New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-03
THE COURIER IN A BAD WAY.

is no mistake about it. Its leading article on ea'ut
day morning amply demonstrates the grleVous iace
We are sorry for the tribulation OF our hegnpors
and were it in our power to lend thema helping hand
we would do so with the utmost readiness. But us
they have brought their troubles upon themselves "
would be indicate if not positively improper LOT US
to interfere Hence we forbear not because we are
wanting in the warmest attributes OF humanity, but
because of motives OF dellcacy.
Rut because the Courier is in trouble, it does not
follow that its numerous corps of editors possess any
privilege to be spiteful caprcous insulting or undig.
n6ed towards their contemporaries. 1t has no war.
rant for oyerwecnng assumption Or hypercritcal IL
cense Neither its position that of its conductors
reach so high standard of exaltation as to render
it an indispensable pattern for gentlemen, in
moral social, intellectual educational professional
point of view.
After an uncaled for preliminary, entireyin keep
ing with the disor= anizng and revolutionary action
of the Democratic State and Parish Committees the
previous course of that Journal and the Unprecedented
and illegal conduct of the Shcrit1-al of which has
been exclusively calculated to intame, and looks as
though the Buchanan leaders had determined upon
riot tomorrow at all hazards, to afford the Governor
some justification for the threatened dstranchisement
of New Orleans-the Courier, with complacence re-
freshng to witness fayors its readers with the sub
Joined exquisite paragraph:
Our friends of the Crescent perhaps fur better fitted by
education aorn the Of man than to instruct
his mind but they haye undertaken the latter task and furnish
an elaborate nres of Esste[day hey exhibit striking instance
Of the operations Of vulgar fanacsm and commonplace cum
ming upon half educated minds
We feel fattered. The Courier admits we are good
for something We regret it is not in our power to
return the compliment
The Courier speaks of vulgar fauaticism, y
when in the same article from which the above para
graph is quoted, the words " Infamous fraud
" violence" "bues' "vllainies," murderous,
"lawlessness' etc, etc, are freely applied to the
Fillmore party in the ranks Of which are to he found
the largest merchants the first property holders and
thousands of the most respectable i'll the city
mon who, as class, not surpassed i'll all that is
elevating and ennobng by any other class of men il
any commercial metropolis earth. The mere
mention of this fact does away with all necessity fo
comment. To the Courier we say, Physician hea
thyself and do not presume to talk about yulSarity
or fnatcisn in others, while belchng forth upon thu
community nearly column Of the grossest sort 0
"yulgar ganaticsm, not even fimsily concealed unde
veil of commonplace cunning fromthe contempt
uous gaze of whole Or " half-educated minds"
Magistrate of the Corporation, is gem Of that pecu
liar kind of water which disgusts rather than ofends
! Read:
the to preserve the peace and tina" the democracy have n
d "cHey 10 Goa5 s ncs nSd
young will @ke care not to be involved in the Villains
police No doubt he will be youth and as nice
5o"s 5 e d o5 hat s s Vii. ] to wS S he s
for his election vii eyer permit nm to act i,Se an I'M s
ss H5u5d r M1 WaYT n, "H @y , T BY ann o
enc and fraud bullying and violence govern and control hin
much of Waterman as OF awles and mur'erons party
and they cannot be expected to on orders syen against m1r
them for protection already TOO bitterly proved to be t
most fatal Of folIeS.
1t is difficult to determine whether malice, partisan
blindness or downright ignorance, predominant in the
foregoing. AT all events it is pretty equally divdct
between them So far as the Mayor is individually
concerned we shall volunteer no defence from sucl
attacks He is fortunate in needing none. There is
not reputable merchant in New Orleans, no mattel
what his politics or nativity, who will not endorse
Charles NJ. Waterman man Of undoubted probty
and high-toned honor-as q man entirely worthy
the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens
Yot the Courier iupues to him crimes which, if true
would prove him either an imhecile or q villain!
The Courier states that Mr.. Waterman is no more
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