New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-21
OF THE NEW ORLEANS
EIECTI0N RILL RERUkED.

! The city Of New York voted against Fremont and
the Black Republicans, last November, by very
large majority The Black Republicans carried the
State however, and elected a majority of Senators
and Representatives to the Legislature. Because the
people of the city of New York chose to exercise the
right of suffrage it pleased them and in opposition
to Fremont and fanaticsm, the Black Republican
Legislature determined to wreak Black Republican
vengeance upon the devoted metropolis. Accordingly
a new police bill for the government of the city,
unjust and odous in its features and repulsve in its
workings, has passed both branches Of the General
Assembly, and has ere this, doubtless, received the
signature of the Freesoil Governor, King. The great
end and aim of the law is to do in New York what
our last Baton Rouge Legislature attempted to do in
New Orleans, through the medium of what is known
as the Election Law that is, to take from the
people of the city, through their regularly elected
municipal officers, any and all control of the public
peace on days of election. The New York law goes
little further in downright diaberie, for it takes
from the municipal authorities all power over the
police throughout the year. and places them entirely
in the hands of commission to be appointed by the
Governor!
We will run the parallel further by way of illustra-
tion The electors of New York refused to vote in
manner pleasing to the Black Republicans Hence a
Black Republican Legislature resolves to punish them
by taking from them their most valuable rights as
freemen.
For two or three years the electors of New Orleans
have obsnatey refused to vote in manner pleasing
the leaders of the dominant party in this State For
this wicked perverseness those leaders in the last
lature determined upon Furnishing them by passing the
Election Law creating an irresponsible and limitabe
despotsm in the person of Superintendent of Elec-
tons, and ignoring, for the time being the charter
officers Of the corporation altogether.
VI So far as any material principle is involved we can
see no difference between the action of the Black Re
publican legislators at Albany and the action of the
legislators Of the dominant party at Baton Rouge.
Both the projects and the Legislators deserve the Sc
verest punishment popular condemnation can infict.
Speaking of the New York law the Washington
Union, Of the l4th inst, says: @ ly eta w
To punish New York for her votes last fall and to
keep her from committing the like offence again. the
new police bill was originated and passed. Itplaces
the whole police force of New York in the hands of
commission appointed by the Governor. It reduces
the Mayor to mere automaton in the hands of this
new commission. of whom, it is understood, Simeon
Draper is to be the head and it introduces the new
theory into American legislation that those who pay
their rulers shall not elect them The new bill is
Black Republicanism in all its sections. It contains
the worst features Of the odious English tax bill which
led to the revolution of 1776 and remains to be seen
how quietly the tax-paying democracy Of New York
will take the new mothod of being governed in their
municipal matters by the abolitionsts at Albany The
injustice of the bill will lead to political revolution
in the State will be the steppingstone to the re-
turn OF the Democrats to power; and it will induce
the uerance of those great truths into the ears of
the party now in power in New York that were thun
dered in the ears of Engandthat they are q too bit
ter against the democrats to rule them justly-too