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LOUISIANA :-John A. Washington,
Black Hawk, Concordia Parish; Eal. G.
Y. Kelso, Alexandria; Antoine & Sterrett,
Shreveport, A. C. Ruth, Carroll Parish.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA :-James
A. D.Green, Washington City.
ILLINOIS :-Lewis B. White, Chicago.
KENTUCKY:-Dr. B. A. Green, Louis
ville.
SUNDaY, JANUP NT 7, 1872.
eaR CHOICE FOR PLM#BIBR 7,1872
U. S. GRANT.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
WFIeAB.
Pass'r-P. B. S. PINCHBACK of Orleasm.
RacomnrDI Sac's-WILLIAM VIGERS.
oasuramomND Sac'-J. W. FAIRFAX.
[FOR TMr WrATZ AT moos.]
EDWARD BUTLER, of Plaquemnines.
S. S. SCHMIDT, of Orleans.
THOMPSON COAKELY, of Rapides.
ALBERT GANTT, of St. Landry.
JOHN PARSON, of Orleans
A. W. SMYTH, of Orleans.
H. BABY, of Natitoches.
JAMES MAoREBY, Caddo.
DAVID YOUNG, Concordia.
F. J. HEREON, of Orleans.
First Congresionkal District-Hugh J.
Campbell, H. Mahoney.
Second Congressional District-A. E.
Barber, James L. Belden.
Third Congressional District-Thomas
H. Noland, George Washington.
Fourth Congressional District-E. W.
Dewees, Baford Blunt
Fifth Congressional District-A. W.
Faulkner, A. B. Harris.
£U.-EIEUTIVE 6UMMITTEL
Hon. HUGH J. CAMPBELL, Chair
man.
Hon. P. B. S. PINCHBACK.
lion. HARRY MAHONEY.
Hon. F. J. HERRON.
Hon. A. B. HARRIS.
Hon. A. E. BARBER.
FIRANCE SIMMITTEL
Hon. F. T. HERRON.
Hon. THOS. J. NOLAND.
Hon. Ed. BUTLER.
Hon. A. W. FAULKNER.
JOHN PAR.ONSEsq.
8gPMore important engagements
demanding the monopoly of the
'me of Lieutenant Governor Pinch
back, the manager of this paper
hitherto, he is compelled to retire
from active participation in the work
of the Lourses.~ . The conduct
of the business portion of our jour
nal has devolved on another, and
having secured the services of Mr.
Jonsi C. McLROD, this gentleman
will henceforward be our special1
agent in this city to solicit subacrip
tions, enter into contracts and re
ceive amounts due our paper.
8ti'When Carter packed his room
with twenty armed men who, in the
midst of a session rushed out on the
stand and drew their pistols in the
House, what "as that but violence ?
When he marches about the streets
accompanied with twenty armei seen,
what is that but violence ? When he
calls his 1xody of secret armed suppor
ters through the papers, and when
they throng about the corner of
Dryades and Canal waiting an oppor
tunity for bloodshed, what was that
but violence ? Inciting it, aiding it;
it is only from the coobu'ss of the true
Republicans he gats no violence.
4GThe Oomnpaniesaof he Louiaiana
State Militia which have been called
into active service darig the past two,
days, have performed their onerous
duties with a pronlyt cheerfulncess
which entitles them to special meantion.
ag-We acknowledge with much
plasureS the receipt of an invitation
to dine with the veterans of 1814-'
15 at Economy Hall, on January 8,
1872. '
TEE 'CtSTOMHOUSE AGAIN.
m Oaoif the moapraselled, nn"
r provoked and irreparable outrages
upon free institutions ever perpe
trated upon a Republican communi
ty, occurred at the Mechanics' In
stitute-the temporary State House
of Louisiana-on Thursday, the
flfth of January. 1
The Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, a large number of Senators,
and a sufficient number of the mea
bens of the House of Represents
tires to suit the vile purposes of the
Republican disorganisers of thin
State, were arrested and dragged
before a United States Commission
er to give bonds for the keeping of
the peace, in the absence of any in
dication of the possibility of its
violation. These gentlemen were
arrested under a clause of the en
forcement act, charging them with
a design of ousting the Speaker of
the House by force, in face of the
fact that the Louisiana Legislature
possesses a clear Republican majori
ty of three to one against the De
mocrats.
