New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-28
Another Card.

An exposition. published by me on Sunday last seems
to have called of the parties implicated in the
papers, and the other-out of town. Mr. Attorney D N
Hennen acknowledges the right of the public to every
satisfaction in relation to charges of grave nature
but he has failed to the personal aid of Mr. President
Egerton whose work has been the bungng but ace
executor The undersigned however will aid the Ator
ney in his efforts Director procure for the pub
lie mind every satisfaction
In my first g card che racterzed Mr.. D. N. Hennen
by appropriate epithes and shall here avoid unneces
repetition 1t will remain at the close for those who
do not know him to contemplate the grandeur of the
moral elevation would arrive at on being raised
to the dignity of equality with him. shall make this
card as brief ms possible, and avoid Termination
feel resentment towards Mr.. Hennen for the explc
tVes wrung from his reluctant pen by the necessities
his defence have not considered him party principal
in this business though he oicously obrudes the per-
sonal pronoun T. every where in the place of his more
responsible master Ny dealings with Mr.. Presi-
dent Egerton with Mr.. Hennen from him. AS, how
ever he is still undoubtedly endowed with his represen
tatve quality it becomes necessary that his statements
should be noticed at length He says of my card
"Is comes out ayerng to the public with aagitious
canor the broad extent of these enormies his partc-
patton therein and fruitless attempt compound tho
felony by getting his share of the advantages. He
places himself before the public in the high moral posi-
tion of States rfdence, invoking the vengeance of pub
lie opinion upon his accompces for having been robbed
of his share of the punder'
In conducting an Independent journal no would
be right in mourning unreasonable loss by the advocacy
of question of local policy inropng principle Such
question is that of the projected Mobile Road 1t has
its supporters and opponents and is wholly of
expediency 1t involves of itself moral right wrong
1t does not sopardze the public peace public security
Every public journal in such surely at liberty to
exercise the discretion individual What
doing mercantile business supported by class of
would suffer himself to be dragged into
controversy if thereby, he to lose his trade
However much his judgment might favor the pro-
ect all would accept the apology that its open
port would entail losses upon him If in this state of his
case any corporation to say to him, We
interested in this measure which you believe
proper and want your aid and will make good to you all
the losses you incur by its advocacy he would assuredy
be at liberty to act in its support How could he there
tore, be called accomplish in subsequent dshonorabe
practices which he could not have foreseen and with
which be refused to be connected? H.
Such the position of the undersigned As the
duetor of public journal upon any question Of sectional
policy he is free any other In questions in-
volvng principle there is always right and wrong,
and all hazards and every cost he would be bound
maintain the right and would not be at liberty to be
silent Had the undersigned yielded to the infamous pro-
posas of John Egeton and consented to be degraded to
the dignity of confidence and equality with D. Hem
men, he would at that have become accomplish
Can his claim against these parties, for the indemnity
agreed upon be impaired by his refusal to participate in
their subsequent infamous practices Mm
THE truth says D N Hennen, may fortunately be
ascertaned by dstnssed Witnesses Thereupon he
series of facts which either garbled totally
false 1t totally false that any substitution of
agreement in place of the original one that
there any thing agreed upon in lieu of contingent
compensation But the disinterested testimony is
hand
Mr.. Egerton, absent from The city, state what
have heard from Maddox himself that he preferred upon
subsequent reflection that his compensation for his
vices should not be put on that footing"
OF course Mr. Egerton disinterested. Mr. Egerton.
who arragned before the public bar together
with Mr. D. N Heuuen these charges of grave a
ture' null state this beyond preadyenture. But Mr.
Egerton ia in Court to When accused pleads
not guilty. he is not to be called for further state
meuts Were it otherwise the accused would
suredy make the best and the only crime would
seem to consist subecng such innocence suspicion
and to trial.
II Mr. Egerton should state that the money which has
been paid the business department of the Crescent
in lieu of any eventual compensation to be paid for
losses sustained pledge mysefto produce unimpeacha
BILE testimony, showing that he up to the time of my
public denunoiation Of his repeatedly and dis
tnctly stated that liberal remuneration would bs
the crescent measure should be car
red before the people His assertion that he has paid
fabulous prices for imaginary squares he knew to be
entirely false. The statement which publish from the
gentleman who has charge the business department
the Crescent shows clearly that the number Of
charged to Mr. Egerton actually published and that
the direct losses sustained by the paper since it
menced supporting the road more than balanced the
prices paid for those publications. independently Of other
expenses attending them,
But there is disinterested testimony It seems
that when Mr. GOODWIN the Secretary OF the Pontchar-
train Railroad Company said to the undersigned Your
account is very large one, Mr. NJ" the reply
don't know what you call large accouu-54 this IS ali,
and HE oy compensation receire for ny srtces II
the undersigned made that reply he have designed
it expressly for the Of D. Hennen this occasion
Truly it quite called for by the question and ths
appropriateness of the conjunction but in the nidds
of it . is amusing problem for calculation Mr.
Smith, of the PonchRrtran Railroad is also cited
dorse this statement Whatever the words here attempted
to be given were they conveyed such meaning that
the undersigned waived his eventual mot contingency
muueration for lesses But Mr. Smith Mr. Goodwin
and va. PROFESSIONALLY state that Mr. Egerton did
agree make liberal award after the final passage Of
the ordinance Can they deny that distinctly expressed
myself satisfied with the promises Mr. Egerton had
me of full compensation for all Losses the paper might
sustain and will they state that they did not understand
this to be independent of the payments to the business
department.
shall say but ta in reply to the letter of Mr. Mus
grove. cannot believe that he would Intentionally in
jure by false statement, but his letter certainly
amounts to that lie yesterday acknowledged to me- in
the presence of third paryand do not doubt that he
is ready to say the same to any bodytha the letter
tanned only portion my conversation with him that it
had been drawn up and presented to him by Mr. Hennen
and that he had nnocently signed it without considering
the construction my words might bear in that shape The
conversation in question happened in Mr. Hennens oce
during the absence of that person 1t amounted simply
to statement by that had been treated anuBy by
Mr. hat aIth he had naI mat no fr