New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-11
Address Of the Boiling Senators.

The following is the address of the bolt
ng Senators to the people Of Louisiana and
their fellow citizens. 1t is signed by Sam
III. Todd, sixth senatorial district; II. L.
Swcrds, eighth senatorial district; L. B.
jerks, twelfth senatorial district; Thomas
Fl. holland, fourteenth senatorial district;
Re- bert Worrell, sixteenth senatorial dis
Urict; o. r. Hunsaker, seventh senatorial
district.
The address reads thus:
We deem it our duty, in the present
anomalous condition of affairs, to place be-
fore cur constituents and the country the
reasons that actuate us ia the course of
conduct We have determined to pursue.
We are Republicans, and believe in re-
publican form of government; we have
acted with tue natio al Republican party,
but we can not sanction the course that has
been pursued IN this State by the Custom
house portion of our party and by the
Piuchback government, and believe that no
right thinking person or class, no matter of
what political shade or conviction. can sus-
tain them in the gross violation of the rights
Of the people and their reckless and intol-
Grant course.
The organization of the Senate and the
House We consider as revolutionary. Sena-
tors not0riousiy elected have been dis
placed and those whom they defeated put
in their places. Members Of the Legislature
returned BY both boards have been ignored
and their pieces filed by defeated candi-
dates.
Pruscriptive legislation has been rushed
burriedIV through, prOclamatiOns have
been made iuhibiting the peaceful assem-
bling of citizens by al executive who holds
his office without color of right and of. Law,
and the popular will has been SO defied and
outraged that we feel that we can not
longer act with a body, or support an ex
ecutive, who, for party ends, would sink
every vestige of liberty in its final grave.
The question: Who constitutes the legal
returning board2 is subordinate to the Ques-
ton: What are the returnsf Returning
officers may count in or count out persons,
with or without returns, hut the returns
will show for themselves. We ascertain
that Lynch, Hawkins, L0ngstreet and Her
ron entered into a conspiracy to declare Mr..
kellogg and his ticket elected, and that
they did so without having the official re-
turns of the election, and admit that their
action was based on data and memoranda
and affidavits entirely unknown to the law,
and when we see suoh violence to law per-
petrated by these pretended returning Off
eers, aud when we see that Long
street is immediately appointed to an
Office with 5000 salary per snnum;
that Heron is given the Office of recorder
of mortgages of tho parish OF Orleans,
which he demanded from McEnery as com
pensation in advance for counting the re-
turns in his interest, which mOnstrous prop
ositlon was refused; when We see that Haw-
kns is forthwith appointed to the indge-
ship of court, with u salary of $1,000 per
aunum: when We SEQ that minor son of
Lynch was At 0nco appointed to the office
OF insneotOr of live stock, estimated TO be
worth at least ! i2 600 per annum it is pain
fully manifest that the action OF the board
was tie result OF corrupt bargain, and
that these appointments were given in com
pensation for official prostitution.
The Senate having been illegally organ
lied by the revolutionary and violent usUr-
pations OF z. j. 5. piuchback, who was not
the President of the S+nate or ii. member Of
ito and, who called u(o and swore in as Sen
Dat.ee .,errOas .FPln were nOtoriOUSiy de
fsat.G, agaia% Snd in contempt Of the pro-
se-fs of large SiaiorltS Of the Senators
heItIius suSer. eld who soue had tu- right
'Sp,rganis- tho senate, and III the face OF
eEe sulo sstubtiehrd two years before the
s,r sas, ltiau - tre S'n:e.eo on the motion
al eaId %uchhack himself, then a Senator;
sud eon-it.-,lus the public good aud the in
Sreasts Of uSg constituents, We have with
s!..s . sAsrous the body nth which we have
ben acting, APP wul hereafter take our
sen,s in the Senate whicb we believe truly
vau.esents the po0ple of the Sta,eo
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