The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-08-20
ton to Texas on a certain occa-
sion when indicted by q Grand

tiOn to Texas on a certain Occa-
sion when indicted by q Grand
| Jury9 We think not. A petty
justice court is it's province as
sovereign as regards its mandate
as is the highest national tribunal,
and no civil rank is a defense
therefrom. BY refusing to respect
it's warrant, the Governor has adj
ded yet another to his tedious
series of offenses against law, Or
der, good government and morals.
Colored men, mark him we'll
In addition to his earlier shames,
he has broken up one of your Re-
publican organizations and refus-
ed it's legitimate members the
egate to q State Oovention-he
has foisted himself upon you all
as Governor-he not only robs
you of your ballot, but he wan
tonly and cowardly assaults you
if you dare to protest-he SCOTS
at judicial process as he SCOTS at
your sacred rights-and this is
the Republican who expects your
suffrages, and who tells you he is
not your servant, as .he pledged
himself to be when elected, but
that you arc has servants. If you
like that, swellow it, but you have
not the stomachs of men, If you
can.
The control of the Convention
that meets to-day was of great
political Importance to Gov. War
moth, and being unwilling to trust
it's management to his professed
friends, he determined on being
himself elected a delegate. This
he accomplished, as he did his
nomination for Governor, by fraud
and violence. The nomination of
Mr.. Dubuclet, the present Treas
urer, must be defeated, and Mr..
G. HI. Merritt must be his success
sor. B. +. Flanders must be put
aside for w. r.. Fish, who is the
files Aohntes of the Governor
Sypher must go back to Congress,
and not B. +. Joubert. These and
some other points could only be-
attained by the august presence
and powerful talent of the Gov
ernor himself. Hence his anxiety
and his desire. to represent the
Tenth Ward. But from the sub
Joined resolutions it would seem
that his scat is not yet secured,
and his right to represent tho
ward will be contested before tho
Convention. The following arc
the resolutions:
At mass meeting held at tho
Tenth Ward, on the Sd of August,
1870, the following preambles and
resolution were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, the Ohicf Executive of
this State, E. G. Warmoth, has
seen proper to so far forget all the
propriety and dignity which be-
longs to his high Office as to de-
scend to the level ola petty ward
politician, and using the power and
patronage which belong to his
office, compelled his willing and
servile tools to nominate him.
for delegate to the State Conven-
ton from the s'Ienth Ward;" and
Whereas, the said II. @. War
moth, not content with degrading
his hi gh official rank by running
as delegate to a Convention which;
would naturally have occasion to-
pass upon the character and &C
tions of his administration, went
father than any honest man or
Republican could go, and in order
to defeat his opponent, Seymour
Alcorn, a colored man and a sound
Republican, he did have recourse
to fraud and violence, and by rea-
son of the State, city and Federal
patronage, he was enable to carry
on the farce Of an election in the
face of the fact that his COM
missioners of election refused to
register Or allow the colored peo-
pie of the ward to vote, or in any
way express their feelings in ia
vor Of the candidate opposed to
this present corrupt State Ad-
miHistratiOn; and
Whereas, because of the fact
that we, as colored men and Re-
publicans, are unwilling that he
and his corrupt associates should
any longer lead and direct us, and