New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-22
atp OrItans laiIp Grestelt.
4 sMALL FAVOR ASKED.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER %, 1859.


Il eMALL FAVOR ASKED.
Perhaps some Of our contemporaries have sue
cesSs6 IA persuading numbers Of their confding
rsa1ers tEHt New Orleans = thc only place where
Alae proportion Of citizens are guilty Of the helm
& ~ cence Of 80 undertaking The estimable PRIV
ii freemen y not b take the trouble Of going
{ Is ne polls u depo1it their bAllots, which
m ~ .sos a .a.k 81, r. sA '' 90
y & - g 8 s : E: Ill ~ Y oea
perAsps ia Wa probability ii the unpleasant
hvpotAesss, sone II our contemporaries have sue
ceest II convincing moiety Of the world at large
40 NV Orleans i the viest Of cities, the good
- 1900 of H. citizens daring not to walk the
81 slection dsy in fear Of their lives at the
- II terribly indefinite number Of sanguino-
~ vi ceiacal and Huculent cut threats, hired
~ Eesp the polls by clique Of Office -hungering,
co1rept IA entirely INSCRIPTIONS demagogues,
40 6iye each one Of their mercenaries revolver
~ taeir blessing, and send them forth to slaughter
~ destroy ~ ID Perhaps for these reasons, the
aHsai cornmunity Of New Orleans is nnattema
uNksd ii The mouths Of excellent and respect
~ persons In various parts Of the country, who
We been 20 unfortunate in their facilities Of in
lion Is 70 have acquired their only ideas of
moral social and political condition Of the city
\ Ann the virtnonsly indignant, unprejudiced, unbi
sed, impartial and wholly patriotic denunciations
n the dciainant party BY some Of our cotempora-
! ~. Perhaps, for the reasons We have limited,
there y TOO general a. impression abroad that New
Otieam = ! latter.dsy Gomorrah, or rather q tre-
nlenions conlbin ton y both Gomorrah and
I Eodo1n, pos = vile ez,inence Of sinfnlness
which insitss a aysnging shower Of fire from
Heayss y ~ ~ that she may no longer
tai.t nv ~ AZ america and be offensive in the
u I u u j god Of all lands.
- = fearful reputation to have, and it may
G III ~ iirectiy Or indirectly, to the outra
3 800 = sdt ~ free electors in not marching up
~ ~ Il 1sd voting the way some Of our CO.
u - Escted; who count not voting at ali a
I u n y I,ice, and not voting as they desire a
i r1 Nv terrible fol description, the poverty
b. MT furnishing words meet for the
tSaent Of the subject. Letus see if there
4 ot 6not5asr American city as wicked as New
~ she matterof citizens not voting when
mon ~ political leaders. On the 7th, this
INV pOIlsd HtIc less than half Of the Registered
dreadful fact in is history! But as black
1ark N Tie record Of New York, and SO New
llleans H. company in her misery and infany
S43 49, ~ Gt&CeAVu " ~ utiu III new Ork, ana
thc1gh ~ number Of her registered votes reaches
~ hundred and three thousand, but fifty-four
votss were polled What have some Of
cost npofaries to say to snch villainy as this?
II these ffty-four thousand votes there is
evefy reason to believe, and strong evidence that
IN NJ nj that large number were fraudulently
n ~ ne pure and indebted Democracy, who
stszs Tins enabled 70 carry the city. This would
gTsatly ednce the aggregate of bona ide electors
md make the proportion to the whole less
ih2n II ~ II New Orleans, and. of course, prove
sNeN York The much wickeder place, even though
hss gone Democratic. Over fifty thousand
At fle least, staid away from the polls in
NeN Fork how many il New Orleanss
nh s1ch fact in view, we hope that tie
tome 81 our local contemporaries will do our poor
ci he Justice TO acknowledge that she is no worse
n 10 better than New York. It is small matter
~ reparation which can be youchsafed at little
cost of ink and paper, if ut considerable of incn-
ation few lines will suffice to say, in so many
words, that there u another city as evil as New
Orleans, and citizens will be grateful for the
gracious acknowledge trifing as it is Its a
sm1H favor which viii be thankfully received.