Had there been party discipline,
party fidelity and patriotism suffi
cient among the Federal appointees
to have secured a proper estimate
of the electorial vote of each State
in choosing the candidate of our
patty for the next Presidental elec
tion, there wbuld have occurred
some such reflections as these:
First of all, can we afford to re
pudiate Republi- mn for the sake of
temporary alliance with Democrats
under the consciousness that the
Damocrat, like the Christian, feels
that "he who taketh care not of his
own heusehold is worse than an in
fidel," and with the knowledge that
the Demooracy never wins an ene
my but to destroy it?
Secondly, can Republicans afford
to invoke the agency of an enforce
ment act, intended to protect human
life and to perpetuate the revivify
ing influence of Republican rule to
break up the Republican party it
self and to work a revolution in all
that concerns, the social, the com
mercial and the political life of a
State. Especially when they know
that the chagrin of military and
political defeat though worn out
among the upper is still working
among the lower classes of every
democratic community and only
awaits the accidental torch of
partizan dissension upon our side
to set things all aflame ?
Thirdly, can doubtful combina
tions secure the results we need ?
We need quiet. We need the
presence of capital, we need a re- 4
alization of the sacredness Of human I
life, we need a recognition of corn
manding abilities, we need an es
tablished and abiding faith in the'
power of our institutions, we need
a conciousness that our institutions
are able to bear the weight of all
those who cast themselves upon ]
them, we need abelief in the honee- <
ty, patriotism and local pride poe- 1
sible to be held by those who have a
It
differed from us in regard to the
divinity of our late institution andt
who may repudiate the psosorip- c
tions which are now upheld; and to
this end the colored people have
gladly recognized the man who has
put more colored men in important
positions, and filled more places
with white men for whom they
have asked than any Southern
Governor whatever. Nothing but
positive devotion can secure these. (
In this viewit is important to a
consider the interests involved in
the contest so unneceessarily foreed t
upon us by the Customhouse ring.
They have seduced some colored t
men from their natural allegiance a
to the Republiesm party, and by t
'intimidation, or bribery, or by mis
plaoedzreal on the part of some of d
tur ownurace , they havs exhibited 1
the ~ ahhspetcleSo drag-c
ging off to jail, those who weret
legally elected by a majority of v
their own color, aid Democratie
grinansanders showing themselvew
J4a expreing ,le . these: "That
nigger is in his right phee now, he
had no business here at first."
This is a Aerce implacable, al
thoughuannecessary fight, and upon
B the head of the guilty rests the
e eofeqaenoes. So far We, as -p
/pwt .i the .*.td
may say, we Meomld do no otherwise,
so help us God."
Genuine imperialism may chal
lenge the admiration of those whose
moral instincts or whose political
training may lead them in the
pathway of an honest subeereieney,
but this bastard 'ipeialism born
of the New Orleans Customhouse
and nursed by the Democracy is
too great a monster to be looked
e upon with eomapheeney even by the
worst despotisms of Europe.
The fawning of place-holders,
the eargerness of office-seekers, the
unscrupulousness of retainers, the
madness of political aspirants, have
combined to besmear the prestige
of a victorious party on the one
side, and to sap the consistency, to
rotten the future of an historical
party on the other.
Fearful of republican strength
and anxious for democratic support
e the Customhouse wing have re
e pudiated the ablest leader in what
r they call their own party, and so
cepted the leadership of the ablest
man among our opponents George
W. Carter-a man who has by
dabbling in three professions, the
ministry, the military and politics
a adopted the chamelion habit of
taking his color from whatever he
lies upon and with this incubus
upon free institutions they have
hoped to crush even into extin
guishment the superstructure reared 1
by a sagacious and patriotic con
gress.
