The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-08
ORGANIZATIONS.
70 the E 1itors of the Bulletin:
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The repeated and daring robberies of late
in this city, have, on several occasions, called
forth in your able journal the advice to our
citizens to arm themselves and rid the city
of the presence of the tt. eves. But it seems
to us that you are directing too much the
attention of the people to minor things,
| though you have done ard are dong noble
service in holding up to public scorn certain
so-called oldest and best, first citizens, and
such other sarcasms, the upholders and ben
eticiaries of governmental fraud, and State
House and other legislative jobs.
But what, in comparison, are a few house
breakings and robberies to the wholesale
plumber of a people by fraudulent govern
ment through illegal acts, pronounced legal
by debased and packed judiciary 1t
strikes me that it would be far better to di-
rect the attention of this outraged people to
the Judges (!) who enforce this undisguised
and shameless robbery of their substance by
all the mockery of the forms of law, that
the community may rid themselves not
alone of them, but of the benefciaries of the
shameless ana corrupt jobs, whose influence
and money not only buy the legislation, but
the Judgment which enforces that legisla-
ton.
doubt if any history records any people
who at any time were ever SO completely
robbed Of every right through forms of Law
as are this people to-day. There never has
been government SO utterly corrupt in all
its departments as is that so-called govern
ment maintained in Louisiana to-day by
Federal bayOnets.
The Governor, so-called, a self-convicted
and publicly pronounced falisifer, upon the
floor of the American Senate. His Legsla-
ture pronounced fraud by his veriest par
tisans in that same Senate, and not only a
fraud in its manufacture by returning
board that had no votes to count, but a still
worse fraud Off that were pOssible) by it's
manufacturing legal quorum Gas to num-
ber) by seating in it's membership, those
who were declared defeated by the return
ing board which manufactured the Legisla-
tuIe. Courts manufactured by this rump of
a Legislature to pass upon the validity of
the rump itself, and said sO-called courts
vested by the rump with sole jurisdiction in
the premises. And the Su preme Court
What's Let the verdict of the Senate Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections and the
comments made by members of the United
States Senate, answer. And vet these are
the three branches of the Republican form
of Government in Louisiana. The Legisla-
tive, the Executive and the Judicial, to
which are subjected the lives, liberties and
properties of our citizens.
What regard have this sweet trio for the
constitution of the State. Take the recent
decision in regard to the city taxes. The
constitution says, taxation shall be equal and
uniform that is, that the same rate of tax ,
alton shall bear in every PARISH in the State
alike upon the assessed value Of the property
of the citizens of the State. Now the Su-
preme Court knows that the public schools
are exclusively under the control of the
State: they know that the State levies and
collects amid other taxes, u school tax,
which is the same in the parish of Orleans |
as elsewhere throughout the State, and yet
they declare legal and uniform another tax
for these same schools, entirely under con
troll OF the State; tax levied by the Legis-
lature upon the parish of Orleans alone, and
yet these judges, each of them, swore to
support the constitution.
Therefore, v lille | entirely approve your |
counsel to this community to arm and be |
their own protectors against midnight rob-
bers and thieves, trust that yea will show
up also midday robbers and thieves, no
matter how influential how high in office |
they may stand, that the people may see
that there is no help but in themselves.
Law is mockery, justice a bye word. !
Counsel are not now engaged for then
ability, integrity and knowledge of the law.
1t Is the open comment that counsel must
be engaged who have influence with the
court, State and CITY Park, State House,
Lcvee Company, lottery and such like rings
and jobs, run this Government to suit their
interests, which are the robbery and i'm
poverishment of the people. How much
longer do the people intend to put up with
it Show them that the Government is in
all its branches organized against them,
and that they must organize against the
Government. An effective vigilance com
mittee will recledy the evil. VIGIL.
Solos, dnos, quartettes. tonight, at Grune