The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-13
CONSEQUENCES OF RADICAL In
EQUITY.

And now we have another addition to the
| frightful burdens which have been I'm
posed on this unfortunate State through
the usurpation, lewlessness and corrup-
tion Of that Radical government which
the United States Executive forced upon
| the people of this State against their de-
| clared will and voice. Yesterday Judge
| Monroe made absolute manda1nlIs
| against the State Auditor, ordering him TO
issue warrants against the State treasury for
$4,000 in favor of Judge w A. Elmore, who
| was In 1879 elected by the people Judge of the
Eighth District Court and to get rid of
| whom, and defeat the will of the people, the
| hayonet Kellogg Legislature went through
the farce Of abolishine the act creating the
court and re-establishng 1t under new
| name. that never-to-be-f forgotten tool of Rad
| tcal iniauity, Hawkins, being appointed by
Kellogg to the iudgeehip Of this new court
At the same time The Seventh District
Court, to which the people had elected that
able and virtuous iurist and citizen, r.
Wharton Collens. was also abolished
Now these two judges, gentlemen Of over
thirty years residence In this city and prac-
tice at our bar, and Of unblemished lives and
| character, protested that they had been elect
ed by the people under the constitution to
offices created by the constitution, and that
the Legislature could not abolish their courts
on their right to serve out the constitutional
term to which they had been elected.
Backed by Grants bavonets, Kellogg. his
Legislature and his courts secuted and
acoifed at the "pretensions' of these Judges
Their powers were usurped and their duties
performed. or rather prostituted. by the sup
pie Instruments Of that Infamous Kellogg
usurpation, who received the salaries Of their
offices.
The restoration Of honest and responsible
government In the State appeared the oppor-
tunity which these gentlemen sought TO sub
init TO judicial adjudication their right to hold
the iudgeships to which they had been elect
ed, and to receive the salaries attaching
thereto
Hence the mandamus proceedings, which
have resulted IN a judgment against the
State for the four years salary Of the Judges
of the Eighth and Seventh District Courts,
In favor Of Judge Collens for eighteen thou
sand dollars and of Judge Gilmore for twenty
thousand dollars, making stun. including
interest, of forty Thousand dollars to be added
to the already crushing load OF debt be-
queathed to us by the Radical government of
this State.
These decisions which have been rendered
by Judge Monroe have been sanctioned by
the Supreme Court In the case Of Judge Col |
lens. They are undoubtedly sound and con
stitutional howsoever grievo,ls and burden
some they may be in their consequences to
the State Treasury. Added to the oths bur
ders imposed by this Infamous usurnaton |
upon this unfortunate State, they make UP
an aggregate Of oppressive and speculative
wrongdoing hardly paraleed in the history
Of modern civilization. The popularity, how
ever, of these instances of wrongdoing is that |
the actors, the projectors of these crimes
against sovereign State and people, are yet
"unwhipped of Justice" =....