New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-05
THE CANVASS.

THE CANVASS.
We ask our friends to look carefully over our
correspondence from different portions Of the
State, and be encouraged The writer's are
known to us as experienced, reliable men. The
long letter from Rapides is especially worthy
consideration. 1t contains q large amount of
interesting intelligence. AS regards the cleo
ton frauds, which the author evidently fears
and he is but one Of thousand in the country
who entertain similar apprehensions- be
attempted here in November, we beg to assure
him that there is no danger, not the slightest.
scrupulously respected, the ballot box will be
kept free from bribery, perjury, and double and
treble voting Of this, our country friends may
feel absolutely sure.
We are glad to have it in our power to say
that never were the prospects Of party more
brilliant-never did more glorious bow of
promise irfadiate the horizon than that which
now smiles upon the American party Of Louisi-
ana. From all quarters we are receiving g glad
tidings of great joy" The party is growing
stronger and stronger every day, and where one
deserter-a poor specimen Of an Arnold-can
be found, half a dozen recruits, staunch and
true, rush eagerly forward to fill his place.
THE sURGING OF TIE POLITICAL TIDE.
The tide Of popular opinion sets strongly in
favor Of American doctrines and American
principles-those everlasting land marks erect
ed by our ancestors in l776. From all quarters
Of the State we hear good tidings The corre-
spondence we publish continually should cheer
every worker in the American cause. That
which We publish to-day will be read with in
terest.
But, we have news more strikingly signal
than even these letters afford. The Richmond
| madison parish) Journal has long been known
as able and influential organ Of the oppo-
sition. From the commencement, up to the
present moment, it has been o powerful enemy
of the American cause. In its issue of the slst
ult however, it is formally announced that
Messrs. ToTne & Vallsndingham have dissolved
partnership, and that Mr.. V. will forthwith
commence the publication Of paper strongly
sustaining American principles.
This is q most significant sign Of the times,
and indicates, very conctusiyely, the way the
up-river parishes are going in November next.
AN INFAMOUS PAMPHLET. Late last evening
pamphlet, bearing the imprint Of the Delta
| Job office, was laid upon our table. Its title
page read as follows: e Exposition of Know
Nothingism; with brief detail Of the Louis
vile Election Riots"
Upon looking over its pages we found it to be
o copy of a document published in the Delta
some weeks since, purporting to be the consti-
tuition, ritual, etc., of the American National
Organization.
Our readers will readily remember how that
publication was met, and how seornfully the
attempt to injure the american party by the
revival of q stale and antiquated document wat
repudiated and spurned. But there was some
manliness in an open newspaper effusion, ever
if it was as destitute of truth as the desert Of
Sahara is Of vegetation, compared to the insid.
ious effort to inoeulate the public mind with
moral poison through the agency of secretly
circulated pamphlets.
The principles, platform and intentions of thu
American party, are before the country. They
have been formally and authoritatiyely pro
mulgated. Consequently, any endeavor to g,
behind them, for political effect, is either to b.
charged to the art of the politician, or thu
| knavishness of the demagogue
The account of the Louisville riots is on pa
with the balance. That account has beef
proved to be false. And when we say it wa
written by one who was expelled from tn
Order, we need say no more.
If our opponents expect to profit by such
course, they are mistaken. The inteligenc
and honesty Of Louisianians will revolt at it.