New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-31
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AoNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 81. 1859.
FACTS AND FT1.TTHEs r1S-~Hr,1y

uo-sDAI 1lsl,a1,l1 BURNING, OCTOBER 81, 1859.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
We propose presenting number Of facts and
figures, accompanied by such comments AZ we
may deem appropriate, to the people Of New Or.
leans, and for which we claim the careful and
serious attention of all rght-thnking, intelligent
men.
What we are about to present has not been con.
ceived in partisan spirit, will it be written or
published in partisan spirit. We shall offer
incontrovertble facts, and whatever commentaries
may follow will be founded on those facts. We
shall argue legitimately from authentic premises.
Hence the claim for proper consideration of our
facts and arguments is solvent one, and should
and will be responded to by every citizen who has
the honor and welfare of the great Southern me-
tropolis at heart
To radical partisans belonging to either side we
have nothing to say. With them partisan reckless
ness has usurped the place of patriotism, and the
good name Of the city, its onward march to COM
mercial greatness, and all its mighty and multi
iarious interests, are as nothing when compared
with the success of the ambitious projects of this
or that individual
Ihese men, or at least many Of them, have
sought, with regular and systematic persistency,
to bring reproach upon the fair fame of New Or
leans, to heap obloquy upon her honorable name,
and to blacken and defile her escutcheon in every
possible particular. In these efforts they have
peen alike contemptuous of truth, regardless of
law, and careless of consequences. In one case
they established armed revolution in our midst
stopped the sessions of courts; mutiated the
records of Judicial tribunals: caused the death of
dozen or more innocent, uniformed Germans !:
and proclaimed that the authority Of force had
superseded the authority of law. Had the reyo-
luton succeeded in defiance of desecrated courts
and trampled under foot laws, an arch politician
and a matchless political intriguer would have
reaped the lions share of the spois from the tri
umph of the reign of anarchy, bloodshed and in.
surrection.
And now, from the same sources, (the interest of
the same individual being more largely at stake
than at the time alluded toy infammatory and in
cendary language is heard, and every indirect and
direct provocaton brought in requsition, calcul-
ated to aggravate feelings, foment disorder and
leadt to rioting and bloodshed These facts-which
are but repettions of what has invariably occurred
in former years, previous to important elections
show concusively the deleterious nature of the in
fuences which have been at work, and which are
now operating, portending anything but pleasant
future, and should lead all good citizens, property
holders and expectant property holders, merchants
and traders, honest people who expect to live hon
estly from the proceeds of their own labor and
skill, and all who desire that the supremacy of the
law should be preserved intact-to ponder deeply
and consider scrutinizingly. They should ask them
selves at least one question: Are the interests the
honor, the character of this great and growing
city, and all the laws good loyal citizens should
implicitly obey, to be injured or sacrificed, as the
case may happen, on account of single individual
and his immediate partisans! But for him and
them, there never would have been any trouble.
Contemplate the actualites of the past-look at
the realities of the present-and make up an honest
judgment fellow-citizens. Recur to the parish of
Plaquemines in 1874, when the full extent of New
York politics, corruption and ballot-box sacrilege,
was first introduced in Louisiana recur to the
election of 1858, when despite the fearful epidemic
that had desolated every household hearth in the
metropolis, and clothed our whole population in
mourning-when evidences of woe and DESPAIR
were visible on every hand-when we all felt as
though GoD himself had not only forsaken us, but
that he had doomed us to immedicable destruction
for our manifold sins-when every heart was sad
and every eye was weary with watching-when
thousands upon thousands of our people had gone
to their long homes and were reposing quietly in
their respective graveyards for the awakening
notes of the Archangel on the Last Day-and look
at, aye, grieve in sorrow and deep humiliation over
the result of that election and its attendant frauds
and ruthless wickedness. The scourge of the AL
MIGHTY, laid on with so terrible hand, did not
prevent the arch unscrupulous manager, from
nnhs
Cool ndomitable, slrewd beyond comparison, and
alpowerful i'll wealth and personal influence, he
scorned the ravages the epidemic had made in the
voting ranks of the city, and concerted and carried
out his arrangements accordingly. Previous to
1858 the highest vote of New Orleans had been
about 10000. In November, 1858, after the most
horrible and unutterably awful Yellow Fever cpl
demic this city had ever suffered-when at least
two thousand voters had died, and when fully one
thousand were away, afraid to come back-the
vote swelled, if our memory serves us correctly,
considerably above thirteen thousand! Recur to
the Vigilance Committee of June, 1858, and mourn
over violated law, desecrated judicial tribunals,
briefly established anarchy the shedding of the
blood of honest, ignorant Germans, and make up
your own conclusions, voters of New Orleans.
That is what you have to do fellow citizens and it
is what you acM do, unless you are willing to oc-
cupy the position of questionless, cowardy serfs,
unfit for liberty, and only entitled to the iron rule
of master. Recur to the events of the past few
weeks, and the past few days, and what do you
see? Why, attempts to promote discord and dis
efforts to stir up bad blood
endeavors to create riots and fghts-and all pos
sble irritants that can be brought to bearproces-
sions being wantonly fired at, gentlemen insulted
and the most ncendary language, and the worst
of action employed.
What is all this for? We will tell you, citizens
and voters of New Orleans. 1t is to give the city
q bad name in the country parishes, and to stimu-
late riots on election day. in order that the Sena
tors and Representatives you may see fit to elect
may be the more excusably expelled in order to
make room for the representatives of the Custom
House. That is just what it means--neither more
nor less. To advance the personal interests of the
autocrat of all the Louisianas, it is and has been
deemed advisable to bargain with the Independ-
ent Americans" to trample immemorial Demo-
cratic "rues and usages" under foot, to repudiate
the vital principle of their organization, to employ
the most infamous characters about town to further
their interests and in the event the honest voters
of this commercial mart see fit to throw them and
their candidates overheard to provide or seek to
provide for riots on the day of election in order to
persuade their country brethren that their de,ne,.
resort is rght-which will amount to an expulsion
Iofp of