New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-21
TO THE PUBLIC.

Tho undersigned jurors in the contested sherfslty
before the First District Court have felt it their duty
though reluctantly to appear before the public in iust
hcation of themselves With all due respect to the opu-
ions Of thedssenting (al of whom we are convinced
acted We claim to have acted fairly the
false newspaper reports to the contrary Notwithstanding
with these PREDATORY remarks proceed to submit the
following
l. Relative to the State ticket found in the Justices
boxest was the unanimous opinion of jury that they
should not be counted or allowed it was uncertain
from the evidence before them whether or not the same
had been placed there through error or fraud.
2. On motion having been made to refer the ques
ton back to the people, Of the Jurors who voted for
Mr. Bell refused to entertain the proposition on the
gound that the city was already in debt and it would
cost an immense sum to refer the question back
g. In regard to the Ninth Precinct all that was legally
known Of the voteo the to the jury that the
Of Mr. Hufty had been called off of laS tickets OF
the remaining tickets portion only had been counted
of into piles OF ten by the heading of the ticket vout
any reference examination Of The ,,aass contained in
the body Of the same. The Commissioners were about
proceeding to call eff the from the tickets thus
counted of into piles when the mob broke in and de-
stroyed and scattered the ballots that it WAS limos
sbe for the Commissioners to proceed further in the
count N
In regard to the vote of the Seventh Precinct we de-
sire specially to call the attention of the public to the
fact that the names of the different candidates had been
called OIL from only eighty-hve scratched tickets or
these Mr.. Bell had S., Mr. Huty 49, and Mr. Perkins
for Sheriff with blanks The remaining tickets had
been counted off into two piles by reference to the head
ing only as in Pthe Ninth recinc without any reference
to the the The three Commissioners tes
tilted positively that they did k,oo whose names
these tickets and two of the Commissioners tes
tilted positively that It their intention to call off the
separately prior to making a return from that
precinct and that they would not have any return
without doing, it had not been ascertained what
names were on the tickets.
s. It was fully established by competent and reliable
Witnesses that on the day of election there were in cir
cuation tickets headed Democratic Tfckea with the
name OF Wckhe for Governor and that Of Joseph Huty
on the same for Sheriff Now, it was not k,oscn or
asssrtaned whose the tickets counted of
into piles in the Ninth and Seventh Precincts and mas
much Of the witnesses knew of and testified to
the existence of tickets above described and others
had not seen such tickets, adhered to the Judges
charge, illustrated by the following smile That did one
one man hear gun ire and eleven had not the one
hearing should be believed in preference to the eleven
By the legal returns it appeared that Mr. Hufty had
majority of the votes cast The evidence submitted to
consideration deemed insufficient to vary or change
those returns.
One the undersigned desires to state that he voted
for Mr. Bell and that far had any preference he
in favor of Mr. Bell but felt his duty to find in
favor Mr. Hufy the evidence submitted to the jury
Having thus made what we deem fair statement Of
the evidence which was submitted to u.s. and upon which
bound to act without Partially favor we sub
mt the same to the public And in conclusion we desire
to say, that whatever may be the opinion Others we
have the satisfaction Of having the appreciation Of our
oonscences in rendering verdict in favor Of Mr.
Hufty and doubt not that all impartial men will accord
the same to the undersigned.
W. q. MCLEAN
A. NJ. GARCIA,
D. TRosCLAIR,
W. W. WATSON,
ALEX: BAUDIER,
A. SUBWAY, .. "
AUG. DUQuRRCRON