New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-10
A GRAVE MISTAKE.

The following extract, with comments at
tached. appears in the Courier Of yesterday,
Friday, 9th instant:
The time has passed whom there can be bullying at the
polls, but the order Of things will secure the reign
Of love- and break up the frequent resorts to corruption
and bludgeons to override Americans.
Crescent of yesterday
The" Crescent Of yesterday" alluded to by
the Courier, must, necessarily, be the Crescent
Of Thursday, the Sth lust. We have examined
the number referred to carefully and can find
no such extract as the one quoted above, either
editorially or otherwise AS soon as our eye
glanced at lit in the morning we knew ii was
never written by either Of the editors Of this
paper.
And then, after having put words in our
mouth we never uttered, the Courier proceeds
TO comment upon them in the following amia5le
strain:
Al, what's reign Of love is that when voters can
reach the polls only through serred ranks of ruiaus
armed TO the teeth with knives fonrishing pistols
cracking around them sThe time has passed when there
can be bullying at the posn Indeed what was there
but "buiIyngn at the Eighteenth and twentieth. and
some half dozen other PRECINCTS where hundreds Of Dem
osrac voters we're kept from The polls by fear the
ger the budgeon, the suDgshot and the pistol of the
hired assassin Do you intend to BE- understood speak
ing seriously Of Is the above sentence mere sarcasm -
In eishsr case It does you credit. You must have
been taking essonH from the Louisville Journal for your
remark Is somewhat in the prenticean vein Fens and
type leave their marks and do rusnism and violence
leave their traces in the memory Of outraged and in
suited community. The citizens Of New Orleans have
made up their verdict against DULLES and ballot box
breake n which they have included OF will include all
VINO ao ahot, countenance fail to depoupcs
them Public opinion Is terrible thing 1t Ia not fierce
but II consumes to ashes the names Of those who out
rage It,
Very savage is our contemporary Very fierce
doth his wrath boil in the pot Of his imagina-
ton. It may bubble over, shortly, and then
let everybody take particular care Of the outer
stratum Of the ENGAGEMENTS which protect their
pedal extremities from the dreary cold Of
autumn. Why, he is more formidable than
Snug, the Joiner" who played lion on the
stage, and who, fearing that he had frightened
the gentle Duchess and her ladies by his fear
full roariugs raised the lions hide, exposed his
face, and said-ss Don't be scared, ladies, it is
only me, Snug, the Joiner!'
1t is well for us, perhaps assuming that the
quoted text of the Couriers denunciation was
not wholly q forgery. so fas as we are con-
cerned- that our cotemporary is not our Judge
Of the fitness or manner of things-of what
constitutes credit, or what implies discredit--ol
what is honest and patriotic, or what is dis.
honest and unpatriotic. For our part, we ars
satisfied with the tangible verdict Of the people
which we can refer to at any moment, and al
the same time, look upon it as the completest
Sindication we could desire
For the present, we have nothing more to say
respecting illiberal and unprofessional remarks
upon text never written by us, simply be.
cause We are willing that our cotemporary
Should have an opportunity of making the
amende honorable on terms as favorable as he
could possibly ask for.