Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1856-04-05
H IN. Frontier Pa,rioi ihink. our statement

that OF the Crockett Printer, and proceeds TO
gi,e his own version Of the affair Ills first state.
meni Is that "the Irish had polled a large number
Of spurious votes" which SO excited and madden
ed the American party to desperation that "they
siezed the hoIes in wards and destroyed
them" Where did the Patriot get this precious
inTormaiioni What were tho know nothing
9 mmissioners and managers Of the election about
in these wards, to permit a 'large number OF
spurious Irish votes" to hv received : The city
was under the glorious ''rple Of Americans at
that time. and if we mistake not. they refused Ia
APPOINT a single democrat To conduct the election,
but placed the whole thing in their own hands.
The editor of the Patriot talks airpantly Of
tho ''high.hsnded usurpation Of the Governor
and Legislature Of IOuisiana-a GrosA and horrid
u.urpstion ~ofpower, and low corruption insult
cd to the age lie attempts to talk lcarnedly Of
the constitutional power Of the legislature and
Governor Of Louisiana in the premises, hut man.
i'ss,s entire ignorance of the subject. lilo says:
The constitution has sxrended the powers
Of the Legislature to Judge Of the qualification
Of irs own members and subordinate of1i'trs.
The most popular branch cnn constitute itself
into n high court Of Impeachment for the
trial Of Judicial oficers. but the Legislature
has no disposition whatever, Of municipal or
parish officers. They nre reached through n
%grnd.inrv, to court constituted under n spe.
cial law for the disposal Of these eases"
NJ. A. ,.l, u,ua. 49,, hasa -, ti,a s,r.op.,,
dir,um of the Patriot ia the 9th article Of tn"
constitution of Louisiana. which declares that
'.all civil officers except the Governor and Judges
of the supreme and inferior courts, shall he re-
moved by an address of ~majority Of the members
ofboth Houses except those the removal of whom
has been otherwise provided by this con- titu.
ton"
A provision OF this kind is not confined to the
constitution Of Louisiana, hut is incorporated
into the constitution of several other States and
yet the Patriot roundly asserts that lin all the
State constitutions from Milne to the Hi, Cr.;de.
there cannot h. found any such powers vested in
any state Legislature as that claimed in the Huff
ty ras, The Patriot wants to know chow the
Governor claims, under the constitution. the
right to suspend or remove such officer for other
than misdemeanor or mulfaasance." II the editor
will take the trouble to inform himself, he will
discover that the Governor has neither claimed
nor assumed the right to suspend or remove an
officer for misdemeanor, malf-asance, OF anything
else. Mr. Hufty WAS remuved by a majority Of
both Houses of the Legislature.
W~regard 1t us unfortunate for the editor of
the Patriot that. whilst protesting neutrality in
p litics. he should have been led into a defense
Of the most odious. demoralizlng. and disgracefhl
p'aze of know-nothingism. The boxes of the
two wards. containing 1900 votes, were destroy
ed by a mob of desperate. lawless wretches and
the will of the majority of the citizens of Now
Orleans was thereby defeated. and the can !itntes
of the minority elevated to Office. The Patriot
ralliatep, If he does not Justify the outrages of
the mob. and reserves all his Indignation for the
Legislature that vindicates the freedom Of the
franchise, by e%iecting this man from an
Office thus iniquitously obtained over a cl' ar ma
iority of the voters. If the Patriot. under cover
of its neutrality. wants to d. service tn its party,
for the sake Of drcency let it select some feature
of Amcricanism more deftnsihle than this. We
would advise him to throw off the mask ut once,
and then he can 60 tue whole figure.
EF- The Marshall Republican manifests n laud-
able penitence for its ill-timed and ill-humored
structures on s0me of the nominees of the demo
cratic State convention. The editor I" gets down
s%tuirs,'' and lowers himself from his stills, hand
some'y. "a more intimate acquaintance with
the circumstances that controlled the action of
the convention, derived from those who were
present" has wrought Il very healthy change in
the editors mind. and enables him to regard,
with post rrandial" TO use q celebrated
phras"l composure, the acceptance of the SUI e;
stock by Mr.. Raymond. We congratulate our
c~otempora-y on his convalescence.
s- We learn fr III the GAINESVILLE Messenger,
that the steamer Julia recently assembled the
Fork as hig', as Eppefson's ferry 'ppo-
the town of Boston. The river had been
cleared Of Instructions to that point. This is the
first boat that has ever assembled the Sulphur.
~ There is a call in the Frontier Patriot,
Mt Paris, on Hon. VIM. NJ. Williams
TO become a candidate for Judge OF the 9Th Ju-
dicial District.