New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-12
The New York Tragedy.

A day or two since we made some remarks in
regard to the base attack of the New York Tri
bune upon DR.. Graham. We find by some d
our New York exchanges, received since then
thatwe are not alone in our appreciation of that
Journals unprincipled course in this affair, and
that Northern editors as well as Southern are
well aware that the writer's for the Tribune
have forever one chief object in view: to ma
lighn and injure as much as possible Southern
men and Southern institutions, upon every
occasion and at whatever cost. The remarks
which we copy below are from the New York
Express and the Evening Post, and nobody who
knows any thing about the two papers will pre-
tend to doubt the impartiality and honesty Of
their indignation
ssOnly q fool or knave could have penned the
following editorial paragraph, which appeared
in the leading column Of the Tribune yester-
day:
One Of those brutal murders which seem peculiarly
to belong to the institution of slavery took place yeser
day at the ST. Nicholas Hotel In the free States men
above the condition OF rowdes do mot habitualy M
armed like assassins mporsations from the regions Of
chvary however, reveal occasionally sword
and pistols In the present instance man cla
ing to be gentlemapR M. Graham, of New Orleans
had murderoua weapon--a sword cnne--apd on being
reprimanded for his drunken noises the st NchpIas
Hotel, stabbed Mr. Loring, of California through tho
body and killed him This barbarous murder could
hardly have been committed by Northern man It ID
the product of slavery. sFri
We repeat, only fool or q knave could SO
write. II its author 5elieeed what he wrote
he answers to the first mentioned character as
defined by Webster, namely, some who is des.
titute of reason, or the common powers of I'M
derstanding. If he did not believe, then he
was what the same excellent authority describes
as mischievous' $ dishonest" {" fraudulent,'
etc., etc.
Even the Evening Post" journal which
nobody ever suspected of any particular affec
tion for the South or for Southern institutions,
utters manly and indignant protest against SO
mean and dastardly an effort to turn the ira
gedy to Abolition account The Post says,
No New Yorker have read the foregoing parseraph
In the Tribune of this morning without modification
For our own part ashamed be obliged to admit
thathere u any journal In this State ready to make
narrow and vulgar appeal to the prejudces Of the
munity, against Who Ia in the custody of tba a
Tnieh ne may have soon to answer with his e One
might infer from the tone Of the article that murders
were never perperaed In the Northern States M
saveholders We hold slavery as LOW estilua NJ
any one but We do not believe be the only parent
crime among men II the editor of the Tribune win
the sheet from which the above was taken he will
.nat nfuses are not the exclusive product any
peculiar climate or institution.
For example, in that paper this morning we have frst
an account q child killed III Brooklyn BY its father In
drunken ~ Then We have the story Of an irish woman
IN Hester street. killed by her husband because his din
ner was not ready when he came home Then wa ha
an attempt Of medical student boarding in the Third
avenue to poison the whole family and lastly the o,
lowing instance of brutality to horse - - - ~
"a carman, whose name we could not rscert.;r ,.b;
passing through Fulton street, became enraged AT bs
tongue.n 49, 80 Wv aaiplai .
suci, are specimens Of tho crimes pespetrataa bv onr
own citizens on the same day that the murder
a. .he q Nchoas With such state of facts starip n,
arouse sectional prejudice in ts community ths pfi.s
s,, waaSa w es g proven. jury that may be charged
sratsn prisoners crine from DELHI
Siti and to tempt the public to look
ranasr suspicion upon the verdict they may