The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-01-20
Thes Political Situation.

lister, oneNof the most able Republican
Journals the State:
JUDGE Al BELL AND THE GRAND JURY.
Judge Abel took hand in the de-
Element Of public affairs on Thursday,
and managed to deface the enemies
of his office with more dirt. Because
the grand jury acted in the case of
Whey lanSl, where murder had been
committ4l, and which it was warran-
ted in inF Festigating by virtue of the
coroner'3 inquest, and did not act in
the case 5f Chester, which was mere
scrimmage between body of excited
partisalls; he charged it with dishones-
ty, and then dismissed it. The mem
bers of tSe grand jury, sixteen in num-
Der, aresmpeached by a judge upon
a simple lllegation ofa partisan news
paper, aft sole excuse which Judge
Abel mafle for his rash and preiudiced
action was the article which he read
from theSNatiOaal Republican accusing
the grana jury of acting in the Whey
land case and of neglecting to act in
the Chester case. As Wheyland is
dead and Chester is running around
loose stiging up trouble, the two cases
are very different, and the grand jury
was the best judge of what its duties
were ins the matter. This whole
matter sits itself down to sim
pie question whether Judge Abel
who is tklt one man, and partisan at
that, isl to form the opinions of the
grand .1ry, or whether the citizens,
who constitute the body, are to do
their own thinking.
THE!PREsIpENT's GOOD SENSE.
1t is Just as well to keep clear ac-
count an we go along. and in doing so
we find ehat President Grant has to be
credited with a great deal of prudence
in connection with our rather tumul-
tu0us condition during the last two
weeks He has kept his hands off
with aapatriotism singularly at vari
ance VI th the report that he always
lends sfist in favor of his own part
isans. srhe rowdies and the lobby
who thought to make Grant useful in
the way of letting them kick up a
shindys and plumber folks have been
disappointed. He has respected the
styereifn right of the State to make a
July oil herself with a fairness that
nothing could exceed.
An ALIEN cARPET-BAGGER.
An s,nglishman named j. Chester
Morris kTateiy arrived in New Orleans,
is nurs lhg a small sore which he was
paid OF with Last week for engaging
in flee fight among the sovereign
Americans of the State of Louisiana.
j. Chester Morris hopes to make some
money, or other good thing, out his
hurt, but he will probably miss his
object6 t6since the free fight business is
an inBitution wherein each one has
to paythis own expenses in this coun-
try. These John Bulls always have
to undergo the process of a licking in
the UYited States, whether they in
wade rs in the shape OF armies, or in
single file. Each blarsted Britisher
tbinksy he can come to America and
rectifys the fight that CORVALLIS lost,
and this gets his head into chancery.
J. Chester Morris is the latest ex-
ample, but somehow he seems to have
something mean in his disposition, for
he refuses to acknowledge the corn,
as hisb predecessors have done, but in
sists Ga hiding himself as a martyr to
something else besides English pluck
and Obstinacy. He must be fraud.
REFO&M MEASURES RECoMMENDED BY
TEAE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY-oNE.
Tho Committee of Fifty-one have
made three recommendation, and on
ly thu be, after a session of three weeks,
and We must say that the country can
not saved by either one of these
suggdtions. The reinstatement OF
Speaker Carter cannot be made by
Cove eEnor Warmoth, since that is the
rightE)f the House of Representatives
the r Archase of Il tract of land for an
insa1z asylum can be deferred with
perfect safety until the city can pay
her legitimate expenses, and the proc
lanai ion of martial law is wholly un-
necef fsary, since order been maintained
and eace now smiles upon us with
mildEeyed beneficence from every
quar- Ter. The self-constituted Aerop-
agusR had better disband, us it is get.
tinglts hands tarred with sticks thai
good sense has east aside.
COY. wARMoTH PRESERVES PEACE.
Governor Warmoth, whatever may
be said of him in other matters, has
done what was never done in New
Orleans before. He kept the peace a
the late election. For once the peo
pie went peacably and voted; no rows
no fights, no insults. This is one
thing the Democrats and the Gen
Legislature have forgotten to charg'
hin,sw with. How can the DemOcrac,
suca bed in measures of reform if W.
are 10 have peacable elections, sucl
as he last one These /" "obnoxiou
lawsp giving Warmoth the power t.
keep the peace on election days, t.
gether with the school bill, must b
REPEALED, or we must have martial Law
at lce.
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