New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-13

OF constitutional government 10 milital
despotism. The Democracy needed son
such sham as this to delude the judgmel
OF the people in their reflection upon the
late remissness. They knew that when IL
people came to reflect upon tho possibilit
OF the ,non-coercionists again obtainiu
power, they would shrink from such a CO..
summation A magnificent vista of comm
power has dazzled the vision of some Pres
Dental aspirants; but they will find thu
the attempt to make the people of tn
country believe that the man who led th
hosts OF freedom is now seeking to throttl
their liberties, is "the ARREST bubble ths
ever filed either IAN empty head" or
head 0vercrowded with ambition.
Will dIgress now to say few words i
regard to an attack made upon the Supre,n
Court OF my State. 1t has been stated tina
the personnel Of that court was bad, and il
support of that statement decision ha
been cited of the Supreme Court of tn
United States recently rendered. Tha
decision IL not yet final, an application
Tor rehearing having been made by MI
Reverdy johnson and Judge Black on tn
ground, among others. that tho court ha,
| Inexperienced the facts of the case; an,
the presumption is that such eminent coun
sci would not apply for rehearing in
case IN which they had not been previonsl,
grounds therefor. Under the circumstances
1alr play and common decency would re-
quir6 that the decision should not be dis
| cussed in deliberative assemblies
In much OF the discussion in regard tt
Louisiana affairs the supreme bench oil
Louisiana has come in for liberal share o.
apprehension l want to show to the Senate
who these men are that are so generally
condemned here on ex parte testimony. To
demonstrate how the chief justice Of that
State is regarded, in 1872 after he had been
on the bench four years, and during the
sitting OF the Democratic convention which
nominated Colonel John McEnery for Gov
ernor OF the State, and in which convention
he was delegate, and the Governor that
was afterward nominated by that conven-
ton, McEnery, telegraphed to the chief
Justice OF the State, Judge Ludeling, to
know II he would accept the nomination of
that convention for the office Of Governor.
That honor was declined. Later the dele
gates from several parishes to the Liberal
convention which nominated Colonel Penn
Tor Governor met at Monroe during the
session OF the Supreme Court, aud after
consultation they asked the chief Justice if
he would accept the nomination for Cover
nor from that convention, and this honor
also he declined. The facts in connection
with the case decided by the Supreme Court
OF the United States were known to those
delegates, as they lived in the neighborhood
OF the railroad which is the subject of that
litigation, and among them were leading
lawyers in that portion of the State. It is
not alniss to state that in 1866 Judge
LudellDg and some of his fellow citizens
purchased at public sale the wreck of a
railroad. Their title was attacked in the
State courts, and both the district court and
the Supreme Court of the State decided
that their title was valid. Another suit was
then filed in the Circuit Court of the United
states attacking the SALE The Circuit Court
decided IN favor Of the sale, and tho Su.
preme Court has recently reversed that
but an application for rehearing
8 s9lii pending IN that case. as already
stated.
An aliusi0n has been made here to q
dispatch sent by Colonel Casey, as if he
NEW or could fOreshadOw the opinion of
he Supreme Court in its coming decision to
,e rendered on the Returning Board case.
Nobody but Colonel Casey is responsible
or that dispatch. At the date of the dis.
'atch he was not even acquainted with the
members of the Supreme Court The Su.
IRENE Court had refused to recognize the
commission OF Ogden as Attorney General
N the ground that it was issued in
iolation of law, having been issued |
efore the canvass of the votes by either of |
he returning boards; and that probably |
vas the basis OF the conjecture on which |
,Olonel Casey concluded that the Supreme |
;ourt OF that State was in harmony with |
be Republican party.
In answer to the attack of Senators on |
be personnel Of the other members of that |
curt, l shall be excused for stating briefly |
Tho those gentlemen are who, without a
caring. are being condemned aud de-
ounced here.
The chief justice is native of Louisiana,
man who has spent his whole life in that
tate, and up to this time without blemish
: the slightest suspicion of disrepute.
hose two conventions were composed of
is lifelong fellOw-citizens. Those men
lat except to his rulings now as chief
!stice of the Supreme Court were perfectly
illing and indeed anxious that he should
scoms the chief executive of their party
i'd of their people and of their State.
Mr.. Justice Tallaferro is native of
irginia; during many years parish judge
1der the constitution of 1912. In 1852 he
as a member of the constitutional CON
,nt;on which met in that year. In 1861 he
as elected as Union man to the secession
invention. He was one of seven of all
% Union men elected to that convention
no haG the courage to refuse to sign the
dlnance OF secession. In 1868 he was
ected to the constitutional convention, of
hich he was the president; and he was the
emOcratic candidate for Governor in 1868
opposition to Governor Warmoth. He
now nearly seyenty-seven years of age,
ID all his lite he has borne an unblemished |
putation.
Mr.. Justice Howell is native of Louisi-
"A. He was several times elected to the |
ice of district judge before the war; In |
bl he was delegate to the constitutional |
INVENTION, and in 1864 he was appointed a
stice of the Supreme Court, and in 1868
was reappointed to the same office. He
10 is regarded as man of unimpeachable |
egrity.
Mr.. Justice Morgan is aAative of the
ate. During several years before the war
was Judge OF the Second District Court |
Nav Orleans. and was afterward district I
lorney for the United States at New {
leans. He ranked among the foremost i
yyers at the bar. Mr.. Justice WHY is a
tive of Tennessee, who had large and
'rative practice in the country after the I
IT, and in 1868 was elected district Judge,
d atterward appointed to the Supreme G
urt c
20 all these attacks made upon the I
preme Court Of Louisiana are made upon I
n who are known and have lived there +
III lifetimes, and because they have the | Q
dependence to construe the law according c
their oaths, they are subjected to denun- t
tons unheard Of elsewhere outside of
uisiana and certainly that ought not to l
in here. 8
VOW, M. President, will claim the at
ton Of the members of the Senate to S
&c of the proceedings had in the so-called Il
estigation of the affairs of Louisiana, "
the record Of which proceedings is O.
tied here with such evident satisfaction Il
onr friends on the other side of the | G.
mber. r,
q an official report which we have here, "
committee state that they undertook no tt
estigation of the election of 1872. They | fl
bounced this, and they would therefore c,
proceed to an examination Of the acts | ii