New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-04
The Bill of Abomlnations.

The following remarks, taken from the Baton Rouge
Gazette of the 9th, are pertinent and proper, and
we take pleasure in repubshing them. To those who
voted for this atrocous measure in the House of Re-
presentatves and who may vote for it in the Senate
we say: Respice fnem'
New ORLEANs.-We could not but pity the poor
city of New Orleans as we listened few moments on
yesterday to the scathng whitening rebuke, DR.. Haw-
kins administered to the dominant Legislative party,
when the election bill for that city under discus
sion So far principle is concerned if the question
involved the entire State there might be cause for
difference Of opinion but to select one parish OF only
aporton of one, and that paying almost the third of
the taxes Of the State and taking from it the prvi-
lege of freedom freemen is the stranges event in
modern times, or even in the history of modern De-
tax payers of New Orleans under the system concoct
ed by the prolific brain of the Attorney General and
| the ready pennanshp of the Hon. I. J. Semmes. In
reply to DR.. Hawkins, understood Mr. S. to say he
had drawn up the bill embodying the views of the
Attorney General and others. Why not have pre-
sented it? Why procure the services of an hon
orable member from the country to stand as god
father? When first presented, we took occasion to
say it was the production of other than the gen.
tleman who reported it. We could not bring our
mind to the conclusion that independent and clear
| headed gentleman as Gen. Harper would have, with
his hand, deliberately made so fatal stab at the
liberties of so large portion of the people of
Louisiana.
Politically, should prefer saying, far as the
success of the American party in Louisiana is con-
cerned, we should ask no better ground than oppos
ton to these tyrannca measures presented from high
state officials, but reflect that party is
matter of small import when the very liberties of the
people are at ISSUE We proud and boastul if you
please, of American ctizenshp-our free institu-
tions-and not yet prepared to endorse the sent
| ments sefgovernment is failure. Would Napoleon
| ask or has he asked, more than the Governor OF
Louisiana is now demanding the power to appoint a
| Superintendent Of Elections for New Orleans, in.
vestng the officers with such powers the Governor
does not posses. What more is to come, time and
Loco sagacity can alone determine. 1t has been said
that in days of maryrdom, persons were selected for
their inventive talent and base passions to find out
new sources of torture and such were rewarded. To
us it seems that modern Democracy must have some
such political person in New Orleans to annually pre-
sent some new scheme for harrassing or Furnishing
the taxpayers of that city. We imagine, however,
the good people of that parish will be as little con-
cerned in the Governors appointment as they have
heretofore been, and in their November elections will
vote as independently though the trownng official
with his armed and equipped corps were not present
The trial by jury is seriously threatened If not
openly attacked in the bill The Superintendent can
arrest or order to be arrested suspicion and
confined until the day succeeding the election; the
cause of his arrest shall not be enquired into, is
special provision in Section 80. Now we ask in al
candor is tpresumable thatany people claiming to bt
free, will submit to such degradation is here i'm
posed. We specially invite attention to the 27th ant
2Sth sectionsthe latter is emphatically neAop, ant
if it had gone one step further and announced Hi
Excellency, as His Royal Highness the chosen o
God and Autocrat of the State, it would have filled
out the picture. Farewell to Democracy!