New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27


Crescent City occupied the geographical position
she has ever occupied far back thatth memory of
individual multitudinous man runneth not towards
any opposite concluson-with Jefferson on one side,
st. Bernard on the other, Lake Pontchartran the
other, and the turbid, mighty flow of the majestic
Father of Waters on the other But, as we must
have gone by all these metes and bounds, for the
4Egis says so, and the Egis ought to know-the
country people knowing more about New Orleans
than the people OF New Orleans themselves
question at arises, where havewe gone to-? This
is a matter of infinite Importance to us, if to nobody
else; and we trust the Ngis, the prospective "Su-
perintendent of Elections, all of the committees of
all the parties and every body BESIDES will at once
go to work and keep at work until precise loca
ton on this mundane sphere is designated to
fraction. 81
But, truce to badinage. In the Egs, of the 18th,
there is call for meeting of the Democracy of the
parish of DeSoto for the purpose of appointing dele
gates to the Democratic State Convention, which is to
assemble in Baton Rouge on the 18th Of May next.
The editor hopes good and judicious delegates will
be selected" So do we. Judicious and good men
should always be chosen to fill posts of distinction
and responsibility. If all parties would make It'll point
to fix upon such men, we might well say a political
millennium had dawned upon the land.
After vouchsafng this sound and sensible advice,
the 1Egis pitches in politically, in thisswise:Y
We are in earnest when we say that the Democratic
party have something to fear in the approaching can
vass Ne,c Orleans HAS GONE BY THE BOARD, and
of the country parishes are ve'y little behind her,
Yet the Known othiDgs become almost furious even
if you hint that they intend to vote at all" they be-
long to no party neither do they take any interest
in elections until some tenderfooted Democrat who
has said anything against them, becomes can
ddate for office. This is the dangerous element Of
which we promised to speak not long since. This is
the naodus operandi Of knowNothing electioneering
We have not forgotten the time when this party
in full blast the parish of DeSoto that the members
Of the party would look you In the face and declare
soemnly that there was no such thing as secret
political organization. Yes, we have seen men bend
ing under the weight OF years. and who protessed to
be members Of the church of God, declare with the
constancy of martyr, that there was such party
in existence, when, perhaps not more than fifteen
minutes before, they had attempted to decoy some
boy into their foul den to prostitute his youthful soul
to their reasonable designs Then, think you that
party who have so long and SO stubborny fought the
friends of the Constitution and the Union are now
idle? No! Satisfied as they are that Netc Orleans is
past redemption, and, moreover, that we have among
us class of Democrats who culture like have hung
around the party and sucked the last drop of blood
from its uei1s, who now fear that there may be such
thing as rotation in office, and who have recently
contracted a very great affection for the American
perate if not successful one.
Let the poor despised Know othngs' take
courage. Bad as they stand in the opinion Of the
editor they stand worse than certain " class of
Democrats who, vulture-like, have hung around the
Oemocratic) party and sucked the last drop of blood
from its veins, ETC., aud for doing Hereby de-
nounced by our Mansfield contemporary. The "know
Nothngsh may have been exceedingly sinful, but
their sins are comparatively venal when contrasted
with the odious wickedness of"a class ofDemocrats.
But as we have nothing in common with such mat
ters and have desire to trench upon the preroga
ves of the party press, all have to do is to pub
fish the current events of the times and depore the
existence of such untoward state of things. Still
constrained to say and believe that the picture
drawn by contemporary is far too highly colored
We don't think any % class of Democrats " as GRIM
nal as he portrays them and for the prosecuted
+" Know N othings,i we hold to the belief that they
will stand fair the day of final settlement and
allowance as some Of those who foremost in i'm
putting all sorts Of bad motives and deeds to
them AT all events we shall not be presumptuous
enough to enter up judgment against either. The
Good Book says somewhere: Judge not, that We be
not judged. For with what judgement We judge, ye
shall be judged and with what measure We mete, it
shall be measured to you again.
The above quotation is not from any earthly plat
FORM and is altogether worthy profoundest considera
ton the part of the whole human race, including
Democratic, American, Known othing, Black Repub-
lican and Abolition editors and leaders.
Coming down to politics, we do not wonder at the
trepdaton manifested by the Democratic Egis. That
trepidation is not confined to single parish. By no
means. 1t extends all over the State and the quak-
ing in the shoes of the leading faithful is truly dis
tressing to behold. Their loud aarums upon the pub
lie ear, betray their apprehensons, without awaken
ing corresponding degree OF sympathy Or enthusi-
asm. r.u..
why is this and how is this How is it that New
Orleans has SO irretrevably gone by the board and
against the Democracy and that some of the coun-
try parishes are very little behind herr" From
independent standpoint of observation, it is easy to
give simple, direct and truthful answers to the above
nterrogatores We do not expect replies to suit
the partisan press of the dominant party, but thet
makes little difference. We speak to the people, and
always endeavor tospeak correctly and independently
In the first place, the wholesale, bitter and persistent
abuse of the American party of New Orleans before
and after the presidential election, and up to the
present time has had much to do with the decadence
of the Democratic party in this metropolis Had the
VICIOUS Deen sabslled WIN le possession OF the Fed
era and State governments, acted magnanimousy and
kept civil tongues in their heads, all organized oppo
sition against them would have died out, and they
would have been allowed in all human probability to
have walked over the political racecourse uncontest
ed. But they were not content with victory. They
forgot tibet teachings of magnanimty They lost sight
of the fact that the last spring of the apparently dying
lion deadliest, and proceeded to heap insult op
probrium, SANDER and falsehood upon vanquished
foe. natural result followed. Stung to the quick
by causeess and cruel wrong the Americans who had
grounded their and willing to surrender
honorable TERMS once more grasped their weapons
carried the city, and will carry it again, hereafter
when they choose to put forth moety of their
strength. XII
The course of the majority in the last Legislature
was suicidal The special legislation directed against
the city kept alive and embttered the feeling that
prevailed. The attempt to give the appointment of
Assessors, Collectors and Constabes to the Gov
ernor thus taking from the people the right to elect
their own local officers encountered universal oppo-
sition. But it was the introduction and passage of
the unconstitutional, abomnable and tyrannical
Election Bill that capped the climax of unpopu-
larity, and made the dominant party, so far as that
party was represented in the Legislature, odious in