New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-02
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We have been called upon to publish LATELY i
frightftIl list of murders Scarcely day passes
that some wretch IL mt hurried into eternity BY
the hand Of violence. For tie most part Il Is per
haps true, that tie aian and the sayers belong to
the same disreputanIe snd InischievoHs classes 81
low gamblers, prize fighters ard regnes and hence
decent people waste bat very little sympathy upon
their fate. STILL If shaliId not be overlooked that
the frequent occurrence Of such tragedies in our
midst IL destructive 10 Tie good reputation of our
city abroad and that murder Is none The less a
murder from the fact that the man killed IN q
worthless character, who has long been regarded
public nuisance By those among whom he mn
luckily has been living. Public morality requires
that lomicides should be punished, and good policy
urges to see to it that the laws are rigidy en-
forced for the suppression Of such horrible crimes
A few days since. murder lperhaps twoJ was
committed, Of unusual barbarity and atrocity, and
which every dictate Of Justice and right demands
should be punished with tle greatest rigor Of the
law. A party Of besotted brutes having engaged
in prize fight in neghboring parish, returned 10
this city that night and quarreled about tie award
Of the prize to the victor. Becoming boisterous To
such degree to disturb the peace Of the neigh
borhoed, two policemen, in the performance of
Their duty, went into their den, drinking he'll on
st. James and st. Thomas streets, and attempted
to qnel the nproar. The cnttlr0ats and bnIlies
there assembled, instead Of manfesting the least
respect for the law, showing the faintest fear in
the presence of the representatives Of the States
authority, set upon the officers with their Weapons
and before succor could arrive, slew one outright
and left the other helpless and bleeding from nl-
merous gashes and wounds. After this fendish
and audacious crime, the assassns fed, and up 10
this time, as are informed, have not been al
rested.
The bare recital Of this terrible outrage must fill
every honest bosom with indignation. It IS high
time that the crowd Of villains who infest our city
should be taught the lesson that they cannot set
all our laws at defiance, and sport with impunty
with the lives Of the representatives of the Govern
ment. Our policemen are constantly exposed to
violence from these men, and the law should jeal-
| ousy hedge them round with its protecting arm,
and remorseessly punish those who Illegally harm
them. In no other way can we hope to see our
laws fearlessly executed so as to be terror to,
and a check upon, evil doors. Tie man who takes
the life Of an officer when IN the legal performance
of his duty, commits double crime: lie not only
stains his hand with blood. but he is guilty Of a
sort of treason to the State He should be con
dignly punished.
We hope, therefore, that every exertion will be
made to secure the arrest of the murderer Barlow,
and his confederates guilty Of killing officer Mc1n-
tosh and wounding officer Hook, as above detailed
The police should be actuated by sufffciency of
esprit da corps to make his final escape impos-
sble