New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-02
A Gross Mistake.
The Change writer of the Daily Crescent Of thu
10th inst. puts forth the following erroneous state

The Change writer of the Daily Crescent or tha |
10th inst. puts forth the following erroneous state
ment:
The PIaners' Banner Of Fraakn gye; weekly "a view , G
the mean' me 9S,efies mere aSa @ 9ere pu M T
might we'll forward fa detail 10 he hlocSdding mnon: at
ieaas are delivered the Hean vessels two
After reading the above, we examined critically |
every number Of the Banner which we have placed
on file for the last three months, to learn whether
our memory has been accurate in regard to what |
we have published relating to matters referred 10
in the above paragraph. There is not single |
number, out of the twelve papers we have exam
ined, that contains such information az the above
writer represents US as publishing weekly We
have never given in the Banner but one descrlp- |
ton of our forts, and that was not as definite as
the description given by the New Orleans papers
OF the defences of New Orleans, and it was given
last sun mer when they were incomplete, and when
no one had any fears of an attack from an enemy
We have but once described our gnnboats, and
our remarks were rather general and incomplete.
And what we have said has usually been put forth
to stir up our people to more vigorous acton III
providing home defences. Since these home defences
have been placed in the hands Of Messrs Baker,
Fuselier and Randlett and Col. Barrow, men IN
whose Judgment and patriotism we have unlimited
confidence, we have been particularly silent on all
these matters, as much SOFAS the crescent or any
other paper.
Our plan from the beginning of our troubles was
to urge our parish to do all in their power to OBJ
tain an ample supply of powder, caps, lead ana
cannon balls, and supply every possible means OF
months of summer, and to publish little or nothing
about them in the fall. This course we have stu
diousy followed.
We claim, not in the spirit of boasting, bnt in
selfdefence, that the Banner has labored more IN
dustriously to stir up its readers and patrons to
the Importance of making early and ample pre-
parations to meet the enemy than any other paper
in the State. In these respects we are willing to
compare files with any other journal.
We are unwilling to believe that the Change
writer of the Crescent would wantonly single out
ID. fro, oil tba ntb
attack it unjustly and ungenerously, for the pur
pose of ininring it, through the columns OF any
paper particularly one so respectable and lnhuen-
tiaf as the Crescent. We fear he has allowed him
self to be deceived by some Jacobin from this
parish who wished to use the Crescent as a medl-
um by which to give the Banner sly slde-thrust
We trust that the courteous editors Of the Cres-
cent in Justice to the Banner, will give the above
place in their columns.
The above is from the Planters (st Mary par
ish) Banner of the 2Sth ult. We comply with the
request of our contemporary, and insert his explana
ton with pleasure, remarking, at the same time,
that while we would not knowingly do injustice to
any one the editor of the Banner is the last person
we would single out as an object Of opprobrium
We regard him as friend, and look upon him as Q
useful journalist, and as true citizen as the Con
federate States possess. The article upon which
the extract he complains of was founded, must have
been wrongly credited, as such description of for
tificatons, etc., did appear in some paper pub
lished in his section of country Perhaps, if th
editor of the Banner would investigate other file
than his own, the rightful ownership of the articl
in question might be ascertained, and then ther
would be plain sailing all around.