The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-09

The revision of the registry lists was
finished yesterday. At the moment Of writing
the totals have not been received from the
various wards, but from the figures already
received, it is safe to calculate that between
1--WE and six thousand names have been added
to the lists. OF these probably more than
two to one are whites, thus making the white
majority on the city registration nearly three
thousand. This is not quite as well as we
should have done, but it is as well Is we ex-
pected. The white registered voters of New
Orleans now amount to about 10000. If we
deduct from these an Insignificant number OF
carpet-baggers, renegades, and vagrant and
mendicant - loilists," there will remain
enough to carry our whole city ticket There
is no room to doubt that almost the whole of
the white registered vote will be cast at the
coming elections.
Our people are thoroughly aroused by the
danger which menaces them at home, and
encouraged to active exertion by the cheering
successes of their friends in other parts of
the country. They know now that they have
the power to defeat at least portion OF the
infamous radical programme, by thwarting
the designs Of the vagrant and mendicant
csrpet-baggers to get possession of the city
government of New Orleans. They have we'll
founded hopes, too, that If the white people
throughout the State have done, relatively, as
well as we have done in this city, the infa-
nous Dryades street Constitution can be de-
feated at the polls. Toward this object every
effort must now be directed The rejection
of the so-called Constitution will operate dis
astrously on the Republican party, by show
ing the futility of the scheme of recon-
struction contrived by that party for the
purpose of assuring their supremacy in
the government in spite of the protests
of an outraged public opinion. 1t may be
said that Congress can, and viii impose on us
even set of defeated ofice-hunters- Per-
haps this is true. But, at least, by rejecting
the Constitution we implicate the radicals in
the damaging dilemma of either receding
from their projects, or of adding still another
to the list of outrages by which they have
already sickened the country. Let no man,
therefore, hesitate to vote against the Black
Crook Constitution because he may think an
adverse decision will not be recognized by
Congress. We owe it to ourselves, and to our
Democratic friends at the North, to make the
most effective protest possible against the fagi-
tious conspiracy to stifie the voice of the
people, to destroy the rights of the States, and
to subordinate constitutional government,
public liberty, and private rights, to the vim
dictive ambition of despotical faction.
Now that the registration is at an end, it is
to be hoped that vigorous and energetic can
vass will at once be inaugurated. The work is
only half done as yet. Registration is neces-
sary preliminary, but voting is an equally
necessary sequence. Every vote is of import
ance in this contest We cannot spave one.
We must make sure work this time, and we
can make sure work. only by earnest ener-
getic, unremitting exertion. Let the ward
clubs perfect their organizations and prepare
to second the efforts of the Central Com
mittee Above all let every citizen use all his
influence to induce the colored people to
abandon their alliance with the vagrant and
mendicant swindlers, and thus preserve the
friendship of the people among whom they
were born, and among whom they must live.