Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-06-29

sure which would tend 10 reproduce these
evils, is hostile to their mutual interests.
Your committee viewing the importance Of
this question have deemed it proper to abstain
from any expression of opinion on he consti-
~tutional questions involved, and beg leave to
refer the whole subject to the wisdom of the
Legislature.
Signed, MORGAN MORGAN.
Chm. of the Committee.
The next extract ID made from the journal
of the House, page 33-l844.
Order of the day-The House resumed the
consideration of the bill entitled,
An act to promote the better security OF
Mechanics and others erecting buildings in the
city of New Orleans; the several sections of
which were adopted, and an additional sec
ton to be numbered Sec. 6, being under dis
c~ussjon when the house adjourned yesterday.
On motion, said section was adopted.
On motion to lay on the table, the follow
ing additional section, offered by Mr.. Taylor,
to be.nnmbered section 9TH, and which reads
as follows;
9TH. Be it further enacted &c. That In
the country parishes the mechanics and 9TH
er persons doing labor for the use Of planta-
lions shall have a privilege on the crop
for the payment Of their services towards the
making Of the crop.
The ayes and nays were called for when
Lid appeared that 26 members among whom
was MIR. Morgan voted to lay the section on
the table, s voted in the negative, Said Sec
ton was consequently laid on the table. Now
by the vote of Mr.. Morgan a privilege is CIV
en- the mechanics Of New Orleans on the
buildings which they erected, but in the coun-
try the mechanics and other Iaborers are by a
vote of Mr.. Morgan deprived of a privilege
upon the crops Of a planter, for the payment
of their services towards the making OF the
crop.
Mr.. Morgan was also opposed TO-, and voted
against an act 10 establish a Court of Errors
and Appeals in criminal matters-Sce Jour.
1s43, page 81. Also sec page d Of Journal
1914. BE it resolved &c. That B. G. Elliott
Judge of the city Govt of Lafayette be inn
peached for the ~m:sdemeanors and offences set
forth in said report &c. 81 voted to sustain
! the resolution and the following named mem
bers voted against it MessrB Coffee, Kemp,
AEcRae Moran Shelby and Wilson g..
Here fellow citizens you have before you
the acts of gentleman whom you had cleo
ted to watch over your interests in the State
legislature. In the fst. he was in favor OF
imposing a wharf tax of 81 cents on each
and every bale Of cotton that should be sent
by you to the city Of New Orleans.
In the ID. He voted to deprive the Me-
chanic and ~labourer of a privilege upon the
crop of a planter for work and labour done on
the said plantation towards the making of
The crop. 81. depriveing a man whose life
and liberty arc endangered the right to APP
peal to a higher court under any c~ircumstan-
ces. Ally. an effort was made by a small
minority to shield an unjust Judge and pre-
vent and impartial investigation of his official
acts.
Do you approve of these acts If not, are
you determined to sustain a man whose po-
Iitical course has been so much at variance
| with'your interest From the deductions made
by the vigilance Committee" it would be
| right ID believe and just to assert that all the
other democratic candidates are of the same
opinions, but We draw not such illogical-and
Unjust conclusions.
Let every man stand or fall upon his own
merits. BY their works shall We know them"
Nearly all the candidates are planters Of I'M
improbable characters, whose interests are
identified with your own, which is the sur
est guarantee that if elected they will en-
deayor to promote your interests. An at
tempt has been made by the Democratic
Committee to injure the characters of these
men.
Have. they succeeded, and are you prepar-
ed to say by your votes that the men who
have been born and raised among you are
unworthy of your confidence =! Let not, we
entreat you, such garbled extracts and false
conclusions poison your minds against men
born among us and of whom we have been
justly proud
You will IN a short time be called upon to
exercise one of the dearest and most impor-
tant rights Of freemen. Our liberties de-
pend upon the free exercise of this right.
Hence it is important that we guard
with the greatest vigilance against any en-
c%roachment upon the right of free suffrage,
which should be maintained in its highest
purity. Come TO the polls then, determined
to vote for men of pure and lofty minds, who
will in every instance faithfully represent
you in the councils of the nation.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.