The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-14
GOVERNOR PINcHBACi's MESSAGE,

the place, acting Governor finch
back has found time to send
Especial message to the Legislature
full Of significance and breathing
reform" in every line. Now is tn
thine and if "this people" is reall..
DESTROYS to inaugurate an era o
peace and harmony and good will
and withal, have an honest ant
economical administration, let then
cooperate with the Legislature il
carrying out the effective measures
recommended in the following
message: q, ::
r. STATE OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department, :
New Orleans, December, II, 1872.
ITO the Honorable Senate and. House
"r of Representatives of the State o:
f. Louisiana, in General Assembly
- .!s-'
l. GENr1EMEs-Your. present session.
called by the Governor under the act
Of 1870, No. Al, is, by THE proclama'
ton converting you, limited to the
period of ten days, but under the pro-
visions of the same law can be contin'
ued, not exceeding sixty days, but q
joint resolution passed by both Houses
OF the General Assembly, approved by
the executive. ,sai
If you shoold deem that such exten.
sion of your session is demanded by
the public interests, I will co-operrte
with you therein. In the meanwhile,
contemplating such o contingency, !
deem it my duty to call your attention
to such subjects Of Legislation rs may
more Immediately claim your consid-
Grafton:
State legislation, since the close Of
tho war, has been surrounded with no
ordinary embarrassments, and the
result in Louisiana, whether was COM
template the laws enacted or the exc
cution thereof has not been entirely
satisfactory to II people. The sta
tutes passed, both political and tinan-
cial, whether considered in the pro-
visions or their administration, have
been deemed by some oppressive, and
their revision, therefore, is an impera-
tive duty devolved upon you as the
legislature of the State. The political
social and industrial condition Of the
State was SO unsettled by the late civil
strife as to make the duties OF the
General Assembly exceedingly delicate
and difficult, but conceding pure mo-
tives and integrity to your predecessors
it is probably neither uncharitable nor
unjust, to assume that they have failed
largely in realizing the reasonable
expectations Of she citizens, because
they have not sufficiently studied the
condition and wants of the State, as a
condition precedent, to the enactment
of laws for the government Of the same.
Inconsideratcness and haste have here
tofore constituted the vice. of our State
legislation. @"a.;
I respectfully suggest that you,
approaching your obligations to the
people whom you represent not as
partisans, but as citizens, address
yourselves to the work Of crrrecting
any defects that may, by experience,
he found to have attached to the legis-
lation of our predecessors, whether
the same may be in the laws regulating
the political rights OF citizens, such as
registration and election acts, or
the financial interest of the same, such
the statutes affecting the expense of
government, collection Of taxas and
securities; and would earnestly
recommend your honorable bodies to
enact such registration and election
laws as will secure to each citizen,
upon the basis Of exact and equal JUS.
lice, the possession and exercise Of the
of suffrage, so that it shall. not
be in the power of any officer or Off
GERS, changed with the execution of
The laws, to reproduce the astounding
md anomalous condition and compli-
that were exhibited in the late:
State election. 7
The rights Of the sufdragans, without
aspect to race or condition in life,
and perfectly secured, so that
he vote of each citizen shall tell in the
with the purposes for which it
vas cast by the voter, we will have laid
he foundation, broad and deep. for
public order in the State, and good
viii among its people. |.
The best interests Of the people of f,
demand that we shall mol,
ginger live in the semi-revolutionary
ondition that has characterized us for
he last several years, but thereemust
e, by attention to the matters herein:
nggested, established such stability in