Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-05-21

Roman. They abound with sparkling wit,
quaint hnmor, and happy Illustrations. The
reasoning is both eoeent and lucid, and some
Of the subjects are OF prime interest to the
people Of the state. OF this character il the
Question that com Is up under the new repre-
sentntion law, which gives Louisiana five
tiern hers In congress instead Of three. How
are the svo additional members to be elected
The Eta'e Is now divided into three districts !
each district elects its representative in July :
and The congressional law allowing Us FIVE
representatives takes effect from the nezt
congress. Shall we have five representatives
In that congress- Upon what principle will
the two new members be excited by dividing
the state into FIVE districts after the July cleo
tons, and permitting the fourth and he.la die.
tric,s 10 elect their represeniai',,es , nfter the
same voters have aided ii ~el.c.,ng the repre-
sentstiVes Of tic lei, Cd and ID districts I
Then these soters ye.c twice, and according
to law their wees would be be illegal. If We
elect the .wo new members on the general
tcxei system, there Is no law anthorising MS
TO do so.--But We must persnit Nj. qailp TO
speak for himself, here. Read.
al there be- any force whntever il what |
Baid In my iast r. 5stIs,---the State law Of '22,
is (u1ctus ebscio. It is TO a! practical ends,
ard as far 40 regards the n.atter in quo. aa
truly Il non-entity rs II it Ind never existed.
Plainly then, it can neither be enforced by
your Excellency, as Chief Magistrate, nor
did they desire H. by the people at the polls.
Wfatfhsn7 Why, nothing more ihan this /;
~~-thAt w q are without a law, at this time. TO
authorize elections TO be holden in July, for
members to the 9sth congress. That's all
Nothing more. But shall We lie provided
with IA law 10 hold them, in time for our mem
bcrs 10 take their feata nj the opening ser
sion of that congress Most assuredly we
shall. 1fthat b. so,--cui m61o what injury
can corne from their present pogtponencht ?
All! That's Just what ! say.
Again No law, get in force, prescr hes
either the time when such elections arc to
he holden or the mode of conducting thom.
Surely nothing less than lars can pre-.
scrihe or ever has prescribed, either the one
et tho other. Your Exrellency will hard.
" maintain that they can be enacted until
Congress shall have acted and our LGgis.
atnre shall have assembled.
INTERCHANGEABLE luw. get in force. re.
strtets orr choice, 10 any elections for Con.
Rress, which may now be holdon-to tho
Cestral Ticket system on thr ono hand,
OF 20 the District system on the other.
What then is 10 fix ~ voters choice, IN act.
ing upon the one system or tho other,--bnt
his own free will If we can ACT at all, be-
fore Il law is passed, fixing d time, and
prescribing a mode, we ean act MS We
please. If We can elect three members OF
Congress, we can elect fire. Ifany Of us
can vote for enc, each of as can vote for
all. Necessarily, thetefore,-each and
all can determine for himself OF themselves
whether he, or they. will vote by Districts
or by General Ticket. Some Of us may
confne our votes TO u member for this
Distri't--osher Of us may extend them to
a choice Of the members IN the other DIS.
tric.s. II not,-why no. 7 ] defy sophis..
ry itself 10 furnish m answer, which does
not assail the validity Of the elections
thenseIves ,--That is the identical end 10
which my rsasonings are directed.
But you IRE ready to say. that no law
authorizes me 10 vote by General Ticket {:
and | am as ready with my answer, and
reply,-no law for5ids il. The Stuio law
Is at the end, and Congress has not yet pas
ssd its law. But EVEN if the act Of Con.
gress had passed, il coald no: be enforced,
until our Legislature shall have assembled.
Why not Because, though the &c. OF
Congress requires each State 10 be district.
ed, according TO the Representative nun-
bers to which each is entitled. the net itself
does not form those Districts. This can
only he done By State laws, and State avs
car onll be enacted by State Legislatures.
From these data, it results,-riIat until
the people Of Louisiana elect a Legislature,
Until that Legislature assemblies in ses.
sio", and is orgAniZed--until il passes Il
law, partitioning the State into fee Con.
gressional Dlstr,cts,--and until 1t prescribcs
By lav, a time and Il mode for holding and
conducting the Congressional elections,
no elections for members to the 2sth Cen.
gross can be holden Nevertheless, the
proclamation urges, that those elections
shall be hoidcn Uithout these avs Law !
What laws? Laws forsooth, which are
neither enacted nor proiected-to be pas.
sed by Legislature not yet in being! A
Legislature which exists bu, in possibility,
and dependant for the very breath Of its
being upon the seminal deposits of the po-
pu'ar suffrage Where, then can your Elk
cellency find authority for holding these
Congressional ell ctions? Echo (does not
ANSWER. as our Solomons miN have 1t, butt
REPEATS th. questton,-Where?
, CHRISTOPHER QUlLP. Jr.
Quilp holds thAohe last legislature should
have provided for Ills emergency; but since
it did not do so, that the Governor should
postpone the congressional elections by pro-
.clanation, until, i'll 4 called session, the legis-
lature shall have passed a law dividing the
state intoAaew districts. Isn't QuiIp about
!hree-ihirds right
II The banks of B fillmore have rasumed
specie payments the papers say they get on
very well.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cuvillier has
been appointed Parish Judge of Assumption,
IN place of Judge Pichot, deceased.
o. -
tTExls-The steamer Neptune left New
Orleans last Tuesday for Galveston. Size
took with her l57 volunteers, fully armed
end equipped for service.
YIIoN. E. D. WEIrE.-This gentleman is
again nominated for congress by the wings Of
the lst Congressional District.
To "PUsLic ORINlos'.-Will some two or
three OF the signsrs Of Public Opinion" call