New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-24
LOOKS LIKE GIVING RI UP.

LOOKS LIKE GIVING 1T UP.
The Courier, Of yesterday morning, Contained the
subjoined singular leading article. Considering tne
high source whence It ernanated, ana sne gtea' en-
courapsment to eficient united and energetic action
itvoucAsafes the members Of the American party N
this city, we have deemed il worthy wide circulation
and thereforeappend IL in full:
. novsv LOSE SNGLE yoTE!-We hope that the
democrats out of New Orleans will not give too much
to the fact that the Democrats in the city
hive now achance to vote if they want TO- We nope
t,at they will poll every Democratic vote, and make
cher calculations as though there was not to be
single vote polled by MS in the CITY, They can carry
the State ticket and secure Denocrauc maJority
both branches Of the Legislature without the aid 81
one city Democratic vote, and we nope sney VIII 10 H.
The election Of our Congressional candidates, in the
First and Second Districts must be secured mainly by
the vote outside the city. g. agfs.
There are plenty Of Democrats in tha city to secure
majority, but we are sorry to say that there is
large section Of our party here consisting of Demo-
Gratis who are most excellent takers, but who have
al especial aversion to work, and who seldom vote
They figure conspicnously in primary assemblies and
commonly succeed in getting their favorites nomi-
nated but when the day Of election comes they are
very scarce around the polls. There are large mum.
bers in this city who are with in feeling and prin-
cple and who utter any quantity OF talk
but who anywhere else except at the polls Oh the
day Of election. Sometimes they get within few
rods Of the pos but they usually take good care not
to come near enough to vote Some of the nosiest OF
this description OF Democrats are told have not
even taken the trouble to register their names
As long as human nature is made up with its pre-
sent ingredients we cannot feel much establishment
that the opposition party, or its upperdegree coun
ellis and wrepullers should resort to its usual pro
gramme Of violence and intimidation when they can,
at SO cheap rate, scare away thousands Of voters
Potroon cowardice always invites insult and oppres
sion. We fully expect that the accustomed knock.
ownanddrag out plan Of operations will be adopted
or attempted by the Know. Nothing bnles az lne
next election that has secured them majority here
tol0f 1t is true there is scarcity Of money at this
pressing time to hire Thugs with, but there are SO
many Of the class out of employment that they can
be obtained at very cheap rate We don't believe
the gang have acquired any more respect for law and
decency than they had in June, 1856, especially as
they have seen that none Of the assaults and assass
nations heretofore committed have been punished.
We have the satisfaction Of knowing, however,
that there are few. hundred Democrats in New Or
leans who value the elective franchise at its true
worth and who had as soon perish in the attempt to
assert their rights to be deprived Of them by bull
lies and Thugs What votes are poled, we know,
will be honestly counted and fairly returned. great
many who have acted and voted with the opposition
have become Disguised with their aggressions, and
will either vote against them or not vote at all But
we don't want our friends il the country to lose
single vote under the superstition that the entire De
mocratic vote Of the city will be polled.
The first paragraph Of the above article according
to the cearest reading we have been able to bestow
upon it, amounts to surrender of the contest in
New Orleans, even before the struggle has fairly be-
gun-when neither party has q completed ticket in
the field! We can make nothing else out of it. If
we labor under an erroneous impression, we may be
corrected The Courier in substance tells the coun-
try Democracy not to repose too much confidence in
the potency of the redoubtable g Army bill mot to
place too great an estimate upon the fact that the
Democrats here now have chance to vote, if they
want to and to make their calculations as though
there was not to be single vote polled by us (he
Democratic partly in the city!H We have heard of
cold comfort before but this the coolest specimen
that has ever come under our observation 1t is n.y.
| perborean-it is Arctic in the cxtreme-and would
have frozen DR.. Kane and his comrades to death in
less than no time had they encountered such blasts
during their cruizngs in the direction Of the North
| Pole.
Not content with this appalling expose of weakness
in New Orleans, the Courier goes out of it, and scat
tiers CONSERVATION in this wise: "The election Of
our Congressional candidates in the First and Second
Districts must be secured mainly by the vote outside
the city" When it is borne in mind that about
seyeneghts of the voters Of the First Congressional
District reside within the limits of the corporation,
below Canal street, the security outside spoken OF
by contemporary becomes weak, brittle and of no
earthly account whatever. 1t dissipates, when CON
trasted with this fact as river ogs dssipate before
the beams Of blazing sum- Such security as this is
outside probability and possibility. In the Second
District, the country and city vote is more evenly
1 divided, and something may be done beyond the mu
nicipal limits. In fact, we are persuaded Mr.. Burke
has already done much.
The Courier then sharply refers to the apathetic
conduct Of large numbers of Democrats who, while
quite conspicuous in primary meetings, in order te
get j" their tayorites nominated are nevertheless
very scarce around the polls " when election day
arrives. This is a hard hit at somebody We sup
pose, although we do not profess to any authority
that the Democratic antiSlidelians are the persons
go dreadfully raped over the knuckles. Welb sucl
raps are nothing to the knocks-strong, persisten
and unsparing-they will receive in case the "olgal
chy, by any chance, should happen to perpetual
its power. There has been little charity practice
towards them BY the ruling faction Of the dominan
party There will be none in future should they in
sanely help their worst real enemies to mount tn
high places of authority again.
The third paragraph Is remarkable production
To it the particular attention of the public will
drawn. It admits that thousands OF voters y ca
be cheapy scared away from the polls, and lays dow
las trulSm that pOtrOOn COWardlce always invite
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