New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-07
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II Lord Byron were living now, and wanted a
hero as badly as he wanted one when he com.
menced writing Don Juan, We could point him to
the very man. His name is Gurley. What his
haptismal entitlement is, we know not--but Gurley
is his name, and 0hiois his nation, Cincinnati is his
dwelling place. and anigger'' is his salvation. In
short, Gurley is one Of the Representatives Of Gin
cinnat in the House of Representatives Of the late
United States, and is preacher to boot.
But one would net suppose Gurey to be a
preacher from reading & speech which he made a
short time since in the House of Representatives
The popular idea about preachers is that they are
men of peace-bnt Gnrley is man Of war. Eve
don't mean Sessel--Gurley is only "vessel of
wrath Sos also most preachers preach charity,
kindness, ongsuffering, and all the other virtues,
but Gurey is one Of your bold, truculent, agrees
siye fellows, .spoiling for fight and thirsty for
blood. This it is which would constitute him such
an excellent hero for Lord Byron, in productions
like the Corsair, if not for those of the anatory
and adventurous sort like Don Juan. He may be
all right, in respect of the proper qualifications for
this latter style of heroism for aught we know to
the contrary.
Gurley's speech was continued flow of black
bile from beginning to end. His pious soul was
shocked at what he called the rebellion and the
" treasonr of the South. If Gurley, when in the
pulpit, gives the devil the same fearful belabor-
ings and maledictions that he gave the South in his
late speech in Congress, that caadal and cornuted
parsonage must have rougher and tougher time
of it in Cincinnati than anywhere else we know Of
Louisiana and the city of New Orleans seemed
to he the special objects of his aversion. He was
very binding upon the South generally but par
ticularly and especially binding upon the Crescent
City and the State of Louisiana The mere men
ton of these names appeared to excite the eccle-
siastcal Gurley to uncomfortable pitch of rage
even as the red flag which the matador flaunts in
the face Of the bull throws the animal into par
oxysm Of intense passion.
g Merchants of CINCINNATI said the indignant
4Gurley, 6 have been ordered home from Louisiana
for no other reason than upholding Presidential
candidate of their own chOice.n 1--WE must stop"
said the feroeious Gnrley, this work of traitors.n
81 The Government said the determined Gurley,
must put down traitors by its strong arnl.+' " For
bearances said the injured and distressed Grrley,
8 has ceased to be a yirtuen g If attempts were
made, said the bold and on.hearted Gurley, !" to
interrupt the navigation of the Mississippi river,
the no1c peaceful foundation of Netc Orleans
7could become the bed of lake aohere fishes sooud
lice instead Of men,
Thus spoke the orator, and we trust our people
are properly frightened and inundated by the
proclamation of Parson Gurley's belcose and
aqueous Intentions. For there is no installing his
meaning. He intends to cut the bikes. He pro.
poses to dig down the banks of the Mississippi and
let in the river on us. He means, like a human
muskrat, to make hole through the levee, ana
drown us out. He is going to make q fish pond Of
the site Of this city, and angle for red snappers
from one of the upper windows of the St. Charles
Hotel. Instead Of coming among us armed with |
tracts and sermons to wean us from our wicked |
ways, he is to salute us with bullets and bunder
buses, TO make a creudsse in the banks of the |
river, andto baptize us into the new church by a |
wholly original and novel process.
We therefore call upon the Common Council to
watch all the approaches to the city to keep the
Perocious Gurley from coming here. Let sentinels
be stationed at every point to warn him off. We
don't want g the peaceful foundations of New Or
eans,'' as Gurley calls them, converted into a
great lake and the big and little fishes of the river
to disport themselves in the upper rooms of the
Crescent office, knocking our types into pi, and
eating up ali our paste. The aquarium in the
Academy Of Music is as much as we need in the |
pseatory line, and we therefore entreat Gurley
to abandon his project Of flooding the city. If he
persist in it, however, we must be ready for him
when he comes. Water is a very good thing in its
Yay--gopd for navigation, good for cleansing pur-
poses, and is held, by some people, to be toler.
ably fair beyerage---but we insist that the HYDRO
oathic treatment is not exactly the correct thing.
ust now, for the cure of the political diseases Of
he Crescent City.