New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-10
The DEMENTED COURIER

little disappointment mas destroyed, 1T OPP |
pears, what sense the Courier ever possessed. |
However, as the property SO lost was not great, |
the country may be set down as yet safe -at
least free from immediate and overwhelming
peril "Small favors thankfully received and
larger ones in proportion"
Speaking Of the remarks Of the city press con-
corning the destruction Of the boxes, the
Courier states
The Crescent has not single word Of condemnation
but speaks Of the affair in matter fact kind Of way
that would indicate that is not at all matter
for public The p-ess should visit upon crime
outrage its vehement denunciaton bat the portion
Of press represented by the Crescent has not the
slightest word Of We desire the people OF
New Orleans to note this fact The stands aoua
in its silence The city outraged by the streets
spnkled with the blood OF peaceful citizens drawn
by the dagger and pistols Of most
walking the streets Monday nightand more than a
lie will OF the sovereign people thwarted BY the black
vilapy Know Nothing breakers Of balot-boxes and
yet the Crescent has not word OF remembrance.
Well, why should the Crescent, or any other
respectable journal, speak Of any affair except
ssin matter of.fact wayi" We pride our
selves upon being g matter. of-fact conductors
Of a newspaper We make it o desideratum to
have matter-of fact" for the basis of our edi-
torials Our assistants and reporters have posi-
tive instructions that ssmatter -of-fact must
constitute the foundation of their labors, and
any deviation from the rule would be followed
BY summary action. We believe in 'smatter-cf-
fact'' doctrines; and, perhaps, some Of our CO.
Temperatures would do well to consult " matters
Of fact,' instead Of their imaginations.
The Crescent has done all that was required of
| it, as correct and impartial journal, concern
| ing the deplorable occurrences Of Monday night.
| 1t has given fuller and more honest account of
the breaches Of law, order. etc, than any other
paper in the city, as its columns will show.
| What more could be required, in the name Of
fairness and decency' Not being political
prostitutes, there was no necessity for running
around the streets and vociferously asserting
immaculate chastity. Not having stolen any
thing, there was no occasion for as to peal forth
the cry-ss stop thief! stop thief!! {" Not having
aided or encouraged violations of law, there was
no reason why we should set up for especial
indicators Of the law, particularly when we
believed that our enemies, instead of our friends,
we're the criminals. Not being conscious of
wrong, it would have been an act of undignifed
supererogation to have rushed frantically
through the public thoroughfares and told every
person We met that we had not been engaged in
any game Of rascality!
| If our contemporary, and his contemporaries,
are really guilty Of what they would fain make
the people believe they are innocent, we do not
wonder at their volunteer condemnations and
yociferations 1t would not be the first time
| the Devil has had imitators in essaying sermons
of righteousness
| The Courier calls upon the people Of New
Orleans to particularly notice the 6 silence Of
the Crescent. This is done, we suppose, with
the view Of ipjuring the Crescent. 1t so hap
pens that we are in a position to laugh at such
puerile endeavors. We have the real people on
our side; and can afford to lose Outside of Off
| eial patronage) double what the Courier has,
all told and then be immeasurably ahead Of it
/ in popular favor. If, by such contemplate at
tempts as the foregoing, the Courier thinks it
can either benefit itself or injure the Crescent,
let it 6 crack its whip and go ahead" So far
as we are personally or pecuniarily concerned
neither its friendship or its enmity are worth a
g Bungtown copper" and that issupposed to be
| the meanest coin that ever came from dirty
4 mint
We pass by the Courier smalignant onslaught
| upon the American party las noble and honor.
able, as pure and patriotic a party, as ever
was known since creations dawn smiled upon
the newborn earth That party can afford te
laugh at such wretched manifestations Of spleen.
The future will not only protect, but vindicate
| it and its members.