Show editorials THE ad address dreas of the louisiana committee of citizens to the people of emhe the united states appears in the new york and other papers it is an im document coming not from adherents of either elther faction abt ion lon but disclaiming sympathy with either the committee state that the present unhappy aud and political situation of louisiana was brou brought about entirely by the agency of 0 meers officers civil and military of the general government and the citizens of Loul dann dana not doubting that the action of the executive in reference wab was the result of a misapprehension of the facts held SO au influential meeting in new orleans and appointed a commit ie e e of one hundred gentlemen to visit washington lay the facts before the thi several departments of the government and solicit aid in repairing the gross wrongs which had bad been done and in restoring to to the people the right of het beo seif helf govern ment which had bad been wrest wrested uel cot from them by the most potent usurpation the committee assert that there to Is an effar to belittle the question at issue and to treat a conspiracy to overthrow the government of the state as a mere st ruggie ruggle for political ascendancy between governor warmoth and arkel mr kellog lo 10 saying that the former was endeavoring to cheat the nitter hitter out of his election ele eif diou dlou aud bud that the committee were mere ruei h agents and allies of warmoth thih lw bation the committee repel eem uli ril and un d the hm iino no with guv warmoth Warm jum laor wie wip wb ht lit U H cai Cat didato for fur nuy buy office in lii the recell uit elt cilus most if nol out mii ail of the commit teki teti were among his pro opponents in regard to hit hie patt career ahil in the mutt mott molt t severely of his measurer measures hib bib his adgit ero ere associates s blid alid were tho abe very men meu wlm now ismil him especially including Pitch pinchback baek nack antoine Au tolue iolue aud antl rt re who augure figure conspicuous in tie tia te pree gc bir wik ci c winlet o tire ete purties parties to tiny any political trickery iu u defeat the true voice lot the pe pel pepa ale pJ add bud they do n ajl tt believe belleve that thai buy aljy exise exist but the com corm mitlee jy proclaim their conviction thal thul the ouen nuen who have been bee been u foisted luo ino the offices of tufe the blate state have beed beeh not merely irregularly arld arid uti lawfully unlawfully but were not nou elected by the people and are hint bint the choice of he majority of the voting 1 population of louisiana and alid all the committee wish is A candid and irn lin partial investigation of the facts the committee then make heir statement ment melt of which the following is the principal part ferst first there war was a general election held heid in louisiana on the ath day of december last for the election of a governor L eu tenant governor members of the general assembly and other state hd federal officers at this election wiiliam william pitt kellogg kei Kyl logg 1099 a member of the senate of the united states and C 0 A a collector coln coin teton neton of the port or of shreveport were candidates fer the office of governor and lieutenant governor and were opposed by john mcelery mcenery and arld davidson Pv deon B penn the present governor warmoth was not a candidate for reelection election re second this election was conducted without riot disturbance or violence and of votes cast was unusually large the returns of the election were made to appointed for the purpose this board was composed under the law of the governor warmoth the lieutenant governor the secretary of state and two other persons named lamed in the tha law viz john lynch lyn Lyu chand and thomas 0 And aud anderson androu erson erbon the office of secretary of state was filled at the time by mr GJ G J herron who had been appointed by governor warmoth to fill the vacancy caused by the removal several beveral months before of george E bovee the legality of which removal and appointment was then in contest before the state slate courts the board met and it was re solved that anderson and pinchback were qualified die dib by reason of their being candidates for office warmoth then removed herron whom he be had bad appointed from the office of secretary of state as a defaulter and appointed and commissioned wharton in hib bib stead we have no reason to believe that the action of governor warmoth in the removal of herron was based upon a desire to commit fraud for U under oder the returns there was no n feces aces sity oty for fraud it was prompted by his discovery of a plot between herron heiron and lynch to falsify the beturne and defeat the will of the people this Is manifest from the fact developed developer deve lopea loped in the evidence before the court that herron anticipating the thwarting of bis scheme had bad several days before ordered a duplicate of the seal of state to be engraved by which means he be hoped to preserve the insignia of the office in the event of hie removal by the governor omitting ng further details warmoth and wharton on the one hand band assuming to be a majority majd rity of the board and in the presence of Lynch proceeded to elect hatch and hind daponte to fill the vacancies caus ed by