New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-29
FOREIGNERS

4 Under the foregoing head the Courier, OF yesterday
4 morning, contained deprecatory, mild and singular
sort Of article. IT evidently penned under the
influence Dc presentiment that Monday next would
4 witness q complete overthrow Of the Democratic
hosts. The author wrote though the drops Of ink
that slowly distilled from the nib of his pen spread
themselves rapidly into formidable clouds before his
mental vision, which were traced in large letters:
/ Defeat Defeat I. Defeat!!
i No wonder, then, that this article was mild, conc
iatory and snbdued feeble encourag cement and
sort Of entreaty to friends to go took
the place Of the bold defamation and inspiring tones
of confidence which formerly characterized the col
unlls OF our eghbors Journal Ne may be of fault
4 but, II there ISM screw loose somewhere, we are
4 much mistaken. 8 #
shall copy LIBERAL from the article referred 20.
4 It commences as follows Sz jS &
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share and orr evil and stand
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when We about TO give them battle this
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70 % friends begin e throw cold
polls no il lie
Is there treason in the ranks Who are the ttper-
sonsi'' protessing Democracy and claiming to- be
Z champions Of forei g-born citizens y who con.
duct manner DANA to both?
who encourage & naturalized voters toHstay away
from the polls and who indirectly cooperate with
the Know otiings BY insisting on distinctions be-
tween the foreign and native born? who ARE they
The public ~ especially the true-blue Democratic
publ nxiously seek Enlightenment in the prem
ses Shall they be kept in the dark, when deeds Of
treason are being practiced in, around and upon
them We really hope not, although the business
does not come within the scope of our immediate
supervision. y
II the Courier was not romancing yesterday morn
ing, there traitors and treason in its political
army. The quotation ne have made amply demon-
strafes this proposition. Yet how moderately is the
matter touched upon! How #mincing the language
used What has become of the boldness# Of our
cotemporarys HeWas not wont to treat traitors and
treason 80 eniently. In times Of yore the workers
Of treason would have been openly and unsparingy
denounced and either driven out of the Democratic
ranks or scourged into unconditional and unconl-
planning submission The stern old Jacksonian motto
was: No terms " traitors The motto was d good
one; and we have often admired the infexibilty
with which was carried out. was political death
to bolt, when there was such thing as real Democ
racy id the land. Ell q ST =.
Has the once proud and defiant Democracy sunk
SO loWare Its prospects SO discouraging chances
| SO smal-that it is deemed dangerous TO say aught
directly against the disafected and REASONABLE, for
fear Of losing their votes for any portion Of 4 the
ticket2 Fescan draw other cencluson that legti.
ilnately flows from the Courier's outgivings.
The Couriers fervent, volunteer ]" confession Of
faith, regard to adopted citizens will not do it or
its party any great amount of good Why? The
preceps and practices Of the leaders Of the Denloc
cracg are anita onstic Processing friend
ship, they work eRmity Claiming to be tile #esclu-
champions Of natnralized citizens they nominate
for important public stations the most proscrptive
and intoerant native Americans ever known in this
or any other community! Do they suppose these
inconsistent acts have passed by UNDECIDED? If they
do, they delude themselves with chimera--fatter
themselves with hope, alike insulting and dishonor-
able to those classes Of citizens they seek to deceive
But, even according to the Courier's own showing,
there is only one point of difference between the pol
icy Of the American and the Democratic parties, as
respects foreigners. The American party--although
it does not indulge fulsome attery towards adopted
citizens to accomplish selfish ends, like the Demo
cratic part accords them every right, every equal
every privilege, and every protection that are
accorded natives Of the SOIL one, and one only
that of filling the public Offices of the country. This
Is the only point on which we are at issue with the
! Democrats; and we hayethe satisfaction of knowing
that our views in this BEHALF are concurred in by
numbers of the best and most intelligent adopted cit
! zens in the community.
The closing sentence of the quoted paragraph is
rich and rare startling and disgusting and must prove
nauseating to those it is intended to hoodwink. The
Courier complains bitterly that somebody is throwing
cold waters (wouldn't prefer scalding water would
you y when g we are about to give them the A1neri-
cans) battle on this point-when we are straining
every fora victory which will inure to the ben
eft Of our natuIalized voters, etc, etc.
Let I" naturalized Ivoters' look to the Couriers
ticket and calculate how much benefit will nule'
to them from its election That's all the advice we
have to give them. a ys56aS 5.5 tafa5 q
By the way, before closing, will take the liberty
to inquire whether the antiSldellans have come to
the support Of the slidell ticket? We know that
some hundreds Of them were hugely annoyed at the
prescription which excluded all the friends and rea-
tives Of Mr.. Soule from the municipal ticket
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