The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-10
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OF THE JUDICIARY,

DsURPAT1ONs OF THE JUDICIARY.
The argument In the lottery case was
concluded In Billings court Wednesday.
Thoe j. Semmes opened The case Monday for
the lottery; tho Attorney General and AS
sistant Attorney General replied, and Judge
John A. Campbell, for the Lottery Company,
closed the following day. Perhaps any
speech-maklng Oh either eide was unneces-
sary. There is scarcely man In the State
who knows anything about Judge Billings
relations with The Lottery Company who ID
not fully convinced that, right Or wrong, mr.
gument Or no argument, law or no law, he
will decide any and all questions which may
arise In bits court affecting tho Lottery Com
pany as that institution may dictate. From
tho moment we learned that the COM
pany and its attorneys had the audaclty to
| utterly ignore tho State courts and apply d.
| rectly I'd the United States Circuit Court for
an Injunction to prevent the execution Of d
criminal statute OF the State, to the moment
John A. Campbell closed his argument, Or
until this hour, we have never doubted that
Billings would stand by the company.
For some years past the tendency OF the
Federal judiciary has been to usurp the jurls-
diction oil the State courts, and more has
been done through the subtle and lnsidlous
decisions of the courts to destroy the
rights Of the people and the States than was
accomplished by carpet-baRgery the usur-
patlons Of authority by Grant and tho army
which no controlled regardless Of law or JUS
tice. Indeed the Capitalization sts have
found means Of destroying civil liberty.
concentrating power and upholding the OPP
pressive privileges Of the few, more potent
than the bayonets Of C,Bsar or Napoleon; and
| under the insldious forms " law and the per-
| nicious decisions of the courts, tho character
| Of the government ID being destroyed and the
| oligarehy Of the money power strengthened
and established. And no Federal court has
been 10 reckless and INSCRIPTIONS III its on
croachments upon the Jurisdiction OF the
state courts ana the rights and functions Of
the State government as the United States
Court for the District Of Louisiana. We have
not forgotten, and the heart of every Louisi-
anan burns with Indignation at the reeollee-
tion of the fact that. III 1879, the whole State
government OF Louisiana WINS overturned and
mn odous and Infamous usurpation set up by
mn order signed ut midnight by drunken
| Judge of that court, and that the present
| Judge Or the same court was present at tho
contamination Of the crime; that he was the
partisan and attorney Of the usurpation
and the chief instigator Of that Judi
eial outrage which must, SO long as
men love honor, justice and liberty,
remain stain, black as hell, upon the
Federal judiciary. The men who were
parties to that crime, however exalted the
official positions they may reach, can never
escape from the cloud Of lnfamy In which 1t
has enshrouded them and oil their acts. More
recently we have seen our fellow-cltizens, by
the hundred, In the name Of the United
States oliterally laid hold o Of by the
United States marshal, dragged from their
homes and brought before the Federal courts
IN this city for doing what, II II was q crime
at oil, was crime against the laws Of the
State and cognizable by the State courts.
Many Of our fellow-cltizens from Tensas par-
ish are now here for the third time, hundreds
OF miles away from their homes, their bust
ness and their families, dragged hlther by the
Federal authorities. and they have only es-
| capped trial and conviction for being Dem ocrats
through the pressure of public opinion
throughout the country.
| Only fow weeks ago d tool Of the Lottery
Company, m impecunious rascal, ON
the most absurd statement OF facts,
asked Judge Billings TO prevent the
payment Of over forty Thousand dollars Of
State warrants for work faithfully, honestly
and legally performed rs Judge Monroe has
decided for the State; and because the cred
itor Of the State, In the case, was inlmical
to the lottery, the United States District
Court literally took possession OF the State
treasury and forbade the payments.
And now, able and eminent lawyers re-
tanned, or to be retained by the bondholders,
relying upon the fact that the Federal courts
are In the interests or the money power, and
cf1fnery by which the eeHtfaiizatieH-
lists propose to carry out their glgan-
tic scheme Of establishing an olgarchy, are
asserting that the State OF Louisiana may be
proceeded against in the United States courts
and forced to meet the letter OF so-called
contract into which the people were forced, IL
they were parties to 1t at all. at the point Of
the bayonet.
The Louisiana State Lottery is q pernicious
institution and should be abolished But the
invasion Of the rights Of the State by the Fed
eral courts and the revolutionary grounds
taken before those courts by lawyers Of the
ability and distinction Of Thos. J. Semmes
and John A. Campbell are subjects Of greater
consequence to the people, and should excite
amongst them tiercer denunciation and a
more determined hostility. The abuses in
politics and the Generalization OF manners
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lana; but the legal positions taken by these
distinguished attorneys, and In so many in
stances sustained by the Federal courts, con-
Germ every State Of the Union and strike at
the vital principles OF the constitution and the