New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-30
BfENDACrry RUN MAD.


to which, in justice to communities and the
cause Of truth, it is necessary to reply in
stronger language than that Of "a mere denial"
If such necessity exists, in the case Of Balti-
more, who shall say that it does not likewise
exist in the case of New Orleans We can
! safely assert that the history of the world does
not atforda parallel to theunfounded calumnies
which have been heaped for months on the
people and authorities of this community.
Day by day statements rejecting on our
honor, our integrity, and even our humanity,
have been put forth, apparently with no other
view than to stimulate to irrepressible
ferocity the vindictive passions of a sectional
party. The telegraphic columns of the North
ern radical press have been replete with mon
strous inventions inregard to us, which are so
maliciously grotesque that their pre-eminent
absurdity is forgotten III their supereminent
wickedness.
The radicals appear to have settled on the
plan of persuading the world that the South
1 is peopled BY devils, and that New Orleans is
the most diabolical corner in this pandi-
moniuln. There is scarcely crime, from
murder to petty larceny, that we are not
accused of committing mot in an exceptional
way-but as the ordinary business Of life.
Whilst Union men, so-ealled, are walking our
streets in conscious safety and ssloyalists"
are pursuing their daily ayocations with i'm
plicit trust in the protection Of our laws and
! the honor Of our people, it is represented
! that the lives of Union men and ''loyalists"
are unsafe among us, and that nothing but a
general exodus Of that class Of our popula-
tion or the armed intervention Of the United
States, can save it from extermination.
H Whilst tile negroes are quietly laboring in the
i fields or on the levee, and negro bands are
serenading Mayor Monroe it is proclaimed
that the white people Of Louisiana are busy
from morning till night in manning, beating
and numbering those supposititously op-
pressed persons. Whilst we are thinking only
] Of getting over our embarrassments, repair
ing our broken fortunes, and resuming our
place in a constitutional Union, We are charged
A with eontumacious treason, and perennial
conspiracy.
4 Prominent among the persons engaged in
this disreputab1e business is the corespon-
dent of the New York Tribune, That indi-
yidual-whose perfect security in the midst Of
/ a community which he Systematically calum-
mates, is standing refutation of his mali
cious accusations has devoted all the energies
of his pen and all the resources Of his imagi-
nation to the task of exasperating the public
mind Of the North against the people and
authorities of New Orleans. Almost every
day the columns of the Tribune are furnished
, by him with some new invention as un-
founded as those which went before. In the
first frenzy Of the midsummer difficulties his
incongruous and incoherent absrrdities car
ried their own refutation on their face. Even
radical credulity did not receive, without a
sort of protest, the frantic declaration that
Governor Wells had been "eaptured by two
Confederate flags, and was still prisoner in
their hands" and even the military commits
sion, which proved so many impossible
things, refrained from attempting to sustain
this story. The Tribune correspondent has,
however, given up that kind of thing, and
has settled down into course of more con
sistent misrepresentation which is particu-
larly reprehensible and pernicious, because
it consists of statements which cannot be dis
proved by any ordinary method. If we were
to attempt to refute all these statements, we
should waste great deal of time which
might be more proftably employed; and
moreover, refutation only seems to furnish
incentives for renewed ealumnies. But, in
order that our readers may see the style in
which this persons fulfls the duty imposed
on him, we would refer them to his dispatch
dated New Orleans, Oct. o. and published in
the N. Y. Tibuneof the 23d. Tnthat dispatch
he says: aThe military authorize the investiga-
ton of the statement made to them in writing,
that the rebels Of this city contemplate
rising and massacreing of Union citizens on
the lst Of NoyemberAl Saints day. Large
supplies Of arms, with some brass cannon,
are known to have been recently imported |
Capt stone, in command of the
| gunboat squadron, has deemed it expedient
to move his command to position which will
insure him the protection of the United States
troops. The gunboats are not in commission,
and are without armament
The Tribune calls this startling news, .
but yet it is able to believe it" It is Just as
startling to us; but the difference is that We
who ought to know all about it, are not sable
to believeit." Yet it is useless for us to make
any denial. The set purpose of the radicals
is to make the world believe that the people
Of New Orleans are blood-thirsty murderers,
and congenital traitors all Of which they
prove by system Of reasoning peculiar to
themselves. They assume that we are
TRAITORS and rebels" and thence infer that
we must intend to murder Union citizens and
they show that we are traitors and rebels"
because We intend to murder Union citizens
To meet such people with argument would be
as vain as to reason against the babble of an
infant, or the driyeling of dotard.
CITY RAILROADS AGAIN.