New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-26
A Public Card.

1t is not resentment for private wrong but in
yindication of public right that led to ntrude upon
the people little drama in which two individuals
talked of than known, the conspicuous actorsJohp
Egeron President of the Pontchartran Railroad Com
pany and Duncan N Hennen ESD his Attorney at Law.
Since the passage the Legislative act in March last
authorizing the New Orleans and Mobile Railroad have
warmly espoused the project enterprise OF great
utility and of which city is peculiarly in need
OF my personal support of the nothing
need be said but of the which the New Orleans
Crescent has the subject in opposition to its
interests and to the interest of great majority of its
readers explanations called for, and it is the
purpose of this card to furnish them.
On the introduction into the City Council of the ord
nance, pursuant the the Legislature called
upon by the President of the Pontchartran Railroad
Company and my support of TINT earnestly so
lcited. told MIR, Egerton, had frequently told
CHEERS that ii my desire to advocate the road but
that in doing feared to involve the paper In losses
and to estrange personal friends Against these exgen
cies Mr. Egerton pledged himself to provide by the most
liberal compensation and hereupon entered into the
discussion seeking not without success modification ct
the ordinance place the city upon fair footing
Pending this question the offers of generous
were almost daily repeated Both the President and the
Attorney offered various sums which uniformly
declined, for determined that in my association with
the enterprise. my judgment should not be trammeed
ana measure OIL compensation
outbreak from the oyerowing interiors of the too
liberal President and his too generous Attorney at Law
when the ordinance should have passed the Council But
it was distinctly defined what this compensation for
it for the losses which certain to be sustained
in advocating obnoxious to the citizens of
the Districts which the Crescent principally circulated
While in the heat of this controversy, applied to
ty the generous Attorney, who came crouching and
serapiug to mehs fears however, trenchng npon
piiuati -naO who Df
members of the Council of which enterprise was to b.
the honored instrument. AT about the time the
President invited my participation in special project to
gain to the most respectable and Influential
citizen of the First District estimating the value of his
services or his c1les, it not stated which at the
Of $4,000 IL is unnecessary to say that repealed
these Of the supple President and the modest
advances of his uuctious pmp,
l had been assured by those who knew Jno Egerton
better than l. that there would be indemnity paid me-
through any spontaneous operation of that gentleman
generosity that would be better have him bound by
positive stpulaons. But my desire to sustain the
enterprise and my repugnance to diatrustng who
occupied honorable and responsible position,
well the consistency necessary to be observed in
Quoting public journal, caused go He had
paid in cash the charges from the business department OF
the paper usual for the insertion of such matter
published in behalf Of the road then
CURED could have been received After his daring
and infamous disclosure OF the great programme by
which the to be accomplished-atter he had
stated distinctly, that the PontchErtraiu Railroad
Company ready pay the sm Of Fl5ce $1,000 each
for members of the Counci-sud after had myself been
onored with the highest compliment Of which, probably
the moral understanding of Mr. Attorney n llennen is
capable in the of my peculiar fitness to
compsh this unblushng work Of bribery withdrew the
writers Of the Crescent from all connection with the
subject the articles published behalf of
nh dvarn ftlrpis ipd nv Mr. and Mr..
Attorney Duncan Henuen
But learned than this Of the modus ope,dnR Of
these calculated to scken me, Of the Partially
had from the first entertained towards this necessary
and important enterprise. l found Mr., John Egerton
promising all things all men to the Third District
that the depot should IF be located there to the
First Second Districts that the law itself ought
afford sufficient assurances that it would be Canal
street While to the Fourth District, he deliberately
pledged himself to purchase the Jefferson Road once
branch and to procure repeal of the Legislative
u strction, that might eventually become The terminus
u and depot.
Such has been the course pursued by the President OF
this Company whose behalf the people to be taxed
and who with the direction and admin
i4tration this great enterprise seconded fifty enough
:, by the nimbIe TherStteslrc4i.s G5owho ap
j pointed perform certain work to which he is better
udaped than liberal President, which is supposed
II better adapted him These noble brothers gene
e keep aud cunning they have not the skill tc
and suffer consideration of public interest pr
% scruple any thought that other carry
sciences. to give them pause
- when l learned who and what my noble friends
when became of the condition of the enterprise
could measure the result awaiting such cement
ID when had experienced the losses to the paper
lie sequent upon course, well the estrang-ment
10 friends opposed to tho scheme and when, finally thu
ordinance passed by the Council invoked tn
beraity Of the enterprsing President and sought set
Element according TO the meaning of agreement TIL
admitted be important and tn
IN losses anticipated Jery considerable but suc
thing indemnity be had though still promised
Still do these noble brothers declare that com
pensaton is to be awarded the undersigned when tn
people shalt concluded the work by taxing themseve
for the construction of the road when the prize shall hay
9 been beyond the reach when thei
danger will consist only in the risk of arragnmen
DIS conviction the bar of public opinion not in the deea
90 of their project On demanding the settlement note
the attorney, D. N Hennen that the publications tn
w subject in tho Crescent must here to which
ng replied that he did care it not the time
II, argue but to Jay On presenting the demand to NJ
is President, John Egerton he answered Sir, literal
penation will be made to " paper when the busne
sconcluded, l astonished that you require it
n othrs 20 have not yet been paid Thus my husnr
of relations towards these good and faithful servants Of til
ng Pss ~ - ~ ~ " $500 ~
their way. But for myself though unchanged in
views of the exppdency and necessity of this road r.
81 no enthusiasm in the while in such hands, an
could longer do battle under the gallant lead If Pres
le John Egerton his right worthy and valiant Le
.ed tenant
:. have deemed this explanation due to the readers
the newspaper under my charge, and while acknowed
accountability any man, body of men for the e
ire of my personal opinions it must be conceded TIL
o. public journal should be ready to justify ind
- pendent course, with reference to the views
iV interests of those to whom it has always looked vii
the pleasure and pride for sympathy and support
ich II MADDOX.
re.