If either morals or politics has
come to that low ebb, when they
cannot throw off the poison of ino
culation, or the stench of effeteness,
the corruptionists, the tricksters and
the thugs which have manifested
themselves in these latter days, then
the people may as well accept the
aphorism of another and apply it ]
and say: They have made a'
wilderness and call it peace. For
capital, which is always sensitive,
enterprising men, who have always
something at stake, and labor, which
is always apprehensive of danger, 1
will take their flight from the lo- I
cality where United States soldiers'
join in intimidating private citizens,
where United States bayonets cast
forth the gleams of terror and il- t
legal processes are resorted to to I
clog the wheels of State, to pars- i
lyse business and to chill the warm
est relations of social life.
t
THE WILDERNFESS AND HER t
CRE W.
f
On the assembling of the Senate
yesterday, a telegram from the Be
cretary of the Treasury was read I'
by the Lieutenant Governor, order
ing the United States Revenue Cut
Iter Wu.DERYE5S to report at New I
Orleans without delay. In view of
this fact, we may join in the sound
old Methodist hymn:0
Come out of the wildereaes,
Come out of the wilderness,a
And read your titlei clear. b
A quorum in the Senate is now5
certain.
BE OF GOOD CHEER.
- ti
We beseech our friends to "'Be of fj
Good Cheer." Law and orderinust and
shall prevail. Carters crew in the
"Gem" saloon are defended by 'the
original Ku-Elnz who see in this body1
the Rnmp of the Legislature, the only
means they have to remove the chiefs
of the Republiean party, that haejed a
the honts tovietoly. What wesaiddti
some time ago ps roed. That (hr- e
ter intended a eoalition with the a
Democrat8 to ten ove the State to
their posseauiCs. The men who if he d
did not actuate, defeudsd the riot of
1866 were al present in front ef the
Gem Saloon yesterday, and with comn
missions 'sa deptity mars~has in [
their pockets swearing towards open0
violence.
eTUE LEI4ItATURSE.
e- -
Reviewer ofthe West.
o When Mbaday morning l
ered in the nsw ar, theme kni
ti/ eag seouin u~4;*
OA1otof the Le iaar-eO w- i
the appointed hour for them to as
" semble, little dreamed of the exist
ence and ripening of a fiendish plot
- which was to produce in New Or
a leans, in Louisiana and over this
country the profoundest sensations,
and to stir to their depths the hearts
and souls of men interested in the
preservation of peace and the estab
a lahment and perpetuity of consti
e tutional government among ua
The hour for assembling the
& Legislature had not arrived before
it was discovered in the absence of
e many of the Senate members that a
scheme was in process to defeat the
t, formation of a quorum in that body.
e At the appointed hour the appre
e hensions were realized ; and for
this entire week this unheard o1,
e this disgracefrl and humiliating
e spectacle has been witnessed at the
e State House. And where arethesede
o linquent Senators skr'king? Know
ing the Constitutional provision to
compel their attendance to dis
5 charge the important duties they
are sworn to perform, they have
been permitted to take shelter from
the reach and enforcement of law,
t on board oY the United States
Revenue cutter Wn nsrusw, and to
t cruise up and' down the river op
posite the city, in defiance of
authority. The House of Repjre
r mentatives met and for two days the
B absolute sense of the House could
i not be elicited. On Wednesday
f however an unquestionable majority
of the House determined to remove
the Speaker, but postponed expul
sion on the distinct promise, that he
would resign the next naorning.
The next morning, a few minutes
I before 12 o'clock, writs of arrest
were underlying and frivolous pre
tences obtained from a United
States Court, to impzison the Gov
ernor Lieutenant Goveinor and
about twenty members of the
Hoose, for the sole, and in
famous purpose of breaking
the majority and allowing the
minority to rule the House.
This was developed by the fact, that
no sooner were members arrested,
taken out of their seats in the
House, coxrnrAx ro THE cosSTrzr
TIo , and conducted to the Custom
house, than the temporary and
fraudulent majority proceeded sam
marily, without trial and without
a quoiam, to declare the seats of
the arrested members vacant. The
U. S. Court before whom they were
taken immediately bailed all the ar
rested parties but too late to restore
them to their seats.
