The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-11
LOUISIANA.

Six Senators withdraw from the kels
logg Legislature and take Seats In
the Fusion LegIslaturessThey Issue
an Address.
NEW ORLEANS, January 10.-The Flu
sion Legislature fully organized at 2P. N.
Senator Mcmillan accompanied BY Sen
stors jerks, NolAnd, SWard, Todd, Nor.
rail- and Hunsaker, who to-day withdraw
from the Kellogg Senate, took their seats
| In the Fusion Senate and issued the fol-
lowing address:
NEW ORLEANS, [
January 10, 1873. !
To Our FsLluO Citizens, the People Of Lou.
iaana-We deem It our duty ia the pres.
ent condition Of affairs, to place before
our constituents and country the reasons
that actuate US in the course of conduct
we have determined to pursue. We are
for republican form Of government.
We have acted with the National Repub'
lican party but we cannot sanction the
course that has been pursued in this State
BY tue Custom House portion Of our
party and by the Plnchback government,
and believe no right thinking person or
class, no matter Of what political shade
or conviction, can sustain them
In their gross violation OF the
rights of the people and their reck-
less and intolerant course. The or.
ganization OF tho Senate and House VIC
consider as revolutionary. Senators
VIGOROUSLY elected have been displaced,
and those whom they defeated put in
their places. Members Of the Leg
islature returned by both boards have
been ignored and their places filled by
the defeated candidates. Proscriptive leg
islstion has been rushed hurriedly through
and proclamations made prohibiting the
peaceful assemblies Of citizens by the
Executive, who holds his office without
color. Right and law and popular will
have been 50 defled and outraged that we
Ieel we cannot longer act with body or
support an Executive who, for party ends,
would sink every vestage OF liberty In It's
final grave The question: Who consti-
tutes helegal returning boardg is subordi.
nate to the question: What are the returnsS
The returning officers may count or count
out persons with or without returns.
But the returns will show for themselves.
We are certain, that Lynch, Hawkins,
Longstreet and Heron entered into o
conspiracy to declare MIR. Kellogg and
his ticket elected, and that they did so
without having the official returns OF the
election, and admit that their action was
based on data and memoranda and atIidA.
Wits entirely unknown to law. And
when wesee such violence to law perpe'
trated by these pretended returning
officers; and when we see that LOugstrect
is Immediately appointed to an office
with $4,000 salary per year; that Heron
is given the Office Of Recorder OF
Mortgages in the Parish of Orleans,
which he demanded from McEhery
for compensation in advance for
counting the returns In his interest,
which monstrous proposition was refused;
when we see that Hawkins is forthwith
appointed to iudgeship Of q court with
salary OF $4,000 per annum; when we sec
that minor son Of Lynch was at once
appointed 10 the Office Of Inspector OF
Live Stock, estimated to be worth at least
$4,000 per annum, it is painfully mani
Test that the action OF the board was the
result Of q corrupt bargain, and these ap.
pointments were given IN compGnsa-
ton for official prostitution. The Senate
having been illegally organized by the
reVolutionists and the violent ursurpa-
tions Of P. 3. s. Plnchback, who was not
President Of the Senate or member of
it, and who called up and sworein as Sen.
ators persons who were notoriously
defeated, against and in contempt Of the
protests Of a large majority Of the Sena-
tors, who alone had the right to legal.
lie the Senate, and in the face Of the rule
established two years before the organi.
zation of the Senate, on motion OF said
Pinchback, he himself then Senator; and
considering the public good and interests
Of our constituents; we have withdrawn
from the body with which we have been
acting, and will hereafter take our seats
in the Senate which we believe truly rep.
resents the people Of the State. 9
SAM. N. TODD,
TT.-aaH. 6h Senatorial District.
Fl. L. EDWARDS, "
Sth Senatorial District.
L. B. JENKs, A
l2h Senatorial DiStrict.
THos Il. NoIAND,
..- 14h Senatorial District.
RoBT. WoRRELL,
1871 Senatorial District.
OF. HUNAMAKER,
IN Senatorial District,