New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-15
The DAILY CIR CENT.
MONDAY MORNING. MAY ls,g 1854
i G.aME 1T C.aRDS.

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Col. Campbell possesses, it seems, in addition
to ali that catalogue of talents and functions
which we have extoled, the dexterity Of thu
card player, and ii Saturday Delta, attempts
to shuttle out of conflict, which he himself
began, BY turning Il into game Of cards. HI
has even the countenance to talk Of his being
attacked aud bullied by proxy and bis holding
in g contempt braves. whether Of the pen or the
pavement "
Wonderful is the intrepidity which conscious
reetitude bestows But whohas bullisd Colonel
Campbell Is it bullying him to say he was the
father Of the measure which he now denounces
Is Ii bullying him to prove that he favored IT,
with ali those sins on its head which have now
been washed away, but at the original depravity
of which he has still such sancti6ed horror
Is he not d little like King Richard, whom
nothing, however criminal, could appal, until il
had become q mere shadow w.
Lett Colonel Campbell dismiss all these spectral
terrors There is no ghost about, unless it be
that Of his own acts, which are rising in judg
ment against him. But It's mere superstition
Conscience, at least some peoples conscience
is nothing but phantom. Fhe was not afraid
Of the Mobile Road charter as he reported 1t, he
need not quake at it as it now stands.
tt is really funny to hear the Colonel talk
about his being g bullied by proxy" And why
not most valiant champion of Railroads Wha.
are you but Mr.. Robb's proxy Why not proxy
fight proxy And is not this kind Of warfare as
lutte sersils as being merely the tool Of his in
terests
But, he speaks Of the attack itself upon him
as 4 coarse and ungentlemanly If there be
coarseness, it lies in the facts Of Colonel Camp
bells own conduct, and however coarse that
\ conduct be in the recital, the coarseness must
surely be that of him who did it, not of us who
merely related it,
So again Of the ungentlemanliness. Not one
1 nnbecoming expression has been applied by US
to him. The very harshest which we have used,
was but to say. if be did not act honestly then
he should at least actdecentIy now: which was
argumentative and conditional only and per-
fectly proper, as will be seen by looking at the
article. We had shown that Colonel Campbell
supported, aye! that be was even responsible for
the very faults in the Pontchartrain Railroad
bill, which he now denounces We had then a
Z FsttsS' gu " soy enao, II Soiou0l
Conduct in supporting that bill was dishonest
shame at least should now deter him from de-
nouncing IL: for no shame, no reproach can lie
against any one-not even against those so called
directors and spectators whom he stigmatizes
las against himself the legislative father Of that
bill. Whatever others have done they have
only been able to do through his fundamentally
and nothing can be more indecent than that they
who have renowned the undue advantages which
he conferred upon them, should now, by the very
author Of what they have renowned, be SO
furiously assailed
Ills really merry to hear the Colonel talking
in the most Immaculate manner of his being
calumniated' at the instigation of some of the
principal directors Of the Pontchartrain Rail
road Company We think these same directors
might, with more truth, say that his hostility to
them was instigated by the President and some |
Of the direc ors Of the jackson Railroad Com
pany And how he can imagine himself calunl. |
MATED is an enigma tons I Calumniated Instead |
Of being illuminated, it was he who was calum-
mating. He commenced this warfare against
the very existence Of the Mobile and New Or.
leans Railroad; ii was fighting for its life
Was it MOTTO defend itself and was 1t not to
state those facts which set in the most decisive
light the malgnity, the selfshness and perfidy Of
him who was the "head and 'front.' of the assault
s4ssit o calnmny to say that Col Campbell re- |
ported this bill Is tia calumny to say that |
he voted for it and afterwards denounced it;
Is it caluany to say that friend Of his sought |
aid from q director Of this very road, which |
was only given upon the positive assurance
that he would support, in and out of Council, 1.-THE
application Of the company for 81 100000 I
And is itcalumny to suppose, he knew that the
the aid Ras given, or, knowing, to infer that
he kasw the conditions
Nog@we have stated the whole Of the charge
against him, and when he disproves it we will |
not be slow to do him justice Calm reHeetion
should have taught him ere this that the simple
evidence Of facts il better than all declaration.
Let him come out and say what is true and
what false in the charge and the reason of his
conversion to his present faith.
In few words, Col, Campbell says il is a |
calnmny as stated by us that Mr. Robb had
caused assurances in writing to be given of
his tRobb's) support Of the Mobile road, and
also engaged that Campbell would e.6e go.
pe,aed ba hina, and upon which assurances
large amount of money was obtained from the |
Pontchartrain Company to secure Campbelrs
election. We offered to furnish the evidence Of
all this in writing. Col. Campbell had the
evidence Of it in his hands previous to the pub
LEGATION of his card. Now we ask upon this
statement whoh been illuminated he by our T
statement Of fact, or we by his card2
Let the Colonel come out with his promised I
yindieation, explanation, or whatever it may be
termed, and not leave it an adjourned question.
And now we will bid the Colonel good bye. |
And believing, from his remarks on Saturday |
night in Council, that his g coarse language
IN reply to our notice Of him was but the out
burst Of an " honest unreAecting indignation in
which his cooler Judgment and natural polite
ness had no concern we freely forgive him for
it, with the hope that he will not endeayor to
raise suspicion in the public mind as to the
motives of individuals, unless he expects his own
in return to be questioned
CITIZEN
An article from the pen Of that us,,a,ly f.;c
and argumentative writer, sCitizen,, NAV he
found IN another column Of our paper, We re-.