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LouisianaBiblio.com

REPORT OF THE AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. DECEMBER 31 1865

Louisiana, State ofBiblio.com

Acts passed at the extra session of the Second Legislature of the State of Louisiana; Held and begun in the city of New Orleans on the 4th day of December 1848

184841984New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the "Louisiana Courier". 1848. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; 75 75 pages; Early twentieth century full tan buckram red label lettered in gilt on spine. This copy was once the property of the Library of Congress with small paper label mounted to the front cover the LC engraved bookplate mounted to the front paste down endpaper tiny rubber stamps at the foot of both the English and French title pages "L.C. copy 2" pencil notes at the top of the French title page and the Library of Congress Surplus-Duplicate stamp in blue ink on the rear free endpaper -- which makes this copy legal to buy sell and own. An excellent copy with these minor library marks and four lower corners neatly folded up which had been left "long" by accident of the binder's plow. OCLC Number: 65113311 Two locations only: Yale and Univ. Minnesota Law Library. Louisiana had been admitted to the U. S. as a state on April 30 1812 the ninth anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. A second state constitution was adopted in 1845 hence the reference here to the "Second Legislature" of the state. Of particular note among the Acts published in these pages was an act to pay for the free public schools 184647 & 48 which had been called for in the new constitution and another act to provide for land for the building of the public schools. Slaves and slavery always a contentious issue received attention here. The legislators decreed that children born to Slaves who had been imprisoned in the Penitentiary would become State property to be sold at age ten for cash which was to be paid to the State Treasurer the funds dedicated to support the Public Schools. Various improvement to the bayous rivers and harbors of the state were comissioned with construction of roads and levees and a toll bridge on the bayou Ramos. The single longest and most detailed act provides for the acquisition of a right-of-way and construction of a "rail road from the parish of St. Landry to the Mississippi river." There is much of interest relating to New Orleans including a Law Library for the city's Bar Association and the detailed and specific extention of the "sole and exclusive privilege of introducing and vending gas-lights to the city of Lafayette . to James H. Caldwell for twenty years. This was the Faubourg Lafayette including the Garden District now incorporated into New Orleans as the 10th and 11th Wards. Modern developments were taken into account including the provision that operators of the magnetic telegraph "might not transmit messages which can in any manner tend to defeat the ends of justice." There was an act to pay handsomely: $600 the electors of the State in the recent Presidential election of 1848 -- in which they cast their votes for the first and only U.S. President to have been from Louisiana: Zachary Taylor. With the English and French text of all laws and acts given on facing pages as was usual for most of the early official publications of Louisiana. Now a rare book. . Printed at the Office of the "Louisiana Courier" hardcover

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Morse, Isaac E (1809-1866), Louisiana Congressman and Attorney GeneralBiblio.com

SPEECH OF THE HONORABLE ISAAC E. MORSE OF LOUISIANA in Defence of THE MEXICAN WAR. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States December 22 1846.

184697590Washington: Ritchie and Heiss printers 1846. 1846. Good. - Octavo 9 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover printed self-wraps. There is offsetting as well as scattered foxing to the front and rear cover pages with minor chipping to the front edge of the front cover page. 16 pages illustrated with a lithographic portrait of Isaac Morse by John Henry Bufford. There is a chip out from the top corner of the frontispiece. Ex-library de-acquisitioned from The New York Public Library's "Myers Collection" with a stamp on the verso of the front wrapper. The edges of the pages are lightly darkened with occasional minor foxing. Good. <p>First edition.<p>The MexicanAmerican War Apr 25 1846 Feb 2 1848 known in Mexico as the Intervención estadounidense en México was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico that followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas which Mexico considered Mexican territory. Morse expounds in favor of the war: "If this war was what you say it is and waged wantonly sinfully by the President from mere personal vanity or a petty ambition for the sake of letting the world know who James K. Polk was - if for an end like this all the seas of blood and millions and millions of its treasure lavished all in violation of the constitution - if you make good this charge then has the President of the United States been guilty not of moral merely but of actual treason and that of the deepest dye; not through ignorance but with malice aforethought. If all this be true then has he damned himself indeed to a depth of infamy where the hand of resurrection can never reach him. If you can persuade the widow and orphans of the murdered Cross the gallant Watson the chivalric Ridgely and all the friends and relatives of the noble Ringgold and the other gallant spirits whose lives have been given as a bloody sacrifice to their country's honor that all this was done to glorify this administration and prove who James K. Polk was then sir is your Chief Magistrate guilty of 'conduct so basely mean in a public character that it is without precedent or pretence; an incendiary war upon society that nothing can excuse or palliate emanating from a refinement of beggarly villany made up between the venomous malignity of a serpent and the spiteful imbecility of an inferior reptile.'"<p>Isaac Edward Morse 1809-1866 was a Democratic politician from Louisiana who served in the House of Representatives from 1844-1851. He served as Louisiana's Attorney General from 1854-1856. President Franklin Pierce appointed him in 1856 to be a special commissioner to New Granada to negotiate safe passage of Americans across the Isthmus of Panama.<p>John Henry Bufford 1810-1870 was a Boston lithographer who often created his portraits after daguerreotypes. Among the artists he employed was Winslow Homer. Washington: Ritchie and Heiss, printers, 1846. paperback

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