New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-21

ercise the right Of suffrage out Of list Of 500 regis
tered voters In the First District 500 persons
did not cast their ballots out of list Of 800 regis
says tssa bsen . s sss sns so a
or could not cast their ballots at important an eiec
tion as that of Electors for President of the Used
States. Ig.1- a4ss9 y
These facts demonstrate that some extraordinary
Cause was at work to prevent large proportion Of
lawful voters from enjoying the sacred franchises Of
the Constitution. IT is well known that at the twO
proaches to the polls completely in the hands Of
organized rufians, who committed acts of violence
mnittudes Of naturalized feIlow-citzens, who
dared venture TO exercise the right of suffrage. Thus
nearly onethird OF the registered voters Of New
Orleans have been deferred from exercising their
highest and most sacred prerogatye. The expression
OF such elections an open and palpable fraud the
assn eecsualy prevent the true VIII Of the majority
from being totally Menced
The report Of the Attorney General will furnish YOU
with u1 statement Of the criminal statistics Of the
city Of View Orleans, and your attention is earnestly
invoked to calm consideration Of the topics set forth
By the chief Iawocer of the State You will observe
that disregard for the law and its ministers, and
large classes Of fsowcitizens continue to exist
in our commercial capital This condition Of things
was alluded to and depofed in my inaugural address
ders it Important that should again advert tothe
snhjeet, and ask that it receive your matured deb
crate and impartial consideration.
you should vigorously exert to protect every class Of
our citizens in the exercise of their rights at any and
all times, and chiefly at that most sacred moment
when they gather at the ballotbox to indicate their
choice Of principles or rulers recent Grand Jury
OF the parish OF Orleans penetrated with sense Of
the evils existing in the city, have formally recon-
mended an organized armed police on the days Of
ASr hatethese disorders ceased with the mon,ent-
ary heat Of awarmly contested cansass, but brutal
assaults, rots and murders have disgraced even tie
camer periods Of ordinary months. @ 8-rss3.3.
To such extent have these evils Been carried that
good men of all parties at last being aroused to
some feeble sense Of the general danger. The tefls
dencies OF these social disorders plain and evident
to every good citizen but their is not the Les
appafent, because it may not be universally recog
nized Their true origin may be found in the Inherent
nature Of that secret political organization which :.
arose in our midst to divide our people according to
the accidents Of religion or birth. However attract
I'VE might have been its general theory Of political
rights however pretentous its patriotism and pure its
professions. the social evils that afct New Orleans
are as legitimate and logical sequens of its peculiar
tenes as if those evils had been the very aim and end
of its existence =.
Such has, and always will be- the fruit of any diyf
sion Of any people on such principles as were pro-
posed No surprise should be felt at the other pas
sions it aroused, or the hearburnings il displayed
amongst those who were led away by. its .deusans.
Rather let rejoice that it has 50 soo been rebnked
blythe people OF the Union and that with its death we
may hope to see timely burial effhose excesses and
strifes which have been displayed in midst It is
for the great law. making department Of govern
ment to perfect our criminal law and by wise, impair
tia and vigorous enactents TO apply remedy for
the evils of our great commercial center ere it be
too late and reaction terrible as and eauaed only
by the wrongs, ,eIdured shall be aroused, and thus
justice and lawhe tramped under foot by those who
now in vain seek its shield and protection.
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