Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-02-01
LOUISIANA
Address of the Committee.

'aua Com ulIttcc nave ISSUED an ADDRESS
to the people of the United States who
they believe are not unconccrned
! spectators of the events now trans.
| piring within the limits OF that State,
and to which, it is probable, no paral !.
lei can be found in history. The Conn
mittee repel as utterly false the insinu.
alton that th, y are mere allies of Gov.
Narmoth, They are not representa-
tlves 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 pro.
nounced opponents while in those
| measures for which he has been most
loudly denounced, he had for advisers
associates, coadjutors the very men
who now assal him, including, espcc-
tally, Pinchback, Antoine, and Others,
whose names figure most conspicuously
IA these proceedings. The Committee
declare. i'll reply to an other inSinuaiion
that they are not parties to aud have no
knowledge of any political trickery in
tended to defeat the true voice of the
people hat they do not believe any such
existed, aud that they would not be here
unless ssthey cau'd proclaim conscien-
ously their conviction, that the men
who have hc>n fusted into the Offices Of
The State have net ner lv been irregu-
Iarly and unavfu'Iy Installed. but were
not elected by :he People, and sere
not and ere not he choice Of the
v"ling population of Louisiana The
Con ni'tce add that all they have asked
Of the Government is to make n candid
and impartial investigation of the
facts; aud then they proceed TO give
detailed statement af all the facts
conns cted with the election, including
the vari' us injuneilons by courts, and
with the organization of the partial
Legislature which impeached Governor
Narnoth aud placed PinchDack in his
stead
Steps having icen taken, say the
Committee, ly Governor Warmoth to
secure revision by the Suprc me Court
Of the United States Of the chancery
orders Of The United States Circuit
Court this body forthwith hdoptcd,reso,
lutlons TO dismiss these proceedings.
The militia was placed under command
oi Genera Lonestreet, and the arsenals
taken posses ion Of 10y 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 courts have no iuris.
dIction at all The Circuit Court of
the United States is Court OF limited
jurisdiction, and without any authority
To enter INTO civil suits between citizens
oi the same State. unless the case arises
directly under the Constitution and
laws of the United States, and jur,s>
dIction is vested by acts of Congress
Congress has no power to confer juris>
diction in any other case between such
citizens. 1t has no authority to
give jurisdiction over a suit of a
citizen Of the State against the State.
Under the act Of Congress of 1870,
upon single condition of facts, a citi-
Zen of State may maintain a suit for
an office of a State within the Courts
of United States, but the State Lsgisla,
turc is specially excepted from the
operations Of this act, in the same clause
that excepts members Of Congress and
Presidential Electors; The organiza-
ton of the. Legislature is by chancery
order. Had there beeen resistance to
to the execution Of the orders, and riot
aud bloodshed had followed, upon whom
would have fallen the responsibility !?
By whose forbearance was it that
bloody catastrophe has not Teen exhi-
tied as scandal to the land ? It
netimes happens that the Executive
Department is tolerated excused or
justified in acts of administration which
exceed their legal powers. The argu-
ments derived from the terms of State
necessity, public welfare or CONVENIENCE
here have q sooting influence,
but judiciary action 10 not