New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-19

a GREAT DIFFERENCE.

The most superficial observer cannot have
ailed to remark the difference. between the
Imerican and the American parties, in one
cry important particular.
The Americans invite all who are legally emil
led IL vots, to come forward and vote proiiering
.ssistance, through their Executive oommittee, |
Mould ii be necessary, to yindicate their claim
instead Of interposing obstacles we offer to
make The path clear to every legal sufragan.
IA; n or tha masses of the American Order, or
I'M executive Committee Of that Order, care
5o,e the individual votes, SO he isiegaly entitled
y the prerpgatige Of suffrage. They contend
Or the purity Of the elective franchise, and
var against all corruptions upon the ballot-box
that only ark Of true republican liberty upon
he globes surface. sg@
That the American Party is entirely right,
10 honest man will attempt, for q moment, to
dispute. The integrity Of their meaning is
Beyond question. Their language is unmistak-
sble. and their actionsof the same character.
All they ask, all they contend for, oil they have
ever struggled for, is that the voice Of the real
people shall not be smothsred under an ava
lanehe Of Illegal ballots. "a
This uniform and inyariable practice Of the
American party cannot but fail to meet with
the appreciation Of all moral and law, abiding
citizens. Nothing 10 asked save that which is
right, and nothing will Re submitted to, We are
fully persuaded, which is wrong. In this brief
sentence, which is taken, almost literally, from
the writings Of one Of the greatest and best men
America ever produced, is embodied whole
volumes Of patriotic wisdom. Fs
But while the Americans are thus willing,
thus Jealous, and thus anxious to guard the
ballot. box from pollution, what are the anti
Americans doing Do they proffer to meet
us even halfway Do they eyince any dispo--
lsition to second our hudable endeavors? Are
they especially anxious that none but honest
votes shall be received by the Inspectors of
Election No-nothing Of the sort. Instead
of greeting US as they should greet us, and
mailing us as brothers in the good work Of
reform and publication, there is no obstacle
which ingenuity and special pleading can bring
to bear, that is not placed in their way. They do
not appear to care whit how many votes getinto
the ballot box, 80 they get in; how many scoun-
idrels exercise the privilege Of voting, 50 they
only vote; or how many frauds, perjuries and
Iyillainies are committed, if the vote Of every
lloafer, levee rat, vagrant. etc, without legal
or moral qualification whatever, is admitted
Their anxiety flows solely from fear that
Illegal, fraudulent, null and void votes will be
rejected, not from an apprehension that any
legal voter will be turned away from the polls !!
These facts being patent, well-known and in
conference.-the, the masses of the people should
be at once able to draw their own conclusions as
to the honesty of the motives of the leaders of
the respective parties. The American party is
solcitous that every legal vote should be polled
but the very instant they suggest measures for
the ascertainment of soho are legal voters, they
are met with terrible outory, and oil sorts Of
opposition from the anti Americansi ..
Uhy is ii that Americans always court in
vestigation- --are always ready to .substantiate
their right to yote--sand are always found in
direct opposition to frauds upon the ballot-hox !
The reason is obvious and two-fold. In the first
place they are Americans, and want nothing
which is not rightfully their own. In thesecond
place, they are naturally and constitutionally
opposed to fraud of any and every description.
And, .sohy ia ii that.we find the opposition 50
jealous in behalf Of the pretended rights of ex-
ceedingly questionable persons, many Of whom.
thousands believe, would readily swear their
votes in at each one Of the twenty -thres pre-.
cincts-yote twenty three times, for g o con-
alteration"
Here, again, the reason is apparent. The
Antics, knowing that d vast majority Of the
legal voters are opposed to them, rely exciu-
sively upon the getting in Of questionable BAL
lots. If these are rejected, as they will be- they
are gone, and well they know IT, Hence their
zeal and dieingenuousness
WHERE Is THE PRINCE The st. Lawrence
IN Y) Democrat administration soft-eheil) has gone
over bag and baggage to the Seward and Preston King
black republican abolition league. Was not Prince John
Van Bnran appointed TO stump this came county Of St
Lawrence for tha Syracuse soshe ticket and platform
sueh o they are7 Yes Who're is he then! and what
to haeurrender does he eonsan to the damage which
the late of Horatio seymour is work
ng 70 ths Free so sotshs ranks Is he with Preston
Prince? New York Herald. @s4iF - 9Ei'5s
ItWould be o difficult matter to locate, with
precision, Prince John Van Buren, But one
tntnE HHy Do cuiCuihtta On TO oGrLaInbF he
is ID some camp Of the Free Sellers. devising
ways and means to injnre the American parity.
He Is just as much opposed to the Americans
as VIM, II. Seward rsHenry A.. Wise 81 s,,s.
Well, tho future will deveiope whether Abo.
litionisn and foregnism and Southern iema.
gogism, are to make Greeley's heart leap
for joy over the election Of Seward to the
Presidency
We warn the planters Of the South to be Oh
their guard, A deep and dangerous game, to
them, is in progress. Let them look below
the surface, and pay no regard to tho rallying-
cries Of old partisans, or they may wake up.
some fine morning, and find that they have IN. =
Willingly aided in, the elevation Of the arch
Abclitionist TO the Presidency of the United
States. 1fi S ~ 6.5, a.s.;.,... IL. ~.
PUT THIs ARD THAT TOGETHER. !
The two following extracts appear in the same
column Of yesterdays Courier. Hsre is the
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