the withdrawal of pinchback abd and anderson andersen while lynch and herrou herron afterwards assembled and under the same assumption elected longstreet and hawkins thus there come to be two bod bodies lein leir each to be the returning Be turning board ona one presided over by governor warmoth the highest executive officer of the state and under the law the presiding officer of the board and which had possession of all the election returns and everything necessary to ascertain the result while the other consisted of lynch ethe removed secretary of state herron and their two appointees after the state supreme court decided that the removal of bovee and the original appointment of herron were illegal and arld bovee was reinstated in his hib office whatever in may sy be said of these contesting boards it is clear that the courts of the U united acted alted states had no semblance of authority to decide between their conflicting claims to office after it had bad become probable that the two candidates william pitt kellogg and C C anthine hud bud been defeated and that their op would be declared elected they respectively ret res filed ol bills in the circuit court of the suited states for the district of louisiana for injunction and re lief the governor of the state the members of the canvassing board other citizens of the state con necked with the promulgation of the returns and certain persons elected or claiming to have been elected to the legislature and to me tie tle governorship were made defendants lir oue one or other of these suits the cause several of complaint wab was that they severally several leveral al ay apprehended that they thy would be deprived of the offices for which they nad had been candidates tibey they claimed to have 1 ad the majority of votes at the t lt ellon cllon and that there bad been 10 voters prevented from voting kolii g because of their complexion and previous state or of servitude whose votes they would have received the bill billot of kellogg professed to be for the preservation and perpetuation of the evidence of the election and to have reference to the support of a suit he might have to bring to recover the office An suit was wab similar to the claims of title and had reference in its prayers for relief to the organization of the general assembly at its meeting under the proclamation cla mation of the governor on khe he ath day of December 1872 wai tat third for the parties to these suits were all citizens of the state of louisiana the object of the suits was to assist title to offices of the state in advance of auy any decision or announcement by any board of any pers person onas as elected and to determine the persons to make the decision und and the announcement nent beat by the judicial hut kut authority hority of the circuit court of the united states blates pending the an ex parte and private order was made on the suit of kellogg to the effect that the defend defendant anti antl H 0 warmoth the governor had in violation of the restraining order of the court issued a proclamation and return of cert certain ikin persons claiming to be the board of returning officers the terms of said order were as follo follower fol ool lowb lowr wt 11 now therefore to prevent the further obstruction of the proceedings in this cause and further farther to prevent the violation of the orders of this court and the imminent danger of disturbing the public peace it is hereby ordered that the marshal of the united states for the district of louisiana shall forthwith take possession of the building known as the mechanical mechanics institute and occupied as a state house for the assembling of the legi lature lathre therein inthe lathe in tha city of new orleans and hold hoid the bame same rub sub eject to the further order of this court and meanwhile to prevent all unlawful allam assemblage blage biage therein under the guise or pretext of authority claimed by virtue of pretended canvass and returns made by said returning officers in contempt and violation of said restraining order but the marshal is directed to allow the ingress and egress to and from the public offices in said building of persons entitled to the same fourth the interlocutory and ex parte order of the suit of antoine the candidate for lieutenant governor seem beem to have bave been made as the complement to the order above quoted in the suit bult of belll kellogg directed the pc cu pation of the state capitol by the marshal with directions to prohibit what is termed in the order an assemblage ful fui while the same mar shai bhai snails Is directed to allow the ingress and egress of persons persona he might determine to be entitled to such a privilege this order in id tb the case cabe of antoine Ant olne oine Is ia comprehensive ane anc and 1 explicit none can mistake its or ar its object it is ie first that the governor of the state be enjoined arid and restrained from examining the elec elee election dion ilon returns or counting votes except in the presence of officers designated in these orders and from controlling interfering with or attempting to interfere with the organization of the state legislature and from doing any act or from giving any ord order or or direction or making any request which may directly or indirectly prevent or hinder any person