New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-22
THE DIsrRnssns OF rHn COURIER.

Our neighbor oustomhouse street commences ,
long article with the following paragraph It so ssrou
that we advise reader to smile while psrusing 1t
The ULrmA THULE or ABsuRDIrr Never was a sImpl
countryman more bewdeed at fair course by h
dissppearancs of the ball beneath til.
himbe thsn are we to the real position of the Know
Nothng or rather their 5pokesmen and organs on the
subject of the rights of voters and the privileges OF Com
mssioners Of Election in this good State OF Louisiana
Alter having been completely duped several times like
the oreduous greenhorn feel OF only one thing
which s that the only object the thmbls ID
cheat all whom they possibly osn.
Now, let take the editor for a greeuhorun he
he penned the foregoing He is as sharp as steel
rap and IS shrewd as as, the boy who became SC
smart that his mother didn't know him when he came
home one ne night enveloped in the folds Of freedoms
staT-gemmed banner, chauntng hymn in honor Of the
Goddess Of Liberty
Our good neishbor, while pretending to duness Of COM
prehension in regard to political thimbls-rgging-whils
assuming to much nnocsnce--is sharper in such mat
tera than the adrctest performer In the State would
Ike to see anybody fool take in such an experienced
practitioner In now You see IT. you don't see ii
no Is unrivaled-can beat all creation and the rcst
mankind! Why hs il attentive to mattsrs Of till,
kind in the political world that 1t is currently reported
and generally believed that eyen when he sleeps one eve
and ear 10 kept continually open You may catch 4
weasel asleep, but not him
Then, again, were our contemporary innocent and un
sophisticated as no would have simple ceantrymen
believe him to hs, there would be excuse for his duh
nesshs lack Of knowledge for he has been told by
and others time and again. the way matters stood and
how things should be arranged and the broad aud splsn
did path which leads directly to the garden Of duty and
patriotism has been distinctly pointed out to him. His
plea Of ignorance Will not do ii he has learned 1t in
because he has stnbborny refused to study his lessons
IT he is blind, 1t Is because no will not ses IL he Is deaf
because be has determined to hear only Side
the question: His plea of innocence wlavail him naught
The people all recoeo the fable of the cat in the meal
We had supposed that the rights of voters, and ths
privileges Of Commissioners of Eleotion in this good
State of louisiana pretty we understood SO far as
the spokesman and organs of the American party had
anything to do with the business The aforesaid Amsr
can sspokssnen and organa cordially invite every legal
sams "spokesmen and crgans profer to assist every
legal voter should obstacles DO thrown in his way by lily
disposed persons and these very spokssmen and Or
gans while they thus anxious and determined that
tho prerogstyes Of every lawful citizen aha be
tailed or impaired in the smallest degreethey care not
he4 he rotss heis entitled TO uay
In their determination that dead mens papers shall not
be voted an Indefinite number Of times that one eyee
rat shall not bs permitted oyerbalance in the ballot
box tho votes of dozen honest that no miserable
vlrant whose conscience ever possessed of one has
siHoo De'h ous VI Nfoss
The workhouss shall be allowed to vote as often rs he
plsasea simply because he is willing to perure himself by
saking the prescribed oath, for few dollsys.
So far Information extends these about the
the American "spokcsnen and organsp the
American party dAmerlcan have arrived
At We do not feel called upon to speak for eitherof
we cannot be understood speaking for the Conn
msseners who will act under oath and all of whom SO
lar as OUT knowledge goes Intelligent and honorable
gentlsmen-but still have clear right to state the i'm.
pfesiona that have dxed themselves upon our minds
we hope now, that the Courier is satisfied and in con-
eusion We may be pardcnsd for publishing our sincere
oaiiet thas any @thimbe rigging Is prsotcsd, the
American party will have neither lot nor part In d, Ali
want Is honest expression from the legal yo,ers
he city and that will have regardless Of