New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-01
THE DELTA ON rnE GERMANS.

4 THE DELTA ON THE GERMANS.
Somebody must really attend to our neighbors O
The Delta. They viii commit the horrible impro
prety Of scldestruction unless their friends and &C
quantances come to their relief. By some means o.
other they must Be held -restraned else We will
not answer for the consequences. We shall wash our
hands Of al participation in the disagreeabls sefm
notation which seems impending. In no shape man
ner or WISE we responsible. This We state publicly
and boldly in order that future msconcepton or mis-
apprehension may Be rendered absolutely impossible
We can't prevent the Mississippi from overlooking its
banks. Would that We could, Neither can we pre-
vent clever people from assassinating themselves
Would that We could Let all these facts be dis.
tincty horne in mind hereafter. We are determined
upon being placed rectus in before the people
whether the circumstances that loom up in the future
4 appear either serious or trivial. We haven't the
slightest objection to our neighbours killing them
selves individuals, if they considerably come to
the conclusion that they can make anything BY the
operation. That would be trivial matter SO far as
public affairs are concerned. But, we decidedly OBJ
ject to their killing themselves as Democrats and
SIdell organists. In this latter case, they would be
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fuss over their remains provided such fuss would aid
the election Of his relative to the COMPREHENSIVE
next Monday and tend to transfer the control Of the
city government into his hands.
Last Monday we spoke Of the coming municipal
election, and stated that the American ticket was
composed Of men altogether unexceptonable and en-.
tirey fit to M honestly and usefnlly the various posi-
| tons to which they had been nominated. We did
l nof Ind ~, tho nn1ta =
We assaied one and merely set forth few incon.
trovertble facts. Yet, notwithstanding this the
Delta, Of Monday evening, came out with long ar
ticle, directed against the Crescent the most notable
feature of which was virtual admission on the part
Of our contemporary, that the American ticket was
fully as meritorions as we had previously asserted it
to bel or course We could ask nothing more, and
chroncle the fact accordingly at the same time ex.
posing the folly and utter absurdity Of the whole line
OF the Delta's e independent 7 argument.
Not satisfied with this tremendous endeayor, the
Delta, Of yesterday morning. discovered paragraph,
which appeared in the local column of the Crescent
Monday morning, and proceeded to comment upon it
at greatlength. We reproduce the paragraph entire
from our Mondays issue, in order that the under.
standing in the premises may be complete:
meeting of the German citizens of the Third
District was held at the corner Of Louisa and Leyee
streets on Friday night It was largely attended and
harmonious The meeting was addressed in English
vally and Others The tone and tendency Of the
meeting was that OF strong friendship for and de.
sire to support the American party. Without laying
down anything like party platform, they gave their
benefited them far more than any. other that ever
held sway in the city. The reduction of the public
debt--the decrease in taxation on real estate-the
improvement OF the city in its streets roads, bridges
Take 1npnv n.~1 &nlas.
police-the fair and impartial administration of ius.
tice by the American magistrates in power-these
and other Distinguishing features of the American
rule in New Orleans, were the motives which induced
the sensible and intelligent Germans Of the Third
District to meet and declare for the American party
We hope to see the party receive similar welLmerted
compliments from the Germans in other parts of the
city.
Upon the foregoing merely notice ofa large and
enthusiastic meeting Of our German population of the
Third District, got up to subserve no purpose other
than that which was legitimate, proper and right and
against which not the smallest honest objection can
be urged the Delta takes up its editorial cudgsl and
proceeds to belabor the Germans in the most un-
mercfnl manner. It tells them, in effect, that they
don't know what they are about that they are in
competent to attend to their own business and that
they do repent and take the medicine prescribed
BY the Delta, not only without complaint but with
good grace that they need look for no absolution in
future!
To show that we do neighbors no injustice, we
quote portion Of the article referred to. Says the
Delta, commenting upon the above extract from the
Crescent t.
3 This appeal TO German citizens to support the
ticket Of party which, for years past, has virtually
dsfranchised all the foreign born citizens of New
Orleans is one Of the most extraordinary events in
our political history 1t wonld be utterly incredible
Frnf bad pN1
class Of prescribed citizens could be found to co.
operate with party which has inflicted upon them
and their fellow-countrymen such numberless and
grevOus wrongs and insults. 1t would appear to |
manifest degree of humility and submssiveness IN.
paralleled in human history. If 1t be true that
small number Of naturalzed citizens are capable
OF such inconsistency such extraordinary humility
the obligation of the great body of that class of sf
fragans to save their reputation from such reproach
and stain, will be the more weighty and serious.
The above starts out enormously. No appeal" |
was made to the Germans of the Third District. |
They assembled in public meeting, as they had right
TO do, and expressed their sentiments, as they had
also right to do, and just all other citizens may
,ightfny do. They did ask the Delta or the Sill.
lellan Independents anybody else, what they
should do, or how they should do it. In this they
displayed sound independence and much good sense
And because they in large primary meeting convened
after fair and open discussion saw proper to intimate
preference for the party which has largely decreased
their public debt. which has greatly diminished their
public taxes, which has contracted for more improve
ments than ever were made before, which has given
them the best police of any city in the United States
and which has improved upon its predecessors in all
essential particularsthe Delta, not in good taste ac
cording to our humble judgment, tells them that their
conduct is utterly Incredible, that they show an
unparalleled " degree of humility: and calls unop |