New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-22
EAR PLAY.

Fair play has been said to be jew Il, We sur.
pose It is SO called because 1t il ,,,y,5,
it Is not often met " n, n ,ol;,ess war
fare. But, Notwithstanding ~ y.,ss M, LANCER.
Gus doctrine that ''all q Ys;y n lava. scar and
poil'ies, we are ~ opinion. that ur4fsar means to
accomplish an oe ,ee0t, no matter ohst, are more
apt N me or q san, to work niars than benefit,
hohes.y Y g bestpoHcy--but, even were i other
WISE = Saae the less virtue, and ought none
me leg q be observed in politics as well as in
ever ssaag else. Uafairness on one side, in poiit
al cantests is not at all Justified by previous un
, Fairness on the ottscr
farty disputaats injure Their own cause by Ut.
Just imputatieps upon their adyersaries, Indie
pendent OF the moral obligation to deal fsirly AID
trnthfuliy by the Opposing party. there is the
further consideration that any other course tends
to create fasuperanle barriers to success. The
mischievoas boy 'Fao cried wolf, when Tiers was
no wolf, was discredited when the wolf really ap'
peared--and, So, the political orator writer who
makes statements knovn to be incorrect, will only
succeed in ha sing his really truthful representa-
tons disbelievea.
As the canvass drszys to close, and the excite.
| ment becorAes greater, we notice t1at UNJUST
cherges-w make no discrimination, because they
|
aides-are becotniag much more frequent. But we
think tina the friends of Mr. Bell have especial and
4 peculiar reason to complain OF the injustice Win
which fie has been treated.
| Frora the beginning OF the oanysss an avalanche
Of charges against the political and personal in
tegrissy Of Mr. Bell has fallen upon him, which--if
one ia ten Of them be true--ought to disgrace him
in tie eyes CT every honorable citizen. They have,
| one by enc, been disproyed-but the ingenuity
wi Cd which fresh ones are invented is altogether
4 W onierfei Now that it has been shown, in an
| swer to these various allegations, that Mfr. Bell
was note candidate for the Black Republican NOM
nation end did not receive votes in the Convention
that he did not vote for the bill to abolish the
Slave trade in the District Of Columbia but on the
contrary voted against it-that he did not vote
against the annexation Of Texas that he has
never advocated the restriction of slavery, but
openly proclaimed himself in the Senate, in favor
of its g diffusion and extension''-that he voted
/ against the Kansas bill, as Mson OF Virginia did,
in the interest OF the South-that he voted for the
Fugi:iye Slave iaE-that he has been over and
over again endorsed and sustained by the people
of Tennessee when all these things, we say, are
established by the official record, one would sup
pose the catalogue of accusations against him
would be utterly exhausted. Not at all The
latest effort to injure him in the respect of the
people we saw few days ago in Democratic
journal, which grayely proclaimed Mr.. Bell bank
rupt in credit and money, and that it was impos-
sible to make him pay debit Well might the
National Intelligencer, 9 few days ago, rebuke, in
leading article the small politics. to which the
press Of the country has descended!
All such things are unworthy the dignity OF dis
CUSTOM and reflect injuriously upon the character,
as we'll as the usefulness, of the American press
Henry A. Wise once boosted, upon the floor of the
/ House of Representatives, that there was not q
| newspaper published in his District 1t becomes
fit subject for boast, where the press find
no higher subjects of political discussion than the
pecuniary responsibility of candidate for office.