New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-13

! THURSDAY MORNING. April Is, 1854.
1,HE STRUGGLE Iss-.a.E w ORLEANS.


We need scarcely say that, in the late con-
test here, tho issue the sole issue made, Vas
If tho Reform Of the endurance Of our pre-
n NSSNs OILY government. 1t was notoricusly ir-
Fiuisnt Of everything but electioneering. y
n xF5Ssly neglected the interests Of our city. #
rendered our revenues, with an utterly mad
eauate return Of public benefits It fostered
vice and disorder, by fixing our places Of cleo
ton in grog shops It sacrificed Gas our people
theurht) the great objects of our municipal
polIcy and wants, to the conveniences Of a mere
nolitical parity, with which our city affairs have
nothing "a do II regulated it's appointments,
with IA view. 70 the public good, but merely do
il offices, the due discharge of which was vital
to the well-being Of New Orleans, were to be
made the spoil and the plumber for rewarding
men who had served only party, not US. 1t
especially had placed all mems persons and pro-
peTty, among us, at the mercy of police SO
bad and brutal and careless, that ii he'd be-
come shame I'd our town and rather a dread
xhan protection TO its honest Inhabitants In
4 d VERDI there was q general persuasion that no
i city was ever mere misgoyerned; there was q
great outcry and sort of general rebellion Of
the most respectable citizens, against the whole
aystem and persons of those who had been so
grossly misgoverning us and in every way
abusing and perverting their solemn and I'M
p0rt ant public trust Among the most indig-
nant Of these many complaints, was that Of the
manner id which ncW-imported and vicious
foreigners were aebauched, employed, and made
at once the causes of disorder and the instru-
and fraud, the abused authority which was
grown and had deserved to grow so odious but
which (become inyeterate and obstinate) was
+ none ths iess bent on keeping hold, at any cost,
III its forfeited poMer
we need NOT say shat the broad issue thus
made was as distinctly tried. at the late cleo
tion nor that the clear decision of our people,
in spite Of all power and Office and all the ma
chinery Of party, set It's mark of condemnation
h tiyes Of the late city Government Nor need we
repeat that this decision, rendered emphatic by
all it's causes and all its circumstances, should
have been, in al men S view, made even solemn,
by the tragic facts which the resort to violence
against the Refprmers and their stern resolution
not to be dealt with both by perjury and the
club brought about.
The old hoIders-oyer Of power, however
though loudly proclaiming themselves democrats
scofn and are doing an they can to defeat the
public award against them They cling to what
New Orleans has just said shall cease: they are
Sdstermined that the old abuses shall stand !.
they are evidently bent on re-subduing this re-
bellious city to the chains SO lately thrown off
Instead of lending themselves, like good men, 10
just decision. even if against their party
wishes. they ars plainly proving thatithey care
for NO duty but 70 party, are determined that
i nothing better shall rule. and that, for the
smallest possible hope Of gaining in a new cleo
ton, they will plunge this hapless city, where
blood yet runs 80 high, into all the turbulence,
depravity, and passionate excitement of another
contest ut the polls.
To such q trial, What are the Inducements
Next to none For since the late election and
its crimes the numbers and the displeasnre
against them have grown 50 much that the recent
majorities against them would probably be al
most doubled, at every poll
Under such circumstances, we look with per-
feet horror upon course like that which seems
resolved upon And we must deliberately CON
slider it as nothing less than crime, in any one
having official charge Of the safety Of this our
town, tolend his hand to measure at once 50
bootless, 50 dangerous and even mad
Thinking nay. knowing all this, we spoke
of it, in one of our Mondays articles, as NE felt
Such is our practice spoke of it, as it ought
to be spoken of with Indignation, and endea-
yored to set it in that strong light which should
make its very authors recol from it, Should
we have talked softly Of it Was it likely that
such men, deaf I'd any ordinary voice but par
TVS, would listen to us Would they regard,
from us, the mere perfumery of speech, an es-
senced discourse of rose watered pity3 Tush
Commenting upon u.s. yesterday, our neigh
Dor of the Courier-being itself signally free
from any party PASSIONS good enough to en-
title our article g most indecent and our
selves q an mcendiary.'' The Courier's friends
are N decent, when they perjnre themselves
from morn To night as Commissioners and pre-
pare blcodshed ne. 6 indecent because we
recite what they did! The Courier's friends
are kindling up q torch for this city: we try to
put it cut, before they fling it; and SO sce are
3. incendiaries y
The Courier equally denounoes the manner
In which We spoke Of the Commissioners, after
they were indicted. They cannot have a fair
trial, it thinks, if thus stigmatized. TO this 1t
is answer enough to say, that if our testimony
is to affect them, il was already given. in the
same epithets, with full detail of the afro
eious conduct, before our own eyes, which per-
fectly justified the terms employed.
Finally, it accuses US of 6 an uncomfortable
inclination to get up another sanguinary row 81
Ii So, our method--that Of dissuading the Coun-
Gil from ordering another elections singu-
lar way Of showing it. The Courier thinks it
would be pleasant to see us at the head of the
next movement of the kind If the Courier
saw the late scene at all, it was from a point a
good deal safer than where we were, with the
bludgeons Of its friends whzzing above our
heads. Should such thing & occur again.
the Courier may quite probably have the plea
sure Of meeting US there, if it likes Mean
time, we kiss its hands
DRAINAGE OF NEW 0RLEASs.-We have the
pleasure Of laying before our readers another
communication on this subject, from our very
honored and able correspondent, Dr. Marshall
Hall, of London. His name will secure it atten-
. Vrs. 49, oi 1 !