New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-01-09

prescribing the Democracy of the city, This is truly
amentabe condition of affairs, and is to lead
to exciting spectaces. It has been well sad ' when
Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war" And
when Democrat meets Democrat in strife, the fur is
bound to fly in unusual quantities. The Democrats
are SO accustomed to :" wooing'' the Wings and
Americans they will be especially fat when they
try their hands upon themselves. a-5s
In the Alexandria Democrat, of the 30th ult., an
article appears, headed " Ratio of yote,' in which
the prescription policy so earnestly deprecated by us
is strongly recommended. In fact, Col. Warner, the
editor of that influential Journal takes unqualified
ground in favor Of the adoption of the measure. We
deem it due the subject to reproduce some of the
Democrats remarks as follows: @
That New 2seans VII be according her vote
on party and for the SAKE Of
wing Of the main army we has been routed in two battles
I pa ~ M will hardy ysa its time customs
hour which d mems souls Ssxer haye
convention Voters there en hsye shown their tearessness
to the city the spos Q, triumph, but when elections the
city were to be held and danger in te last
saH in speech sn in M gieTng It., before hand have been
dsn, an hut bDs g Of peril ys will
deted Three thousand votes lost by apathy ind cowardce
OF course it would not be delicate in us to comment
upon the foregoing, as entirety although we may
with entire propriety, publish it to the world as
information of interest. But we may be excused for
correcting Misrepresentation under which, it seems
to us, our Alexandria cotemporary labors. We think
the following sentence does injustice, as we shall
endeavor to show: " Three thousand votes lost by
apathy and cowardce of New Orleans Democrats
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post of observation that the causes named above had
very little to do with the loss of the three thousand
votes" spoken of. There may have been "apathy,'
but not the kindof apathy intended to be conveyed
by our cotemporary We have not the smallest doubt
there were fully fifteen hEnlrea Democrats in the
Parish of Orleans who did not cara to work for, and
hardly vote for Mr.. Buchanan, because, if elected
they had good reason to believe he would be con-
trolled by influences that would put them under
ban of relentless ostraesm 1t is needless to describe
the peculiar character of those influences. The
Influences and their character are well known to the
people Under such circumstances, the non,action,
or apathy, no matter how it is termed so rolndly
is entitled to considerable excuse if not
entire forgiveness The charge of cowardiCe upon
" New Orleans Democrats is wholly untenable, ac-
cording to deliberate conviction. We hold to the
belief that the New Orleans Democrats are Just as
brave as Democrats anywhere ese and as fearless as
anybody else Besides, there was no occasion for
displaying either cowardice or bravery. We, and our
assistants visited every precinct in the city several
times on the day Of election, and from what came
under our own observation and what we learned from
others, enabled us to say, what we repeat again that
the election was the most peaceable the city has
known for years. The scrimmaging at the polls
was unprecedentedly small, and what there was was
productive of no serious damage.
Our Alexandria neighbor should be more charitable
to his city brethren.
We quote again from the Democrat:
In view of the Of the Democratic Orleans
the county, will hardly be willing to lose its arearne
democracy out New Orleans have 6eu ncaan hs T
y gss Of fl Ifs % it, and s
5G'd sesa 5e New h ind IN"
is in great measure ewing 10 the inefciency and ah he
position Wilt ey S one ami md aEors
g bsJ ns Ea we oTha,,s s the
up their petty factions and quarres about when principle
they have which city conss
their duty so far let them be rewarded but hold
nc Inducements 10 them TO pursue the same unworthy for
two years. ~
1t strikes us the Democrat proposes a remedy
which will be worse than the disease. How pro-
scrpton of the New Orleans Democracy can result
70 the advantage of the Democracy of the State, we
ire at loss to imagine. Ugly epithets and threat
,ned ostracsm are not weapons calculated to stimu
ate them to renewed exertions at tM next election
This is matter to be considered. If all the Offices
are taken from them, and their representation mar
rowed down to almost nothing, their votes, or the
oss of their votes may still tell upon the fortunes of
general State ticket
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