New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-27
HOW TIE POSTOPFICE Is 4 FOREIGN
COUNTRY.

] 1Le attorneys nave uleu plea 10 Lit
charge Of Instruction that the govern
men: WAS abandoned by Governor Kellogg
and found vacant by Mr.. McEnery. 1t is
a little new for State rights politicians to
so establish the supremacy Of the United
States in the locations sold and
coded for postoftice or CUSTOM
house as that they become foreign
territory, and when a man steps in
for letter he expatriates himself and
loses all rights as citizen. This is an
exceeding fine point, almost indeed in.
visible. If prosecution should be
ordered against men for. violations
Of law in seizing Offices and prop
ertv to which it is alleged they
have no title. it will be an Of.
tense. not against the Governor but
against the peace and dignity Of the COM
monwealth. We apprehend such tech
nicalities will have very little weight with
any tribunal before which the charge is
likely to be brought The violent seizure
Of the State offices would have been
equally an offense it it had been preceded
by the assassination or poisoning of all
the State officers as a preliminary step.
The sudden death of stranger in our
company gives no title to his horse OF
pocketbook. 4 merchant who goes to
the CUstomhouse to pay duty on a case Of
wine or an invoice Of cigars is not neces-
sarily an absentee.
There was one occasion when we con-
fess to have considered the executive
power exercised beyond its territorial
jurisdiction. 1t was when his ex-
excellency Governor Warmoth was said
to have signed these fraudulent" State
bonds while going at full speed on the
Mobile railroad. 1t was a nice point to
have ascertained what numbers he had
signed before crossing the State line, and
avoided those signed in other States or
beyond his official jurisdiction. We
observed this point was never taken up
very zealo.sly by such Of the ''Con-
sentative journals" referred to by Gov
e,Dor Kellogg in connection with those
same bonds.
The point Of jurisdiction filled the for.
eisn press with rapture. The Bee seized
upon i; as upon that other Picay,.ae sug-
sestion that Louisiana. having no longer
republican form of government. the
!apsed guarantees Of the United States in
vested France with . right Of reclamation,
art: Louisiana should be retroceded to
France.
The REPUBLICAN explained that the
louisiana purchased by the United States
contained some French settlements. num-
bering fifty or sixty thousand people.
That from this treaty has been erected
thirteen American States. peopled with
sixteen Or seventeen millions OF people.
with about eight millions of Germans
among them. It was asked whether
Missouri and Arkansas and Wisconsin,
whether st. Louis and Milwaukee and
Kansas City and Dubuque were willing
to quit the American union and become
again subjects Of France. It was not
probable that all the Americans, white and
colored, and all the Germans and Spani-
ards in New Orleans and Louisiana would
vote for this retrocession. So the scheme
for reannexing Louisiana to France fell
through. as the plea that the postofice
is foreign country is liable to do at
present. Let the plea be struck from the
record as irrelevant. Let the seven league
lawyers amend their plea, and the Pic and
Be. pay the costs for their false clamor in
the premises.