Under apprehension of the grave
and revolutionary aspect of affairs,
this majority assembled in the after
noon in the State Hpuse and ap
pealed to the Governor for inter
ference and protection. In response
Governor Warmothroee to the level
of the encounter and exerting
the puissance of the Government,
threw around the members that
proteeting arm which i. provided
for such emergencies. Determined
not to yield to a lawful majori
ty, nor yet to bow to the msjeuty of I
law properly invoked and judieous-e I
ly exerted, this recalcitrant crew 4
betook themselves over a coffee- I
house, and with e~kedery only pa- I
rasleied by their vile designs, pro-1I
seeded to sall themselves a Nouse I
of Representatives; and ma further
1 alatioaof ali right and jusiee,
again procured tools to swear false C
before theoU. S Court so as tore-C
arrest the Goveisor, Lisutemant I
Governor and nearly all the Ie
presentatives, and then agarm give
them the appeammes of ammajority,
woar womas s as eamamu without
the enackment at -me stpemdm
heauda And thas s the wurk et
mischief and disoemtalano besau
going on. uh amber that eom- a
pms thin esia&'is made up of esh- I
erd n white Beiptbissas and '
- 'Sh Bemstast layet
ag 4ndthekaeg siathepvesemt C
thnhto be(s~rspald at h eleshoj
constabulary, .ehs 4n paisng £
eask The desga he others a
must of course hato o id. thems ia-A
dbin4it. I
lis it mee heaggs to eM au
thu thus. ismtb rsekdmsigrn of a
[thr deto. Whp m o .1
Governor Warmoth, the cruel and E
unscrupuloas hostility to Lieuten
SP k and the
tn tt o remov them
and place Carter
in'ie chair and God
knows who in Mr. Pinchback's place,
reveal.a didgn to overthrow Be
, pub and to sulbitute it by
- a biubtion which must
iaifdtablyesSt ti the mseemdemey
scheme will be defeated. That the
L Lim stiad of the M.osump Ideu
tenant Governor and the majority
of tWe Ha=Me of dep etives,
coupled with the. rsaint of the
Ie deral w -Ieias the spiase of
their legitimate duMes, ell restore
, 'nd procure the attendmee
of the legal Legislater4 to the duties
which imperatively demand their
B heed.
EXTfAOUDINA5! PROCHDI3A9.
I
When in July last the sathorata
tive orces of a great easetament
passed by the United Status Con
grew, was turned against the citi
seas of the State of Leisnas is a
time of projomed peace, and the
aid of United States soltisVa emed
with United States bayonet., was
invoked to prevent the legPl as
aembling of a properly elected con
etitueaq to a State Cqpvestion,
our citiseas were at once asteonded,
indignant and disgusted at such a
stretch of power.
But we have to record a greater
display of recklessness, and a more
tremendous outrage upon Bspab
licanism in the acts eseemtly perpe.
trated by Masnrs Peaard, Crter
and Lowell under is puetended
sanction of United States autacrity,
when they arrested the legally
relected Governor and Iiantenant
Governor of our State, and such
Senators and Representatives as
had become distinguished for their
Republicanism, and by this means
broke up a receostru ted Isgisla
tore, at the behest of Democratie
allies, and remnoved members from
their seats, elected by overwhelming
majorities only to place pretenders
in their stead who had never even
stood a political contest on our side.
For four days the disorganizers
have prevented the assembling of a
quorum in the Senate, and feasted
the recusant Senators on green tur
tle, green seal and greenbacks in the
cabin of the United States Cutter,
"WuDiERmss," under the direction
of an unscrupulous leadership, and
with the sanction of a Democratic
following, who at last by the unpar
donable sin of political bolting have
tried to set up a separate Legisla
ture.
Whatever might have been the
pretended short comings of Gov.
Warmoth, and whatever might have
been the pretended illegalities of
Lieut. Gov. Pinchbeck's election,
no greater proof can be shown of
the violation of the peoples will, no
greater evidence of the repudiation
of the people's choice than the at
tempt to establish a separate Lagis
lature on the part of one who boasts
that he took two States out of the
Union, and who during alfthe leni
eney of reconstruction has never
done one act to keep a single State
We appeal to those States who
cannot possibly be the victims ofi
parvertedKu-Klxlaw and demand
the cooperation of those memgbers1
of Congreesawho are in favor of the
perpetuity of Republican institutiom.
