New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-06


radically changed within tho period specified. Eve
il the present administration was as bad as It ia M
questionably good even il the Common Council ha
degenerated upon all, instead Of improving upon oil
its predecessors even ii reform was absolutely re
quired in all the various departments Of the munic
pal government instead Of that government standpl
forth, as il does now with an unimpeachabe record
showing that take it all in ALL it is the best the peo
pie Of the corporation of New Orleans wore eve
blessed with and il the American ticket was no
made up of men of undisputed excellence, and unex
ceptionabe character in every respect, the time fol
| an s independent movement is not at hand. Wore
things as positively bad they are incontrovertibly
good, the time for the Inauguration of snch a move
ment could only precede general election, when a
Mayor, ETC., were to be chosen in accordance with
law. We have had Presidents with opposing Con.
crosses Congresses with opposing Presidents and
each usually succeeded in thwarting the favorite
objects of each other. A clashing Mayor and Coun.
Gil can but accomplish no worse result.
What that hidden motive is We need not spec.
lily. It is well known. When the organin-chief of
the most adrot manager and proscrptive politician
in the land assumes the garb Of " independence y
the presumption is great and the proof quite clear
that ndrection is thought to be more profitable than
direction. The name may delude many; bnt should
the effort succeed the result will astonsh those who
have been duped. We have warned them before.
and now warn them again. Their votes for the in
dependent ticket can only tend to make the master
Of the State the master Of the CITY, If they are will
ling to be used as entering wedges, to be thrown
aside as soon as the first hard splitting is DONE it is
none of our business.
As yet, although many columns of type have been
used in the Delta, not one material point-not one
general argument-not one of the main issues we
have presented have either been met or refuted by
that journal, or by anybody else in its interest.
We will restate some Of our many propositions
briefly, and to each and every one of them we defy
truthful contradiction. None of them have vet been
contradcted, our opponents going off on technicali
ties isolations, etc. which had no bearing upon the
general conduct of the policy in question.
In the first place, we stated distinctly that under
the auspices of the present and previous Common
Council the taxes on real estate for the support of
The city government proper had been materially re-
luced. No denial Of this statement has yet been
made, and no denial can be made, without violating
recorded truth
We stated, also, that under the same regime the
municipal debt had been immensely diminished
Within the last four years, or Immediately there.
bouts nearly fifteen hundred thousand dollars of the
,tys debt has been i'd of. No journal or man has
ret denied the trut this statement
We stated that II egime, as aforesaid found the |
ty aboring under the oboquy of numerous protests,
With half million dshonored cash warrants in cir
ulation, without credit and without money This is |
lot the now, has it been for more than three
ears and half. No protests tarnsh our financial |
equation no unpaid cash warrants are hawked |
bout from broker to broker and shaved at ruinous
oss to poor employees; and our municipal credit |
ever stood SO fair or SO high. This statement has
ever been disputed.
We stated, in refntation of the charge of heavy
axaton, that the real estate of the corporation was
Or the support of the city government proper burth
ned lighter than that Of any large city of the Con-
sderacy. No one has questioned the absolute cor.
sctness of this proposition 1t cannot be questioned
'thout falsehood is INDUCED in. If the taxes are
igh they levied to pay the old and Railroad city
ebts.
We stated that under the supervision of the pres.
Mt Common Council, more street and other improve.
tents had been contracted for and were in progress,
ian were ever before made in the metropolis And
lis proposition has not been controversial nor will
be.
We stated that we had the best police known in
ne country, and that the persons and property of
tzens were not well cared for in any large city
8 they are here. OF course this obvious truth has
OF been questioned
Great and just complaints having been made about
scarcity Of water at res we stated and proved by
ting incontestible facts, that the Common Council
eserved praise instead of censure in the premises-t
aying done all it could legally do to accomplish the
asired end In this regard, too, our statement re-
aims undisputed
We stated that the American ticket, to he voted
r to-day, was unexceptionable in its personnel and
together entitled to public confidence and general
pport. Nothing has been urged against the verify
this statement.
Therefore, we contend that Council which has
one SO much, and ticket which promises SO much,
entitled to full and cordial reimbursement at the
,llotbox which we think it should receive this day.
The objections brought against the Council, when
eifounded, which has been very seldom the case as
e have shown, have been isolated and unimportant,
I'D have not touched in the smallest degree its gene
u benehcent policy We never supposed the Coun-
Il was perfect We never expect to see perfect
gisatiye body; but we have claimed and demon !
rated that its general policy has been in the highest
egree advantageous and honorable to the CITY and
. best interests. Continue the policy thus auspic
usiy inaugurated, and improvements will extend,
ne taxes will be reduced, the public debt will be d
nlnlshed and New Orleans, in all essential partjcu
lrs will be, as she is now, far in advance of her me-
ropolitan neighbors With this plain statement Of :
acts, we bring this article to a close.
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