New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-01
THE DAILY CRESCEN1
MONDAY MORNING. MAY !, 1864
COT.ljRIERI-dyy.d.

Charity hopeth all tnihgs. - noPe'
fore, of even the least hopeful Hoping ever
thus, Of the Courier, upon the possibility, how
ever slight, that it has, by:this time, regaine
III .e,nner. recovered it's senses, and corrected
its manners, we will, with that perfect equanim
ity which is 50 necessary to all right public
discussion -an equanimity which it must err
this have perceived we never lose-resume the
thread 81 the discourse between us. which its
rudeness of the other day snapped so short.
Certainty, there is great excuse for the Cou
rier Youth is hot and hea iy We say heady
because people are called so, when they Hose
their head, or never had any. The Courier
not having yet arrived at that period when Ia:
Shakespeare has it1 the imagination waits upon
the Judgment, is impetuous and even rash
These, however, are but the generous faults Of
fthoughtless period of life. We shall expect to
see it triumph over every one Of them and be.
come model Of Ill the virtues, by the time il
shall be thousand years of age: for by that day.
no doubt, it will have become shining light OF
the temperance cause.
1t has, indeed, already taken the first steI
towards reform; and everybody that can't read
French knows that's &c a'est que lie premier pas
qaf S09te.n The Courier is become an ardent
lover of reform: SO ardent, that Mayor Lewis
is the Luther to whose severe hands it burns to
confde the whole reformation. Nor is that all !:
the Courier rejoces, Of course, with o meek, 9
holy. but sober joy. in the downfall Of tho
groggeries, as places Of election. When We
speak of election, we mean the peoples, not
God'ss for the two (though It's said SO the PEG
PIES voice is Gods yoiee.'') have heretofore
chosen very different candidates.
The Courier, in word, is of a zeal for reform
50 boundless, that it cannot trust, for that pur
pose, any but the most determined anti reform
ers, whose conduct has already so well bespoken
the beartiness of their devotion to that cause /:
the men who, setting alike at defiance the most
fragrant public necessity and the clearest public
will Of this city, are daring to refasten upon us
every municipal abomination Of either PERM
cicus persons or foul things, which the people
meant to bear and will bear no longer.
These men, of whose audacious purposes the
Gouriers senseless violence and sourrility must
stand the apt as they are the permitted expo
nents, have plainly set at naught every prin.
cple Of duty towards the community which
they were elected to serve. Does any man in
New Orleans pretend that the late election her,
was not, not merely an expression of the delibe
rate Judgment, but even an outbreak of the
settled indignation of all the revolted and af
fronfed integrity aud intelligence of our people
We have ourselves described it once before, az
fean insurrection Of the honest men" We
meant not to say that al the honest had Joined
it, from the first; for there are men whos'
honesty is slower or more timid and many
such have since focked in But the origina
over all the banks of party, all the bounds Of
authority :; it burst all the dykes of organiza.
ton. Of bribery. of fear, and swept away force
itself before it. Who will dare to deny it Mt
even the Courier, vast as ia its effrontery
1t has distinctly assented to the fact. that
the voice Of this city has pronounced for Re
form. Who, less impudent, will deny 1t win
the Mayor He is a man too respectable to
think Of ii. Dare the three Anti Reform Re
corders, or the survivors in the Lower Board Of
Aldermen. or the spectres that still make night
hideous atthe Upper Board. gainsay it, They
cannot, they dare not. They know that the
public decision, in spite of every let, was utterly
against them. Far mores they know that II
they icoutd no,e resign in body and bring
their approval or disdpprooal to the popular
tesf, EVERY MAN OF THEM WOULD BE swEP1
AWAY! Dare they meet that issues Dare ths
Courier accept it for them? No. not for al
instant.
Yet why should they not Are they Their
for any but public endsa Is this city to b
sacrificed until they can be unseated Awak
as it is, must they still ride it, like SO man
nightmares, whole years journey Ho
have they the face to claim it If they al
not bent on affecting and disgracing US, #
mere vengeance on people who have repud
ated and disdained, and whom they know
repudiate and disdain, more and more, eve
day, them and their ways, let them resign!
Let a fact or two bespeak how they are actin
They and their Recorders and Mayor ha
foiled, as far as it was possible for them to d
every step towards any reform of the wretch
City Government industrious only Of ILL.,, und
which we had SO long suffered. When we COZ
plain, what answer do we get Why, their il
silent minion, the Courier, tells us that VIII
Councils we're as bad that Mayor Crossman
appointments were no better; that Record,
Caldwell was waited on by an insolent fellol
etc, etc. all which, at best, only amounts
this: s. You have been villainously governed
and we don't intend that you shall be goyerne
any better, as long as we can help it,"
A parting word to the Courier; which, h
way Of justification for its rihaldry towards u
continues most impudently to pretend that u
have heaped personal abuse on the sevent
Ward Commissioners Our readers know til.
this is totally false. Wespoke Of them as havr
acted most guilty; we related and explaint
how but we used no vituperation; not an il
decent, but Of necessity some very serious ez
pressions.
That NE hayestrigmatized 50 severely the Con
missioners of the late election in the 7th Wal
is no excuse for the Courier. As a journa
list, we had perfect right to do So We did
on ample proof, and With the clearest sottin
forth of the facts which constitute their gull
We explained that, legally. they committed pc
jury and fraud, with the bloody Consequence
staring them in the face, and thus were moral
gailiyef all that enseed. Yet the Courier tai
as If We had charged that the COMMISSIONS
killed Aockler with their own hands. and b
repeated and repeated this, over and over, as
bent to persuade itself of the fact, by shear il
ratipn.