New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-25
The DeRivIere Case.

~ ft'Al le Mob1e Tribune, lJtd nst.8
We have had translated and publish this morning
~ a5tlee rom tae Courier des Etats Lnjs review
NY NY ee BoLlte of the newspapers in the case Of Col
Bl2nnt and the scamp De RfTiefe 1t is an excellent
arQciei and we assent 10 every part Of IT,
Let as for moment look Al Inc sr,biact in z,iFe
poTary 'S.l'" ~
Col. Blount is gentleman Who baa M do.ri,a,
with the world in public capacity IA il a ig7
citizen endeayOring to the best or his eanaetv II
mind his own business. While engaged in ma i.,,S
able duty, man named DE Rvlere comes along and
is greeted and caressed by people who are a4n5osed
to give stamp to social character and position CO
ting this position, he falls into the comuanv a. =
young and inexperienced girl In him. at least. the
intimacy ripened into real or simulated attachment
The girl takes his associates seal Of his character
And this is the beginning of the lamentabe events
which followed presently. De Riyiere makes his de-
sres known, and then the father the Importance
Of iuquiring more mnutely into his antecedents The
investigation Is unfayorable to his character and
/ then the stirring part of the drama begins
Let the father who reads this consider whether it
was not this far all natural and RATIONAL At that time
the subsequent complications and painful scenes one
/ thinks, might have been easily avoided But the
reader must consider that third party comes ii to
increase the difficulty and to be the source of all the
trouble. That is the mother no doubt with the hest
/ intentions possible. Every effort of the father ia
thwarted by her actions, and mainly whilst he was
| absent from his household. Loving her daughter
and believing that the suitor was sIandered by enc
| mics and was worthy, no amount Of evidenceAno
sworn proof Of his W0Tthlessness-Was sufficient to
remove her deusion. And thus, with money at COM
mand, and with a keen intellect-beng in secret
4 league with De RiTiere, and advising with him and
! encouraging him in all ways-the drama proceeded
1 and the fathers plans were met in every direction.
/ The sane part Of the public is convinced that De
/ Rigiere is q yaga6Ond and q rascal How then ac-
count for the apparent iniatuatOn Of the mOther2 It
is the simplest question in the world to solve She Is
insane That answers it fully And this distempered
mind is not thing OF to-day. Owing to disease pc
cular to her sex, it has been occasionally her con-
ayufI1S ia ftzaE
and the books show that such nsanities are not
by any means rare in her sex The subject is deli
cate one, and allows US the privilege Of no further
| PLANTATION.
Looking at the subject from this point of view one
see how all the difficulties in this singular case
| Originated-can solve the causes OF the apparent
cross purposes which it exhibits-can ascertain how
| De RiVere was able to eVade Justice, and how Col.
while he in the hands Of officers or before courts
of iustice-where it was not manly to execute the
law Of nature on his worthless carcase
OF the conduct Of the newspapers, the Courier ex-
presses our opinion. Nothing more need be said on
that subject. We have been little more circum-
spect than our home contemporaries and regret that
we have not been more so-for the sacred relations
OF man to his family are not fit subject for news
paper repoes whose sole object is to deserve their
penny line and to make many lines the small
est amount OF truth will justify. Even if the New
| York press has violated this rule of deceney and
gained its few dollars by desecrating the sanctities of
the domestic HEARTH We cannot assent to the prOprie
ty of the precedent 1t is not the Southern rule of
decency we are certain. In this section prurent
curiosity in such matters is generally considered Of
fensve not manly, and subectto to pnnshments which
are not prescribed by the statutes This characters
tic of the South is worthy Of al respect.
In the under consideration let US exhibit more
3eicacy. townsman OF thirty years residence
exemplary in all the duties Of fe-certainIy deserves
the kindness respect and sympathy of his felowciti-
zens in his trOubles-which are-and not his-the
result of events which he could not have foreseen
controlled The fhnu pbtlps1 father tn
matter home and consider it in relation to his own
fireside