New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-23
The ELECTION Law-rne injunction.

y The Evening Times of yesterday-a paper that is
known to be anything but American in its independ-
ent procvities- strong and just ground against
the Election Law which is now in state Of suspen-
sion owing to the injunction granted by his honor,
Judge Eggeston Of the Fifth District Court on Tues
day last Our contemporary has spoken out mantaliy
and periodically and we trust the good work so ad
rably commenced will be continued until the oppres'
sive and unconstitutional partisan edct in question
shall be erased from the statute books OF the COM
monwealth.
After abiding to the various articles OF the consul
tuition set forth in the Mayors petition as violated by
the Election Law, which is well spoken of as being
(" as tyranpical as it is absurd" the Times says:
The pettion further shows that the Governor of the
State has not the power to fill appointment created
by law while the Senate was in session, without the
consent of that body consequently tne aPpo..se9.
/ of Judge Cotton as Superintendent OF Eiece4ls ~
null and void and his four deputies are four snas
| The Mayor, through his legal authorities, certainly
makes out strong against the State IN us az
! tempt to domineer over the city. We have always
believed that the law specially framed 10 DC nn
4 aqitaf;on II is common trick with certain poit
clans to get up an agitation and it has been 100 long
the habit of our country members to eSaggelaie te
evils of the city, We have errors, we freely al
nit but we are quite certain that the late electlon
4 law would never make us better.
/ The act, however, is already dead letter. Mayor
4 Waterman's petition was yesterday brought before
Judge Eggeston Of the Fifth District Court and It's
request that an Injunction should be issued 10 pre-
vent the Attorney General the Register OF Votes the
Commissioners the Superintendent and his four Dep
uties from attempting to carry the election law INTO
4 effect was granted. 1t is well that it is So There
has been awessness enough at elections in this city
without our legislators seeking to add to the conu.
sion Party STRIFE left to ITSELF would soon die out
here. Those who have opposed the laws are begin
ming to see their folly, and we verify believe that
nothing but a lack of common manhood Viii prevent
every voter from giving expression to his free opln'
| ion at the approaching election.
We agree with the Times in much that is said II
the Sdell clique of politicians, through plastic
/ Legislature, had not attempted to domineer over
the city y if patisans reckless Of the public good
and careful only of their own advancement and
emolument, had not labored to get up an agita'
j tion:', and if our country members had taken
the counses of truth instead of the tales of sanderers
and sought to assuage, instead OF aggravating the
confuson the bad feeling engendered by local stres
would have died out long since. As it 49, despite the
wanton abuse that has been unsparingly avished
upon u.s. despite the cruel prosecutions to which we
have been subjected despite the causeess and ground
less calumnes that have been hurled at fair fame
the facts, iron facts, as hard cannon balls vii
prove that, upon just comparison, the reputation
New Orleans for peace, quiet law and order, is Jus
as good, if not much better than any city of simila
/ size and population in the United States