Year: 1860

In casting about to cite a monstrous example of
misgovernment and unrestrained popular vice, the
Mobile Register has the bad taste and worse dis
elimination to select New Orleans to place in COM
parison with Mobile, brought to condition Of i'm
macnlate purity public and private, by the patrio-
tic firmness and moral wisdom of Mayor Jones NJ.
Withers, who, during the canvass in which he wore
double face, the Register denounced as warmly
for his apparent politics as it now sustains him
enthusiastically for his real. Ingratiating himself
as member Of the American party, he secured
the nomination for the Mayoralty, and was hardly
warm in that snug berth before he changed his
white coat for black, and publicly through the
papers announced his secession from the party
which he had made the tool Of his elevation. He
betrayed his associates, for his secession carried
with him just SO many of his own sort as constituted
force essential to the numerical strength Of the
party which he deserted.


This is q sample of the record of what he il as a
man and politician whom the Register cites as its
unimpeachable champion in the cause Of honor,
virtue and oralfty-what he is as a public officer
let the thousands attest who have suffered through
his partiaiity, his ignorance of law his undue as
sumption Of authority, his prejudices, his venom
and his spleen. The chronicles of his Court are
the bare records Of the official career of modern
Jeffries on small scale, who has SO stretched,
strained, twisted and abused the little brief author
ity which has inflated him and gives him the power
to work the evil which his malice plots, his igno-
rance suffers him, or his vanity and assumption
dictates.


He is maintained by portion of the Democracy
aud by the blue law ultra Puritan branch of his
brethren Of the religious association with which he
is connected. In his administration he reverses
the aphorism better that hundred guilty es-
cape than that one innocent be punished and
Furnishes hundred innocent lest guilty should
go unwhipt of justice Accusation with him, is
apparently considered prima facie evidence of


guilt and his " even handed justice is to punish
all, not permitting to the ignorant, or otherwise
unprepared and unqualified accused, the privilege
of avaling themselves of the services of lawyers
to properly conduct their defence, but perempto-
rily condemnng them with the most sovereign and
inconsiderate autoeracy.


He is now cited before higher court, to answer
the charge Of maladministration; and influential
| and high-toned gentlemen are interesting them
selves in measure to cause his impeachment by
the Legislature of the State. When called before
| the Circuit Court in the mandamus case, his re-
/ pAC1S
cutor, B. L. Posey, Esq; and when that gentle


man, in the course of his argument, made the Sc


verest charges, the dignity of the Chamber was for
| gotten, and the argument interrupted by the ire


pressible and long-continued applause with which
| the numerous and eager crowd hailed the daring
| and welcome truth of the allegations


| And yet, this is the man whom the Register win


dicates, seeingt in the of its vindicaton tt
"point its moral and adorn its tale" by draggin.
in New Orleans as vile example of ademoralized
corrupt and msgoverned community, in thes
| words: When we compare New Orleans or Bal


timore to Mobile, and consider the envable reputa


ton for peace and order which our city has, etc
/ Compare shallop with frigate-a minnow wit
1 whale-a child with giant, as well! New On


leans is as large as six or seven Mobiles put to


gether, and of course, there is more crime. lie


the Register compare its model city with one of ou


city Districts only, and the smallest one, which


larger than the whole of our Southern sister city,
and contrast her record of Police Court offense


with that of the Third Fourth District Recorder
Courts of New Orleans, and the balance in favor


law, order and morality will be SO far on the und'


sirable side for the Register that it will be don
/ with its " invidous comparisons" !" forever; and,
} truth and justice be in it, cease to hold up Ne
J Orleans as modern Gomorrah.