New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-14
The state Register on the Situation.

We extract the following from the Car
rollton State Register, whose editor is noted
for correct judgment and a rather pointed
style of expression:
JUDGE ABELL AND THE GRAND JURT.
Judge Abel took hand in the defilement
of public affairs ON Thursday, and naged
to detace the enemies of his office with more
dirt Because the grand jury acted in the
case of Wheyland. where a murder had
been committed, and which it was war
ranted in investigating by virtue of the
corOner's inquest, and did not act in the
case of Chester. which was a mere scrim-
mage between body of excited partlsans,
he charged it with dishonesty, and then
dismissed it. The members of the grand
jury, sixteen in number. are impeached by
a judge upon a simple allegation OF par
tsan newspaper, as the sole excuse which
Judge Abel made tor his rash and preju-
diced action was the article which he read
from the National Republican accusing the
grand jury of acting III the Wheyland case
and OF Me- lectinS TO act in the Chester case.
As Wheyland is dead and Chester is running
around loose stirring up trouble, the two
cases are very different and the grand jury
was the best Judge Of what its duties were
in the matter. This whole matter Sits it
self down to a simple question whether
Judge Abel, who is but one man, ard a
partisan at that. is TO form the opinions of
the grand jury. or whether the citizens. who
constitute the body. are to do their own
thinking.
THE PRESIDENTS GOOD SENSE.
1t is lust as well to keep clear account
as we go along, and in doing SO we find that
President Grant has to be credited with
great deal OF prudence in connection with
our rather tumultuous condition during the
last two weeks. He has kept his hands off
with patriotism singularly at variance
with the report that he always lends fist
in favor of his own partisans. The rOwdies
and the lobby who thought to make Grant
useful in the way of letting them kick up
shindy and plumber folks have been disap-
pointed. He has respected the sovereign
right OF the State to make Judy of herself
with d fairness that nothing could exceed.
AN ALIEN CARpET-BAGGER.
An Englishman named j. Chester Nor
ris, lately arrived in New Orleans. is nursing
a small sore which he was paid off with last
week for engaging in a free fight among the
sovereign Americans of the State of LOuisi-
ana. j. Chester Morris hopes to make some
money, or other good thing, out of his hurt,
but he will probably miss his object. since
the free fight business is an institution
wherein each one has to pay his own ex-
penses in this country. These John Bulls
always have to undergo the process of
licking in the United States, whether they
invade us in the shape of armies, or in sin
gle file. Each blarsted Britisher thinks he
can come to America and rectify the fight
that CORVALLIS lost, and this gets his head
into chancery. j. Chester Morris is the
latest example, but somehow he seems to
have something mean in his dispositions for
he refuses to acknowledge the corn as his
predecessors have DONE but. insists on
hiding himself as martyr to something
else besides English pluck and obstinacy.
He must be fraud.
THE REFORM MEASURES RECOMMENDED By
THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY-ONE.
The Committee of Fifty-one have made
three recommendations, and only three
after a session ri three weeks. and we must
say that the country cannot be saved by
either one of these suggestions. The rein
statement of Speaker Carter cannot be made
by Governor Warmoth, since that Is the
right Of the House of Representatives; the
purchase Of Il tract of land for an insane |
asylum can be deferred with perfect safety |
until the city can pay her legitimate ex-
penses. and the proclamation of martial law |
Is wholly unnecessary, since order has Deen
and peace now smiles upon us |
with mld-eyed beneticence from every |
quarter The self-constituted Aeropagus |
had better dsband. as it is getting its hands |
tarred with sticks that good sense has cast |
aside.
GOVERNOR WARMOTH PRESERVES THE 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 at the late election. For
once the people went peaceably and voted:
no rows, no fights, no insults. This is one
thing the Democrats and the Gem Legisa-
ture have forgotten to charge him with
How can the Democracy succeed in meas |.
ures of reform if we are to have peaceable |
such as the last one These sob
noxious laws" giving Warmoth the power
to keep the peace on election days, together
with the school bill, must be repealed or we
must have martial law at once
Miss Nellie Wharton. according to a New
ork Herald correspondent, has a face
whose spi,ltueiie beauty might haunt the
forever which is altogether an
impOssibility, you know; and the truth is
that she is exceedingly plain in looks and
language. and does not hesitate to pro-
nounce the Herald writer an internal fool
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