The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-05


company has Legal existence, you have now
proved conelusiyely that u has wantohly ana
grossly abused its prylIeges sa IL the a ay
while apprmriating to itself money 1t has. no
right to. and that it has forfeited its charter.
Where. then, can you find the slightest war, war
rant for negotiating y Wle te amen c9 HAVE
wn,i tbe mower to resurrect Q dead corpora
Him AMI more especially one that has died ID
The bond of iniquity and stinks IN the, nostrlls
Of men What hold on your attention does
!, CORPORATION possess that Is not possessed
bv ths hurnblest citizen And what citizen,
hIoh ar low. who has violated law and robbed
his fellow man can enter These portals and
pat aid and comfort from you And II not
!, number of men, like you and me In all that
uartaitis TO human rights have who are found
banded together for violating law and prey"
inp On the honest toll of their fellow men I
But we are told that your honorable body,
while admitting the forfeiture Of charter and
the iniauity perpetrated, are yet disposed To
weigh fbc immediate consequences to COM
sneree of driving these men to the courts,
there 10 contend for those things which IN
your conseiences you know they are not en-
Titled to. You will appreciate the expression
of my surprise that even In this purely utiil-
tartan age men can be found to attribute 10
yUsi such intention. Your honorable BODY Is
Tho creature Of law; you possess no functions
your Official capacity. none ct The natural
rights of man, You are the slaves tif may
be allowed the expression) OF organic ana
statutory law.
ahoritv I'd negotiate with the so-called Sugar
Shed Company in order to establish them for
all time Us q lesser instead OF q greater evil
on society," You have neither the moral nor
the legal right TO. compound the iniquity or
Illegal acts Of either individuals or combine
lions of men. If you will look back into the
history of tho government of this city you
cannot fail to acknowledge that perhaps the
most potent cause Of the great burthen we
nav carry has been the base slavery OF Coull-
ellis to monopoles, and their unerring tendency
to ,isurp authority and to exercise u In the
interests of these incltbi whenever there has
arisen nm issue between them and honest in
dustry. ,
that YOU have the right to weigh the conse-
luenees to commerce.of litigation with this
so-ealed company, / contend that even
though they may be enabled to go on rob
bling the people pending. o litigation of one,
two or three years, land assuredly they will
not. this result is Of small moment compared
with the fixation through vile compromise
of the incubus In all time; and 1 am conf
dent there Is not one thinking producer Of
sugar In the State who will not agree with
me. The coinmonest order Of philosophy
will prefer q temporary to permanent evil,
and when the evil IL ono so great as that
which exists its destruction becomes an Inn
perative necessity.
there Is no one interest in the State of Louis
lima so important to oil her people as the SUI
CUR interest, and to New Orleans 1T Is O mat
tor of necessity to exert every effort to make
herself. the market for oil that Is produced.
sites that would fatten on this great industry
by drinking Of It's life blood The Council that
is really Of the people, and In the interests Of