The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-30

CURED, for we could stand it no onger.n "Wnen
we drove out tine parish Judge and other rascals
our taxes had got up TO seven ana nine Tenths per
cent on q high valuation, ana we concluded that
we might as well stop there ana refuse 10 pay any
more taxesn said the citizen Of another parish.
Nor are even tna highest judicial officers OF the
State untanted. IN the North Louisiana Railroad
case the supreme Court OF the United states, in
It's decision delivered last winter. sald:-
property upon which had been expended
nearly a. 0J0 600 together with large stock sub
scriptlon large grant Of lsnds and consideraoie
very persons who defeated n sale Tor q much
larger pflce. and the purchase money was re-
characterize rnis agreement as nylnlug else than
gross fraud. its obvious purpose was TO
remove competition at the sale. IL was
Migrant breach OF trust on the part OF Horne,
ana A. was irauG in Ludeling, Win knowledge or
the trust Horne had undertaken, TO persuade INN
10 violate mis- instructions ana sacrifice the inter-
esss q ms constituents. himself becoming parry
aered, aajudsed ana decreed that the sale made
by John /. Labelling and his associates, and Ine
ADJUDICATION OF the Sherin to them. together with
the Snelin's deed 10 them he declared TO be
fraudulent ana void, ana be set aside and can
ce!led, and that perpetual injunction issue COM
manalng them ana all the DEFENDANTS 10 refrain
IRON setting up or claiming any rgnt, title or in
terest under SAID sale or uncer said deed, &C
Now, the John I. Ludeltng, here declared guilty
OF fraud and breach OF trust, Is the present Chief
pointed by republican Governor, and
is allowed by the Legislature to retain
his seat on the Supreme Bench OF tho
state In the lace OF these terrible words or the
United States supreme Court. Public and poti-
cal decentralization could hardly 20 further than
this. Considering the character of the men win
whom he acts he was the right man In tne right
place, and it was bat part OF general system
when "Ludeling, On. H. decided IN 1870,
in case brought before LIS Court, where
it was attempted 10 upset an act
Of the Legislature on the ground that 1t
was procured by bribing tine memoerS, that
courts not permitted TO 30 behind an enrolled,
duly authenticated and promulgated public statute
TO inquire into tbs motives which may have in
nenced the members OF the General Assembly Ia
enactipg 1t. Therefore evidence tending 10 estab-
nsa bribery and corruption against the members OF
the General Assembly, WHICH, Is alleged procured
its passage. is not admisslolq.n
now THEY MAINTAINED THEIR POWER.
Federal State aud parish Officers have handed
together to maintain themselves IN power and
nave used the ignorant fears OF the negroes TO help
them they called to their aid every man unscru-
pulous enough TO take part with them. BY alarm
ing the blacks by false istrauon, by arbitrary
arrests and threats OF arrests just before the cleo
lions, by cheating in the Returning Board,
tue Leg stature, by monopolzing Offices. they
have persistently prevented the honest people OF
the State IRON securing honest government. see
here an example A young fellow, a white man,
in the present Legislature. came hither from New
York ELK years ago, SO lar an adventurer that his
first occupation was TO teach boys to travel ON the
velocipede. He was presently engaged as sub
ordinate clerk in the Legislature, and when that
body adjourned he went 10 Mississippi, where,
the Legislature or that state being stl in session,
ne was also employed as clerk. In tue fall he
returned to New Orleans, where Warmoth,
then Governor, made him Supervisor OF
Registration and Election in an up coun-
try parish where he had never been
or lived. After the election he brougn. down the
returns, winch. by q coincidence not ar all re-
marKaole IN this state, showed him to have been
Unanimously elected TO the Legislature from the
parish where he had managed the registration
and election. Two years later, in 1872 he did not
receive the republican nomination. but, noways
discouraged, he announced himself as an inde-
pendent candidate. On his way 10 the parish,
however, he was intrusted by the State COM
mittee with the republican tickets Tor the parish
voters and 1t was discovered tnat MS name and
that OF democrat were mysterlously placed on
these tickets. Tnereupon the negroes threatened
10 lynch MIN, and he returned 10 New Orleans
until just before the election. The returns showed
his defeat; but the Returning Board seated
him. regarding him probably as too useful man
TO leave out. am told that he found it necessary
to call In the nelp OF the last Returning Board
also TO seat MIN IN the present Legislature
HOW THEY MADE A LEGISLATURE.
such cases were so far from rare here that the
Legislature OF 1869 was made up almost entirely OF
supervisors OF registration ana coored men.
warmoth, the Governor, selected as registrars a
large number OF men lett In New Orleans after
the war, ana remaining there without regular
employment. These were sent iuto the country
parishes TO register the voters, and they SO
impressed the negroes with their official rower
and dignity, that majority of them were
returned 10 the Legislature from parishes when
they had neve. seen until they went there TO su-
perlntend the election. Tue negroes were dragged
In as a matter OF bargain; they mad wit enough 10
demand q shace OF the nonors The Legislature so
elected sat sixt7 DAYS, at cost to the state, for
per diem, mileage and conrngents, OF 100000.
Fac. member Is said TO have received 81, 900 for
the session. and it is related that a single COM
mIttee or the House had elgnry-seven clerks. who
were paid $40 day each. Some account OF what
the reconstructors did and did not must reserve
for another letter. CHARLES N0RDHoPF.
MILITARY AMENITIES.