Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-12-01
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Northern and S0ufhec., Mo.als

"hoiai I'VE" IofK ana Orothery Philadelphia
greatly In the habit when politics are dull and 9th
er topics fail them, of indting doleful jeremads up
On The depravity of New Orleans The sleek and
sanctlmOnlous worms of The Northern press roll
their eyes in fegned horror at the wickedness of our
southern Emporium, and with pharsaica self COM
pacency teucItate themselves that they are not like
other men. The pious church going brethren of the
North, who cannot tolerate tobacco smoke but love
copous IbatlonS of brandy and water, consider us
as Mr. Stgg did the elder Weller vessels Of wrath
bound to destruction. To hear their homes simple
folks would straight way regard the people OF New
Orleans as ou-casls and scape- graces and the en-
hghtened, humane, benevolent and COP fearing popu
alon OF the North, the only creatures in this broad
land upon whom The favor and blessing of omnipo-
! tenCe had fallen
Now, we do not pretend to claim in behalf of the
residents OF New Orleans greater exemption from
crime than is usually percepble in a large city We
have our ort-comings others have, and we are
as amenable 10 censure people But if we
are half as bad as our Northern writers. we must be
tar sunk indeed: in hopeless iniquty II is true for
example that the theatres are open here on Sunday
night. majority of the community being of the
catholic faith which looks upon recreation after d.
vine service, not only harmless, but necessary
recruit the energies which have been relaxed by the
labor OF the week, this custom is still maintained
We take 1t, however, that the of ethics would
inevitably consider murder a more terrible offence
against the laws OF Cod than theatrical performances
on Sunday night. There no theatrical represen-
tations In the North the seventh day. but there
murders, robberies rows, and riots innumerable.-
We content that the hand of Divine Justice shall
strike the balance and determine whether peaceful
New Orleans or turbulent New York violates the
Sabbath most frequently and Systematically.
Drunkenness is q vice common enough everywhere;
but not so common i'll New Orleans 10 provoke
earnest remoRSrances upon its prevalence and fright
tul dellneatloDs of its disgusting features We have
no occasion, as the New York Times recently had,
to speak OF the hdeous spectacle which met the edi-
tors eye as he wendell his way homeward on the
Sabbath midnight. intoxication is not the prelude
to the sleep OF one-fourth of our population. The
! only drunken men seen amongst us are mostly
graceIess vagabOnds who have left New York Or
Philadelphia and established themselves here as a
nuisance and pest. Our resident population as
temperate any in the world, and need no " Maine
/ law to them into abstinence.
! We strangers to that interesting and peculiar
class of inhabitants that dignity Northern Cities and
who are known short boys fellows armed with
colts and slung shot, who peambuate the streets for
the express object of insulting unprotected females,
and beating and maltreating weak and defeuceless
men. Our streets are nearly as safe by night as by
day. At comparatively early hour they are silent
and seemingly deserted. The beated wayfarer needs
no weapon TO defend himself from the highwayman
or the assassin and is not exposed 20 be hustled,
tripped or mauled by gangs of ferocious rowdies -
In the larger and more frequened thoroughtares,
personal safety after nighal and a: all hours, is
absolute Such event murder, midnight
assault in Chartres, Camp Canal street, is next to
impossible, whereas in New York it is not by any
means uncommon to hear of the most atrocous out.
RACES committed in the very heart Of the city, and
the most popuous quarters by the aforesaid execra-
bic class of short-boys and soaplocks. We never
called upon to record the assassination of policeman
by an Alderman, as New York has just Witnessed or
to chronicle the ineffabe horror of five successive
cases of infanicide, Philadelphia has just been con-
strained to do.
These specimens Of Northern morals and manners
arc mentioned with unchartable purpose. but
solely with view of making our Northern brethren
understand that, inclined to rake up every
case of foul crime and abominable outrage that dark
ems their annals, night contrve TO fill up as black
a catalogue spread its fearful array before
the vision of enlightened people. 1t would be
we'll for censorious brethren TO look to their owr
households, they undertake the work of ndicat
ing the dark spots in Let them drive out the
leprous faint in their own infected bodies before they
assume to gloat infrmities Let them dc
away with want, misery and crime, with 'tt h"rrihf
white slavery of their lower classes and then they
will be qualified to sit in judgment on the sins o
New Orleans