New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08
! DON'T RE R0RM.

What madness has seized upon New Orleans
Hhat possesses the people to imagine that there
can be amy need of Reform or what insane
root have they eaten, to put such a maniac no,
ton into their brains, weak at best, but now
added
What have we to desire, in the way of gov
ernment' We have one which not merely pours
upon us all the blessings which, in practice,
mans wishes, extravagant as they are, could ask,
but is an honor and an ornament making u
the admiration-nay the envy--of people every.
where else, and not simply happy at home, but
illustrious abroad
Consider how snbiimely, till Of late, when in
an eytl hour, you, oh most foolish people! began
to reform it, that Government stood Where
was its like Cotton sat, the great representa-.
tive Of its learning; Winter Of its Justice; Sui
liyan Of its integrity; 0'Leary of its civility
Lngenbuhl OF its capacity!
But chiefly did that noble and enlightened
body Of legislators, our great civic senate, the
Common Council, she a lustre upon your city
They, justly disdaining to stoop from the high
estate OF their lofty talents to the petty cares o.
mere police or the health, or the streets, or thu
purse, or such vulgar and low things as tn,
trade, the morals, or the skulls, or the throats
of your town, employed themselves only, as was
fit, in more imperial functions. They looked at
ter your liberties for you they regulated you,
straight: they attended to the interests of Hun.
gary and Poland, Italy and Cuba, ireland and
Turkey. They watched over heeonauct of Rus
STA and Austria. Would you have had them for.
get the cause Of 6 the down troddenn in Europe
and Asia, to mind your pitful affairs here, along
side this little river Mississippi? No, they con,
descended not to such paltry concerns they
were too busy seeing to elections and offices, fat
jobs, nice contracts and "the spoils'' generally
they were protecting the grogshops and the sail,
ors' boarding houses, the favorite objects OF
their care; what signifed all the rest in com,
parisoni
In short, oh absurd inhabitants of this most
benighted city are you SO little patriotic, 80
utterly selfish, so narrow, so SCOTTISH that you
would have the men you elect look after your
interests and happiness, instead of nohly devo
ting themselves 10 those Of mankind in general
and of the office holders in particular If tha,
be the case you had better leave here at once
Winter and Cotton, and o'Snliyan and O Leary
and our Hibernian Mayor have no further occa,
sion for you Get you, with all expedition, t.
ireland There study aud practice the duties
a1d the feelings of freemen, in long appren
tieJ iii Of hereditary servitude. When you skal
have been slaves there long enough to learS
the 'rogue, come back here, and you shall be
ma tiers IN America You, contending demo.
gogues hall court, vieipg in their batteries for
your favor, You shall drink, bully, sell your.
selves, swear away your souls and the birthright
OF the natives, break their laws and their heads,
and III q word, do what you like, in all the ardor
Of genius valor, patriotism, freedom, whisky
and eadgels Down with the Natiyesl Down
with Retormi