New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-14
Louisiana CIassIcn.

Amidst the general wreck of matter and
the crash of William Allen and go on, it is
encouraging to find that there remaius
among us one who watches over the letters
| OF Louisiana end gees to their culture and
perpetuation. Mr.. b. R. Forman has lust
uttered legal document for no discov.
erable purpose save to conserve this strenu-
| GUS form of literature; and although the
effoit was modest as might have been ex-
pected, and while MIR. Forman Stunned the
conspicuous methods that other and, let us
add, less deserving persons have adopted,
the result is one of which its author may
well be proud, and for which the com.
munity will be or ought TO be grateful.
MIR. Forman is the owner of certain real
estate lying in the rear of town-not to put
to fine point on it-in square No. 574,
bounded by Cont, Murat, st. Louis and
Olympia streets. 1t is remote and mel.
ancholy property, liable to frogs and dairy
m.l, yet. humble as it is, Mr.. Forman
rightly believes that it will unacceptable as
an offering to the cause he advocates.
Coming generations need never know of
the milk and wa ter privileges; the advanced
charity of a hundred years hence will as.
sociate no selfish motives with the noble
monument Mr.. Forman has bequeathed
them, The fact that Mr.. FOrman refuses
to settle with the tax collector can pass Tor
poetry, and the terms in which he couches
his refusal will immOrtalize at once the
nf r.
most gifted bard. The current liters ture
of the day-the hmsy and epbemeral
record of our trivial lives-has Mr. Forman
classified in the list of those who would
gladly accept from this same government
which he embalms in scorn the remission of
their debts! Contemporary chronicle de
scribes Mr.. FoIman as being rather Jealous in
the work-a leader, or at all events a promi-
nent cO-laborer anon z them; an eloauen ex.
FOUNDER of the lOvelness of discount, an
expert and impassioned framer of resolu.
tions appealing for indulgence, if not for
aims. 1t seems to be quite well understood
about town that if the policy of the Kellogg
usurpatiOn should change from its present
unfeeling sternness of demand to one of
conformation and forgiveness, Mr.. Forman
and party would be quite willing to submit
themselves and forever afterward to blink
its infamy. But these petty details will
have been forgotten in the era in which
Louisiana classics take their place upon the
book shelves of the future. The lots on
Olympia street will have passed, with their
frogs and dairymen, into oblivion, and Mr..
Forman will be known, not as an orator,
not as public debtor who would if he
could, not as q talented barrister, or, in
fact, as anything which now he notably is,
but as the inspired minstrel who, in some
long gone time, sang Louisiana's woes in
heavenly strains and numbers sweet, il
somewhat questionable.
Let US lend our humble aid toward pre.
serving these gifted pages for grateful
and admiring posterity. Let US, as the say
ing runs, proceed to pass them on. Let US
cooperate with Forman. We must We
can not stand by in silence and inaction
and suffer to sink into the obscurity of a
Justices court record so fine burst of song
as this
To the Hon. W. T. Houston First Justice of the
Peace for the Parish of Orleans Louisiana:
The petition of Benjamin Il. Forman, re-
siding in New Orleans, Louisiana, respect.
fully shows that he is the owner of certain
tract or portion of ground situated within
the limits of the city OF New Orleans, in
the square No. 574, bounded by Cont,
Murat, St. Louis and Olympia streets, com
prising twelve contiguous lots of ground
designated on the plan of the old Drainage
Company by the Nos. IL, l2, Is, l6, H. Is,
10, 90, 81, %, 23 and 2f lots Nos. Is to o.
inclusive. having each a measurement of
thirty feet front on Cont street by depth,
between parallel lines of Ill feet, lot No.
% forming the corner of Murat and Cont |
streets; lots Nos. ii and l2 have each thirty |
feet front on Olympia street by depth of |
Nos. % and "a have each thirty feet front |
on MI rat street by depth of $50 feet, be. |
tween parallel lines, with buildings and |
thereon.
Now your petitioner shows that he is in |
quiet and peaoeable possession of said prop |
erty, and has been for more than nine years |
past, and that one Benjamin +. JOubert,
who claims and holds himself out to the |
world as State tax collector of the Second |
District, threatens to disturb petitioner in /
The peaceable add quiet possession of said /
property illegally and without warrant of |
aw. That said b. f. JOubert has in the New
Orleans REPU8LICAN newspaper advertised
hat on Tuesday, October S, 1875, he will
'ell twelve lots of ground, in square No.
,74 assessed in tie name of b. f. Forman,
10 pay the sum OF 500 %, copy OF which
s hereto annexed.
Your petitioner shows that said property
; not the property of B. +. Joubert, and |
aid b. +. Joubert is unknown to petitioner;
hat the description is illegal and inaccu-
ate; the numbers of the lots are not given,
lor the correct measurement is not given;
hat said b. +. JOubert has no right or au-
hOrity 10 law TO seize, advertise or sell the
property, of petitioner; that he has in law
10 official capacity, and was not appointed
y the legal Governor of Louisiana; that he
'retends to be acting under the authority
f certain act of body claiming to be
legislature tsaid act being No. AZ of
S73); that sad body was not q Legisla-
ure; that it was chosen by Judge Durell,
Jnited States District Judge, and empaneled
y United States Marshal Packard, and said
Ody was illegally, violently and un-
sgally elected members excluded, and
be State House was, by force of arms
sized by the United States army, and
o persons bat those chosen by Durell and
'ackard were allowed admittance, and the
,gal Legislature was not allowed TO assem-
le and judge of the qualification and cleo
on OF its members; tnat the body SO or
auized is not republican in form, and the
hole proceeding by which said body was
and by which w. P. Kellogg
surps executive functions, and JOubert at
,mpts to exercise the functions of tax col
ctOr, and in violation of article four, Sec
on four OF the United States constitution,
le protection and benefit of which your
atluuner claims.