New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-09

lows rom the the theory and exposition
OF our republican constitution and insti-
tutions. Nor il i. taken from out Of the
same category with New York and Chi
cago and Charleston by any stipulation
made by France in the &C: Of cession to
the United States. The P;cayune is mis-
taken IN saying that there were any rights
given by France, or guaranteed by the
United States, as condition of that act
OF ces'don. The United States purchased
louisiana without other conditions than
those stated in the following extract from
! the treaty:
The inhabitants Of the coded territory
shall be incorporated in the Union Of the
United States, and admitted as soon as
possible. according to the princinles of the
federal constitution, to the enjoyment of
all the rights. advantages aud immunities
OF citizens of the United States, and in the
meantime they shall be maintained and
protected in the free enjoyment Of their
liberty, property. and the religion which
they profess.
1t SO happens that this is accompanied
with comment of its meaning from Ma
poleon /. He said
Let the Louisianians know tina. we
separate ourselves from them with regret;
that we stipulate in their favor everything
that they can desire, and let them here
after. happy in their independence, recOl
lect that they have been Frenchmen. and
that France, in ceding them, has secured
for them advantages which they could not
have obtained from . European power.
however paternal.
These quotations show that the guar
antee Of France was for the early admis-
sion OF the territory ceded into the
Union, and for ''the enjoyment of all the
rights, advantages and ilnmunities of
citizens of the United States," with
protection in the meantime, or for the
interval before their admission into the
Union, and to the rights Of American
citizens in the enjoyme Mt of their lib.
erty, property, and the religion which
they profess.
Long since that date every foot OF the
Louisiana territory has been admitted
into the Union, and almost all of it is
now constituted under the Jurisdiction of
State in the Union. We have never
heard that ST. Louis, or any other munich
pal corporation existing upon the terri
tory coded, claimed any foreign privi-
leses, or any exemption from federal or
State law by virtue Of any stipulation of
the French treaty.
From this reasoning it will be seen that
whatever has been done in past legislation
to amend or repeal the act of legislation
regulating the municipal rights of those
citizens Of Louisiana resident within the
parish Of Orleans have had the sanction
Of republican law. These powers have
been discussed by our ables. lawyers
and statesmen. with force of argument
and citation Of authority which has
settled the power Of the State over its
corporate creatures. That much is SET
tied OF the intentions of the execu-
tive in regard to the bill understood
to be pending his consideration. We know
nothing. The covert threat Of the Plea
yune. if the executive shall dare exercise
q power conferred upon him by the
constitution. or exercise a ieliberative
duty he has sworn to perform. with all
bills communicated by the coordinate
department for his approval or rejection,
will. by no means add TO or diminish
any personal peril which the executive is
supposed to incur in the performance of
his duties. Not impossibly. il fight Tor
official and personal existence is before
him. the executive may be impelled 20
disable his enemies from employing
against kim source OF Pc yer and patron !
age fourfold that which he can invoke
for his defense.