New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-06
Ne6 Orleans 1ailp Grtstsnt.
T r / P L E. s I'll EFT.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRU AIRY 8, 1890
sLAsDERING THE DEAD.

California correspondent Of the New York
Courier and Enquirer in a letter of recent date
from Sacramento, while speaking of the position
Of parties in that State, uses the following Ian
guage:
The Republicans have never had any footfoId
here; indeed there never has been an organized
Opposition in California which had tile sympathy
and respect Of the Republicans Of other States
-Four or five years ago the Americans succeeded in
fastening themselves upon The general opposition
sentiment Of the State, and elected Governor and
Legislature but this casual aggregation or discor
dant materials could do nothing and soon fell back
into nothingness. One Of the leaders was IT. A.
GTabbe, VINO Afterwards invaded Sonora with gang
Of hhbusters. The whole were captured and
such OF them as were not Killed in the fight were
executed.
This writer, throughout lis letter. shows himself
to be violent sbolitioniat. We are not astonishcd
therefore, to find him shabby liar and mali
cious slanderer of dead mans memory, whose
shadow alone We're he alive, would suffice to fright
this maigncrs heart into his throat. Neither Henry
A. Crabbe, nor any of his followers were fiiibus-
ters, if the word is applied with the fantest shade
OF opprobrium Crabbe married into Mexican
family, from Sonora. In that State, his wife had
brothers, and great number of other relatives and
connections. While spending some time among
them, Grabbe was made acquainted with Pesuuiera
Governor oil Sonora, who, to strengthen his power
conceived the idea of getting Crabbe with num-
per Of Americans, to come to Sonora and settle ur
DER MS protection, and who, In return were of
course expected 10 sustain the Pesquiera cause
| against its revolutionary enemies. To induce
Cfappeio consent to this arrangement, Pes1aiera
enlisted all the Sonora relatives Of the unfortunate
| gentleman TO join in peFsuadHg him. The most
| dazzling concessions Of land and property were
promised him, and regularly executed instruments
were drawn up, comforting upon him the Govern
or authority to bring party of eolonsts into the
| country and settle them there.
| Armed with those papers, and full Of project
which promised him splendid fortune, Crabbe re.
| turned with his vile to California. He had afwavs
| been the friend and the advocate Of the native
/ Californians and MeXicans in that State as he
/ spoke their language, and had been brought in
| contact with them through his wfe's family. He
went actively to work and soon had gathered some
! thirty or forty followers. whom he persuaded to
| join with him in his expedition. These were his
brothers-lnaw, his relatives, his nearest friends.
| lhey were among the most respectable people in
| the State They started down to Sonora, by land
As everybody does, who journeys in that region Of
/ savage beasts and more savage Indians they went
| armed The man who would start out upon that
road without his knife, his pistol and his rifle would
| be considered mad. That Crabbe ever contem-
| plated any hostile act against the authorities or
people Of Sonora, no man in his senses can believe
/ He expected to be warmly welcomed by the Gov
ernor, and to be quickly put in possession Of his
lands, as per agreement. He was doomed TO bitter
disappointment.
4 No sooner had the Americans crossed into So
| nora than they perceived that their progress was
| viewed with hostility The people gathered and