New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-08
Gas long as old Mississippi
Brings us good old whisky,
New Orleans will get tipsy,
Be gay, Jolly and frisky.n

declared that in our tropical regions where the human
body in permanent state of perspiration it would be
n the last degree culpabe for drink pure water
Our citizens listened to the medical dictate obeyed in
all humility, and continued to use spirituous liquids
Encouraged by their success in the frigid and Adolf
zionist Northern States these temperance gentlemen i'm
PEELED by the warmest philanthropy, have again come
among to make more vigorous Efforts for our
sion. Labor igrobus ohana uncet. But to more
serious style
The Temperance Society has scattered lib rally through
the city circulars going to show that the Of pirituous
liquids is the sole and only of all the misdemeanors
aud crimes that so frequently alic this country That
is the key Of their arch the nexhaustibe fountain
ot their augmentation noted for fanaticism
the false combustion of figures These jesucal state
ents are tissue of fasehood and absurdity with which
their authors seek to brighten the people Their means of
action are stained with bad faith worthy Of their cause
soan devout souls be SO bitter!"
Iin Europe where the people told groan under
tyranny there found of matter what party
who should be guilty of circulating pamphlets SO immoral
repusve to truth, dangerous for the community,
they would be immediately arrested unatics capable
of che criminal deeds, and consigned to the dun
Reons of Bicetre or Clarendon
II the mmoderate of liquor sometimes deprives of
their senses those who inclined to debauchery and
dissipation it must be acknowledged on the other hand
that the Of water only beverage must assuredy
weaken the intellect Of other classes of men, parayzs
their faculties dsbiitate their physical powers The
proofs to be seen in the advocates OF the
doctrine.
These individuals clamorousy call for the closing of the
coehouses which according to them are dens Of crime
aud demoralizing to society What precious reasoning
The crimes that frequently occur in our midstare not
asst is generally urged they the consequences Of
drunkenness this positively and ask proof
for an examination of our judicial registers
1t is established aud well known must be confessed
and is with regret say ittha the quiet peaceabe
citizen has in our country and in this city above ALL no
certainty of his personal security Crime succeeds crime
with fightu rapdity murders are committed on the
least pretext this with easy assurance that is
founded the hope of mpupityon the belief in undis
turbed freedom from Justices DEGREES.
Drunkenness should not have this lax discipline OF the
law laid to its charge would be calumnious false to do
So Condemn rather the facility with which worthless
bail is taken condemn the eorruptlng influences that
surround the laws executors JUSTICE be worthy
of the title only when it obeys strictly and implicitly the
dictates of the law The law admits Of no distinction Of
classes grants consideration to Offenders Of high de-
gree When man, in responsible social position.
ms crime, he is guilty than the ignorant, unedu-
Gated man To drunkenness must be attributed assaults
and batteries trivaties when compared with assassina
tons perpetraed for this for that by excitabe people,
we have many among us trviates when compared
with murder steady hand waiting for its victim
in the dark and not fearing to strike in the daylight
The drunkard fights, but he does not assassnate
Dispensers ustice when you the throne OF the
law you are no longer men, you this law itself Cour
ageously then give life to the law the holy safeguard OF
grateful society
Formerly, at Rome, when man, overcome with wine,
ourpttcd crime his received two punishmants for
having got drunk the other for the crime he committed
With the abolition Of the cofeehouses, we are told,
will disappear drunkenness, the hdeous leprosy that
Stimulates to the brute creation, and thereby dis
graces humanity.
