Year: 1875

New Orleans Picayune.


The Republican affects TO believe that
a number of the Conservative members
will be induced to abandon their present
position and take seats in the Hahn leg
islature for the mere purpose OF drawing
ther mileage and per diem. The OBJ
iect of this insinuatlOn is, OF course, to
cast suspicion upon the purity OF the
motives which influence those gentle
men, and to encourage the illegal body
now holding forth in the stateh ouse
with the idea that their proceedings
may yet be legalized by an accession Of
Conservatives sufficient to constitute
genuine quorum. We think we can
speak for the Conservative members SO
far as to say that no such action on their
part has been or will be contemplated.
While the people Of the State are some
what divided as TO the policy or proprie-
ty of entering into an adjustment which,
in return for certain guarantees, Will give
them the control of the lower house OF
the legislature, there is absolutely no
dissent whatever to the proposition that
il would be the climax Of wickedness
and folly for any Conservatives to re-
turn as suppliants to a house from
which they had been expelled by force,
and as minority to body in which
by right and justice they have large
majority. No desirable end could pos.
siUly be served by such course as that,
and no member pretending to represent
a constituency of respectable Taxpayers
would think for one moment OF pursuing
il. The Repu5licdn'S covert sneer at
our poverty is no doubt justified by the
facts. Both personally and as people
the whites OF Louisiana have been
brought cOnspicuously low in fortune
through the misgovernment and spolia-
ton of which the Republican is at
once the mouthpiece and the parasite.
Yet we hope and believe there is not
one of them, hOnOred by their fellow
citizens confidence and intrusted with
their fellow-ci:izens' advocacy, who
could be induced to do thing so vain,
so Venal aud so trescherOus. We view
this question without much sentiment
ality in the main. 1t ia admitted that
our ills result from the unrestrained do
minion Of the Radical party, and, such
being the case, il seems to US that We can
well afford 10 pay even an exorbitant
price in order to overthrow that domin-
lon and check the pace at which IL is
hurTying us to utter ruin. We hear
gentlemen speak OF principle being in
volved in this or that detail, yet the
/ welfare OF louisiana and her rescue
I from brutal aud unscrupulOus bondage
/ constitute the one great principle that
/ should be dearest and most sacred TO all
true L0uisisnians, aud in its behalf We
/ esteem few sacrifices too great, few con-
! cessions too burdensome. We took this
/ ground when the Wheeler adjustment
came before Us, and should take it again
With reference to any proposition otter
/ ing a tangible and practical foOthold i'll
/ the control of our local government and
! the shaping OF its legislation. But to


enter the Hahn legislature without any


prospect Of accomplishing good re-


sult: without the smallest right 20 ex-


peet a restitution Of the power which


was so tyrannically aud Outrsgeously


snatched away; to foregO dignity, ig-


more insult and cOndole fraud and


usurpatiOn, for no other purpose than


that Of personal pecuniary advantage


that would, indeed, be base aud ignO-


miniOus and iDeXcusable abandonment


of principle-a humiliation to which
not 8 single one of the Conservative


members could d1eam for one instant Oi


descending.


The fourth ballot for United States


senator In Joint convention OF the Min


nesOLa legislature yesterday, stood as fol-


lows: LCGhren, 81; Cole, s.; MMillan


81; Ramsey, 5; scattering, u.