New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-03
THF REFoR.MERs oUTDoNE.

It is necessary to speak of Arts in their own
language if one would speak Of them with
eEactness; and on the other hand, there are
terms, proper only to certain arts, which can
alone convey TO even the popular comprehension
theidea ofparticular things because the things
themselves seem so evidently borrowed from pc
culiar trades or pursuits, that the word proper
10 them, however illegitimate, must go along, in
order to describe them. Thus we are sometimes
compelled to speak Of the events Of -fieid,
In the dialect of grooms; or to refer to certain
public tricks. that look as if they had come out
of St. Giles's or the Five Points, in the sort q
slang, or thiefs latin, which best explains them
The anti -Reformers are, within lew Gays,
kempioyinr o trick here, Of that Kind which is
technically styled q d dodge, certainly one OF
tae boldest that we have ever seen attempted,
4 thangh we have Witnessed no littlelegerdemain
~ The species which is called politics. They are
roinr about and telling people, with all the airs
Of disappointed virtue. of patriots who &C have
fallen upon evil times. !" that the intended city
Reform has proved a failure: that the word is
very pretty word, which, for want of sufficient
human honesty, always proves delusive; thatths
Reform appointments lately made are no better
than the old ones and, in brief, that the whole
affair has turned out cheat !! =
Admirable! There is o masterliness of i'm.
pudence in this, which could hardly be ex-
oeeded.
a failure Has the Reform failed Not
precisely, God wet Have we not tossed Win
ter sky high? Have we not spurned away
O'Leary Have we not dragged Sullivan and
| his unicorn team of Commissioners where JUS
| tice can hardly fail to be meted out to them !
Have we not sternly taught the ruffianism of
our town that it shall not again lord it over us,
ut the polls, with the bludgeon Have we not
retrieved the ballot box from its outlawry
\ among the grog- shops! Has not a general dis
| may. the black presage of their coming fate,
been cast over the whole body of our corrupt
| office-holders and the whole obscene crew Of
their myrmidons? Have not honor and public
spirit bel up their heads again Do not the
children Of the soil again tread it as if it were
| theirs and they not aliens' And, in q word
have not the Dutch retaken Holland, though
| they may yet have certain parts Of it to get
possession of t5
| If there has been any failure, whose is it, Not
that of the Reformers, thus far They have
been foiled of much they have failed in nothing.
For they are going steadily forward; growing
in numbers while not Stacking in will nor stint
1 ing in deed. Who does not know it Who is
not aware that this city is inyincibly in their
| hands? What if. for the moment, the old cabal
cling, with desperate clutch, to their last hold
upon power, and the people cannot yet come by
their own' They mill hare 1t, in the good
time of the laws; and, once gotten. will hold it
forever-at least from those disloyal citizens,
henceforth the fixed objects of their just aver
Fsion, who have not merely failed in their clear
est and highest duties, but betrayed every addi-
tional obligation which the public favor had inn
posed upon them. There is q day of reckoning
at hand. The very men who affect to talk oft,
as indefinitely postponed, speak of it. in their
secret conolaves, with white lips, and feel that
it is coming to crush them. Very easy are they
under it, no doubt; quite happy; as happy as
toads under harrow But let us see how
| they will look, when it shall have run over
them again, on Monday next, and given them
/ another rakipp a