New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-21
THE DAILY CRESCENT.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING. deer 81. 1853
GROG- SHOP POLITICIANS.

thOc- SHOf. fOLlffe1'1 2.
We perceive that, al the Mondays sitting Of
the Board of Assistant Aldermen, tho question
Of ceasinr to hold our city elections in grog-
shops was revived when that most judicious
and useful body, as il for the mere purpose Of
stultifyipr themselves, decided that the whole
subject must be submitted toa direct vote of
~ people.
= 1hus the people are really to be called to-
&&hsr. their sovereign capacity is to be invoked,
order that they may settle vast and difficult
liter, far beyond the capacity Of these civic
Solons! The Solons cannot, for their lives, tell
whether or not 1t is good or befsting free and
. decent country to hold our places Of suffrage
elsewhere than in the very temples Of disorder
The Solons are entirely unable to reach to the
heisht or TO dive 70 the depth Of such subject.
II requires, they think, vastly more brains than
they themselves carry, to decide whether OF not
men who are to vote, if possible, soberly, shall
40 to the dram-house to do it. Whether or not
il b Republican to degrade and disgrace the
scored right Of suffrage, by compelling it to
seat itself amidst the swill-tubs Of debauch
Whether or not it is honest toinsist upon holding
elections 1t such places, because they well know
that BY this very means they will preventa
largo body Of scrupulous but most deserving
people from going to the polls at all These
things, the Solons evidently confess, present
legislative duties quite beyond their honesty or
else Legislative difficulties quite above their
capacity. And thereupon they proceed, as we
have said, to stultify themselves, by declaring
that the people, IS alone all-wise and all-ds-
cerning, must DO called together, to loosen the
vast Gordian knot, to solve the inscrutable eng
ma, Of this enormous doubt
Now, If the Solons have not sense enough to
settle this excessively simple matter, for ,chat
have they sense enough For ,chich Of their
many duties, involving all the interests Of this
city, all its government, all its police, all its
finance. the care Of its morals, ofits health and
50 many other important and complex subjects,
can they be in the smallest degree fit J Thus
plainly avowing their supreme incapacity, upon
what pretence do they not resign, and leave
their places to be supplied by men who are ca
pablo Of performing the functions for which
they were chosen, which they Voluntarily as
sumed, but which they now say are beyond the
miserably restricted limits Of their understand
ings! Do they really suppose that Council of
Assistant Aldermen cannot be selected in this
city, who shall have discretion enough to know
whether or mot bar rooms, !. many Of them the
lowest, are the best places in which to conduct
that business, on the sober and honest and SEN
sible performance of which depends, in this
country, all the well-being of every citizen Do
they imagine We cannot, in New Orleans, find
twenty seven men, majority Of whom will
know that respectable people ought not to be
forced, and incorporate people ought not to be
led to groggeries, in order to vote
But what does this notable body Of curators
and guardians and fathers Of the city intend
do they mean to dodge and to shirk every mat
ter in which 1t does not suit them to give re-
dress DO they want to SHIFT OF upon the peo-
pie the remedy ior Dad ordinances' If they
s.nno' Understand 'nls sros-shop business why
ola 'ney SGT !" up ihey were not 80 modest