New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-21
THE .NaTURaLIz.a77o.N FR.aUDs.

A storm of wordy Indignation has been raised
against us for having dared to call public at
tention to the unusual proceedings carried on in
the Sixth District Court, by which some scores
Of persons are being daily invested with all the
rights and privileges of citizenship. We have
stated that testimony Of the qualifications of
applicants has been irregularly taken inasmuch
as certain of the applicants who do not under
stand word of our language have taken the
oath propounded to them without having that
| oath translated-have been questioned and
have giveIf their answers through the medium
of a translator who was not sworn as such. We
have stated that applicants have been taught to
commit to memory the answers necessary to be
made, and that some of the witnesses in attend
ance in the Sixth District Court to prove the
identity of persons Unfortunately, without
regard to previous acquaintance with them, are
persons of VIGOROUSLY bad character, who have
been proven to have been perjured in parallel
instances heretofore. We have also stated that
naturalization papers when made out, instead OF
being handed to the persons whose citizenship
they establish, have been handed over to the
possession Of an officer of the State, (having
nothing to do with the Court,) who with I'M
blushing effrontery sat there to receive them
We have stated further, that attempts have
been made to suborn persons to commit perjury
in that Court. All these charges can be estab-
lished by the afidavits of respectable persons,
who are ready to make the requisite oath when
the occasion shall demand it.
We will now make the further charge that
Police officers, paid by the city tp do the city
service, are in constant attendance in the Sixth
District Court, acting as witnesses for the iden-
LITIGATION of applicants. That they are there
with the knowledge of those by whom they are
employed, we are bound to suppose, and being
there, that their purposes are evil,
| An anonymous scribbler in the Delta of yes
terday has taken offence at our course on this
subject and has made it the subject of column
of fanfaronade as ridiculous as it is unfounded
in its conclusions He unblushingly tells us
'the opinion was expressed by some persons
that the editor of the Crescent should be arrest
ed and called to account for contempt of Court p
He designates it, too, as ga contempt that was
very apparent etc., If by contempt" the
writer means want of respect for the proceed
| ings of Court that are without precedent in
sne history OF Jurisprudence, We arc surely
amenable to the charge. Indeed We know of but
rev thinking men who, under this definition of
contempt" could be sure of their liberties for
nu' enough of this anonymous writer.
sor 60, s'ss0iore entertained q high regard
. Inaoa 90 AZ. So susun' who is the presiding
e. 80 A. e.s.- D'S.f'ct Court, and in the
- h;s ora,,o,,. 5o.a..~ ".i'aoie to suppose that
n he had become rusty in the law, Haoo.. LUIS
e displayed great ignorance if he supnossa ~,
his authority to arrest for CONTEMPT cxtsnsos
beyond the limits of his Court There is an -,
N dacity and presumption in the bare sugpest;o,
e that citizen may be arrested on a supcest;o,
k of contempt of Court for expressions uttere
70 not within its hearing, that might throw in tn
" shade the bloody enormities of the Spanish in
% QUESTION.
.. Without further considering matter so u,
iterly preposterous, it is certain that FRAUD