New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-11
The Proposed Election Law.

The Franklin Journal, of the 9th inst, thus con-
cudes an able and convincing article against the pro-
posed election law for this parish We commend it
to the dspassionate consideration of enlightened
public: a.
We ask gentlemen, what proper qualification must
be applied u the law Contemplated? We ask honest
Democrats If they are willing to stand by their Rep
resentatyes and aid in this infamous act Of brutal
aggression? We have had enough of partisan legis-
lation. The American party in view of Northern
aggression was willing to forgive and forget many,
very many acts of injustce, but we candidy ask if
measures like this:are calculated to conciliatesand
harmonic? Every year new laws have been passed
changing the administration of the city government
The organization of the city police is left in the
hands of the Mayor, and now, Independent Of that
j poliee pay, overlapping its chiefs, the law Or
dans and establishes military and partisan police,
armed and equipped, omnpotent and irresponsible
| Like Christ we eXclaim @,what have | done that
thou shouldst thus buffet me p Men were arrested
during the elections the life Presdencyof Louis
Napoleon for distributing opposition tickets; will not
the same act be visited with like consequences under
a tielaaes And iAsSsslof these, must The tAuIssean
party be disbanded? No, by all the blood which we
have in our veins never, never We tell the Legis.
lature Let lis aone the times dark and troubled
fan not the dormant embers lest blaze be kindled
which no human power can control! To expect o
peaceable execution of the law isabsurd and childish
when view the envenomed aDmosity already ex-
istng. We have had enough of these wranglings and
contentious let modify, not inveterate the stua
tQn persecution should be unnatural to us, and as
Mr.. Burke once wished the people of England to do
Let US snatch away the very first opportunity OF
laying aside all the tricks and devices of penal poll
ties and of returning home to our natural family
mansion, to the grand social principle that untes all
men, in all descriptions, under the shadow of equal
and impartial justice.n
Until this be done the bitterness, the anger and
anmosity existing at the present. will be increased
and embttered, and not alayed. We sincerely hope
that the State Senate will spurn the bill with con
tempt from its floor Let its action stand as bright
spot in the gloomy turpitude of modern legislation
let it wash away the plague spot in the wave. Sena
tors will understand that tyranny is odious to the
people Of this State, they know that the history
nations teach this lesson that Charles l. lost hi
crown and his head on account of usurpation, tina
Charles Y and Louis Philippe died in exile, becaus
of usurpation, that the once American colonies al
free and independent States on account of usurps
ton, and that free people is never enslaved withou
attempting resistance. But not considering thes
only they will to the full lotness of their pos
ton, understanding that their true mission is to pas
laws beneficial to the whole State and that far beos
their dignity would be to dwinde into the contempt
ble sphere of souess and degraded partisans, mer
reptiles crawling in their slime who barter homo
and virtue for place and power.