New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-05
! TUESDAY McRNING FE i n 1856.


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TUESDAY, q MORNING /, FEIBRU Is, 1856.
4 speech ~ MR.. "A. ID. Rrfce.
We need hardly ask our readers 10 peruse the able
end forcibe speech delivered, last week, the House
81 Representative by our Young A.
q. Brice member from the Second District Of the
III New Orleans al IL contains truth and pract
cal enough To command attentive considers
II ton. s$#s .
We are glad hi. B, took the up in the light
irWllicll he did and proved upon dominant party
that they were responsible for whatever election out
ragss had occurred that ts;r volaton Of the 81
pTsn1e law bad led, BIZ the force IF example, 70 the
Of statute laws we're the source,
the primal case, Of the feyiI IS 50 much de-
e piored by all aVsabiding zeils.
Such MAS The Hey To tak, for was right and true
l,lk verified by the history Of the past, the
realities of tle the probabilities Of the
future. We trust this kind Of talk will be CON
timed and that all retailers of nfamnos Sian
B aels upon the aleriean party among whom We
doubt not there are those who have repeated the
same ialsehoods 90 often that they begin to believe
they are be held 10 d strict cconntability,
and be forced either to snhtantiate 81 retract their
accusations, This is y solemn duty which, We con
ceiYe devolgas upon what few Americans arbitrary
just, Illegal and irresponsible allows
remain the They may be outvoted
but, than that they need labor under no APP
!! pfssiensioas.
IL Id time the malicious calumnators of the Aner
can party were held to- q stern account, and the
higher the head the heavier should be the blow.
Performance We have forborne and forborne long
enough and the more We have forborne, tile greater
fbea desire Ne mimi tested TO he let alone the
palmer ON To yield all ID The yictors, the ercer,
falser and more unfounded the denominations that
have been heaped upon lis! The INSCRIPTIONS perse
cution with which has been pursued, has no
parallel in political history, either on this side Of the
satar Or on Tie other, Ri
These being our views, we are gratifed that our
eloquent toWnsanan has set an example we hope to
see initiated, The report ii his speech is
necessarily imperfect, but We presume it truly en-
bodies the substance.
@ THE LIEUTENANT GovERNoR's ADDRRss--We give,
in another place. part Of the political history of
The times, the address delivered by Lieut.. Governor
Charles II. Moaton, as be assumed the duties and
aponshte Of presiding officer Of the State Senate
The address ID very pretty one, and creditable to
its anthor There Is nothing offensive about it. Mr..
~. speaks like 4 lofty toned gentleman, who, while
maintaining his own views and his own principles,
does not deem it necessary to reproach, or sgmatize,
his political opponents In this respect the remarks
of the Leutenent Governor worthy all praise, and
should he followed future, BY political confreres.
There il neither propriety nor reason in abusing a
or party because of antagonist political senti
ments. The right 70 differ and honestly differ
was bequeatled us BY our forefathers and it does
not follow any means, that because men do differ
they are one side or the other, unpatrotic
or REASONABLE l358
BUSINESS The receipts Of cotton for the last forty
eight hour reaching nearly 20 900 bales have given
fresh impetus TO business at the lower landing The
intercourse with that interesting section of State
bordering on the Ouacldta river, being partially re-
suned by rise in that river and tributaries, our ma
rine register yesterday indicated the arrivals Of
raj good loads Of cotton from that section to be fol-
lowed by many others. Though from the low stage
Of The great fountain, the Mississippi the water will
in all probability commence falling within d few days
good supply Of cotton viii, however, be forwarded
before that event will occur.
Az the upper steamboat landing it is rather quiet
The change in the weather since Saturday last has de
pressed all calculations, then current Of break up
the rivers above. The weather was however, mode
rating last evening, and unless nature is about II
change its functions III this climate, this severe coli
heather cannot be of any great duration In tn
meantime, NE do not think it q very safe expedien
operators to invest largely in breadstus and pro
visions, based on expectations of this weather re
manning long with u.s. It might prove real ic.
speculation melt away without adequate returns 8;
"a THE MAns.-The notice at the Post Office yester
day said that the mails from New York of the 27t
and 18th u were received. Possibly the letter mail
of those dates may have came through. We did no
receive a solitary paper from beyond Richmond, Va
laterthan the 26th and we have only to remark tina
there win be due this morning, from New York AM
Philadelphia the mails of the 2Stli, 18th and S0tl
nit We have also to state that there has not been
regular mail received at New Orleans from Norther
cities since the 9Ist December, 1856 land to go ful
ter back for would entail more disgac
on the administration Of Mr. Franklin Pierce than w
as good American citizens, desire to see inflicted
Washington Union can notice.
oDD FELLOWS HALL BALL.-The fourth of the s.
yies Of Young Mems Masked Society and Fancy Dres
Balls takes place at the Odd Fellows Hall this ev
ming, and will undoubtedly be, like its predecessor
pleasant and festive occasion, as all the balls give
st that place have been, up to the present time.
are under obligations to the gentlemen composing tt
Board of Managers for the courtesy Of ticket of
Vitaton, and shall endeayor to do ourselves the pie
sure Of attending.
ORLEANS FHEATER.An opera that is new hel
although written in the last century and very higt
estimated, will be produeedat the French Theater Il
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