New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-06
d ID II4Y CRESCENT.
THURSDAY MORNING APRIL 8. 1864
4 i FoR.n kp .a-EH ORLEANS.


4hS general and The pressing need for ie-
4or5I ID or entire City Govern nent has happily
brought about an entire overthrow Of our old
tyrants and oorrupters, the wicked coalition Of
dsmagoguess who have been holding, BY the
force 81 organised bribery and terror, the
usurpsd dominion Of our town and used it Who'll
& " for the personal advantage that is to be made
out af unpfincipletf misrule. The anti- reformers
have been 0ycrthrown Reduced to a numeri-
cal minority, they are rendered still more i'm
potent. BY their consciousness that they stand
\ condemned, BIZ the most decisive public judg.
\ snent; ind thst If i new and general election
were now u ~ had, probably not man Of them
would be lsis IL power In a word, they must
T now, through the force Of the consciousness Of
{. whioh Nj hove spoken, regard themselves as
civiilIl politically, municipally and morally de-
ftinct for all their former praotices or purposes,
and a. only left alive to aid, however reluctant
III, bringing about the coed Work, which their
own abandoned doings have rendered 50 neoes-
sary.
The fret step towards good Is to cease from
evil the first step towards q civil reform was
to Mt lid of Till abusers Of power. That step
0SflUg uGHu HIttakc ttic " eAdt1lu0 So
berly into an the particulars Of existing abuses
and carefully to set them right. But this must
! be gone about most cautiously, and, we need
hardly say most honestly
For there arc few things which, even when.
sincersly meant, are more subject to carrying
With them great i'll, and even wrongs, than a.
large Reform. IL insincere, 1t not only adds
x las did the famous Jackson Reform) to the sub
sisting mischiefs which it found, but creates
general and deplorable one, in casting discredit
on any better effort towards that which it has
turned into q cheat II, On the other hand,
sincere, it is apt to be overhot and to rush into
excesses. For they who are called to any con-
siderable work Of this sort are always invested
with an unusual power; and such power is
sadly apt 70 rush into wrong. There is, then,
the deubls difficulty Of hindering those who are
to be the agents Of Reform from either doing
too Little or doing the much.
How Ii this To be hindereds In but one way
The public the author and the proper benef
ciary Of the Reform must itself carefully
watch over IT, and keep it straight. For even
Reformers are not to be bhndly trusted Like
all ether rulers, they require much looking
after.
We trust, however, to see the thing set abont,
1 With 4 cheerful godd will, "a earnest but a
sober zeal. The citizens generally must lend
themselves heartily to the good work which it is
for their magistrates to take directly in hand.
We hape to witness no rashness, no slowth, no
over leniency, no unjust prescription: and,
above all things, we shall deplore to see any
thing permitted of thnt which has come to be
the great bane Of our public affairs the lust
Of office, Thu spirit Of the spoils. Short and
anything but fortunate will be the reign Of any
Reform which shall once let in that uncleanest
Of all unclean spirits On the other hand, all
the world win judge and must judge the
honesty and the value Of the promised Admins
tratiye Revolution, BY it's outward and visible |
token-the persons whom it shall employ and
their known character and competency. Let !
90 come back TO the reality Of government
from empty theories, On one hand, from the
fnries Of party, on the other, and recur to the
solid old truth Of the couplet:
For forms Of government, let fools contest:
That which u best administered IL best