New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-21

main undlsturbed, Pinchback will not b
admitted, and Judge Durell will not be i'm
| peached. A careful canvass reveals tina
Carpenters bill for new election, despit
its preface in a brilliant speech. can com
| mand not over fifteen votes in the Senate
and proportionately less in the House. Th'
lawyers in Congress, Republican and Demo
cratic, generally question the right to inter
fere; and Carpenter is now making hast.
slowly. The vacant senatorial seat o
Louisiana, will probably remain so until 8
new Legislature-tO be elected next fall
| shall accredit a new incumbent. The per
sonal exception raised against Pinchback by
| Morton, while in no sense a denial of the
title OF the Kellogg Legislature to elect {
Senator, practically forbids him from set
ting it up. That he will vie again for thu
seat is both asserted and denied by his per
sOnal friends here. The printing of The
| Durell evidence is nearly finished, and is tt
the extent of but 500 copies Strenuous
| efforts have been made to persuade him to
resign; but this, he replies, would be con
| fesson of guilt. 1t is said that the evidence
| does not sustain the scandals as to bank
ruptcy matters in his court, and habits OF
inebriatiOn. The stress will be laid on his
political decision in the Kellogg vs.. Mem
cutOry order for the seizure Of the Louisiana
State House, in which Warmoths board
was counting the returns in contempt of an
injunction restraining therefrOm. He in
slsts that his, the first, judicial interpreta
ton of the enforcement act of 1870, was
justified by its text; that the House Judi
ciary Committee, while misunderstanding
this view, will impute no corrupt motive to
Durell, seems generally believed by those
on Immediate watch.
We believe the Gazette is nearly if not
quite correct in its conclusions. And
with one notable and important excep-
ton, We shall be quite satisfied with such
an outcome, as it will showa most crafty
ing and substantial Republican victory
Our point CT exception is that we shall
thereby continue to be deprived of that
equal representation in the Senate, which
is one Of the two irrepealable provisions of
the constitution of the United States. The
integrity Of our present State government
is, however. the main point, as it concerns
the welfare of more people than the
others. But there are measures now
pending before Congress which vitality
affect the public interests of the State.
and in which our one very able Senator,
General West, ought to be reinforced.
Had our Fusion opponents been sincere IN
their professions of attachment to Louisi-
ana, they would have retired from the
contest the moment they saw their only
hope Of success hung upon their ability to
palm off fraud on Congress, and thus Kept
their busybodies and mischief-makers at
home. For they have never had . ghost
Of chance since the polls closed in Novem.
Der, 1872. They were defeated then, and
have ever since doubtless been conscious
OF the fact that a renewal OF the contest,
under such circumstances
as would secure fair play. would re.
suit still more disastrously to them.
The only hitch they have been able
to effect in the political programme
Of the Republicans is the postponement
Of the admission Of Senator Pinchback.
It is no appeal to them, perhaps, TO say
that they have thereby injured their own
If they really have any, in Lou.
isiana as much as those of the Republi-
cans. II the Fort St. Philip canal bill
fails. with its appropriation of $780,.
300. to be expended in this State. we
shall know whom to thank for it. The
Committee of Two Hundred and Seventy
nave had their agents in Washington.
more or less. for over a year now. and
yet the only petition they have sent
% Congress embraced prayer for Office.
Give us McEnery for our King and Nc.
lIillen for our envoy at Washington,
'ried Messrs. Mari. Ogden. Warmoth.
Southmayd, Baker, Sheridan.
campbell and all. of great and less degree.
They had more fear for kellogg and
oinchbacis than for the merchant
narring bars at the mouths O.
he Mississippi. which have sat at the
gateway Of our commerce for fifty years. TO
urn the tide against us. We have shown.
N previous occasions, that we needed
very vote we can muster on this question,
nd all the interest we can command |
The loss Of one intelligent. active. mag
tic'man. like Senator Pinchback, may |
,e equal to loss Of ten or fifteen votes
vhenthe test comes. The Iusionists have |
never thought Of this; or, if they |
lid, they suboydinated the public interests |
o their own. We therefore regard the
actious opposition which has resulted in
,eeping our Senator out of his seat for |
nearly two sessions of Congress. with |
very reason to look for further delay. as
most serious loss to this State upon one
question alone. to say nothing of many !
'thers of scarcely secondary moment.
AS for the impeachment of Judge Du-
ell, we never believed it would succeed.
t is hardly likely that his prosecutors
AVE ever expected it would. Their main
barge against him is that he acted in a
Ease wherein he had no jurisdictions; but
s no corrupt motive has been even alleged |
gainst him, it would not be an impeach-
BILE otfense if he had erred in his judg-
nent. None Of the other trumped-up
harges against the judge are sustained
" proof, though this city was ransacked
rom one end to the other to find enemies |
o swear against him.
We have noticed the points suggested
" the Ga-s!'s becaUse tina: able journal |
las come nearer to correct apprehension
+ the true situation both here and 8: |
Washington than any other that we have
cen. The New York. Chicago. Cincin.
lat; and st. Louis papers do the best they