New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-14
THE STATE PRLVTLN'G.

cratic friends In their suuuen accession Oh lo'
litical power In the very matter of the State
printing! small matter which we had hoped
they would quietly drop into our lap-they
have found cause of quarrel and become exces-
sively unamiable, and, therefore, as excessively
disagreeable. If they cannot come to an agree
ment in reference to the disposal of the State
printing, they might :" just as well " drop it in
to our hands and save any quarrel in the demo-
cratic family.
There is the Courier asking for the State
printing a most ungenerous course. after our vol
untary promise not to compete with the Courier
for the U. s. printing We know very well
what influence with Gen (Mr.i) Pierce our ap-
plication would have But, nevertheless, the
Courier may have that U. s. printing without
dur interfering 1t is a very respectable, old
fashioned concern, and we do not care the value
Of q Continental copper if it die of apoplexy,
from excess of feasting on official patronage.
But we are not so certain that it runs so grev-
Gus . risk A younger and somewhat faster
contemporary, the Delta, is in the field; anl
"Young America " all over, it should force the
the Courier to repudiate 50 old fogyism,' to come
out for " Cuba and Canada " and the pro-
gressire principles of the age" The Courier
was quite loud in advocacy of % Cass, Cuba and
Canada" once upon time. How is it, now :
Cass the United States Senator, is not Cass the
Presidential candidate, and has given a most
decidedly cold shoulder to manifest destiny"
Cuba, Canada, etc. Young America " should
come forward, and take position in opposition.
As an organ of quick generous, progressive
Young America" the Delta is formi-
dable competitor of the Courier. Its democracy
is as unquestionable as it is sleeplessly and IN
sidiously insinuative. 1t is, certainly, the most
useful to the democratic party Of any journal in
the city, though not an avowed organ or an
deliberately dligent advocate, like the Courier
The latter sezes upon political questions very
much in the same style in which an anaconda
makes meal of sheep or COW, and dgests it
thoroughly, at leisure, and at length. 1t has
serious and philosophic ideas upon the theory of
parties, the tariff, the q. S. Bank, Gen. Jack
son, the distribution of the proceeds of the pub
lie lands, sweeping the miserable wings out Of
Office, etc., and very little to say of the more
modern subjects of Martin Van Buren,, Internal
Improvements, etc. The fact of the matter is,
we consider our contemporary, the Courier, a
SPECIAL humbug because, it makes professions
Of magnanimity, and yet will not accept our
proposition to take the United States printing
and leave us the State printing We consider
the Delta to be much more liberal paper. We
believe it would cheerfully accept our PROPOSE
ton, and agree to share the State and national
printing with us.
1t is fast paper. 1t believes in locomotive
progress 1t swears by democracy. 1t daily
works up a =" Spirit of the Morning Press"
which is nothing more nor less than rather sharp
filings at the wing journals of this city 1t goes
in for Cuba. 1t has an open eye for every pos
sible or probable annexative row. Therefore,
it specially discusses Nicaragua and Tehuante-
pee questions, and continually warns Young
America to go to bed with his boots on, and
pantaloons tucked in, so as to be ready for the
first tap of the bell, and ready to run with or
ahead of +" the machine" 1t has an idea Of
establishing branch in Cuba, an agency in the
Sandwich Islands, and an agent in Patagonia.
1t loves to annihilate the Bulletin, castgatc the
Bee, and slyly throw stones at the Crescent, It
is a " fast paper-no mistake! 1t blows its
own trumpet-swears its circulation (" beats all
creation" and swears over and over again, till
1t really believes what it swears AT the same
time, it has prudence enough not 10 accept our
proposition to publish s,oorn statement of
the comparative city circulation of the Delta
and Crescent. Come, neighbors, let us start a
wager for and in behalf of the Camp street Or
phsn Asylum!
The True Delta is, also, in the field. As a
general rule, it is against /" all the world, and
the rest of mankind" 1t throws bricks At
random, into every mans premises. 1t is like
an Irishman at Denny brook fair 1t continual
ly imagines somebody is treading on its coat
TAIL and its shillelah is in perpetual circle of
hourishes. 1t don't like the whigs-it don't
admire Soule or Slidell-it abhors the wing and
contemns the democratic Central Committee
it thinks the State is on the point of ruin and
the city gone to rack-it is on bad terms with
the whole world, generally. 1t has one excep-
ton: 1t is entirely friendly with itself, its edi.
tors and managers. 1t thinks its leading man
ager ought to have the State printing and it
blows its trumpet Justify in his behalf The
idea is not bad one. And we, therefore,
make solemn proclamation of the fact, that we,
Of the Crescent, are the cleverest people in the
world, and must have the State printing.