New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-02


yoten Of this city to oonsisn It's government into
their hands on Monday next They set up huge pre-
tensions. They arrogate 70 themselves most Of the
decency and about all Of the capacity, that has an
abiding place within Tie limits Of the corporation.
10 listen 10 their talk through their chosen mouth
pieces. diarnay and semidiurnaIly, q stranger 70
che actual facts OF the case would be led into an
! awful mistake, for be would suppose that all the
patriotism integrity aud intelligence Of the metropo
lis Of the Southwest belonged exclusively to the
ranks OF the independents and that the opposition
vas composed Of loafers Migrants suspected charac
ers and criminals Of every hue and class. Verbose
defamation ford defamation, and loose declama
ton, ia profnsely indnlged in without any staunch
basis OF fact to support It, and wild and random as
sertions are made, not only against the American
party such, but against the able and correct and
efficient administration Of the City Government just
going out of power, In defiance OF the record In de-
spite Of weknown actualities, and in the face OF
truths which can be substantiated In any court of
justice in the State by unimpeaehabe witnesses and
by indisputable data on file.
Verify, the modesty Of these pretensions surpasses
anything Of the kind we have ever known through
out protracted political experience. That magnid-
cent parlor in the ST. Charles Hotel and the hundred
or 90 very wealthy and respectable gentlemen who
met in II week more ago, to settle the municipal
concerns OF New Orleans for the next two yearlet
| 1t be remembered that the vulgar masses were
cluded and newspaper reporters invited to leavewilI
become famous II the movement so arstocratically
inauQurated should happen to succeed Of which there
Is shout a. much probability there is that we shall
| ali take trip to San Francisco via the Southern
Pacific Railroad, in the early part Of next week No
affair in Downing street. London, was ever more gen
seelly managed or more exclusive or more aristo-
cratic; and we doubt II better wines and liquors
were ever partaken BY the Lords snd Dukes and
Marquises, and naughty leaders who govern the fast
anchored isle y than were furnished by Messrs Hall
Hldreth to their customers the occasions alluded TO-
Well, these meetings eventuated in letter to Major
Beauregard, signed by respectable number Of citi-
Eens, inviting him to become an "independent can
didate for Mayor in his letter of acceptance
is 50 cautiously worded as to leave him utterly in
dependent Of any obligation to the Independent .
whatever, and free to pursue any sort OF Slidelan
Democratic policy he may deem expedient-and in
the partial nomination Of municipal ticket composed
promiscuously Of renegade Americans, having all to
gain and nothing to lose by joining the new move
ment and knowing that the door to Office was shut
against them Ia the American party, Of regularly
nominated American candidates who will vote the
full ticket Of their party, and Of Democrats and
nonpoIiticans generally Against the responsibility
Of the names the ticket thus extraordinarily pre-
sented, we have not a word to say and whatever
criticisms we may indulge in against it, and the
course Of its public organs, viii be dictated by re-
gard for the duty we owe to the public and the
American party.
II we can understand anything Of the motives that
actuate the Independents from the multifarions.
miscellaneous, promscuous and reckless outgiyings
and assertions Of their newspaper organs, they claim
that they should be invested with the administration
Of the city government, something like the follow
ing charges against the government that has pre-
vailed for the past few years. BY attempting to bring
obloquy upon faithful and honest administration,
they seek 70 become the administration themselves
They would run before the people, not on their own
merits, or the merits Of any party, but upon the de-
merits OF their neghbors. We will now proceed to
specify their charges ucidy as the pressure OF
time, absence Of material, and lack OF room will adj
nit /:
They charge that the present administration has not me,
the requirements Of is position and that therefore, change
should be made.
That the police is corrupt and affords little
protection 10 the lives and property citizens
That the public debt enargng while the
crossing.
That the New Orleans has been affected BY
the alleged injurious state Of things that will enaue
nnless change wrought immediately not sooner"
That real estate has deprecated ous all OWING 10 The
admi isisation Of the party mathematical.
That the administration OF justice Is lax and inen
Client, and must be rcfo med
That the assasnaions murders that have been ce
med calculated bring lasting disgrace and ultimate de-
srnction upon the fair fame Of the city.
That their candidates very men to effect The much
needed reforms and that the American candidates. elected
viii peetuate rule Of anarchy boodshed and corruption
and
That the American party responsible all the outra
that have been committed and should quen be held up
to public adherence and detesation.
These, in BRIEF are the leading allegations in the
indictment brought by the independents y through
their organs, against the American party. We shall
proceed 70 examine them seYiatin and to show IN |
theiz alsty sbsurdity and injustice We call on our
readers, and all candid, unprendiced and impartial
voters, to examine the refutation we shall make and
govern their future accordingly. We shall make no
statement that can be successfully sssaled and we
challenge our opponents to the issue OF truth.
The first charge Of neffcieney against the admin |
strafion OF Mayor Waterman will not hold the water
Of truth for an instant, any " Independent wish
ing for correct information can ascertain by applying
in the proper quarter. The records of his Office and
his messages to the Common Council, demonstrate |
that no city IN the Union is, or has been blessed with
the services Of more efficient or honorable chief
magistrate.
The charges against the police are equally uncaled
for, unjust and untrue. We defy any Independent
70 show any other city the broad surface OF COPS
globe where the same number of policemen have
made so many arrests and brought so many crlmi. |
nails before the bar of the criminal court for punish
ment. " Acts speak louder than words" We chal.
enge the production Of the record-we want no more
unsupported assertions. Our police have been, we
repeat more efficient, have done more hard and skill
fnl work. than their compeers of contemporary cities
and II the wckedness Of our people has led to the
commission Of vast amount Of crime, they deserve
credit for aesting and subecng to the penalties of
the law so many Of the yioators Of it, instead Of the
abuse and SANDER ii isnow the fashion to lavish IN
sparingly upon them.
The assertions in relation to the increase Of the
public debt aud the increase Of the public taxes are /
wholly erroneous. Since the American party came
into power the public debt has been largely dimn-
shed, and the taxes upon real estate have been
owered materially. Such an instance Of diminuton
II debt and dmInution Of taxes at the same time,
las not occurred IN any other large city on this con.
iuent Does not this fact speak volumes In favor Of
he fidelity and capacity OF those who have been
harged with the management Of the government
Certainly II does and will be so admitted wherever
he voice OF truth il heard and prevails