New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-25

Lamon said he could speak only for his
firm; they would not recognize Davis -
parish Judge, and would certainly respect
the mandate of public opinion in this mat
ter.
Mr.. Kuickerbocker said he, as the mover
for the adoption of the committee's report,
felt bound by the recommendations made
therein. He urged planters and others not to
triug causes before Davis, and the lawyers
would have no excuse to 90 before him.
If such committee of public safety is
to rule the parish, there can be but little
safety in East Baton Rouge. If all lawyers
should ignore the judge after the manner
Of Lamon & Co., and criminal offenses
can not be punished until the Democratic
candidate is appointed judge, anarchy and
chaos will follow. That ''the people, ex-
pect this is seen in the resolution prepared
to shift the responsibility for outrages to
come. The resolution says:
RESOLVED, That we as An oppressed people
feel that in the event Of sny violence to the
obnoxious officials of this parish, the re-
sponsibility is not upon ne, but upon the
Governor who has disreg arded our reas ona-
UAO OSASoAA0'
To show with what fairness "the peo-
pie" conducted the negotiations for Office,
a subcommittee even proposed to allow
Senator Barch to return to his parish with
flag Of truce, as it were, to effect GER
tain compromises. That liberal PROPOSE
ton, however, appears to have been over
ruled, for the public safety report reads:
After the return of the second sub. COM
mittee, no regularly appointed committee
visited New Orleans, for the purpose OF
urging the appointment of officers to fill the
vacancies. While the second sub-commit
tee was in New Orleans, 1t was proposed
that J. Henri Burch should be allowed to
visit Baton Rouge with the view of arrang
ing the difficulty Of appointing the officers
This proposition was refused By the com.
mittee.
Citizens Of law-abiding States, unused
to Democratic Office seeking leagues, vigi-
lance committees and regulators, can
scarcely understand the Baton Rouge
middle. They can not appreciate the
cheerfulness with which man resigns an
an Office when the neighbors come in
with guns and invite him to step out.
Accustomed to the slow ways of legal ad-
justment, they wonder why officers are
not dealt with according to law instead
Of according to campaign committees If
the tax collector and the judge of East
Baton Rouge have been guilty of NAL
feasance, extortion or other misdemeanors
in Office since elected or appointed, let
them by all means be punished according
to their deserts. The Democratic party
condemns the acceptance of Belknap's
resignation. Let no guilty man escape
by resigning. If criminal, Judge Davis
and Collector Beauregard can not be made
clean by the appointment of Democrats to
their offices, and with new Judge and a
new collector there will come no guaran-
tee that "the people" will commit no
crimes against life or property, or that
the other people, or any people will Fay
their taxes cheerfully. The fact most
prominent in the Democratic party, from
Hon. Hester Clymer down to ''the peo-
pie" of Baton Rouge, is that its members
want Office and power more than they
want peace and prosperity. To refuse to
recognize en- officer does not depose him
according to law. If the lawye rs and
'the people" refuse to try and be tried
before any particular judge, the status of
the court is not thereby changed under
the law. The tax Hector, robbed of his
books and papers, and run out of town, is
no less q tax collector because he has
been abused. But the shotgun arbiters
do not consider these facts, 70 m ore than
did Confederates consider that the Union
could not be dissolved by fighting. Tax
collectors and judges who do their duty
can not be popular in Louisiana; but
that fact is so much the worse for the
State; and so the quarrelsome faction of
East Baton Rouge, who will have no men
in the parish not Of their set, are doing
the parish an irreparable harm. The dis
turbance there looks bad, and is the work
Of bad men.