New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-05-11
The Height of Imputaence.


length and breadth of impudence, without having
seen the question fairly and finally settled A salts
factory solution seems as far distant ever. The
boarder who told his landlord on the presentation o
his account for fodder with the intimaton that hi
must pay up or leave that he had always beer
disgusted with the hotel-was looked upon as rather
impudent. The other boarder who calculated, upor
being informed that he would not be permitted tt
leave the house until his bill was paid" then I'll live
with you forever was thought to possess mode
rate share of assurance. The lawyer who defended
hog thief one day, delivered violent political phil
lipc the next, and preached sermon on the surpas
sing beauties of christianity the next was deemed by
antiquated old fogies to be somewhat impudent. The
politician, who, after changing his coat half dozen
times the partisan breezes shifted maintained that
| he occupied the same ground he had always occu.
pied, and that the world had changed, not he was
| viewed as more inpudent than otherwise. The
Devil for quoting scripture, is frequently styled the
personifcation of impudence. The Slidel Democrats
consider the anti-Slidel Democrats the very embod
ment of impudence because they claim to be as good
Democrats as the Sldell Democrats, and the anti
slide Democrats look upon the slidell Democrats
the very incarnation of mpudence because the Slidel
Democrats assert their right to- and get all the Federal
Gratis think they are fairly entitled. For preaching
confluence and practicing incontinence the Rev.
Mr. Kalloch of Boston, has been denounced as very
impudent parson. And so on throughout list of il
lustrations which might be heightened ad infntum.
This leaves the question as much unadjusted as
ever No standard is furnished to enable the public
to measure impudence And, but for a recent revela
tion in New Jersey, it is doubtful whether final set
tlement would ever have been arrived at. But New
Jersey has fixed the matter to nicety-New Jersey
has illustrated the heights to which mpudence can
ascend to fraction, as will be seen from the follow
ing incident which find narrated in the Baltimore
Patriot, of recent date:
The Union Bank of Frenchtown. n j., has insti-
tuted suit against certain parties for presenting its
notes at the counter and demanding their redemption
in specie. The plea set up is that these bill holders
conspired together to break the Bank If the pro.
prlety OF this plea should be sustained by the courts
order of things will be instituted and debtors
need no longer be afraid of duns. What capital
plan it would prove to put down camorous creditors
merchant, for instance, has liabilities maturing for
large amount which he finds it difficult to meet
Following the example of the Union Bank of French
town, he tarns the tables upon those who hold his
promsory notes, by nstitnting suit against them on
the ground that they design to ruin by pressing him
to pay them what is justly their due. Well the world
moves and we move with it; but of all the impudent
,sAShAsSS
the part of the Union Bank of New Jersey-if the
facts be as they are stated-bears off the palm
This Frenchtown Bank business must be put stop
to. We say this with the profoundest seriousness.
II not put stop to it may lead to the most dire
tul consequences to all newspaperdom. We almost
shudder at the bare contemplation. What on earth
would become of newspaper proprietors if aR their
delinquent subscribers should follow the plan adopted
by the Frenchtown Bank managers, and sue them for
conspiracy for attempting to collect their subscription
dues! Such impudence on their part would not be a
whit more impudent than the Frenchtown Bank i'm.
pudence.
Verify, verify, the Union Bank of Frenchtown,
New Jersey, has successfully scaled and now sits en-
throned on the highest peak of the mountain Of
impudence.