Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-03
Address of the Louisiana Com mittee
to the People of the United States.

WASHINGTON, December %.
The Louisiana Committee have issued an
address to the people of the United States,
who, they believe, are not unconcerned spec
tators of the events now transpiring within
the limits of that State, and to which, it is
probable, no parallel can be found in histo-
ry. The Committee repel as utterly false
the insinuation that they are mere allies and
agents of Governor WarmOth. They are
not representatives of any personal or party
interest whatever. So far as Warmoth's
past conduct is concerned, few, if any OF
them, have not been among his pronounced
opponents; while in those measures for
which he has been most loudly denounced,
he had for advisers, associates, and coadju-
tors the very men who now assail him, in
Guiding, especially, Finchbeck, Antoine,
and others, whose names figure most con-
spicuously in these proceedings. The Com
mittee declare, in reply to another insinua-
ton, that they are not parties to and have
no knowledge of any political trickery in
tended to defeat the true voice of the peo-
pie; that they do not believe any such ex-
listed, and that they would not be here un-
less they could proclaim conscientiously
their conviction, that the men who have
been foisted into the offices of the State have
been not merely irregularly and unlawfully
installed, but were not elected by the peo-
pie, and were not and are not the choice of
the majority of the voting population of
Louisiana. The Committee add that all
they have asked-of the Government is to
make candid and impartial Investigation
of the facts: and then they proceed to give
detailed statement of all the facts connected
with the election, including the various in
functions by Courts, and with the organiza-
tion of the partial Legislature which i'm
peached Governor Warmoth and placed
Pinchbeck in his stead.
Steps having been taken, say the Commit
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ion by the Supreme Court of the United
States of the chancery orders of the United
States Circuit Court, this body forthwith
adopted resolutions to dismiss these proceed
ings. The militia was placed under COM
mand of General Longstreet, and the
arsenals taken possession OF by the
aid of the United States army. A civil
revolution was accomplished within a
month, under the orders of Chancery
Court, in suits over which the Court had no
Jurisdiction at all. The Circuit Court OF the
United States is Court of limited jurisdic-
ton, and without any authority to enter into
civil suits between citizens of the same
State, unless the case arises directly under
the Constitution and laws of the United
States, and Jurisdiction is vested by act OF
Congress. Congress has no power to confer
jurisdiction in any other case between such
citizens. It has no authority to give Jurls-
diction over suit of citizen OF the state
against the State. Under the act of Con-
gress of 1870, upon single condition OF
facts, a citizen of State may maintain a
suit for an Office of State within the
Courts of the United States, but the State
Legislature is specially exempted from the
operations of this act, in the same clause
that excepts members of Congress and Pres
idential Electors. The organization of the
! Legislature is by chancery order. Had there
been resistance to the execution of their or
/ ders, and riot and bloodshed had followed,
upon whom would have fallen the RESPONSE
bility By whose forbearance was it that a
bloody catastrophe has not been exhibited
as scandal tothe land It sometimes hap
! pens that the Executive Department is tol.
Grated, excused or justified in acts of admin.
istration which exceed their legal powers.
The arguments derived from the terms
of State necessary, public welfare, or con
venience have here soothing influence, but
| Judiciary action is not entitled to any bene
| fit from such arguments. The damage
which ensues from the employment of judi
ciary power to accomplish other than juaicia