New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-29
SENATORIAL RLEurToN Or 1854.


icajsIature Is collect Information III regard to the
olasm set ii, 81 Messrs. Hahn and Cutler 70 seats
III fkc Jnits Senate very instructive and
isurFessivs docunsnt The facts Ascersained, and
briefly net forth ID thu report arc qnite sufficient
It's reduce The claims Of those supposittious Senas
fora to 4 paIpsble absurdity. Messrs. Hahn and
Gutfer have legally no more right to represent
flouisiana thAn u represent Massachusetts. In
fho lSter cass there might be some peculiar noraI
I'D political fitness, whilst in the former there
eould b. nothing but preposterous incongruity.
Beyond this and more than this the report leads
rresisthy to the conclusion that not only the pre-
tended Senators chosen ia 1864 are IN fact no
SENATOR'S but that the pretended legislature Of that
ANNEX. irtaust,tn was no legislature. The body
now sitting in this city, being the first genuine
representation 81 the whole people Of Louisiana
y III faCt the nrst legislature under the Constitu
ton of 1854.
Without wasting any mole words, on point
with regard to which public opinion il 50 well
settled, We shall content ourselves with giving q
sesssne III the facts ascertained BY the committee,
and which facts constitute 50 remarkable com
mentary 81 the history u constitution and legisa-
tnrc making during the remarkable era which IL
about drawing 70 i close.
| The examination of the votes purported to have
been cast IN the respective parishes for members
Of the legislature at what was supposed to be the
general election Of 1864, shows that;
In Assumption 2l9 votes were polled, Of which
number 100 votes were cast at one ward out Of the
seventeen ii the parish. II fact only four wards
voted ut all.
Iii Ascension I'll votes we're cast, of which III
snf rhnrg
were the votes Of United States soldiers At a
subsequent special election in the same precinct
votas we're polled
Calcayleu IS reported to have east y votes, but
no election at all was held in that parish, as ii was
not within the Federal lines
In Concordia, 257 votes were reported all at
TIE Vidalia precinct. OF these, Sc were cast by
citizens 81 Goncordia, and the remainder, 2o1, by
residents Of eleven other parishes ri Il
Il Lafayette was represented BY members chosen
by 40 votes but in fact no election at all washeld
IN the parish.
q n TIE parish Of Jefferson, ont Of ass votes, 81
were cast BY soldiers
\ One precinct il Madison parish elected members
nv 81 votes.
The election in Point Coupee was held within
the walls of the Federal fort, at Morganza. Citi-
zens were strictly excluded. OF the 146 votes re-
ported, 3 were given BY citizens of New Orleans,
1 BY citizen Of Morganza, and. 146 by United
States soldiers.
In Piaquemines Eve precincts ont Of nine voted.
ST. Martin was reported to have elected mem
bers.by 34 votes; but in truth no election at all
was held.
The same may be said Of st. Landry, in which
1874 votes are reported out Of about $500 voters.
In st. James votes we're cast at one precinct.
"a OF l22 votes reported in ST. Mary, "a were lille
gally registered.
I In West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana, Tensas,
Carroll and Rapides not even the semblance Of an
election was held, yet those parishes were repre-
scented in the sso-called' legislature.
But the manner in which the voters were manu-
featured in New Orleans exhibits in the very high
est degree all the audacity, the inventive genius,
and the refinement Of political frand. Without
going into the details, for which we refer our
readers to the report Of the committee, we may
state that tile general result showed TINT Of 1895
registered voters in the parish Of Orleans only
966 were legally registered The other 1923 had
just ais much right to vote in Vermont or in Cali
fornia, as in Louisiana.
This is sufficient to show the character of the
constituency represented By the so-calledn egis
lature Of 1864. The committee further show, by
The record, that even this election was held under
d military compnlsion and coercion entirely incon-
sistent with freedom Of opinion OF, liberty off
choice.
Butiti not necessary to pursue this topic anyl
further. The case is made out to the satisfaction
pf all reasonable and impartial people. s
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