New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-19

lie opinion, and with total disregard to the
ordinary rules of evidence.
We can but regret that extreme degree Of
moral turpitude which will admit of such things
benr done in contravention Of law and of the
general sentiment Of all conscientious men.
But that they are done, the public will bear us
out in asserting; and that they are boosted Of
on the streets without shame or remorse, is
equally susceptible Of proof
All good men must lament that there exists
morbid state of morality such as will permit
acts of the kind to 60 unwhipt Of justice. we
are fast verging to that political state wherein
vice and immortality have gained the aseendency
over virtue, and where the total want OF every
amable quality is the certain passport to the
favor of the masses. 1t is but too well known
to every rejecting member of our community
that in the selection of candidates for office by
the clique which rules the democratic party in
this city, capacity fitness receive no consider
alton. Long experience, talents, OF moral
worth, are not recognized by these leaders as
qualifications essential to elevation. On the
contrary these traits are Objectionable, and no
one can submit his claims to preferment to the
| suffrages of the party who has not the APPROX
ing stamp of these self constituted censors.
That the more intelligent portion of the DEM
ocratic party are becoming Disguised with these
thing, and verifying their discomfort by ceces-
sion from the ranks, might be regarded as IA
vorable sign. That they may do so in such
numbers as to effect total revolution Of affairs
is the hope of the patriotic.
1t was precisely the moral condition of the
masses at the present, that prevailed in the era
previous to the downfall of the greatest Repub-
lie of ancient times. Including within its lin
its an immense and heterogeneous population,
unre6ned in manners as they were debased in
intellect, they were the advocates of every fresh
innovation in the established form of govern
ment, and were ready to follow the lead of any
daring demagogue who could minister to their
appetite for excitement, or hatter their hopes of
spoil. Daring adventures arose in every Pro-
vince, who for the sake of the spois of office
ready to hallow on the masses to any acts of Sc
dition or rapine We have among us q clique
composed of like materials. They are content
with no political position adapted to their po-
litical capacity, and are satisfied with no second
ch0lce IN tne ulstrloutlOn OF tne puDiic plunuer
Whoever will fatter their vanity and do their
bidding in the great battles of the ballot box him
and him only do they put forward for prefer
ment. These are they who rule at the cleo
tons, and the masses are the pack who cover
before the lash of their whippers-in, and yelp
on whatever trail their masters set them The
masters of these it is who do the nefarious work
of making the ignorant the parties to fraudulent
deeds of naturalization 1t was this state of
public morality that existed in that great Re-
public, the conqueror of the world, when a citi-
zen attempted to overturn the fabric Of its liber
ties, and when fell from the lips Of the greatest
of its orators, the hearted exclamation, Oh,
Temporal! Oh, m0res