New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-25
Nftu Orleans 1ailp Crescent.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER %, 1853.
VIOLENCE THREATENED.


VIOLENCE THREATENED.
As has usually been the case the last four or five
years. just previous to important elections in this
city, the newspapers and leaders of the side OPP
posed to the American party have commenced
anew their irritating courses and if the past is to
be regarded as a criterion for the future we sup
pose the old system of aggrayation, of insult, of
causeless wounding of feelings and Of sore provo
cations generally, will be kept up with con
stantly increasing vigor az the day of election
draws nearer and nearer. Heretofore this policy
has been fraught with disaster to the Democratic
party, whether it had the manliness to appear
under Its own proper coors, or whether it ap-
peared Gas it now does) under the fmsy gusc of
j" reform" or independent movement, and in
this instance we have not the remotest doubt but
,that the realities of the past will be realized in
future not distant two weeks. Like causes produce
like results. U#.~.
, For years we have protested against this system
of aggravaton, and we protest against it now, al
though we apprebend our protestations will be
regarded with about as little favor as on former
occasions Be this as it may, we are now as We
ever have been, the side of law and order peace
and quiet, and we shall maintain our consistency
if trouble ensues, no blame shall rigtfully attach
to us. Our reputation is worth preserving, and
'we intend to preserve it.
Animated with these views, we read with sur
prise the following article which appeared in the
Delta of Sunday morning last, and which the
crowded state of our columns prevented us from
noticing yesterday. As we perused it we were
panied to think Of the infammatory nature of the
suggestions made, and our mind required invoun-
tarily, as it We're, to similar fulminations which
had appeared previously, just about the same
length of time, before the holding of State and
municipal elections. Here is the article referred
to =
TIE RowDTEs IN THE FiEID.-Therc are indica
tions quite unmistakabie, and which ought to be
duly regarded by those who take an interest in the
election of the It'll prOxilno that the lireng bull
lies and rufians who have heretofore overawed our
legal voters and prevented fair and full express
sion OF the popular will, are still in the field, pre-
pared to take an active part in the November con-
test. Those who indulge the hope of peaceful
election ought to be forewarned on this subject.
We have little to believe that such result
Sill ever occur until the citizens take matters in
their own hands and the rowdes and ruffians be
notified and impressed in some emphatic manner
that their violence and interference will not be per-
mitted, and the disgrace they have inflicted upon
the city in previous elections will not, on this occa
sion, be endured This information must be COM
mtnicated to them before the election.
The best mode of imparting it will be to show
that the citizens are organized and prepared, as
they were in San Francisco, and as they partially
were in Baltimore, to resist and suppress these vio-
lences. II will not do to put this lesson off until
the day Of the election. A great many people will
not go to the polls, unless they have some salts
factory assurance of safety and protection in the
exercise of their suffrage. That assurance must be
given before the election. The hireliny ruffians
m he uuht fhnir MIA and into fbor
haunts before the day of voting. Both parties are
interested in this necessary preliminary step. Both
sets of candidates desire full vote and rest their
hope of success on the largeness of the poll. Let
both combine to this end. Besides the large saving
to candidates from the dismissal of these disrep-
uable instruments in elections, the great interests
the honor and fame of the city, imperativey de-
mand it.
If violence is not indicated in the above, and q
Vigilance Committee threatened, then we are at a
loss to understand the meaning of the words EN-
ployed. If we are mistaken, it will rejoice US to be
made to understand our error.
Having set ourselves perfectly right in the pre-
misses, we appeal to the Delta, to the Custom-H House
to the creators of the Independent American
ticket, got up by the Custom House and Mr.. Sllde
and all the Federal and other adherents of the in
congruous and incomprehensbe conglomeratio1
originated for specific purpose, for the people o
this city to vote for to advance the personal inter
ests of single indvidual-not to break the peace
that now reigns by deeds of violence, or by the
Inauguration of a reasonable Vigilance Commit
tee. If they do let the consequences of their owr
acts rest upon their own heads and mayhap, upor
them they may be visited. We use no threats-we
plead for peace-we defend the supremacy of the
law--but when anarchy is threatened, and if an
archy should prevail, let the results of that an
archy fall upon its authors, not upon innocent
unoffending, law-abiding men.
1t ill becomes the opponents of the American
ticket to talk of rowdyism. So far, nineteen-twen
tieths of the rowdyism has been pcrpetrated b,
persons who roam over the metropolis, known t.
be in their interest for they proclaim the fact t.
the utmost strength of their lungs. Gentlemen
while peaceably walking along the streets, hay,
been insulted by them. Houses of gentlemen hav,
been disturbed by their wanton and Internal, bu
unmisakable noises. American tickets and pla
cards have been torn down and trampled unde
foot amid the most hideous of expetives and keep
ers of public places, when they demonstrate,
against such abominable ourages. have been toll
to keep their mouths shut, if they didn't wan
their heads knocked off,
| Now, if this is way to promote quiet, and up
hold the reign Of law and order, then we have N
knowledge of the meaning of terms. That is all.
/ This kind of business cannot last many days
Perhaps the legitimate fruit will be produced be
fore the lapse of q week. The Americans of thi
city are patient and slow to anger. but as the las
ounce broke the back Of the camel 50 the las
eontumely systematically heapcd upon them ma
arouse them to action.
Frenchman once went to India to enjoy til
sport of tgcr-huntng He killed q great man
tigers, but on one melancholy occasion tge
came very near killing him. On his return home
some friends asked him what he thought of til
pleasure of tgerhunting. "Ah, gentlemen sal
he, "to hunt the tiger. is magnificent sport; bu
when the tiger turns and hunts you, it is the ID.
There may be moral in this, and there may not.
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| TALK ON CHANGE.
The flags yesterday were well crowded, but til
general transactions were not large, considerin
there were $4,000 bales of the staple received frol