The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-01-16
New Move in Louisiana.

A New Move IN LOUISIANA.
On Friday last six members of the
Kellogg or Grant Senate of the Louis
ana Legislature seeded from that
/ body and went over and took their
seats in the g Fusion Legislature.
They issued an address to the people
of that State in which they concisely
state the reasons for their course,
which constitutes one of the most
! powerful indictments against the
usurpers who have undertaken TO
overthrow The government of that
State aud deprive the people of the
sacred right of self-government.
They say:
| We deem it our duty in the present
anomalous condition of affairs to
| place before our constituents and the
country the reasons that actuate US in
the course of conduct we have deter
mined to pursue. We are republicans
and believe in a republican form OF
government. We have acted With the
National Republican party, but we
cannot sanction the course that has
been pursued in this State by the Gus
tom-house portion of our party and
| by the Pinehbeck government, and
we believe no right thinking person
| or class, no matter of what political
shade or conviction can sustain them
| in the gross violation of the rights of
| the people and their reckless aud in
tolerant course The organization of
| the Senate and House we consider as
revolutionary, Senators notoriously
elected have been displaced and those
whom they defeated put in their places
| Members OF the Legislature returned
| by both bo ards have been ignored and
/ their places filled with the defeat ed
candidates. Proscriptiye legislation
has been rushed hurriedly through.
Proclamations have been made pro-
! hibiting the peaceful assemblage of
citizens by an Executive who holds
! Office without the color of right and
law. and the popular will has been so
defed and outraged that we feel that
we cannot longer act with body or
support an Executive, who, for party
ends, would sink every vestige of lib
erty in its final grave. The question
who constitutes the legal Returning
Board is subordinate to The question
What are Returns2 Returning officers
may count in or count, out persons
with or without returns. but the le-
turns will show for themselves.
We assert that Lynch, Hawkins,
Longstreet. and Heron entered into
his ticket reelected, and that they do
of tie election, and admit that their
l. lat nd
oranda, and affidayits entirely un-
known to law and when we see such
violations of law perpetrated by these
pretended returning officers, and
when we see that Longstreet is imme-
diately appointed to an Office worth
$4,000 salary per annum; that Heron
is given the Office of Recorder of
Mortgages of the Parish of Orleans,
which he demanded from McEnery,
as compensation, in advance, fer
counting the returns in his interest,
which monstrous proposition was re-
fused when we see that Hawkins is
forthwith appointed to judgeship in
court, with salary OF $1,000 per
annum when we see that minor
son of Lynch was at once appointed.
TO the office of Inspector of Live
Stock. estimated to be worth at least
$4,000 per annum, it is painfully
manifest that. the action of the Board
was the result of corrupt bargain,
and that these appointments were
given in compensation for official
prostitution.
The Senate having been illegally or
ganized by revolutionary and violent
usurpations of p. B. S. Pinchback,
l. L.
or a member of it, and who called up
and swore as Senators persons who
were notoriously defeated, against,
and in contempt of the protest of a
large majority of Senators hold
ing. over. and who alone had
right to organize the Senate, and in
the face of the rule established two
years before the organization of the
Senate, on motion of said Pinchbeck,
himself then Senator and consider
ing the public good and the interests
of our constituents, we have with
draw from the body with which we
have been acting, and will hereafter
take our seats in the Senate which we
believe truly represents the people OF
the State.
SENATOR WILSON, of Massachusetts
is striving to come the jeff. Davis
dodge of attempting to hide beneath
his wife's, petticoats. During the late
political canvass hcGenied most ear
Anestly and emphatically the charge
that he held stock in the Credit Mobi-
lier. 1t now turns out that,the stock
was put in the name of his wife. OF
course the virtuous' and truthful SEN
ator knew nothing of the transaction
and is wholly innocent in the matter.
By way of kicking the South some
one fishes I'D out of the census certain