New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-16
THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 1e, 1864
BUG BE.aRS AVID HUMBBGs.

pable and impalpable, which seem to ~ sn'aAins
them with mt a little terror. The enc Of Tn N
is startled by an organization, because II Is
stylaa ;rdenendent for it seems the Courier
breads and hates Independence, ana mucn pre-
fers to hold every body and everything IN de-
pendence on the hehest Of two or three party
dictators The other is all in tremble and q
sWeat 1T some phautasm or apparition, visible
only by the aid Of Second Sight, whom it calls
the Z Know nothings : Both quake, just as We
have all seen the crook backed tyrant in Shak-
speare do; and both are, like him, unnamed at
the vision Of their own crimes. The one is
appalled, at the known; the other at the unknown
This one looks with horror on people who know
nothing; that one as evidently breads people
who know too much any longer to endure its
rale. They are both frightened at the idea of a
cabal.
Now, all this is exceedingly unreasonable.
For surely body -snatchers should not be afraid
Of ghosts and they who raised whole grave.
yards to vote, last November, have no business
to be 50 aghast now, at every spectre
THE Courier is greatly scandalized at the idea
Of 9 the names appended to the call eef these
independently and the machinery employed to
get up their Convention. Now, as 70 tne
Names. the Courier itself must admit that
thew are honest and most reputable ones !;
names uatainted with either private or political
fraud; that never shone in Plaquemines regis
tiers. The Courier AYERS that they are almost
entirely Wings: that the Democrats are only
four or Ave The Courier is most grossly mis-
taken: a single gentleman has marked for us.
on the list, tile names of n persons, known to
him as not merely democrats, but of much in
fiuence which, of course, is the reason why
their signatures are put forward. He thinks
there are many more, but, not being sure OF
their politics, did not choose to mark them.
As to g machinery" the Courier Innocent
guileless soul y is, Of COURSE utterly shocked at
the bare suspicion of the like! To its hands,
immaculate with the touch of any such thing;
to its mind, unsophsticated with the first
thought of even the most allowable devices of
political mechanism, any practice in the small
est degree ndroit, breeds, of course,.a repug-
nance the most unconquerable, an indignation
the sincerest! But is not the Courier little
TOO sensitive Is it not like the timid fawn that
trembles at its own shadow and flies at the
rustliDg Of its own light feet in the leaves /
Where is this dreadful machinery Apuhlica-
ton in the newspapers! 1t asks to be looked
DIT seeks to be known Rather an open ma
chinery! It directly summons every man, if
he hates to see our city government, for the
mere ends Of party with which it has nothing to
do, delivered over to crew who only make OF
it their spoil, to cast off the shackles of party
aid in Kidding us of the pest of such rulers. II
that's machinery, it is very honest, and We
trust viii prove q very strong one.
As for ourselves, we like such machinery and
IS good principle and good sense; that will not
sacrifice all real duty towards ones community
to q false loyalty of federal politics, which
never ought to have been introduced into our
municipal affairs, and have only corrupted and
besotted them We love the machinery that is
in the right heart and the sober brain, and
makes men independent of party in all those
things with which party has no business. On
the other hand, we don't like the machinery
TINT puts men in manacles in order to make of
them good partisans and bad citizens; the ma
chinery that produces Offices for the unworthy,
jobs for the unprincipled, debt and death for
New Orleans the old machinery of humbug
and bug-bears the machinery that leads men
by the nose in short, that machinery which
the Courier understands and thinks entirely
innocent.
We will not speak for others: for we are con-
WINGED that the course which they are taking
and which an abundance of others will take
with them, is SO plainly right, necessary and
becoming of every good man, that it will, with
out our aid, easily yindicate its notipes to all
men Of any sense, from the charge of office
seeking, which the Courier very unity brings
against them. These men are doing boldly
their duty thing not quite SO common now
a-days that men should no longer be respected
for it. But whence comes the charger Let us
tell the Courier that if office seeking Ga bad
disease morally were as fatal physically,
there would be such mortality among its (the
Courier's) friends, that enough would not be
left to bury and hardly to mourn the dead
One plain question, however, we will put to
the Courier; and we are greatly mistaken, if it
attempts to meet it Will it say that Federal
politics have anything to do with the manage
ment of our city affairs or that the introduce
ton of Federal politics into those affairs has
not been most pernicous to thems
As to ourselves, the Courier's imputation can
not reach US. What we are now saying, we
said long ago, before the present movement had
even begun. And party, in city government,
is a thing which has always appeared te us tile
greatest of fooieries and abominations.
The Comet--not one in the Skies but that of
Baton Rouge--is surely the most good natured
! of all the erratic, or we should perhaps say,
Tightly luminaries Of its class. For, after copy
ing ut large our late reply to its somewhat wan
ton attack on us, it reioins in the following
ehonest-hearted strain;
There Our friend of the Crescent has set
lbs so far back, that it will take $ time to
regain our strength and position IN society, as
aitelegaut, chaste and grammatical writer He
could not have stabbed us in more tender
place, than to say we ''murder the English,
because We feel ourselves guilty of the sin.
When We are restrained to the observance of
all the rules and their exceptions, and have to
live in fear Of the English then we will call
o convention of Louisiana Editors, and have the
rules s'settled" VIII our neighbor Of tie
Crescent consent TO the proposition You should
not deal SO sayagely with us, Mr.. Crescent; we
did not mean to say that you are the author OF
all the horrible things that go into your paper :
by nc means. 1t is evident from the reading.
that various orders of descriptive talent have
been employed in getting them up In eoueIu-