The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19
The New Orleans Crescent.
From the Planters Banner, Ilth.l

From the Planters Banner, llth.1
IL is with great pleasure note the fact tina
the CRESCENT has been elected the official jOGr
nal of New Orleans. Ia speaking Of the election
the CREsLEAT says:
1.-The election of the proprietor of this journal
as city printer is preference which might well,
az any time, excite proud and grateful emotions
But there are reasons why the distinction con
celved by Us with sentiments of far greater than
ordinary pride and satisfaction. In the peculiar
circumstances attending the act, il is much more
than simple preference; it is ayi0dicatiOn. For
many months, as we have been well aware, the
CRESCENT and its propr etor have been q favorte
marx for calumny. We never could consent TO
bring ourselves down to the work of tracking TO
their cowsrdly retreats the vile jealousies and
mallRnlties which have sought every channel
public or private, through which caldmnious
lmputation could, with presumed impunty, be
launched against Us. We profoundly ptied
the sort Of human nature which emusted the
Iahoo in his efforts 10 blacken our motives
and bespatter our name but we lOathed il too
much 10 come upon level with il even for the
purpose OF self defense. We resolved to live
down detractiOn, and suspicion, and preju.
dice, wherever these might be planted and
however tenaciousy they might cling. Here
where, from our youth, we had garnered MP Our
bopes-here, where all our interests had their
hone, and all our aspirations their origin-here,
where We bad given proof, than which no higher
can be given, that we had elected to live or bear
uO me- We IteOiNeG 10 dDlQe Tue issue. we were
convinced that this public would do us Justice.
We have not been disappointed. The intelligent
gentlemen Of the Common Council, Representing
the best ci izenship of New Orleans, dissipate by
the confidence 10 US which they express the as
pensions OF our calumnAtOrs. Hence we repeat
the vote, in this case is not oaly preference but
a vindcation, for which we are profoundly
CRATE full"
We congratulate the CRESCENT, not only on &C.
count of its good fortune in obtaining the city
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pllmeni paid by the city fathers to that excellent
journal md its chief editor.
We are sorry that any one should lose his men,
ory OF he sense of justice, far as to hint any.
thing deIuRatoTy u the sOundness of the editor of
the CRESCENT upon matters touching the true in.
terests of the south. If he has not been so fast
and furious as some have been, the editor has
been discreet, and has said all that he deemed
proper 10 be said for the good of Louisiana and
the South. Whenever and wherever the friends
OF the South and the country are needed in the
great political battle which has now fairly for the
fret time commenced between the Democrats and
the radicals, Col. Nixon will always be found at
bis post. lie stood CALAMITY by the South on the
battlefield and 10 the camp during the war, and
be VIII now stand as CALAMITY 10 the ranks of the
Democratic party in defense of the Consultation
and the government Of the fathers Of the old revo
luton. Success to Col. Nixon and the New Or.
leans CRESCENT the man who stood firmly by
the South in times that tried mems souls will
never betray the South to fill his pockets.
1t would be false and misplaced modesty if
we were to abstain from openly acknowledge
ing our qualification with the above testi-
mony in our behalf from a gentleman SO well
known for sound judgment and manly can
dor as Col. bennett, of the Planters Banner.
We should have gone on, in any event to
evince our devotion to Southern interests and
to constitutional principles in the way that
our convictions pointed out as best adapted
to promote this great cause. But now We
shall continue in that way with the cheering
assurance that our motives are appreciated,
and our efforts seconded by all our intelligent,
and patriotic citizens