New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-17
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parish Of 0rleans--and the office is reputed te
be very lucrative one--which has been on
trial before the First District Court the whole
Of the past week, was concluded on Saturday
night at about hslfpast - o'clock, the majority
of the jury bringing in 8 yer dict for Gel Hufty
the defendant in the cause. Under the Law
regulating the condensation of elections in tht
parish of Orleans, the voice Of a majority Of th,
4 jury determines finally and conclusively til,
relative claims Of the contestants The jury
having brought in verdict against Mr.. Bel
and in favor of Col. Hufty. the latter gentleman
is, as matter of course, entitled to the ofic,
Of Sheriff for the term prescribed by law
The verdict of the jury has given, SO far as
our not circumscribed means of information ex.
tend, almost unbounded satisfaction throughout
the city. We have yet to meet the man who
maintains that the verdict is not in strict ac.
cordance with law, justice and popular senti.
ment. There is nothing strange about this cut.
burst Of qualification, for, no matter how worthy
the man who contests the election of his COM
petitor for office before the courts, the people dc
think, and will believe, that an unfair effort is
being made to deprive another Of his honest
rights by means Of legal teohnicalities Mr..
Bell had an opportunity to go before the people
again, but refused to accept the offer when ten
Ldered. He preferred the courts to the peo-
| pie, and has encountered an adverse judg-
ment And, 50 we have been told, the other
candidates on the parish ticket, headed by
Mr.. B., might have gone to the primary source
Of all authority in this countryside voters
had they been SO disposed But no. They pre-
ferred courts and juries to the people, and have
taken the preliminary steps to have their cause
passed upon before such tribunals. There can
be no doubt Of the conclusion Of the vari-
Gus cases. They will all end as the one to
which we have been referring has ended. No
jury can be found to decide in favor of those
who have been rejected by the Grand Jury of
the sovereign people, And, furthermore, the
contestants by opposing the evident wishes of the
people. can only hope to hold for their party the
spols Of Office for brief period, regardless Of the
costs to others. the Inconvenience to jurors, and
the general annoyance Of the whole community.
This is o view of the case which is worthy CON
sideration. There can be nothing but pure sell
fshness at the bottom of pending CONVERSATIONS,
provided they are carried out. The parties
cannot hope to succeed. Why, then, do they
contest ID 5 8
These propositions are SO plain and explicit
that they are beyond controyersion, as we will
proceed to illustrate. According to the returns
made to the Sheriff by the various Commission
.ers, Col. Hufty was legally elected by major
ity of seven votes. During the trial Of the case,
the Court, despite the earnest protestations Of
the counsel for the defendant, (Hufty,) ordered
the ballot boxes Of the Twelfth, Twenty second
and Twenty-third precincts, to be brought be-
fore the Court and the tickets therein recounted.
That recount, if our recollection serves us
Alright, resulted in a gain to the defendant of
nine votes making his majority sixteen. Con-
sequently, Col. Hufty's majority was sixteen,
counting the ballots from twenty -one precincts,
there being no legal return of votes from either
the Seventh or Ninth precincts. Now, if law,
justice and the verdict Of an impartial jury,
give the office of Sheriff to Col. Hufty-which we
maintain has been done in the present instance
on account Of sixteen returned and ascer-
tanned majority, how can another jury, or the
court, or the counsel, or even the friends of the
contestants, ask for, hope for, or expect ver-
dict in their behalf when the ma iorities for the
defendants range from two to five hundred
when there is no earthly question illegal ques-
tons are not always mundane questions, , of the
desire Of the real people in the premises; when
the grounds of contestation are weak, puerile
and fimsy beyond all parallel and when nine |
teen twentieths Of the arguments brought in |
requisition to fortify the position of Mr. Bell are
wholly useless -areof as little value as sheath
without sabre, or a revolver without lock
and cannot be applied to the cases of the District
Attorney, Clerks, Justices Of the Peace and
Tonstables? 9s
I How, in the name Of common sense, can it be |
expected that when seven or sixteen votes win,
hat two, three and five hundred should lose
dere is point in the argument that cannot be
sotten over either by counsel, or judges, or iu-
les. Why, it would be establishing prece-
lent that the larger the majority candidate
btained before the people for any public office,
he greater the reason for rejecting his claim
o the possession Of that office! This kind Of
atiocination will not do. IT is absurd and
Kicked, and strikes at the root Of fair dealing
- " ~At-1y JuoeASoseES GuuEsct no jury can
e found in the parish of Orleans-or in any
Their community on Gods earth - that will
eeognize or tolerate such monstrous doctrine
n solitary moment. ,
The contestants for District Attorney, Clerks,
Justices and Gonstables, would do we'll to imi- J
ate the wise and honorable example of Mr.. Lu-
enbuhl--w withdraw their suits, and allow those ,
no have been selected by the people to take i
ossession Of their offices without further OBJ v
'ructlon. Such course would tell well upon :
leir future political prospects, while further
ersistence in attempts to deprive men Of what
rightfully their own, will assuredly tend to
armament awakening of popular displeasure. Il
ass5- We are indebted to the clerk of the "
Gamer Bayou Belle for a late Cincinnati o
aper.
We learn from the New York Herald that VIM. q
issane, the forger. has been pardoned by Gov.
ark, on the official application of the Cover d
,rs Of Ohio and Indiana, and the solicitation of c
70 ex-Governors of Ohio, the District Attor- a.
Us Of several counties of that State, and about q
70 hundred and fifty other prominent men of .,
e West. a,