from being present and taking part in the organization of the sen ate called on the ath of december or at any future day who may be returned as a member thereof by a board composed of H C warmoth george E bovee I 1 james longstreet jacob hawkins and john L ohland Nich Ni land whose name hits has been transmitted to chas chaa merritt secretary of the senate by geo E bovee secretary of state second that twenty named persons who had been candidates for the office of senator in the state senate and who were supposed to have betm bein elected and had been declared to be so BO were enjoined and restrained from participating in hany bany manner in the organization of the senate or doing any act about thib that th it or unless their names should appear on boveen list of names of members of the senate as transmitted to the secretary of the senate charles merritt third thira about one hundred persons whose names are given who were supposed to be elected to the house of representatives of the general assembly and had been declared to be so elected were similarly enjoined from participating in the organization of the house of representatives or from doing any act or casting any vote unless their names were ou on boveen list of members fourth the clerks of the senate and of the house of representatives were severally enjoined from placing on ady apy list or announcing noun cing the name of any member or from recognizing as a member or from designating as a member prior or during the lue organization of the respective houses any person name was not placed upon bovers list JA ath the secretary of state bovee was enjoined from receiving returns of the ahe election of state officers or of members of f the general assembly excepting such as bho sho should uld be filed I 1 in n bla bib office by the board composed of warmoth longstreet hawkins lynch and bovee sixth the chief of the metropolitan police and all of its members numbering about eight hundred and the board were enjoined from interfering with the organization of the general assembly and not to prevent those on boveen I 1 iet list from entering into the halls of the assembly seventh the persons composing the board recognized by the governor were enjoin enjoined ed from acting SO as a canvassing board boarde from declaring and publishing pub lisbin 9 any wiled lation statement or proclamation c f the results or granting certificates of election or statements tending to show any right light to office growing out of ballots ballot easl casl at said election the marshal assisted by a detachment from the army of the united states under these orders took possession of the state capitol and held it on the ath of December when the general assembly were to come together under the proclamation cla mation of the governor the egrest egres and ingress of persons were regulated according to this order A person named pinchback took possession of the chair of the senate and directed its organization he had been a senator for a term that had bad expired while a senator he had been president of the senate and in virtue of such presidency under the law had acted as lieutenant governor after the death of dunn dann the lieutenant governor chosen in 1868 but at the time of these occurrences he was not merely the senate but was not a senator and had bad no nc title or color of title to act am lieutenant governor or take any part in the organization of the senate the house of representatives was mao also organized gani zed the postmaster of new orleans being its speaker sp eaker taker the certificates of boyee bovee under the injunction were taken as conclusive of membership these bodies passed resolution resolutions a for the impeachment of the governor and thus pinchback felt at liberty to assume the title titie tit leof f governor T two wo district judgeships judge ships were abolished and a new court called the superior court was established with extraordinary powers and among others othera exclusive jurisdiction to determine title to office and lind mr hawkins one of the members of the bovee board who had made the election returns was made judge stepa steps having been taken by the governor in his hia official onni cial clat capacity to secure a revision by the supreme court of the united states of chancery orders of the united mates states circuit court these bodies forthwith adopted resolutions to dismiss these proceedings the militia was placed under command of general james longstreet Longa treet another of the bovee board and the arsenals were taken taen possession sion blon of by the aid of the united states army it has been supposed that no amount of professional energy and skill was adequate to make a coup de main in a chancery case THE concluding portion of the address to the people of the united State states oby by the committee of one hundred chosen by the citizens of new orleans is so pithy and touches so ao sensibly upon matters affecting the prevalence ot of republican principles that we are induced to give it entire with the names of the gentlemen signing it and representing tile the committee this statement shows that a civil revolution rev elution had been commenced carried on and accomplished within a lunar month under the orders of a chancery Cn erl 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