New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-24
PARTISAN IprosYNcRAsgEs.

There is political nightmare upon the Cou-
rier which makes it dstort itself awfully, and
| just as the occasion happens to serve. There
is method, by the way. in its madness; for,
while its distempered vision sees awful thingsin
the past and in the future, in regard to the
American party, it forgets the actualitiss Of the
past, 80 far as its own party is concerned, and
charges all that is bad to the account Of the
American party,
| For instance the other day, in an article
concerning the Mayors proclamation, recon-
| mending coffee-house keepers to close their es-
Establishments on the day of the election, we
/ remarked that Americans never created dis
turbancss; that they never fomented riots
that they always stood up for law and order
and always discouraged riotous demonstrations
Upon these truthful observations the Courier
flies off into the following frightful comments
Lord Lord how this world is given to-ssf audation
The American party create disturbances at the
pos.n Who broke up the ballot-boxes at the Seventh
Ward polls in this city two ago. and in two of the
wardsin Cincinnati Inst spring Who kledthe Mockers
with the assistance of the free negroes
cinnat stoned the Irish and German adopted citizens
They foment riots" Who got up and kept up for
several days in September 1853 those riots which made
streets the sickenng violence and boodshed
all about CUR DOG
has no right to I" self laudation,' SO far as we
can conceive, beyond the fact that such respect
able and clever gentlemen as our neighbors ad-
vocate it's cause While we feel entirely con \
WINGED that they do for their party, as parti-
| sans, what they should do for their country, as
patriots, it is part Of our business to question
| their motives.
But, We have a right to comment upon their
written and printed words. The Courier asks
questions. The Courier shall have replies. 1t
wants to know s' who broke up the ballot boxes
at the Seventh Ward polls in this city two years
ago, etc. NE don't knotc, but we are entirely
sure that the criminality Of breaking the box
and scattering the ballots did not, by a thou
sand fold, equal the yillainy and perjury which
sought to make that same box a receptacle Of
fraud and fostering corruption! The investiga-
tion Of that matter belongs to the courts; and,
while 8 Commissioner. indicted for malfea-
sance by the Grand Jury, remains untricd, we
think the less our cotemporary says on the sub
ject the better,
The Courier then asks " who killed the Mock
lers." There was but one Mockler killed at
the Seventh Ward polls. He was a sworn off,
Ger He had taken an oath to preserve the
peace to maintain law and order, yet lost his
life when violating each and every one Of these
obligations, in an illegal and riotous attempt to
beat peaceable American citizens from the poll
ing stations
Then, the Courier proceeds to ask: aWho
got up, and kept up for several days in Septem-
Der, 1858, those riots which made our streets
the siekening scenes Of violence and blood
shed :" % iii
We will endeavor to answer the Courier's
question, as its application seems to imply a re-
markable shortness Of memory There were no
g RIOTS" no :" sickening scenes Of violence and
bloodshed," in the September spoken Of, which
were not caused by, and did not originate with
the Courier's particular friends, the foreigners.
The Americans moved not in the matter until
several respectable citizens had been almost
beaten to death by foreign rufians, and until
the attempted assassination of the Recorder of
the First District, coupled with other outrares.
caused the American heart to become indignant.
and the American hand to become heavy. hard
and dangerous
This is the real truth of the case And if
the Curriers' afectionate friends in the same
locality desire to raise another fuss, all thew
have to do is to shoot down Recorder Bright as
they attempted to shoot down Recorder Sum
mers, to beat and main and bruise dozen or
more respectable American citizens while on;et.
" walking along the streets, and tbev will,