New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-27
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Gov. Wickline returned yesterdav nm, ~. -.
o. iaTlessDess and snarcby which pfeyaiIs n the
5oothwestern parishes and Informs ~ thsf o,ds,
6esn restored ahough much excitement ssl existed III
GoY ". went al Tar as Vermihionyfle And had ;rts.
views With the prominent leaders 81 the Ve,is.ss
Committee, who gave their promises that NO 9n,tIs,
violence would be attempted by the or9anjzation.
How far these promises will be kept il y dacu %
say. We have little faith in them until the Commjttes
5isbands. nsiet The ik1devs did not promise 10 Do
We learn that one os the victims Of the Queue De
Tcrtne outrage died in PoiDte Coupee on Thursday
go that NJ. Wagner, Of whom we spoke yesterday
rated BY the brutal rufans into whose power be fell
EzGov. Morton and those men Of yespectabiity
and standing who Tent their sanction and influence To
the horrible cruelt:ey perpesated by the vretches
ger thsr command ought to retire
from tie gaze Of that society whose laws they have
atrociorsiy outraged They have consorfed with
|murderes (nnknowing,y, no doubt) and aided and
abetted in crime to which murder is comparatively
aChrist1en oct. When we SPEAK Of naurdere7Bwe do
not SPEAK unwarrantable for we are assured good
anthority that the scoundei who was implicated in
TIE murder Of policeman Dunn some two years ago in
New Orleans and for which his associate, Costello,
aasred death-h one Of th:nost sctiye Of the Fig-
lants 10 tortariDg the outawsv and "desperadoes'
wi4 the ashE Even this wretch, the rope for whose
NECK isnow probably in the hands Of JUSTICE becomes
.ne associate Of educated gentlemen in breaking tbs
law and oppresli1g unofendiDg citizens!
whether justice will ever oyertake and with its
strong arm NETS out that rewsrd to the authors Of
that great wrong which they merit, is for the future
% 5e u there ID law in the landepeyy good citizen
VII Pay mot It may rise in majesty and wresk upon
Inose wno have go ruthlessly trsmped it under foot
the punishment which Its penalties iuf3ic$
we would nat Give currency to allthe rumors that
are anoas M ,s the dongs Of some Of the
nera OF tnis committee OF awbFeakeYs, for some of
them are too brutal for the most credulous to be.
lieve. That some ef the members ase actuated by
good motives but o mistaken sense Of duty. We are
willing to. admit i; and that some OF those who re-
1oUk az ttos~ Il.
and offenders againss the law is more than probable
but these considerations neither Justify nor palate
| those occurrences which make every citizen blush
for the honor Of the State The expedition Of the
COMMITTEES to Queue de Tortne was ostensibly to
punish rogaes and maleiactors an usurpation of law
itself and it was damnable crime in them to lay
the hand Of violence on any man not well known "a
be one Or the other OF both II they exercised their
was not established in their minds not BY suspicion
but by proof positive that act itself gives the lie to
their statements that only well.known thieves and
desperadoes were.the objects Of their vengeance.
authority are apt to forget the claims Of Justice il
they do, however, and proceed to inct illegal pun
ishment alike on the guilty and the innocent they
are no less criminal than the veriest cntthroats Or
their bidding. Why was this Vigilance Committee
organized if the osginators Of it did not know each
and every individual against whom they were to pro
coed Why did they not specify the men. to punish
"HoHA .LSy VIVA tut responsibility OF VlOlAt0R the
law? When they took prisoners come seventy or
eighty men, why did they not spare the innocent
and visit their wrath upon the guilty, as they de-
clared they would do when they de6ed the law and
took upon themselves the administration of what
they called justice? The leaders of this Committee
do not pretend to have acted legally and we be-
ieve they do not deny that some innocent men have
suffered as much at their hands as the guilty. and
hence they cannot dispute that they have not opIy
broken the law but committed wrongs upon inno-
cent men, for which they should suffer the severest
punishment. That they may receive it, ought to be
the constant prayer OF every man who abhors
cruelty, abomnates crime, reveres law and Justice
and respects the honor and welfare Of Louisiana.
Baton Rouge Advocate, 24th inst