After the are put down. the drunkard will
go sober and best his wife longer the bertine
become moral and will come home at early hours
AoAS's
as tho honest apostle of temperance These are
the by which, these people pretend the police
will be reduced onehalf the salaries OF the Recorders
will be diminished in like proportion even to that OF the
Judge of the Criminal Court. The watchmen will here
after be sent to their respective posts only to that he
lamps well lighted that the cats do not trouble tne
slumbers of peaceable citizens. What mockery!
assuredly understand the dsgracefu aspect Of drunk
enness when carried to by men Of vicious and
but because society numbers among
its members who unsubmissive, indoce. per-
verified and who dishonor her must the whole community
be included in the blow that strikes the few Must the
easy nuet man Door or we-to-do in the world, be de-
pryed privilege of taking refreshment after days
hard laborf
what will be in the evening of those OF our c
gems accustomed to such quiet resorts They must
sacrifice suddenly and without warming their comfort
their custom of visiting the cafe each evening and meet
ing there accustomed faces the cafe which, To-
those of our citizens below Canal street. Exchange
meeting place for business and conversation No mor
papers news from home no more picquef; nj
game Of billiards dominoes, unless one were to pla
dominoes with ones wife and we all know the proEer
that must not be too intimate with his WIFE.
If the cafes closed how would there be found EN-
out work. and live dime day! lnnch is thel
only meal. come wtess persons, who look only at IN
surface Of the most serious questions VIII say tnat
serve to nourish only lazy persons Granted to
degree Still if these persons were industrious WON'T
not the rivalry obtain public places and salaries r
Lazy people, then are necessity How shall they liv.
and what will become OF them
Hunger cruel hunger, daughter Of misery,
Alas was always bad counsellor
She demands from despair and yillainy
The bread Incidence could not grant
How opportune, then, these lunches for the mel
chant his clerk the business man OF all degrees in fn
ever Impatient ever moving, succeeding the other
unehng speak, in order not to lose time at Dime
With the disappearance Of the cafes wlll dsappea
Drunkenness say the advocates Of temperance stupi
joke this. and most mpudent assertion Drunkennei
one those capital vices frequently hereditary thu
can possibly be corrected by persuasive morahy ot
which cannot be radically cured The French proven
is whoever has drank will drink again" Drum
will become private, family AFFAIR." wherein en-
dren will learn the vice from their fathers In this esp
eally will crime arise, for 1t will be without superb
tending eye, and consequently will enjoy impunty
attempt destroy drunkenness by prohibiting the pup
sale Of liquor, would be useless measure, and wou
bring about contrary result to that anticipated in
tachng to the prohibited article because it is so prom
tied more value and attraction. The remedy would In
be worse than the evil.
If the Temperance advocates have any humanity
ALL they must trembe they think of what will be
result Of their fanatic phanthrophy-ho many fanat
will be ruined how much suffering will ensue II tn
have examined this serious question in Its real tn
are unworthy OF the OF citizens. Let them be CT
out they have swosn to dc mankind great injury.
Buyeurs d'eau, pourquoi done etesvous 81 mechans
Eft pourquoi seriez-vous plus sages, plus savants
Que Noe, qui sauya les hommes du deluge,
Noe, don't IL yaisseav leur servit de refuge
Lequel faut II amer de Noe on Matthew?
L'homme que pronez, qua il done fait di mic
Que MOB, qui planta la ygne bien aimee
Don't lie jus rajeunt lie eoenr ct Ia pensee?
All vous etee ingrats, v0us etes sans pudeur
Buveurs d'eou, d'ouirager AIMS yotre sauyeur.
1t must not be concealed either that behind this gu
ton Of temperance lurk others quite as Injurious;
declared hostility of the North against the South hosti
of ideas manners habits and of civil and commercial
ponierance and aboltionism my felow-citizens, will
the result of those perseyerng efforts the consumn
ton of your general ruin
IF the cold water system Is imposed on US, dry brea
will follow together with prohibition against smoki
so that shortly it would be useless to wish to annex
island of Cuba. Speedily, too, Sunday will be oonsec
ted to prayer and fasting. Where are Res Where
we to be led! 5.=
While the question of slavery occupies all minds tn
gd grave thinkers strive to forge chains for the whit
Strange, disgracetul coincidence!