Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-01-13
THE LOUISIANA CONFLICT.

4 NetO More IN the ConteSt-W Wahd,'aicaI of SEN
dt0rs from the Kellogg LegisiatRe-An idiress
Agd'RSt tSWpatton -L0ngstreet Charged tcih
Conspiracy sc.
NEW ORLEANS, January 10-The fusion Legis-
Iature fully organized at O'clock p NJ Sena-
tor Mcmillan, accompanied by Senators jerks |
Nolan, Swords, Todd Worrill and Hunsacker |
who to-day withdrew from Kellogg Senate, took |
their seats in the fusion Senate, and issued the |
following address:
Ne,o Orleans, Jan. 10, 1s73-To our fcllow-ct- |
izens, the people of Louisiana.-We deem it our |
duty IN the present anomalous condition of af. |
fairs to place before our constituents and country
the reasons that actuate us in the course of CON
duct we have determined to pursue.
We are republicans believe in Il republican
| form of government, and We have acted with the
national republican party, but we cannot sanction
the course that has been pursued in the State by
| the customhous portion of our party and by the
| Pinehback government, and believe no right
| thinking person or class no matter of what polit-
| cal shade or conviction, can sustain them in
gross violation of the rights of the people and
their reckless and intolcrant course.
| The organization of the Senate and House we
consider as revolutionary. Senators notorously
elected have been displaced, and those whom
they defeated put in their places. Members of
the Legislature returned by both boards have been
ignored and their places filled by defeated candi
dates. Proscriptiye legislation has been rushed
huriedly through, prOclamations have been made
prohibiting peaceful assembly of citizens by the
executive, who holds office without the color of
right and law, and the popular will has been so
dehcd and outraged, that we feel we cannot longer
act with body or support an executive who for
party ends would sink every vestige of liberty in
It's final grave The question who constitutes the
legal returning board is subordinate to the ques-
ton what are the returns. Returning officers
, may count in or count out persons with or with
; out returns, but the returns will show for them
| selves.
We ascertain that Ly nch Hawkins, Longstreet
e and Heron entered into conspiracy to declare
Mr.. Kellogg and his ticket elected and that they
do so without having official returns of the cleo
ton, and admit that their action was based on
! data and memorandum and afidAvits entirely un
/ known to law and when we such violations
= Of law perpetTated by these pretended returning
| officers, and when we see that Longstreet is i'm
: medlately appointed TO an ofics with $4,000
Il salary per annum; that Heron Is given thu
v office OF recorder Of mortgages of the parish o
{ Orleans, which he demanded from McEnery a
u compensation i'll advance for counting the return
IS IN his interest, which monstrous proposition wa
y refused when we see that Hawkins is forthwith
g. appointed to the judgeship of court with
u salary OF 10000 per annum when we see that
Ill minor son of Lynch was at once appointed to tn
g. Office OF inspector of live stock, estimated to b
Iy worth at least Sl2 900 per annum it is painful
I'll manifest that the action OF the board the rt
l. suit OF corrupt bargain, and that these appon
ments were gwen In compensation for otiici
prostitution.
The Senate having been illegally organized /
of the revolutionary and violent usurpatIon of
or B. 5. Pnchback, who was not president of tt
% Senate, o o member of 1t, and who called up al
at. swore in as Senators persongwhU were nOtorlou
les ~ ueIeateu' against anu IN contempt OF tue pr
nv tests of a large majority of Senators holding Ov
n, and who alone had the right to organize the Sc
pr ate and in the face of the rule established tv
ID years before the organization Of the Senate,
Ow io'ou Vi 'o .1 lt : nusot oeiIe
49, interests OF constituents, we hare Withdraw
asy from the body with which we have been actiI
80 80 and will hereafter take our seats in the Sens
oIS which We believe truly represents the people
ion ' ~ ~ In Tt t;I in.t
o "u Jenks twelfth senatorial district; Tnos. II.
land, fourteenth senatorial district; Robert w
~. ri, sixteenth senatorial district; o. f. Hunsac
ilSi eF, seventeenth senatorial district.