New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-04

certained by Mr.. Locke, Or any one eIseY how the
votes for Senators stood Tt was only inferred from
the general designation Of the tickets.
At the Ninth Precinct IL was proved in Che same
case that the names had been called OF from only one
hundred and thirty-eight tickets. These were all
American tickets and contained the names Of the m
iersigned. The other tickets were destroyed before
The names were counted of. We were, however, WiL
ing to concede them majority Of sixty, the uauat
Democratic majority in that ward, and then with the
reported or estimated majority Of Mr, Locke at the
Seventh Precinct, we have still the majority on The
total vote Ell YS=555 X sss $5ssEt
Driven from the ground first assumed by them, that K
our return was due to the destruction Of the ballot
boxes the contestants were left to the single resource
and pretext that large number Of voters, who would
have voted for them were refused by the Inspectors
or were frightened from appearing al the polls. n
Was gaTey proposed to count all these votes for the
contestants The purlieus o. the city were secured
to bring up all persons whose votea had been rejected
aha sgteptsnas flew through the surbarhs and into the
darkest resessea n pursuit Of The modest and tfid
suiragan whose nerves could not encounter Tie rougf,
scenes q the election The good Book uEon
which they would be sworn seems to have danced ba.
fore their excited siis ar.irawn tiaerer
which nnnerFed the conscience striksn Thane. inv
/ were not timd, however, im responding W tfie
fastering invitation u the contestants Is collect
I their votes and have them recorded that thew
might be counted and made to ele ous The minority
Of the contestants into respectable majority sIeh
an idea is really without precedent For the Rejection
Of vote is question between the inspector and ti
applicant If the rejection illegal one Ii YIN iii
good ground for an acton OF damages. But the idss
that the rejected votes should be counted tfas csr
tain parties should be permitted to vote AFTER the cleo
i tion is over that whenever by Of Judgment
Of the Inspector by the tnidty or neglect Of the
suragan his ballot is not received that he shall have
the right Of going before cort and giving his eE-
paTte testimony to have his vote placed among those
which had been regularly received according TO the
mode provided by law, is really too absurd to Justify
. formal discussion and refutation. 5535s
4 But even If such uncertain and unsatisfactory evf
dence could be entertained, IT would at most only
Justify the sending the election back the people
order to amend the of Inspectors and afford the
timid another chance Of exercising their sudrages.
Such proposition, however, did not accord With TIE
Of justice and regard for right Of majority %
the Senate. They were determined not only to
the contestants who pleased them to represent tie
city Of New Orleans, but to give the usurpation an
appeaSaHce of fairness, they superseded the Inspect
ors performed their duties for them; received the
votes, and virtually held tie election III the town of
. Baton Ronge, two months after 1t was held ii New
Orleans according TO law They determined, too for
the voters, how they would vote for each Individual SEN
ator, without the formaIitY Of receiving his ballot,
though the voters themselves only think that they
would have voted the Democratic ticket or the one
: headed Democratic, which might jnst is vel have
had the names Of the unersgn of their opponents
for all the witnesses knew 5ssgfs8s ssS
bs 1t was such grounds, feIloweitizens, that we
were removed from our seats to which we had been
as regularly returned as Senators from New Orleans
We appeal, therefore, from this decision Of Q body
rs in which party spirit appears to have suppIanted all
ideas Of justice all regard for law and equity to thHt
higher tribunal whose sober dgnlents are neferper
= verted by those passions which demagogues and
partsans too often allow TO direct their decisions.
The pretet for all these Illegal acts is that the last
election in city marked by scenes of violence
: Such occurrences greatly to be lamented By all
good citizens, and by than the great mass
of the American party. The native SONS ofsths land
are trained from infancy to respect and obey the law
It the Characteristic of the true AmericaRit Is
what disting guishes him from the foreigner. A par
ticipant the enactment Of the laws he is taught to
regard them as obligations of honor voluntarily assume
ed by him as part Of his faith and religion, IT Is
not so with those who, from their birth are To
hate to curse, and whenever they can to eyade and
~ trample upon the laws enforced upon them without
m their consent, by rulers not chosen by themselves,
Hence the reckessness and violence which SO frequent
is large foreign vote; and the quiet and peaceful
aspect Of all such contests in communities where the
- natives predominant There may be some bad and
= violent men in the American party, and acts of a
IL criminal character may have been committed by
them; bat these bear proportion to the excuses Of
al foreigners. The records Of police stations are
a. filled with abundant proof of ths and show, especial
y, ly since the first Of November last how immeasuraby
greater is the number of offences committed by that
mt class of population in the city Of New Orleans.
IN But what distinguishes the American party from
tn that which, for SO many yeas has countenanced and
proted by election frauds and excesses is that the
ito authorized committees and prominent leaders Of
ed party have given their sanction and approval to
he any outrages. The recent disorders can be clearly
traced to the long train Of systematized frauds and
volences projected and encouraged at the posin S
ion city by the socaled Democratic party The Plaque
mine fraud was the first of the series, 1t was quickly
T. followed by the wholesale fraudulent naturalization
rod every adult foreigner in the city though he had bu
l;o Just landed the levee. The attempt, in too man,
successful to neuralize and destroy the Naty
tho American vote with this mass Of foreign ignorance
ned thrown upon our Shores by the social commissions
the the old world, and put in motion by emagogues AMI
place hunters, has provoked ebutions Of temper AMI
on of violence that greatly to be deplored
Oh This course Of systematic insult and persecution
the native voters by the foreigners nstigated By
for demagogues reached its climax two years ago. Whel
the in our city election the rights of voters were passed
af upon by Inspectors selected ercisUey from the os
eign party in many cases, foreigners Themselves
.en who sought by the most active frauds to augment TIL
or no'e anu W tnas or the native cit
The zens These frauds provoked though we do not pre
tend to say that they justified. the violence whic
followed, and which unfortunately has been repeated
N Of Remove the cause and you destroy the effect Le
the elections of New Orleans be what the law ntend
iec ed them to behe fair expression of the legal vote
,ns ,tsss the polls will again present the
= peaceful aspect they once bore 81
pat The undersigned have been led to these obsevs
tons by the defamation and tnnut about violence
the polls, which, in default of argument and fact
the how, bon,, on,,,Ic,,.,
hers ~ ~ ~ w JaSeiy snSiA eJee1loh itp4n "a
Senate to which they were elected by q majority {
lrhe the legal voters OF New Orleans. They who haV
fepy been loudeS their Dhlinics