New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-14

The Senate was then announced, entered
the hall, and took their seats.
The President of the Senate ordered the
roll to be called, and resulted as follows.
Thirty.three members of the Senate answer.
ed to their names:
Anderson, Bacon, Beares, Blackman, Camp.
bell, Coupland, DaTrall, Egan, Foute, Fran
eois, jerks, E. L. Jewell F. L. Jewell,
| Kelso, Lewis, Lynch, Monette, Offutt, Og-
den, 0'Hara, Packard, Poindexter, Pollard,
Ray Smith, Thompson, Todd, White, Whit
ney, Wilcox, Williams, Wittgenstein-33.
The roll of the House was then called,
and seventy.nine members answered to their
names, as follows:
Speaker Lowell, and Messrs. Abbott,
Alexander, Antoine; Adolphe, Bennett,
Buckingham, Belot Brewster, Barbee, Bur.
rel, Bergeron, Collins Calhoun, Carr, Gu
ney, De3londe, Devices, Dufresne, DcGrange
Demarest, Dupart, Evans. Esnard, Faulk-
ner, Fouts, Guigonet, Gair, Garstkamp,
Gray, Guidry, Hill. Haskell, Harper, Hol.
land, Isabelle, Kent, Kayanagh, Lee
Blanc, Lee Leroy, L'Hoste, Lott, Morris
Vean, Murrell, Melvin, Mansion, Moran
May, Mathews, Noble, Pearce, Pratt, Page
| Pierce, Prescott, Raymond, Reese, Rey
| Slaton, Sterrett, Taylor, Tureaud, Walsh,
Washington, Wren, Wilson, William Will
liams, H. Williams, Waters, N. Young
| IOTkb, ~. lOuuSy NO6llJ-tJs
The President announced that the joint
session was now ready to proceed to the in
auguration of the Governor.
Senator f. L. Jewell, of Pointe Coupee,
moved that committee of five be appoint
ed, composed of two Senators and three
Representatives, TO wait upon the Governor
and inform him that the Senate and House
of Representatives in joint session were
ready to receive his Excellency the Govern
| or of the State of Louisiana.
The motion being carried,
The President Of the Senate appointed
the following members of the Senate: ::
Messrs F. L. Jewell and George Y. Kelso.
| Of the House-Messrs. McMillen, Noble,
and Burrel. ......
The committee repaired to the Governors
office, and a few moments after appeared,
escorting his Excellency the Governor.
Senator F. L. Jewell introduced the Gov
ernor to the President who then introduced
him to the General Assembly.
The Governor then read his inaugural ad-
dress, as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen Of the Senate and
House OF Representatives.:
I'm am deeply impressed with the grave
and peculiar significance of this occasion
and the magnitude of the responsibility
| which am this day to assume. I trust the
hearts of all of us are moved and pervaded
| by realizing sense of the new and serious
duties we have been called upon to dis
charge. Before me is the first Legislature
as an equal member of the American Union
| that has sat for seven years. | need not rC.
count to you the history of these
seven years, so fuH of startling
and wonderful as well as painful and terri
BILE events-so pregnant with momentous
Issues, so productive of great and glorious
results. Nor do 1 deem it expedient at this
| time to trace the chain Of causes which led
| to these events, and produced these results,
or to discuss the questions Of who have been
most culpable and responsible for whatever
has been wrong or mistakenin the past, and
| who are most deserving of credit for what
ever is good in the present. We have here
met not to speculate upon the past,
nor to brood and quarrel over its ashes,
| but rather to meet the great living
issues of the present, and the duties
| which it imposes upon US. We stand amid
| the ruins of an old order of things; 1T
should be ours to work wisely and man
fully for the establishment of new and
! better order of things upon the foundation
| which these seven years have established.
| So long as time is spent in futile and irri-
tating discussions upon the realness and
| probable permanency Of these foundations,
or persistent and perhaps turbulent efforts
| to unsettle and upheave them, so long will the
| pnblic peace, order, and tranquility refuse
| to be restored, and SO long will the restora-
j ton and development Of all the great in
terests of the State be delayed and endan-
| gered.
Gentlemen, the corner stone of these found
| atiOns laid and fixed forever by great war,
sealed as firmly believe by the hand of God
himself, and recognized by that organic law
| under which we have assembled, and which
am here to swear to support and defend is
| the equality before the law and the enjoy
ment of.every political right of all the cit
| izens of the State, regardless of race, color,
/ rosdfafRT1. rn1rr xuh fhfa
| grand distinctive feature of the new consti-
| tuition shall be stamped on every act of
| legislation, and when such legislation shall
find approval and support in that
| general public sentiment which gives
to law its vitality, will our State
| and prosperity which the Almighty designed
| for her. 1t would be idle to deny that while
a large majority of our people have testified
! in the strongest manner to their approval of
that feature of the Constitution of which
have spoken, there is still a minority, not
wanting in intelligence and virtue, who are
strenuously opposed to it. Much is to be
hoped from the good sense, the discretion,
and inherent love of Justice of the Ameri-
can people for the gradual wearing away Of
| the prediudices upon which alone this OPP
| position is founded. Meantime let our
course, while Fesolute and manly, be
also moderate and discreet. Let
/ l6BlhldllOu Oo k6Pb as hb pOsSlDlt Ill
harmony with the sentiments of the whole
| people. 1t is better that the course of leg s.
lation should rather fall behind than to out.
strip the popular wishes and demands. Let
everything consistent with right and justice
| be done to bring back the era of good feel
ing, and to wash from the memories of all
everything that tends to ALLEVIATE one class
or one party from another.
refrain at this time from entering into
| any discussion of measures which / NAV
deem of Importance. In future / will
discharge the duty imposed upon me by
giving to the General Assembly information
respecting the condition of the State, aud
| recommending to its consideration such
legislation as may seem expedient. ! ven.
ture, however, to urge immediate measures
for the repression Of lawlessness and dis
order now rife in many parts of the State.
/ From many parishes we have almost daily
i accounts of violence and outrage-in many
cases most brutal and revolving murders
without any effort on the part Of the people
| to prevent or punish them.
We want peace and order; without it we
i can have no prosperity. Such measures
| must be adopted to secure life and property
as may be necessary. If the taxpayers pre-
fer to support strong constabulary force
to doing their duty as citizens by helping
the officers, yes, BY making the officers of
the law keep the peace, and protect the
life of every mau, however poor, then the
responsibility will be upon them, and not
the State administration. Everybody knows
that the strong men, the property holders,