The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-01-18
Address Of tho Senators who Left tho
Pinchback Senate.

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| no OUR rELLow-CITIzENs, THE PEG
Pile OF LOUISIANA,
I We deem 1t our duty, In tho present
anomalous condition Of affairs, to place
J before our constituents and tho coun
! try, the reason that actuato us in tho
! course of conduct we have determined
to pursue. Wo are Republicans, and
believe in Republican form of gov
ernment; we have acted with, tho Nat
tional Republican party, but we can
not sanction tho course that has boon
pursued in this State by tho Custom
House portion Of our party and by the
Pinchbacle government, and believe
that no right thinking person or class,
no matter of what political shade or
conviction, can sustain thcm in the
gross violation Of tho rights Of the peo-
pie and their reckless and intolcrant
course.
The organization of the Senate md
tho House we consider as rcvoiutiona-
ry. Senators notoriously elected have
been displaced and those whom they
defeated put in their places. Members
Of tho Legislature returned by both
boards have been ignored and their
places filed by defeated candidates.
Observation-Disclosures has been rush.
cd hurriediy through, proclamations
have been made fnhibitfng tho peace
full assembling of citizens by an Execu-
J., oE3S
of right and Of law, and tho popular
will has been 80 defied and outraged
that we feel that we cannot longer act
with a body, or support an Executive,
who, for party ends, would sink every
vestigo of liberty in it's final grave.
The question, Who constitutes the
legal returning board is subordinate
to tho question, What arc the returns 2
Returning officers may count in or
count out persons with or without re-
turns, but tho returns will show for
themselves. We ascertain that Lynch,
Hawkins, LOngstreet and Herron on
tered into n conspiracy to declare Mr..
kellogg and his ticket elected, and
that, they did SO without having the
official returns OF the election, and ad-
init that their action was based on data.
and aflldavits entirely uu-
known to the law; and when we see
such violence to law pcrpetratcd by
these pretended returning officers and
when We perceive that Longstrect is
appointed to an office with
six thousand dollars salary pcr nm
NUM-; that Heron is givcn tho Office OF
Recorder Of mortgages Of tho parish OF
Orleans which he demanded from Nc
Emery, as compensation in advance.
for counting tho returns in his intorrst.
which monstrous proposition was ro-
fused; when wc sec that Hawkins ia
forthwith appointed to tho Judgcship
OF court, with salary Of five thou
sand dollars per AMMAN whom we 500
that n minor son Of Lynch was at once
appointed TO the oflico of Inspector of
Live Stock, estimated to DC worth at
least twelve thousand dollars per an
mum, it ia painfully manifest that these
WtAc gwen Ill SOI1I9IlS,l-
ton for official prostitution.
Tho Senate having boon illegally or
ganizcd by tho revolutionary and vio-
lent usrrpations of p. B. s.. Pinchback
who was not tho President of tho Sen
atc or a member OF It, and who called
UP and swOrc in rs Senators pcrsons
who were notoriously defeated, against
and in contempt of the protests of a
largo majority of tho Senators holding
over, and who alonc had the right to
organize tho Senate, and in tho face OF
the rule established two years before,
in tho organization of the Senate, on
the motion of said Pfncllback himself,
then Senator; and considering the
public good and tho interests OF our
constituents, we have withdrawn from
tho body with which VIC have been
acting, and will hereafter take our seats
in the Senate, which wo believe truly
represents the people OF tho State.
SAM NJ. ToDD,
Sixth Senatorial District.
II. T.. SWonna