New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-18
!. SOLD TO THE pUTcH.,,


Why one who has been very cruelty taken in
is said to be thus sold, we know not, unless il
ne because, at the time when the adage arose,
the Hollander was so much the keenest trader
in the world that he who dealt with one was
sure to get nothing for his commodity.
We are not fond of cant-phrases As news
papers are now better written than books and
not only form the highest but will soon form the
whole existing literature, it is necessary that
editors should look to it that their dialect is
kept pure. If they let themselves down to the
level of that slipslop which the novelists or that
baIderdash which politicians or that namby
pamby which the poets give us for Kings Eng
lish-all is gone: the very women will catch
the soft Infection of degenerated speech the
women, who are the guardians of taste as thew
are the refuge of manners the women, among
whom purity Of morals and of dialect find their
last retreat, when lost everywhere else. If ever
nation or its letters be running out, it is the
sex that must save it: as long as the sex is I'M
depraved, there is .-ope for men, hope for liter
ature: both may be redeemed Let the wo-
men, therefore, take double heed of their ways
and of their tongue. If they fall into the vices
VI tle Slihes - iiioy euhsen9 10 pfofane their
sweet lips with cant words, with slang. with
those fashionable vulgarisms, which more than
all things mark demoralized people and de.
caying idiom, barbarism is at hand-that worst
barbarism, which follows not precedes, civil
zation the barbarsm brought back by the cul.
tivation of the sensual arts
So much for can't. Yet tits difficult to talk of
canters without using it, Thieves English is
the only one fit to mention some people in. We
say, therefore, that the greatest " sell = that we
have ever seen is that made of the South, in the
case on which we take the following little article
from that always honest journal, the Richmond
Wing:
A REssIscEscE OF THE LATE PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS
This Charestown Free Press quotes Mr. Faulkner the
pronUncianento put forth by certain members
qress who coAld support Gen Scott for the Pres
dency. one Of whom Mr.. Faulkner 1t completely
corners the convert to Democracy Thus the pro.
That his (Gen Seott.sl policy
elected would be warped and shaped conform hier
(the Fresoilers) VIEWS and eieratc them pop IN me
administration az the but be considered rs
legitimate and probable result. The document then
yoes on to say:
aud believing as ne do that the views of that faction
If mischevons dangerous not only to the just
md constitutional rights Of the Southern States hut to
peace and quiet Of the whole country and to the per-
Union of the States we regard IL as the highest
uty of the wewishers of the country eryWheFe what
yer else they may least withhold from him their
airport This we intend to do
The cap fits a few besides Mr.. Faulkner. The
GRAFTON of that faction of mschevieus men, dan
only the Just and constitutional rights of the
,nfhesn States but the peace and quiet of the whole
untry and to the permanent union of the States Is
tho aYoped policy Of the Administration or General