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Elmore's court with his old articles against Governor Warmoth, and prayed that the said Governor Warmoth should be declared deposed from his office.
Elmore had no jurisdiction in this case.
Such questions could be argued in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and in no other place.
For Elmore to hear the plaintiff was a contempt of court; yet Elmore read the articles, and, without hearing the accused, declared that Governor Warmoth was deposed.
Refusing to recognize this decree, Warmoth appealed to the judges of Louisiana, who decided that Elmore's proceedings were irregular, and his decree of no effect.
Elmore would not cancel his decision, and the judges of Louisiana cited him for contempt of court.
He only jeered.
Like Pinch, he had a Federal army at his back.
Through all these usurpations General Emory stood by the nominees of President Grant.
For four or five weeks Pinch ruled the State, as Jacques rules his duchy in the “Honeymoon.”
Jesters squibbed him as King Pinch, His Nigger Majesty, Lord Paper Collar, and Marquis of Pomade.
They sent him false despatches, and printed comic ukases in his name.
At length, his reign was over,
1875.
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