New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-11
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CH.1hI
Our neirhbor of the Daily Suo' s Who.
malta ;s one of those chari'ao.e poof ,.,. - \
,,o;rr convinced what is honest - NY
,.,I Islanders, and indeed can pest OIL III. 'N'ne'
1890. with advocates, seldom troubles nun
~ about assisting it and seeing on the o'ner
s-rd that what is bad is apt to suffer for apollo
o;sts. usually, out Of the compassionateness Oh
his nature. volunteers in its behalf, as young
barristers do for thieves who, having "re'o"e
cause andno counsel, are about to De eoh''.
The Delta is too generous not to staho =! ~,
for it benevolently considers that as crine W.,
have a had time of it hereafter, and is pro'"o,y
~ hast far unbappier than its victlms' !. "oui'
\, ,n,,o, 20 daal with it harshly. f, tnereiore'
- az, oorruntest party design, majority IN
Tar;s,ature stands plainly attainted ofhav-
inc trsmpled on their oaths and the uire0'
command of the Constitution about nesis"'
law. the Delta comes at once to their oeien0e'
and pleads for oath breaking. byanu- NY
sees tbe,same party following up its plan Oh
fraud by suborning fictitious citizens anu iaise
-;.rasses IN their naturalization; then, In lur-
.har ,,rocress. II witnesses the shameless mea-
.rre IF nrotecsing the most boundless frauds at
the polls, by appointing all the Inspectors OF
-4hs,espae party. whose oath breakers had orlgi-
still It refuses to see, or At least persists
cuse them. Nay, yet more than all this. its
indulgence for corruption is such as to conquer
even its own individual convictions, its own per
sonal animosties 1t beholds Mr.. John Slidel
in the field; it makes war upon him in lit
columns bitterly; it evidently believes him ca
pable Of any Illicit means whatever and though
it knows his strong need of employing such, no
only from the possible weakness of the locofoe'
party, but his own odiousness to great number:
on both sides, it insists on rejecting oil idea thai
foul practices have been used in the election, tC
any serious extent Now we acknowledge that
all this is highly humane, and we are sorry tc
tax any body for his virtues but this of the
Delta is clearly one that leans good deal more
than virtue ought to vices side; and we feel
bound, therefore, to exhort it to be on its guard
against this amiable infrmity.
This was the state of proofs, before the cleo
ton. Since then, or in its progress, other i'm
portant facts tending irresistibly to the same
conclusions, have come to be known Nothing
can shake its benevolent faith in the general
integrity of human nature and the particular
integrity of him it detests and denounces. A
uiOauui nus sNept OuT city anu many
who had fed from it have not yet returned !;
while others, no doubt, never will Yet all this
only creates in the Deltas mind (when the vote
in many precincts becomes double what it ever
was beforehand collectively in the whole city
is found suddenly to have swelled to some 220O
more than last years vote in the great contest
of the Presidential eection) no suspicion of
fraud but only conviction that terrible pesti-
lences bring US rapid accessions of population !;
and that the more folks are known to die in
New Orleans, the faster do they crowd hither
At that rate, it is plain that the more pestilence,
the more people; and that could we only be
sure Of the annual blessing of such scourge
as that which has just ceased to desolate us, or
even of yet more horrible one, our city would
soon become the most populous upon earth! We
recommend to the Delta that it give us a book
Let it answer Nautilus; explode all his pre-
ventiye checks" and prove that they only serve
to make men multiply.
Still, there is left hole, hiatus, a chasm,
in the Delta's argument. For suppose the invi-
tation of death, like that of Dolly to the ducks
-''diddle, diddle, diddle come and be killed.
has drawn such hocks and crowds hither, hour
could they rote cithout fraud until after a
yeay's residence?