New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-21
Anticipated Riots /!

We are seriously alarmed for the peace Of the city
We are apprehensive Of fearful riots We are really
terrified at the prospect which looms up (or DOWN
from every quarter Of the corporations horizon. The
knights of the green bag are getting angry. The
disciples of Blackstone are becoming savage. The
whole legal fraternity is in furious uproar, and
threats loud deep and ferocious are to be heard on
every hand.
The reason for this unwonted state of excitement
is the glorious uncertainty" of the tenure of judi
cia Office in this parish, flowing from the impossibi
ty of obtaining any information from Baton Rouge
as to whether the Governor intends to commission
the Judges elected last Monday week, and from
other fact that several of the old Judges have deter
mined to vacate their places in few days, nolens
lens, or nous colus, gallant old lack Taylor is
ported to have said on momentous occasion, when
he had made up his mind to fight anyhow. Judicial
nterregnums would be disastrous to the green bags,
and hence their wrath, which is not unmngled with
CONSERVATION They both furious and frightened;
and furious and frightened men are the most danger
ons men in creation. - - .-g.-
Their wrathfu threats we regret to say, are prin-
cipally directed against His Excellency, Gov Wick
life. For him the green bags seem determined to
entertain no mercy. They state that he is lawyer
mercy, as he cannot put forward the plea of igno-
rance in extenuatiou of his conduct.
h The following resolutions, adopted at an immense
meeting of the green bags, held last evening, will
explain the animus of the feeling that actuates them
Resolved That courts are necessary to lawyers, if
not to the community.
Resoiped, That courts subserve our veal (pockets)
if they do not subserve the public veal
RESOLVED, That we have inalienable right to fees,
and that we will fight for fees to the last.
Resolved, That the Governor, (who was awyer)
if he allows an intenegnum to take place on the
BENCH will be recreant to his education profession
and the legal fraternity, and will deserve the con-
dignest of condign punishment.
ResolUed, That we will smash the tablets of crea-
ton, break things generally +" sosh around promis
cuously, and spank all the babies in respective
neghborhoods before will be deprived of our fees
The above resolutions were unanimously carried
amid unbounded applause, after numerous able, elo
quent, brilliant, soulinspring, intellectcaptivating
heart thrilling and magnifcently magnificent speeches
had been made in their support.
The meeting then adjourned to take a drink, but
upon comparing notes (purses,) it was found that
there not money enough in the crowd to pay for
what the crowd would drink, and accordingly they
dispersed and wended their ways homeward, musing
pensively and dily upon the melancholy proposition
that, if ten or twelve days of mere uncertainty had
reduced them to such sad condition what would not
three or six months do ...
After this, can any one be stupid enough to wonder
at the indignation Of the greenbags fail to appre
ciate and realize apprehensons that there is great
danger to the good order of the city ahead?