New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-10-15
1AYoR's MESS asrrHE rs5uscTTor

AIOAk'S M11S - - = n 4 49,
Ne putlishea ID iii. yesterday morning. She mes
sare II Nayor Waterman to the Common Council NJ
cornruss,iise tetnpssary With sRal of iniunc-
tfon aa.iSst fhe Qaatxsk Board * Comm oners .
bois Il psrsisasss clothed with sre6tricted powers
snd III a,v Sxescse of which there 10 10 responsible
Inv sAilsd created 81 the Election Law Of the last
popularly known as the s'intAmons Army
bur, granted BY the Fifth District Court Of the
paxish ~ Orleans some months Once. The sugges
tions iof The Mayor received the almost unanimese
appscsals of ths Board Of Assistant Aldermen, and
W doubt not will be fayoraAly considered by the
Board Of Aldermen, special session Of which body
.Is, " understand, to be held this evening
W. have sread the ageof the Mayor carefully,
and ind Ii ii piah 70 approve and nothing to cen
lenir. BE giye3 k succipct narrative Of the steps
taken ffom first piast ali1es in proper terms to
the enormities am iniqui1ies Of the s"Army bil''
and distinctly htimates mat he would not have re-
commended Withdrawal Of the legal writ before
mentioned but for the robbery Of their constit NAL
rights that wonld be committed upon the mass Of
the people BY the c|ashing the decisions Of infer
judicial t1ihanals, which had brought Everything
j dead lock. ss " VI s. u i y
Verify, this d . pretty state Of aha we should
say, = humiliating state affairs. Constita1i
! tie me AuthoritJ Jof the common kealth
which directly or indirectly, every kle of II
ity exercised by every official Of the Statespr ex-
lressly declares. orders and decrs 6baa thg appls
shall be allowed to vote ION the Abnd6 No
xember, every two years, for persdls dl6e laws,
or repeal laws FOR them, in ne Lsgia le. Yet,
how do No stand, notwithstand his dire absolute
provision, Of the Constitution Why, ne inferior
court, ii nconformity e usage law and upon pro
per showing, grants aprovis injunction restrain
ing certain PARTIES fsoni dong and performing Ger
tain things The endined parties do not apply for q
hearing upon petition to dissolve that injunction.
They wholly ignore the direct road to secure redress,
even il they were aggrieved. They delay and pros
crastina snd finally apply to another inferior court
fot an injunction which, il granted, deprived the
voters Of their nalienabe constitutional rights The
Injunction was granted the conspiators against the
highest privileges Of the people succeeded in their
objects election could be held The minor anthor-
ity became superior TO the major. The conflicting
decisions BY inrection, which is the most mortify
ing feature Of the whole transaction, of mereserea-
lures Of the Constitution, rendered the express order
ings of that instrument nugatory those decisions
enjoining everybody legally qualified to act in the
premises from acting at all, werestantamount to an
abolition OF the principle OF suffrage in the parish OF
Orleans unless one or the other Of the parties suing
out the injunctions make application for their with
drawal.
Under these we look upon the action
Of the Mayor as wise and patriotic and should the
injunction be withdrawn, as we presume it will be
shortly after the Board Of Aldermen concur in the
resolution adopted BY the Board Of Assistant Alder
men on Tuesday evening, Of which we can imagine
no possible doubt the people the honest, the anti
Office seeking masses should remember for all time
to come that they would have been denied the right
Of suffrage altogether but for the udicions conduct of
an American Mayor and Common Council, who have
been temporarily constrained to abandon position
guaranteed them by right, justice and law. Is
To those who have evinced every disposition to-
crush out the dearest rights Of the people trample
them in the dust remorseess we have to say is,
the sewers Of the wind must expect to reap the whrl
wind.