New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-02
& FRIENDLY .aDDERsaRIEs.,


We said, the other day, that we had, by our
article in derision of the pretended mission
of America incurred the ire of our g hostile
friend of the Baton Rouge Gazette and were
therefore quite likely speedily to feel the in
dignation Of our ''friendly enemy of the
Baton Rouge Advocate. Accordingly, the lat
ter, in great wrath at our poor pleasantries-
which were surely too harmless to hurt him
falls upon US in such wise as here ensueth:
The n. o. Crescent thinks if his g friendly
adversary Of the Advocate has taken in as high
dudgeon as his g hostile friend . of the Gazette
his daughter" at both about the grand mis-.
sion OF our country, he has certainly "a brought
an old house about his ears 6
Now we can't conceive &C friendly adyer-
sary :" or sc hostile friend" Whatever might
be our private relations with the urbane gentle
man WHO presides over the editorial department
OF the Crescent, as his political adversary we
cannot own to one spark of friendship. We
would like him to know, too, that, whatever
acerbity or severity may characterize our hos
tile remarks, towards himself editorially or
others, they are nevertheless written with as
much sang troid, as when cook flags an eel
or an anatomist performs the vivisection of an
alligator. So il there be any wincing g testi-
ness manifested, we would look for it on the
part of the subject of the operation-not our
selyes. Our hand is steady and our steel pen
lnexorabie. He tells us of his g daughters al
our g mission" IL is well he does so--we should
never have taken the horrible contortion to
mean laughter" His intention to laugh may
have been good; but his execution is q total
failure, and he would do well, hereafter. to
write the word In the margin Of all his fantastic
counterfeit presentiments of the mood Of
mind called G laughter We will not even adj
mt that he smiled in any human way the
only compromise We can make is to confess that
he may have personifed Millions description OF
grim Death, when represented as erinnine
/" horribly CHASTITY SMILE"
This is certainly talking in very victorious
style. and certainly rather more triumphantly
than mercifully or modestly From the stern
manner in which our inexorable adversary
speaks of his exploits, one may perceive that
he is equally formidable as cook and fatal as
surgeon; as an anatomist, he is fit to skin
cells; as q cook, he is Fit to dress dish of ALI
gators.
If doctor you should chance to need
Or if you have mind to feed.
Surgeon and Cook, he knows the way
.- 10 turn your stomach or to say;
man you never set your eyes on,
surer to maagle YOU or poison
AS to the boosted haying, we suppose a met
aphorica1 one only is meant. At any rate it is
yet to come; and, meantime, who has not heard
of people that went out to wool others and came
back shorn
But our inamioable opponent, who scorns to
be anything else, cannot comprehend how there
should be g friendly enemies" Why, even in
war, there are such things: why not then, in
the mere mimic battle of politics? In Homer,
we have the gallant Diomede-a knight long
before the days Of Chivalry--and the magnani-
nous Glaueus, who meet as foes only to become
friends and to turn their vaior upon the abund-
ance of other adverse champions, less worthy of
their hostile esteem. Why not we of the press
then, if seen to be deserving of mutual regard !,
Did not they of the times of Knighthood meet
In the noble tournay, to try each others
strength and to test the comparative beauties
OF their lady-loges, and yet with blunted arms
cannot We, then, however loyal to those less
niight mlstresses, the political theories that We
adore, worship them, without cutting each
others throats, or butchering and even ssskin-
ing" one another? As for ourself. we have
fought many a bout, with fair but with generous
arms; and hope to do our deyoir in many an
DINER Il the Advocate is willing to meet us in
that sort OF strife and TO be with us foes as de-
termined yet as kindly aswe have been with many
on the same side quite as strong and as skillful,
1T well but if it is to be skinuing- match, we
are not entirely inexpert in the art of taking off
hides, however thick, in SO soft manner as
scarcely to be missed by their original wearers.
The ebiiging clerk Of the steamer Winfield
Scott has our thanks for Cincincinti papers of
the 2lst ult.