New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-24
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s The Courier and "A Good Wing"

Mesas Editors: The Courik of last ssturdsy IN COM
menting the question suggested BY me III
Friday morning. pretends to reply TO, wni' \ oOo'
not meet the doubt suggested The Courier "ns"eis
me as at the request of correspondents oy saying
that those gentlemen (certain parties nameo) 10
not hold two Offices Now 1 did not alese That
they actually did hold two oaices-my opec. oe'ng'
the contrary prove thst they could not hoa them
How the Courier could get such crotshet into It's wise
head 60 the trouble of denying the very tnins
had attempted to dsprove, passes comprehension
NV question was whether persons holding offices un-
der che Federal Government can be representatives. III
the State Legislature while holding sncn onices'
The Courier saws the persons named elected It's cor
responder. has no doubt OWN resign the only oces they
respectively hold at present. This most shallow an
swer to very plain question: and lodges the issue en-
rely The doubt suggested was as 60 ther eigphty
hold the offices for which they are esnaes provided
they get sufficient numbefof votes contend 'hat
they hold them aud as my postoh mas peeh az
tackled by chop logic shall endesvor to prove 1t by the
| fundamental law of the land
The Constitution of the State declares;
Article 90 No member of Congress, person hold
ing or exercising anv office Of trust profit under the
United States or either of them or under any foreign
mower shall h. eligible member OF the General As
semby or hold any Office Of trust or profit under the
| state
| And again:
Article 100 mo person shall hold or exercise at the
time than one civil once oi except
that of Justice of the Peace
Assuming it to beyond question that the tenure OF
an office dates the moment that the votes are regis
tered by the returning officer and that the successful ca
ddate has right the office even before he is aware OF
his election we have arrvedat solution the question
Such being tine not be invested with the office
because he has not resigned the former one and if he
holds tn. office to whc he Is elected for moment
while he Is in the act resgnng the first he is in effect
holding two offices He can not take the second office
even to resign the first for that would be to violate the
Constitutional inhibition not to hold two Offices at
The candidate already holding office of trust and
profit under the United States and Ito speak to The
capacity Of the writer in the Courier) he not put
new skin until he sheds the old one This point any law
| yer in the city will hold to be ncontrovertible.
The Courier nfers that General Taylor did not resign
his situation in The Unid States Army until two month";
after the ceding November election. Very well but
the people at the November election did not vote for Gen
era TAYLOR as President but for the Electors who after
wards cast their votes f him and the electors did
give their votes until after he had resigned the Courier
at fault on that point If General Taylor had postponed
his resignation until the Electoral vote had bee,
cast he could not have been installed as President
The Courier trumphantly asks Did several wing mem
bsrs OF the Common Council and whg constable resg
when they were Delegates to the State Convention
to revise the Constitution ~ 1 am not aware that
whig constable chosen to the State Convention
that seat in the Convention could be considered a
office of emoument in the meaning of the l22nd artic
of the Constitution if such the case and the la
was violated in this instance it is reason shout
be violated in others The Courier would argue that II
commission of crime in instance furnished licens
i for the preparation of all manner Of outrages III
Courer's inference that the wing members OF the Cit
Council whe sat in the Convention were in the cat
cory as Federal and State officers running for oc
7. is too shallow to require reputation. The position
member OF the City Council is not Office of emo'
ment An the meaning Of the 122d article of the Const
tuition because there is salary pay attached to
!. and hence members of the City Council do not con
N within the prohibition. What says the Courier now
FL Respectfully, etc. Coon Vino.