is the general wish Of her citizens
TO abolish Ill harbor dnes-to so order 1t that
haats and vessels can lie at her magnificent
wharf without charge.
This il . very nee prospect, and it is just
what Ne predisted. # Lafayette do this, the
injury 10 New Orleans will be incalculable. 1t
will fpin abe Third Municipality; it will pros
stfato ~ First; it will shatter the Second; it
t2ks all the shipping and boats up into La
sfhydete, and with them. . large portion of our
trades IL will make Lafayette what the Second
Muaicipality now is. Boats and ships are not
going " pay 800 or 5000 for what can be had
for nothing. Lafayette has the finest natural
wharf On the Mississippi river. The warehouses
and cotton presses are chiefly either within her
'slinaits Or near them. The immense rise in pro-
apcrty, the great gain in commerce, the large
acceseibns of population, will abundantly,
hundred dSid repay her for this step!
TIT III sRntert ainment to which we are in
yited by Mr. Robb; and which (st the head and
front Of onr offending } we have stoutly called
npo1, the people to refuse. Will they sit down
to ID, If they do, it needs no prophet to cry
adesolation in their streets They will have done
an act Of folly, at a most ruinous cost The
dom Of the Third Municipality will, by this act
Of Isfayette's following her exclusion, be sealed
staOhce md forever. She will never recover
from the shattering blow. The First Munich
pality will be enfeebled into inactivity. The
Second Municipality, driven to bear the weight
B Of the entire city, will urge useless competi-
~ cnd ability
stagger under increased taxation!
Then, with this alluring prospect in view, we
must still give Mr.. Robb his Two Millions One
Hundred Thousand dollars for the bond holders,
and hold the property Of the entire city Of New
Orleans responsible for the same. Here is GER
tainly chance for gigantic speculation Mr..
{ Robb swears to less than Twenty Thousand dol
lars capital, and has not, we understand, more
than $4,000 in New Orleans real estate; he
could sell out the latter, pocket the former, and
be off tomorrow particularly if he realized
handsome profit in bonds and the advance of his
real estate in Lafayette. So what does it mat
ter, if Lafayette take course ruinous to us,
and we must still pay, over and above all ex-
penses, Two Millions One Hundred Thousand
dollars, every year, to the bond-holders' The
only nesnlt would be, that every citizen, no mat
ter whether mechanic, merchant, or professional
man, would require small fortune to pay his
yearly taxes. With the trade of the city flown
to Lafayette, where is it to come from?
I Why, it seems to us absolute insanity to talk
about Consolidation without Lafayette Such
Consolidation would bring ruin upon NewOr
leans. We said SO from the frst-we say SO
W. Lax, ,f+l
city, and Of the whole city, and the future Gf
Consolidation without Lafayette be had,) will
confirm our warnings as prophecy.
Consolidation without Lafayette will, bring
ing disaster to New0rleans, injure the whole
State, and set back every plan of Internal I'M
provement for twenty years.
The wings have the majority in the Legisla
ture. They have the power and they, have
taken the responsibility. Could they carry the
responsibility of bill 50 disastrous as Consol-
dation without Lafayette would be? There is
ruin for them in the passage of Mr.. Robb's bill
As gees NewOrleans, so goes the State; and we
predict that Consolidation without Lafayette,
bringing such disaster in its train, would
forever render odious here the controlling party
in the Legislature And if we are required,
when now we cannot pay our common expenses,
to pay Two Millions One Hundred Thousand
dollars a year to the bondholders in addition,
the citizens will be driven into evaporation and
repudiation-or fight.
Let the inclusion Of Lafayette be put beyond
all doubt; orif Constitutional qtid6les 1--WE can't
get opi'aions,) are made, let us wait till a new
Constitution puts those bubbles forever at rest
We will not have to wait long.