New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-06

EFFORTS TO lNNI bneCl, tnG 'DAnDQulA IS de- |
manded, that is, it must again be thrown into
the air as at FIRST starting the game.
Now, this is, for the players the most ez-
citing part of the pastime this scramble for
the picking up of the ball, next to the success
full throwing oft through the paper partition,
when q universal shout of the winning party
will so up. We have seen these games played |
sometimes for several days, always beginning
in the afternoon, when the sun is declining
upon the horizon, say from 4 to o'clock in
the summer season. The running, wrestling
and excitement of the players is not only
very exciting spectacle, but the eager crowd OF
outside spectators, who would attend the pas
times, offered in themselves the most lively
tabeau. The vicinity of the camping grounds
was covered with temporary installations,
with small booths for all sorts Of refreshments,
cakes, fruit, beer, ice cream, soda, ETC., and |
indeed, there could not be more pleasant af-
ternoon spent, than in witnessing these ex- |
eeedingly popular sporting G ames, When the
contest had finally been decided, the black
people generally would go home singing
triumphant songs, hooking the other
gang or crowd would exhibit the most
ludierous and grotesque pictures by their
shouting, swinging Of small, variously colored
banners or flags, dancing and carousing gem
orally from the camping ground into the city,
where they would dispense to their respective
homes. We have never seen any disturbance
in olden times between the different popula-
tons of our great metropolis and when white
and colored people, who We're separated only
by some open plains from each others res
pective sites, still we have seen their plays
going on without any interference or annoy
ance. This was in the good olden times be-
fore people, enyious of our domestic harmony,
had stirred up our different populations. Let
us hope that those times may return, and that
the disturbers Of our domestic tranquility
may be disappointed i'll their expectations. III
those remote times, the black population We're
under much less restraint than in later
periods, and although, even then, the Sale Of
spirituous liquors was prohibited to them, as
well as the United States soldiers and Indians.
for these three classes Of our population were
placed upon the same level or footing in that
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to the black people taking their tilet in
the cabarets and going quietly home I'M
molested by either constables OF policemen
We cannot, as yet, form any idea how our
social arrangements will come out from the
present confused or chaotic state ; but what
ever may be our ultimate condition, it appears
clear to our mind that society must have the
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the old order of society, United States
soldiers-who then were free white men
were prohibited from receiving any ardent
spirits or liquor, for fear of intoxication and
consequent insubordination we cannot see
that the same authority should not now vest
in our governmental agents, or municipal
powers to interdict the use Of like |
Intoxicating drinks to the now free black pop |
ulation. 1t is true that the great sticklers for
free institutions denounce this right, and say
that the blacks at present have as much the |
privilege of getting drunk as any white man,
when not in the United States service. But
have we not particular reasons to deny this !
assumption of equal rights in this respect ?
Is it not well known that spirituous liquors
have different effects upon different tribes and
nations? And was not this the particular
reason for interdicting the sale of liquors to
the half-ciyilized Indians in our midst? Nay |
we know, for instance, that Intoxicating |
drinks will render a Malay a bloodthirsty
assassin hence these poisonous beverages
are prohibited to these classes of people, |
Similar reasons exist for the very nervous |
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then, society be guarded against the temporary
Jurors Of intoxicated negro men?
These considerations we deem paramount
at the present moment, when the public mind
is actually disturbed by the introduction of
these Notwithstanding liberalities, these APP !
parently generous sentiments of equality in
favor of what is called in derision, no doubt |
the down trodden race. Aye, down trodden, |
indeed, when very often their former masters
and owners lived life of damnation and
neyer-eeasing anxiety, in order to keep the |
sheriff from seizing and bringing under the |
hammer these black plantation hands, whose
acquisition had caused all the indebtedness of
their owners, all the usurious debt accumula-
ton of capital and interest, that gradually |
but surely, lead the incumbents to the slaugh-
ter-house of the usurers. Aye, if there was a
downetrodden people in the South it was the |
debtor class under the accumulated mass of |
usurious interest and in the hands of the
cent. per cent. men, assisted by the memorable
sherifs and tax assessors, who would leave to
the masters and mistresses no sleep in the
long waking nights, when the unconscious
black people might snore to their hearts
content. Will Northern pseudo-philanthropi
look upon this picture as well as the other of
the doWn-trodden humanity
Sir Bulwer Lytton was left out Of Lord Derby,g
cabinet on account of ill,health.