New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-07
TO-DAY: NOW OR .NEVER!

will presently be too late for men to do any
thing but either to deplore the public cause ana
their own, lost through their supineness' OF 10
feel amidst the deem and sincere triumph OF that
struggle on which is staked every thing that Is
wise, safe and respectable the shame Oh penny
conscious that they have borne no part III 'h''
success, we have one final word to say 10 you
II will be strong, clear, and even an exciteo
one. For, calmly as time has taught US 10
look on many of those conflicts in this country
about which parties make din, there are con-
iunctures-and this is one of them-when all
that should rouse into vehement emotion the
good and sober citizen, is at desperate issue.
It's not now the question whether or not in
this city (the key of the State and centre OF Its
interests) this party or that party, this or the
other theory of Federal affairs, shall be voted
nm or voted down. IT'S no more contest OF
politicians, often mistaken in the supposed good
or i'll of their rival opinions. The debate is of
things far higher and more vital: not SO much
about what principles We shall have, as whether
we shall have any not to decide what politics.
but whether any morals are to govern us; not
what faction shall rule us, but whether or not
the very worst and most depraved men of a fac
ton shall be able, by the most abandoned arts,
in spite of the public judgment and their own
well-merited unpopularity, to lord it over us
So far indeed, is this from being, in reality,
battle between wings and democrats, that Its
loss will DO a defeat and disgrace almost alike
to both For the triumph of such persons anu oil
such practices as we have already denounced
and exposed to the public would be common
| g mo both
sides
Who these men are, the public already knows
They are bold yet cunning, lordly but creeping
lavish to corrupt with money and to brutalize
with liquor the poor whom their wealth never
I. deiened to visit with good mans benefits.
Having won wealth without respect, they think
with it to force their way to public honor with
out service. For their fellow citizens they have
never done anything but to debauch them at
home and stain their name abroad. Profuse Of
their gold, they have never used it but to cor
rupt the people and thus to destroy their liberty
For the Devil has strong box here in New Or
leans, and these men keep the keys.
Fraud, however, fails when detected, or at
least may fall short. Yet more daring frauds
and holder immoralities must then be employed,
to exc out the los. of influence which name for
such odious resorts begets. For the good Of
their own party shrink from such men and the
fearless denounce Then comes their last expe
dient-yiolence to help through fraud not other
wise to be covered up a desperate game bu
II such alone as they are now reduced to play
Accordingly, in addition to all those wicket
preparations which we have already detailed
we yesterday learned from perfectly SURF
sources, that they are about to introduce, a
our usually we'll behaved polls, bullies and thC
= bludgeon They have ordered of cooper 2Ot
, cudgels, which are, we find, to be employed il
: the 18th precinct Now, we exhort all good CT
tizens to come to the polls; but to come unarm
/, ed: for the firm face of the indignant homes
"a men of this city will be quite enough to territ
70 all the bludgeoned rufhanism back to its mas
h. tiers and its dens
nj Now, we appeal to the respectable men of tn
IN party adverse to our own: we ask them as hon
4 est men and as brothers in higher cause tina
. that of party, Do they look upon the authors
these things, as Democrats Will they be thei
abettors' Or are they willing to see brough
upon us here days, not again to cease, when a
,e in the downfall Of the Roman republic, the ric
D. man VINO COulu heop III Phy tHo ldlboSI pouy
I'd gladiators, of armed and trained cut throat
Mt drove all but his own hired voters from the poll
Sc and every election was decided by the sword
ct But we already know that we shall be ia
st from appealing to the estimable portion of IL
r. Democracy in vain We learn beyond questo
Is of many of them who declare that they dete,
ir the practices which they know are in prepare
( ton as we have said; and that they will NJ
At vote for those who are concerned in them.
v Nor do we call upon such alone; we beseec
all men who love the sanetity of the Right
Suffrage, or any Of those civil liberties whc
it was meant to secure, to rouse up and set the
r, heels at once upon these denominations. We il
A. woke all who would not see our streets give
v over to riot and bullyism, certain to be M
1t among our quick mettled people with bloot
y shed, to come forward and save us, by an irr
t, sistible rally from the deplorable scenes whiC
l. these traffickers in the most frightful publ
/ mischiefs are ready to bring upon us. Let Il
a, staid merchant who values his property l.
d the industrious man who desires to pursue
j. peace his craft let poor and rich, old an
y young, gentle and simple, all that have Il
re spirit to defend their birth right, show then
st selves and drive back any hireling horde
their discounted employers.
r. Wings, old and young who never yet though
n your cause lost while there was anything
10 good-any law, any manners, any MORALS an
d religion, vestige of sense, an atom of liberty
IN left you to struggle for If this is not you
p quarrel and your cause, it is one which looks
10 conservatiyely like it, that you may safely ia
re into the mistake. For ourselves, we declar
Us that tbs the first time we ever saw a no-part
question for which we had any mind But TIL
at pleases us hugely. Wen march to it gladly a
IN ever went glutton to q feast. So will you
n ''Up, then, andat them!''
to To-day is set apart for the election of publ
d, servants, The most important among these ar
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