New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-21
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In commencing its labors the large democratic
majority in the present Legislature has made
one Of the strongest party tests on record in
political history. Not one wing holds even the
pettiest Office, to be presented as a specimen
monument of a race submerged in the demo-
cratic deluge of 1852.
The leaders of the democratic party here, as
elsewhere, understand and appreciate the cohe-
sive power of Office holding, and if there be any
hungry or unsatsfed expectants in their ranks,
it is only because there are no vacant places at
the public crib. They have given all they had
70 give, and to members of their own political
family, from Secretary of the Senate down to
hall-sweep
The wings may, perhaps, take n hint from
this, and hereafter, on some sunny day, when
their banner floats uppermost, may make the
precedent Of to-day the warrant for future of
retaliation. We say, perhaps, because, such is
the kind-heartedness of whiggery, and such the
terror struck into its soul by democratic howl
Of ''no prescription" that in its day of power,
it pauses irresolutely, or strikes but feeble
and awkward blow in .decapitating its oppo-
nents. For the last three and a half years the
y. o.
ont the democratic ofice-holders who crowd
their departments and now, to relieve their
amiable and tender natures from any such ter
ribly disagreeable necessity, an incoming dem
ocratic administration is Sc going to turn out -
them We hope they feel comfortable and
resigned.
But look at the ruthless doings of our demo
cratic Legislature.
Our old acquaintance political, Gen. Horatio
Davis, flls-no, that is not the words perched
upon the chair which Col Walton did fll--one
two hundred and odd once pressed five feet
FIVE hidden behind desk over which the lofty
front of six feet one once lowered Was there
ever such display of degenerate Cor ratheir
democratic) taste We well remember how pa
thetically democratic organs pleaded that zen
Horatio Davis should be retained in office, be-
csuse he was g renero6ie.' Now, Col Walton
is six feet one, and very good looking--why |
could not these virtues have saved him Let |
the democratic majority answer to the people
There is Lewiston where Cassard sat--a Satyr
pushing Hyperion from his seat
And where is Layet in the House ;--Layet
order or member Who, like Layet, can tell
exactly and in a second, who and where the
member from Catahoula, Bossier, OF any other
parish, is, and catch the faintest yea or nay, as
though he already knsK the answer and had
only called the members name as a matter Of
polite courtesy He, too, has been rudely
pushed from his stool of Office
Where is the ever ready, ever attentive, ever
graceful Encios who achieved his election as
Sergeant Arms of the last Legislature by |
what might be literally termed the elegant |
coup-de-grace of rushing down the aisle with |
restoring glass of water for the Speaker, ex-
hausted, midways the delivery of his Address of
Acknowledgements Another, not to the man
ner born, in vain attempts to copy after him,
Where are the clever, gentlemanly, sociable
clerks, who did such a mysterious amount of
writing, and drew six dollars day But, why |
dwell upon the melancholy theme !: Why call |
up the vision of the long and ghosty train of the
miserable and headless A new and strange |
tribe throng the places which once knew them, |
and the mysterious amount of writing is done, |
and the six dollars a day drawn, usual |
The democratic majority Of the Legislature,
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Gus and nominated even the pettiest CLERKS
thing the wings never dreamt of doing, and, GER
tainly, but q small game, at best.
But, q democratic friend reports to us case, |
the very extreme of prescription For some
time past, respectable Ethiopian, with a turn
for labor and great skill in manipulations upon |
the broom-stick, has swept out the hall of the |
House, the lobby, etc., with grace, elegance |
and completeness, which proved him to be the
very man to !" raise the dust" One would have
supposed that ruthless prescription would have,
at least, spared him We blush to record the |
extreme of its unsparing ferocity
On Tuesday morning whilst this industrious |
individual was pursuing his useful vocation, a |
sable competitor entered the hall, penetrated |
through the cloud of dust, and abruptly re- |
marked, in the most brutal and unfeeling man |
ner "'Gwine out of this, wing niger; this ne |
place for you; we locos hab got the power, and |
dis child hab got your appointment" With
wounded feelings, but submissive to the edicts of
fate, the prescribed Ethiopian retired with sui |
len dignity. carrying with him his faithful |
broom That he could not leave behind, to I've /
desecrated by rude and inartistic hands.
Bring out the big gun The eastern mail, as will be |
seen bv teleQraphic dispatch from Mobile, has