New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-25
) MISREPRESENTATION.


SOMETHING RARE.-We learn from the Ghzett0 and
Comet that at the close Of the session Of the Legsa
ture, motion was made to allow Mr.. j. "A. Warner,
Secretary Of the Senate, $500 extra compensation,
when that gentleman Immediately arose and requested
the mover to withdraw it. said That he accepted the
office with knowledge of the salary, and wanted no
more Mr.. Warner is Democratic editor, and rara
aUis. We shall look upon the Alexandria fLa) De-
mocrat as luminous streak amid the misty clouds OF
the political horizon.
We fear disastrous results will fall upon our friend
Warner for this incomprehensible and unparalleled
act Before he stood well with his party occupied
prominent and influential position and his political
and personal future was as promising as could be de-
sired. But, at one suicidal blow, we apprehend he
has destroyed everything for has he not violated the
timehonored usages Of his party and is it on record
that the Democratic party has ever forgiven such viz
lation Z? af r.
What decline receiving &c extra Compensation
Why the idea was preposterous in ITSELF and to carry
into practice was positively wicked. We defy any
one to point to its parallel, either in Federal or
State legislation. It is nowhere set down in the
journals of Congress or in the journals of the legsa
lures Of this confederacy that Democrat ever refused
an " extra, OF any else for that matter There
is precedent for such atrocious conduct and there
are nnumerable precedents ustifying the pursuit of
opposite conduct. 4 a. Sd I'd sit ID
As was to have been expected, this declension ex.
cited intense indignation among the !" extra men at
the Capital and elsewhere. They denounced the I'M
heard of innovation upon long established rules the
bitterest terms declared that it nterfered with their
vested rights; said that it threatened to diminish
their future supply of bread butter and gtables
declared that it violatiye Of the time sanctied
principles Of democracy; and that if the author of
all the mischief was not sunmarily disposed Of and
forever, there was no foretelng the evils that would
overtake our devoted country! After giving other
expressions Off character similar to the above,
tacit understanding was had that the subject should
undergo further and final discussion in New Orleans
Accordingly, on Monday evening list all the ex-
ira men in the city convened in grand mass meet
lug. The assemblage was very large, and the most
fearful excitement prevailed. The meeting, after
duly organizing, appointed committee to examine
the appropriation bills of Congress and of the States
in order to ascertain whether any Democrat had
been guilty of heinous offence like that committed
by Mr.. Warner. After proper time spent in the ex-
animation, the committee returned and repoi led that
they had examined the appropriation bills of Con-
gress and the appropriation bills of the respective
States, well all other documents bearing upon
the question in controversy, and had been unable to
to receive " extra compensation FIVE 9a@ ,+4
A motion was instantly made that Mr. Warner be
Immediately brought before his Honor Judge Lynch.
After long and exciting debate, this motion was laid
on the table subject to call.
4 Another motion was made to expeI Mr.. Warner
from the Democratic party, and that the notice of ex
pulsion be published in all the official gazettes of that
party in the United States. This motion was on the
point Of being carried unanimously, when an expert
enced " extra Imam rose and remarked that Demo |
cratic official gazettes were not in the habit of adver
Using for nothingin fact that they charged rather
high for their services, cash in advance-and that,
these advertisements would cost large amount of
ready money, he would move that the motion be laid
on the table subject to call. The motion prevailed
after which silence, deep and profound, reigned for
about five minutes. at
Then an old and practiced extra " man arose and
said in substance according to the synopsis furnished
by our reporter:
i Fellow Democrats :: 4 am impressed with the belief
that we have not yet hit upon the real cause of the
conduct of Mr.. Warner. For a quarter of a
century the cardinal principle of our party has
been that to the vctors belong the spoils." That
principle has been faithfully and rghteosy carried
out by all true Democrats. No one has ever pre-
1t not handed down to by the lustrious patriarch
of Democracy pure and undeiled! No good Demo
GRAFT has ever refused g extra compensation BEFORE
and Warner ,cas good Democrat few months
since. What reasonable inference should be draw Il
from this Why, that our poor friend Warner has
gone mad, and instead of being lynched by or ex-
PEELED from, the Democratic party, is fit subject for
careful nursing in lunatic asylum. No sane Demo
crat could have been guilty of such an act, and-here
the speakers emotions overcaine him and he took his
seat, sobbing convulsively.
The sonndness Of the above rsuments convinced
the audience With electrical quickness that Warner
was insane and committee was forthwith appointed
to take measures to convey him to the Asylum at
jackson, Up to a late hour last night he had not
been apprehended, but leading nemberof the COM
mttee informed us privately that he was corfdent he
would be run down before morning. ~ t&
Weshall await the final fsue Of this strange and
melancholy event with mel Jous an, ety never ex.
perienced by before. The circumstance the excite
ment, the lull which followed the speech, and the
prompt action taken thereon, have mystided us ex-
ceedingly. 80