New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-27
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HOME LEGISLATION vs.. PaRTf.
Tt is difficult to imagine any thing more m
defensible, more contrary to the duty OF every
public man, than to allow his federal poLeios
to creep into his legislation for his own o'a.e
and peryert it to the mere ends Of party ABROAD,
va tb;s L what NAV now be seen, almost con-
stantly, in nearly every part OF tne Union
And so general has this betrayal Oh al 90
nn,eat;n interests and duties become that y
hardly rouses reproach any longer. All submit
- y and it is plain, therefore, that all have
bacome such blind partisans, that they are
willing to see the most serious necessities OF
legislation at our own doors thus flung as mere
make weights into the balance, to turn the
scale Of party at distance. Yet more repre-
hensible does the fact become, when it is con-
sidered that the faction which, it seems to U.S.
is most guilty in this wise, is that one which is
ever protesting the most vigilant Jealousy Of
State Rights Where can that Jealousy really
be, when it is perpetually ready to act in this
way
But not State interests alone are thus need
lessly trampled on, at the behest, however idle,
of every petty advantage of Federal party; we
40 abroad and trihe with the interests Of the
entire South, at the bidding of PRESIDENTIAL
candidate to help his prospects; we come even
closer home than to our State Government, anu
make the most preposterous havoc Of our CITY
government by consenting to make our num-
cipal elections themselves yet another victim
upon the senseless altar of Washington politics,
four times in FIVE as destitute Of every real good
to the country itself, as they are, at all events,
Destitute of any true relation to the manage
ment Of cur city affairs
When win cur people sufficiently return to
their senses, to cease proceeding in this insane
way Is there no hellebore that will cure them
Of such infatuation, no drug, no purge, no sweat.
no sousing in cold water, no strait Jacket, no
scourging /? Are they incurably mad
OF what real advantage to federal party can
it be to have our State-policy thrown under
foot, our State Legislation set at nought, the
local interests of our city given to the winds,
the administration Of our police, the care OF our
local taxes delivered up to utter mismanage
ment' What does il signify to have the same
set of men govern us at Washington and here
And what connection can any man under Heaven
discover between General Politics and the streets,
the leyees, the cutters of New Orleans Will
Federal Politics put out fire Will Federal
Politics catch thief or a house breaker Win
Federal Politics cleanse our town and prevent
the yellow fever for us 81.
It is to this last point that we are driving.
There is nothing that so deeply and pressingly
concerns our city and all the lives and property
in it there is little that more generally regards
the whole State, than that, while there's yet
time to finish them before the sickly season, a
well-devised system of operations should be set
on foot for removing, by drains, sewers, and all
other efficient means ofpurifcation, whatever is
fit to engender disease among US. Why do we
wait Is there any time to lose Is not the
space within which we must act already grown
alarmingly short! Or is New Orleans to be left
to the chances Of yet another such awful vista
ton as that of last year. Who does not know
that it is highly to be dreaded Who needs to
be told that, if it comes, the prosperity of no
great seat of trade will have ever before received
so dreadful and 50 sudden a blow
It is time that our town, the State, our mu-
nicipal government our legislature, our people,
the public press, and every thing else should
wake up on this vital matter and bestir them
selves in the deepest earnest Quit your party
politics, gentlemen! and go to work, not like
factionists, but like men and citizens!