New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-08
auRsTED BALLog-BoxRs CONVERSATIONS

0ur netghper Of the Coufter 10 in u phU way
/ He has worked himself into passion, and usea
! hard words, and n5body who works himself
| into a passion and uses hard words, is unoues-
tionabiy Id d bad way. Holding these proposi-
lions to be incontrovertible, we propose making
few brief extracts from tremendously long,
astonishingly powerful, and terrifcally terrific
article, which appeared in yesterdays morning
issue Of our contemporary.
Speaking Of the destruction Of the ballot-
boxes at the Ninth Precinct, our neighbor pa
thetioally says
The box contained 405 vote Of which there was an ave-
rage Democratic majority q count made BY
TWO Of the Commissioners Of about 1870 for the Demo
cratic candidates. No loud words we're used the thing
sss hs esd ns The @
suction of this ballot box secnrrd as the performers
thought TIE election q Messrs Esgeston and Deyal
-Nnthings to The House of Representatives over
Messrs. Gordon and Le Blanc Democrats; but Of this
We the Legislature will have something to say
II atrikes US the Courier speaks without war
rant, as ne understand the commissioners who
onght to know more about the matter than any
body else--have reported to the returning Of
dcer that they we're unable to make any au-
thentic account, owing to the ballot-hox burst
ing procedures aforesaid If they don't know,
We opine it will be hard to substantiate the
s. 1886 4 majority spoken Of, before any court
where either justice or law exercises the small
est influence
So far as the members elect to the Legisla-S
ture are concerned, we are perfectly willing
that the House Of Representatives should shave
something to Say respecting the legal claims
Of Messrs Eggleston and Devall.
Az to the bursting, breaking and smashing,
ct the Seventh Precinct, the Courier appears
especially well posted as much so as if its own
friends had done the mischief, Of which We
have heard divers and sundry current rumors
Sometimes injudioious and hasty friends oct
precipitately and indiscreetly just as the little
boy did who tore his blue cottonade trowsers
all TO pieces, and left himself without any
trowsers at Oil, simply because he had not been
presented with fne linen trowsers. We don't
make any Institutions. because We don't be.
lieve in inainnations, but If our opponents burn
up their own house, we shall not make it q
point to complain, unless, indeed, it was insured
IA a. Office Of which we we're o stakeholder.
Now for the particulars. After divers solemn
particularities, the Courier proceeds to remark
az to the catastrophe:
But few persons Seventh precine) when the
invading force arrived ana the door burst open
the balotbox the polbooks and the tally ists seized
and into bonfire before the dooS The knights
o the Or had however waited too long for the whole
vote received for Governor and Sheriff had been oounted
the tallies compared and summed up ard the resut
far these oc4rs concerned declared Wickiifa
bad 2a3 and Bell PAP majority The Commissioners and
rerEs viii BE- able therefore, make certificates for the
rturnug ucar that point as WAS done last spring nj
oScinnati, and Mr. Dell will not, imagine be deprived
IF the benefit Of the vote cast there 10 his favor
Here we are constrained to the painful task
Of correcting our afflicted contemporary, and dis
sipating to the winds all his fine spun anticipa-
lions. The Commissioners Of the Seventh Pre-
cinct reported to the Sheriff yesterday, so we
are told, that they could make out no certificate
such as the Courier speaks Of; that the break.
ing Of the box deprived them Of the means Of
acting officially, and that they only had that
fact to report. Hence, it isquite evident that
the interesting { Cincinnati arrangement will
not work Dery charmingly in New Orleans
\ The Courier further informs the entire world
that the seats Of the three American Senators
will be contested that, although the people Of
the First Congressional District.have shown an
preference for the gallant, able and
eloquent George Eustis, that his seat will be
contested; and that the Judge Of the First Dis
trict Court (with, perhaps, q jury.) will decide
upon the validity Of the election Of the Sheriff
and Clerks Quite formidable summing up,
but we have known types to go through even
more formidable performances.
Throughout the Couriar's whole article we do
not see the slightest disposition manifested to
bring its candidates again Jefore The people
IF The precincts in aplic the ballot Joaes acre
destroyed! Il shnns that issue altogether. II
prefers judge, or jury, to the electors Of the
seventh and Ninth precincts Ii essays to be a |
champion Of the voters Of those precincts, but
'aiis to say one word in behalf Of their claim to
70 allowed to vote over again! A precious de-
ender--a most noble champion. We dare the
Courier to submit the arbitrament Of this Dues
lion 70 the sutFragans Of the Seventh and Ninth
precincta We dare its candidates and its party
To let the real people decide.
We shall await on answer, although we have
40 hopes it will be q favorable one. The Cou-
riers We fancy, has little stomach for another
popular verdict,
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