New Orleans Republican., 1873-02-25
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| er, and denOunceS hlIa as "a cOupounA
of pertidy and perjury 1t asserts that
the decree Of the State Superior Court
was Jrotum ,fulmen. and demands WIN
authority how much longer the people
will quietly submit to the DEGREES OF a
bastard Judge of bastard court, created
by a bastard Legislature? Now. upon
what authority does the Pjcdycc's pro-
nounce these arrogant and offensive opln-
ions? Upon that OF the Senate committee
report? Here is an extract affirming that
authority. 1t is used to demonstrate the
illegality of the State government, and OF
a tribunal created under it. Speaking OF
the Senate committee report the Picdytne
says:
All the members of that committee in
| their preliminary report agreed with re-
| markable unanimity that the Kellogg gov.
! ernment was simply usurpatlon. without
| foundation in law. They unanimously de-
ciared that the Lynch returning board
| never had the official returns of the eiec.
| ton before them and never had any legal
| or competent evidence before them to en-
able them to declare what the results OF
| that election were. In their complete
| report the same statement Is reiterated.
1t is then asked. 'why do our people,
with these two reports (the majority and
minority reports of the Senate commlttee)
before them, continue to endure that
monstrous party creation. the Superior
| District Court Here, then, this report Is
of such high authority that even before Its
| confirmation or discussion by Congress,
the people and bar OF New Orleans are
called on to repudiate an existing State IN
stitution upon the divided dicta OF fed
| eral Senate committee! This combination
Of subservient obedience to the central
consolidation, with popular notification
of State law, is curious fusion, or
amalgam of extremely opposite doctrines,
But in this diatribe against the Supreme
and Superior District Courts Of the State.
this Senate committee report is evidently
set up as an authority sufficiently high to
crafty popular notification. or disobe-
dience to law.
To indicate the impartiality Of its cen
sure, the Picayou,s next lashes Mr.. Tex
ada for having dared to introduce in the
body of gentlemen assembled at Odd Eel
lows Hall, resolution approving and
indorsins the new election proposed by
the report of the committee of the Senate
of the United States" After canvasslng
''the statement and reasoning OF these
resolutions as 'loo5e and unsatisfactory III
the extreme" the Picay,me summons poor
Mr.. Texada upon the charge OF having ad-
mitted that the Senate committee ''have
reported that there is no State govern
ment at present existing in louisiana;
and thus the same committee report, which
was set up in another column as an au-
thority to justify q nulliication Of State
law, il now dismissed as unworthy Of
credence because it asserts what the
| Picdvlne states to be untrue. Thus
the authority of this report, which was
supreme in one column, is nullifed by
the Picayme az unworthy credence in
| another. But if this report does not bind
Mr.. Te1ada or the Pjcoytne. why should
it bind Judge Hawkins? And if il bind
Judge Hawkins, why should it be sus-
pended at the breath of the Picoyu.e? !?
The Picoyu0e having therefore stripped
Mr.. Telada of the fragile protection af-
forded by the report, draws through its
terocious fingers its editorial "cat o nine
tails, still reeking from the tiagellation Of
a Republican offender, and thus applies If
TO the shrinking epidermiS Of the un-
happy Fusionist. ''We ask him, then, if
he believes there is no State government
in Louisiana? If he does. why has be
been in the city for the last six weeks
Now we submit that any gentleman has
right to come TO New Orleans and remain
any number of weeks without a pass from
the Pic1yltne. The culprit Texada is not
allowed to quote from the columnS Of the
fagellator that ''the Kellogg government
was an usurpation without founda-
tior in law as an evidence that the
opinion of the committee was of au
tlority. The Pjcayue can use the
report in that sense. but poor VeXada can
not. "HOw," asks the lictor, 'has he
dared assume the functions OF a member OF
the Legislature to which he now ac-
knewledges he has had no right whatever!
VIII he say he was elected a member but
has been stripped of his position by the
report of the committee" 4 by-stander
might have thought the Senate committee
had the same right TO strip Mr.. Texada Of
his position as to turn out Judge Hawkins
from the bench. Leaving, however, Mr..
Te1ada shivering, metaphorically. IN his
shirt-tail, the Picayuoe turns to the crowd
and saws. again. we ask. where does the
committee where does Congress itself de-
rive the authority to pass upon his right
or question the validity OF his election:
OF course, none dared respond 10 one who
holds the law in one hand and the scourge
in the other, but the echo comes from the
columns in which the validity of the COM
m;ttee repor: is maintained, why do our
people. with these two iSenate) reports
before them, continue TO endure that
mons.roUs party creation, the District
Superior Court" Il i, thus the priesthood
of party forbid, the lag members TO read
AVID cOnStr,,a th. articles OF COM
mon faith. nr to delUce any
other meaning from public doc