The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-11
LOUISIANA.

New ORLEANS, January l0.-At 2
P. NJ. Senators McMillon, jerks, Mo-
Ian, Swords, Todd, Worval and Hun
sucker passed through the hall on their
way to the Senate Chamber, their
appearance being the signal for hearty
applause which was loud and long.
The following is an address to their
constituents:
NEW ORLEANS, January 10.
To our Fellow Citizens, the People Of
Louisiana
We deem it our duty in the present
auamolous condition of affairs to place
before our constituents and the country
the reasons that actuate in the course
OF our conduct we have determined to
pursue. We are Republicans, and be-
lleve in a Republican form of govern
ment. We have acted with the National
Republican party, but We cannot sane
ton the course that has been pursued
in this State by the Custom House por-
ton OF our party and by the Pinchback
government, aud believe that to right
thinking people, no matter Of what
political shade, can sustain them in the
gross violations OF the rights OF the peo-
pie and their intolerable course. The
organization OF such q House we con.
slider as revolutionary. Senators noto
riously elected have been displaced and
those whom they defeated put in their
places. Members OF the Legislature,
returned by both Boards, have been ig-
nored and their places filled By defeated
candidates. Proscriptive legislation has
been rushed hurriedly through, proc
lsmstions have been made inhibiting
the lawful sssemblage OF citizens by an
Executive who holds bis office with
out color OF right or Of law, and the
popular will has been 30 defed and out
ragged that we feel that we cannot longer
act with a body or support an
Executive who for party ends
would sink every vestige Of lib-
erty in its final grave. The question
as to who constitutes the legal Return
ing Board is a subordinate to the ques.
ton, what are the returns The Return
ing Officers may count in or count out
the persons with or without returns,
but the returns will show for them
selves. We ascertain that Longstreet,
Lynch, Hawkins and Heron entered
into q conspiracy to declare Kellogg
and his ticket elected, and that they did
so without having the official returns
OF the election, and admit that their
action was based on data and memo
rsnds and affidsvits entirely unknown
to the law and when we see such violence
to law perpetrated by these men, and
when we see that Longstreet is imme-
dately appointed to office with $4,000
salary per year; that Heron is given
the office Of Receiver of Mortgages of
the Parish OF Orleans. which be de-
manded from McEnry as compensation
in advance for counting the returns in
his interest, which monstrous propo-
sltion was refused; when we see that
Hawkins is forthwith appointed to the
Judgeship OF Court with salary Of
$4,000 per annum; when we see that a
minor son OF Judge Lynch was
at once appointed to the Office
OF Inspector OF Live Stock, estim ated to
be worth $1,000 per snnum, it is pain
fully manifest that the action OF the
Board was the result OF corrupt bar
gain and that these appointments were
given in compensation for official
prostitution. The Senate having been
illegally organized by the revolutionary
usurpatiops of P. B S. Pinchback,
who was not the President OF the Sen
ate or q member Of it, and who called
up aud swore in as Senators, persons
who were notoriously defeated, against
and in contempt OF the protests of a
large majority OF Senators holding over
and who alone had the right to organ.
iIe the Senate, and in the face OF the
rule established two years before the
organization OF the Senate on the mo-
ton O. the said Pinchback himself, |
then Senator. Considering the pub
lie good and the interests Of our con-
stituents, 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 this State. (Signed),
Samuel NJ. Todd, Sixth Senatorial
District; P. K. Swords, Eighth Senator.
ial District T. B. jerks, Twelfth Sena-
torisl District; T. n. Noland, Four.
teenth Senatorial District; Robert
Worrsll, Sixteenth Senatorial District
o. n. Hunsacker, Seventh Senatorial