Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-01-11
POLITICAL,
LOuisiana-The Radical LegisIsture
Falling TO Pieces-Six Senators Sc.
cede and Join the Peoples LegisIa-
ture.

AOuisAana-The Radical LegisIstur
railing TO Pfeces-Six Senators Sc
cede and Join the Peoples LeSisis
tuFe.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10.-Tbe fusior
legislature IulIy organized at p. NJ Sen
aIor MCMILLAN, accompanied by Senator
JenKs, Noisnd, Sword, Todd, Warrall anC
hunsaker, who to-day withdrew from Kel.
rSS senate, TOOK their seats in the fusion
oensCe ana issued the following address:
| Ne'o orleans, La, Jan. 10, 1S73.-To OH,
EehoW-Cltlzens, the People OF Louisiana;
we oeem lt our duty to resent the auomo.
lous condition of affairs and to place before
our constituents and the country the rea-
son tnat actuates us in the course OF con-
duct we have determined to pursue. We
are hepubhcans. We have acted with the
National Republican party, but we cannot
sanctlon the course that has been pursued
In thls State by the custom house portion
OF our party and the Pinchback Govern
ment, and We believe no right thinking
person or class, 10 matter Of what political
shaae o; conviction, can sustain them
III thelr gross violation of the
rights OF people and their reckless and
lntolerant course. The org,niza ion of the
Senate and House we consider as reyoln.
uonary. Senators notoriousIy elected have
been displaced, and those whom thew de-
Ieated put in their places. Members of the
Legislature returned by both boards have
oeen ignored, and their places filed by de-
ieated candidates. Proscriptive leeisls ton
mas been rushed and hurried through
frocamations have been made inhibitipg
The peaceful assemblies OF citizens by an
executive who holds his office without q
color OF right and law, aud the popular wi |
mas been so detisd and outraged that we
Ieel that we cannot longer act with BODY
or support an executive, who, for marty
ends, wou Id sink every vestige of liberty in
Its hnal grave. The question who consti.
tutes the legal returning board is subordi-
nate TO the question what are the returns.
Inc returning officers may count in or
count out persons with or without RETURNS.
but the returns will show for themselves.
we ascertain that Lynch, Hawkins. Long.
street and Heron entered into q conspiracy
TO declare Mr.. Kellogg and his ticket elect
e0, and they did so without having the
olnclal returns Of the election. and admit
that their action was based on data and
memoranda and affidsvits entirely m
known to law, and when we see such vio-
lence to law perpetrated By these returning
oLncers, and when We see that Longstreet |
IS Immediately appointed to an office with |
eo,OOO salary per year, that Heron is given !
:he othce of Recorder IF Mortgages of the |
Parish OF Orleans which he demanded from
monstrols proposition was refused; Wnen |
we see that Hawkins is forthwith appointed |
TO the Judgeship of Court with a salary |
Of $1,000 per Snnpm; when we see that
minor son of Lynch was at once appointed |
TO the office Of Inspector of Live Stock es-
timated to be worth at least $4,000 per an-
mum, it is painfully manifest that the action |
of the Board was the result Of a |
corrupt bargain and that these appointments |
were gwen i'll compensation Of official |
prostitution. The Senate having been ille- |
gally organized by the revolutionary usar-
patton Of p. B. S. Pinchback, who was not |
the President Of the Senate or member of |
it, and who called up and swore in SIS Sens
tors persons who were DOtoriously defeated, |
against and in contempt of the protests Of |
a large majority of the Senators holding |
over, and who alone had the right TO organ |
ize the Senate, and in face of the rule es- |
Lsblished two years before the organization |
Of the Senate on motion of said Pinch !
back, himself then a Senator; and con |
sidering the public good and the 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 repre-
sents the people of the State.
SAM II. ToDD,
9th Senatorial District.
Il l.. SWORDS,
Sth Senatorial Distric5.
l. B. JENKs,
18th Senatorial District.
THOs. IL. holland,
14th Senatorial District.
ROBERT WARRELL,
10Th Senatorial District
o. F. HUNsAKER,
18th Senatorial District.
Daylight Dawning.
The withdrawal of six Senators to-day
from Pinchback's Legis lature created a
livsly stir in political quarters. 1t is as
serted by the FusiOnists tonight that other
Senators will leave the PiGchbackers to-
probably breaking quorum.
Plain Words.
The PicGylHe says on the situation aud |
the relief required: Let it be determined |
that the assumption by United States |
Judge of jurisdiction over the laws Of |
Louisiana was unconstitutional, and there |
fore void in all its consequences; and that |
the use Of the military Of The United States |
to uphold the unconstitutional action of the |
Judge was also unconstitutional and there |
fore to be retraced and its soldiery be with |
drawn from any control over the people Of |
Louisiana.
Georgia.
ATLANTA, Jan. 10.-The Governors |
message, delivered to-day, shows receipts |
for 1872 to be 81, ,l0l, ,840.S4; disbursements |
81 ,335, POI IA; public debt, SS,1S6,OO9. The |
Of State properly is put at SS34,- |
492, ,46S. The 4sSets OF the Georgia Ma |
tional Bank will not amount in real value |
to more than one-haf Of the States claim |
of 1922, ,593 50. The States endorsement |
Of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad |
is called to the legislatures attention, and |
that body is recommended to resume pos
session of the road and dispose OF it.
GOV. Smiths Inaugural.
James NJ. Smith was iDaugurated Gov
ernor of Georgia to-day. An immense
crowd witnessed the ceremony. The Gov
ernor in his inaugural says Georgia will
continue to perform her part in good faith
dS u ulSIlDei Vi buG al OAlOL' W
should send our wisest and most discreet
men to the Federal Legislature and be
thankful that the evil brood, nstive and in-
ported, spawned upon our State by the re-
firing armies, have disappeared from our
high places.
Arkansas.
LITTLE Rock, Jan. 10.-The Senatorial
canvass is spirited. The friends of both
Bowman and Dorsey Claim a msjority of
the Republicans for their faYorites. The
Democrats st present hold the balance OF
power.
Illinois.
CHICAGO, Jan. 10-TLe Republican
legislative caucus at Springfield last night
nominated Gov. r. j. Oglesby for United
States Senator.
Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Jan. 10.-GoT.
Baker delivered his last message to the
General Assembly this p N. The foreign
debt of the State is reported a. S744 ,G30.12.
The domestic debt of the State consists of