The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-04-19

IN. o. Democrat, April 10th ]

the Attorney General aud Assistant
Attorney General replied, and Judge
John A. Campbell, for the Lottery
Company, closed the following day.
Perhaps any speech. making on either
side was unnecessary. There ID
scarcely 4 man in the State who
knows anything about Judge Billings'
relations with tho Lottery Company
who is not fully convinced that, right
or wrong, argument or no argument,
law or no Law, he will decide any and
all questions which may arise in biz
court affecting the Lottery Company
AZ that institution may dictate. From
the moment We learned that tho com.
pany and its attorneys had the an.
dacity to utterly ignore tho State
courts and apply directly to the
United States Circuit Court for 40 10.
junction to prevent the execution Of .
criminal statute Of tho State, to the
moment John A. Campbell closed bic
argument, or until this hour, we have
never doubted that Billings would
stand by the company.
For some years past tho tendency
Of the Federal judiciary has been to
usuIp tho Jurisdiction Of tho State
courts, and more lIas been done
through tho subtle aud insidious de-.
cisiOnS of the courts 10 DESTROY the
rights If the people aud the State,
than wac accomplished by carpet.
baggery, tho usurpatlons Of oetlority
by Grant and the army which 10 con-
trolled regardless Vi law or justice
Indeed, the centralizstiODists have
found a means of destroying civil
liberty, concentrating power and up.
holding the oppressive privilege Of
the few, moro potent than the bayo.
nets Of Cesar or Napoleon and On.
der the insidious forms If law and
tho pern,cious decisions Of the courts
the character Of the government j.
being destroyed and tho oligarcly o1
the money power strengthened and
established. And no Federal court
has been M reckless aud unscrupuloul
IN ito oncroachments upon the juris-
diction Of tho State courts and the
rights and functions Of the State gov.
er0ment az the United States Conr(
for the District Of Louisiana. We
have not forgotten, and tho heart ol
every LOuisianian burns with indig-
nation at tho recollection Of tho fac
that, in 1873, the whole State gov,
eminent Of Louisiana wac Overturn.
ed aud an OdiOns aud infamous usur-
patton set up hy an order signed al
midnight by q drunken Judge Of thai
co"s(, aud that the present Judge oI
the same cont was present at thu
consumation Of tho crime: that he
was the partisan and attorney If tl,s
NsurpatiOn and The chief instigator q
that judicial outrage which. must, q
long rs men love honor, Justice AMI
liberty, remain a stain, black a. l'sll
upon the Federal judiciary. I'll,
men who were parties tn that CT lime
however exalted the official pOsitiOnl
they may reach, can never escap'
from the cloud ot infamy in which, j
Ias enshr"uded then, aud all thei
acts. More recently We have sec,
our fellowAcitizeps, by the hundred
in the name of the United State,
literally laid hold Of by tho Unite,
States marshal, dragged from thei
homes and brought before tho Fe.le
raj courts in this city for doing what
lit was \ crime ct Oh, was . Grim,
sgainst the Laws Of tho State 90,
eognisa6le by the State courts. Man!
Of our fellow. citisens from, Tensa
parish arc now hero for the third
time, hundreds Of miles away ftou
their homes, their business and thei
families, dragged hither by the Fetle
raj authorities, and they have onl,
escaped trial aud conviction for bs
ing Democrats through the pressur
Of public opinion throughout tb'
country.
Only . few weeks ago . tool Of th'
Lottery Company, an impeeuniou
rascal, On tho most absurd state
ment Of facts, asked Judge Billing
to prevent tho paymeat Of over fort,
thousand dollars Of State warrant
for work faithfully, honestly and le
gally performed, - Judge nonro
has decided, for tho State; and be
cause the creditor Of The State, ID o.
case, was inimical to tho lottery, tb
United States District Court literall!
took possession Of tho State treasur,
and forbade the payments.
And now, able and eminent la~
yess, retained, or to b retained b
the boudholdere, relying upon tb
fact that tho Federal courts arc 10 tll
interesta Of the money power, 40,
that they actually constitute tho ma
ehinery BY which tho esntralisation
ists propose 70 carry out their gigau
tie schems Of establishing 90 oligat
chy, arc asserting that the State q
louisiana may b proceeded again,
10 tho United States courts and force
to meet the letter Of . so-called con
tract into which tho people wero fore
ed, il they we're parties to II At oil
ct the point Of tho bayonet. 2.7i
The Louisiana State Lottery il
pernicions iostitotiou and ehould b
abolished. Bot tho invasion q th
rights Of the State BY tho FEEDERS
courts aud tho revolutionary groaad
taken before those courts By lawyeI
OF tho ability aud distinctiou Of Tho
j. Sem,nes sod John A. Campbell q
subjects Of greater, consequence I
. the people, aud should excite among,
then, = dercer dennciatiou and : nor
determined lsoatility. Tho sbnsss i
politics and tho dsner.lisation {
msnns's caused BY the Lottery, con
esrn only Looisisla; but the ~,
positions taken BY these distinguis6e
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