New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-28
Additional SheritFs.

The Bee Of Tuesday, referring to the bill intro
ducedin the Legislature to create additional SheIis
forthe Parish of Orleans, has the following remarks
blto additional Sherts in the Parish of Orleans is
aa Re Viii " seidIe the city state with eeass
s ed is bs he snee e on Ea aero that he a
been . rsno S is bin vii pFG be forced
ably Considered wc i that nothing will be heard q
the bill FIVE additional sers Mark the result, and
see if we are not prophets.
Just ouT4sentments. The measure proposed is a
partisan one, unnecessary, uncaed for and expensive,
and carried into effect will lead to endless litigation
collisions, costs and uncertainties. There would be
innun1erabe confctions between the Shelifs OF the
different courts All would stand up stouty for their
rights-the ees-all would try, as matter of course,
to make as much as possible, and between them, par
tics to suits would stand no chance, whatever. They
would be stripped to the Skin, and from the skin to
the bone, even if they escaped having their bones
levied on and sold to pay costs of court!
The lawleaving justice altogether out of the ques-
tion-is uncertain enough now in all conscience with
out multiplication of officials to prey upon and de-
YOUR the substance of the people. Weare hadenough
off now, oh, Messrs Legislators! and a new and
aud fresh set Of official Judicial and clerical cormo-
rants, would eat us out of house and home in short
| order.
We coincide in opinion with the Bee, that, if the
courts decide faVoTlDy upon MI Dcu Clllls Ut II
such is deemed most likely to be the case, we shall
hear little or nothing more of the preposterous bill
providing for a multiplication of Sherilfs. An office
so wretchedly split up. parceed out and dvided--a
sixth part Of the present concen-would hold out no
extraordinary attractions for of prominence
and solvency. Furthermore, we have some doubts
whether the bill could pass under the circumstances
In the first place. the Sheriff Office has been exceed
ingly useful to the dominant party in former years.
and they expect to have the control of it next term
any how It's contributions, either directly through
candidates, have been large. To divide it into six
parts would be to destroy its utility for the future
would be to render harmless that which has fire.
quently proved itself powerful weapon-would be
to transform strength into weakness. Our opponents
if the leaders have not lost their cunning are too
shrewd to venture upon such losing experiment
for the game must prove losing one in the long 1un
whether they are successful Or unsuccessful In the
second place, if five new Sher's offices are created
those offices must be filed by chosen directly by
the votes of the people. The Governor could not ap
point, nor the Senate confirm, A new election would
have to be ordered and another tedious and unproft
able contest gone through with. And as the majority
have evnced unholy horror of trusting the people
either with the election Of their Senator's Representa-
tives or Sheriff, we opine they would shrink from
trusting them with the election of .fiue sherifts!