to save the State of Louisisan fraom
further partisan outrages and des
potic meawues. For if this thing
is to continue the old boast of
Toombs thatiae wouuld call the roll
of his slaves under the monument
of BfakesHil wlllbe reelised ina
more diuststaes sanse by the link-A
lag of*louisiana and meauchnsetts,
to the car of an imperial sautority, '
sanctieondhy Uznited Statesala ials,
an e ythe purposea0 aeta
lined despotis whaieh~wi 1ag to'
scr the fgrinps 9Lt.mr a~opl.
in the grcycontesk singimn s
sible a great vactory oygs th n
acop qseyhc a nf oducts
us, an4 those 41qstazdly cemubina- a
tions wl~q Ac galastu,. n our
ownuaide. . , a
issedja teensse 4Iqgth Gu0 e d
wentor aor own ~5State pr
vent the recognition of a colored a
spr*IWg oDagr, teIt put in his
4 by the Mll of the people,
r allie to'pres the ing away
d of our strength, an4 should guide
our future endeavors if. w-would
but heed the lema.nhof the past and
listen to the suggestions of the fa
t ters.
7 The lassoes of liar are tHese:
always defeated measures where
then. is didsd.LAnm -Jessve1
s political Sailure witb insecure and
e iaeompetemtleadsessip;mething but
disaster when our prinelples are di
i luted to meet the demands of our
p, opponents and in nothing is this
e more fully shown than in the po
f litiely. necessity which compels
eas minority led by Mr.Cirtir to re
a opdiate the voice sad the will of
a the people in as ashleties of able
r men from Uts oppesit paurt to
combine their talents, their money
and their ininence for Republican
defeat
Longer and more rapid strides
, have been made toward despotism
t by the employees of General Grant
. within the compass of less than a
- year than were ever before made by
4 all the Presidents combined. If
e such outrageous illegalities, such
I mait .aal us'rpations maybe
s perpetrated in Louisiana with im
punity, then New England may
- prepare itself far as vili a submission
6 to the yoke, or as noble a resistance
to Tyranny as that of the Revolu
s tionary days.
GRANT'S NAME.
The National Repuliamn desires
r to know why Lt Gov. Pim"bmwk
1 doesnet haul down the name of
Gen. Grant from its masthead of the
Louisianian. We make this answer:
Ge. Grant's past conduct towards
the race to which IA. Gov. Pinch
back belongs has been so seemingly
rfair and impartial that Mr. Pinch
back was loth to believe that the
President would sanction the acts
S of the Customhouse officials in their
high-handed usm pations. As a
proof of this LL Gov. Pinchbeck in
troduced, advocated and had pass
1ed a resolution endorsing General
Grant's Administration in the late
Colored Convention of the Southern
States, held at Columbia South S. C.
He has always cherished the hope
that sooner or later and rather soon
er than later Gen. Grant would re
move from office in this city the
men who have disgraced the name
of Republican and outraged all par
ty decency.
He has thought that Gen. Grant
would surely fnd out the characters
of the men who drag his name
through the mire of their groveling
ambition and resort to all the arts
of the lowest demagogues to deceive
the President's constitutional ad
visers. Could the President be here
but for a day or so and bath him
sel. in the current of a pubblic
opinion which repudiates Packard,
Lowell and Carter he would be
cleansed of his infatuation andeared
of his weakness for men who have
done him more harm by their revo
lutionary acte than afl his opponents
could do till doomsday. They re
sort to such low tricks as reporting
a mea dead who becam, the acci
dental victim of a new, year's
spree for the purpose of making
capital against Mr. Pinchbeck when
it was known that the man was well
enough to be on theatreets if he de
sired to be.
Theisatimesy of all concerned
prevee that the X7 st.. an.. Govern
or had as ittle to do with that an- I
fortunate accident as General Grant'a
himsel1t yet his offcials here do not
scrople to make the most dishonor-1I
able attemptato Injure mienfatin tr.
own giry. with no other felatx g
to take their places. '
Notwithstanding thS list td
rages of the Cuistomkoase 6lique
and the tardiness el Ges mt~r
in protecting out amue hIse I
rights, we retain his utsme at our
masthead till we get ajsa answer.
eP Thh codedbfaetives
who go with Carter wIN ioon find
ou his poliep He laus alretly
and over his glass Amsitp the
Shall we tell hem wlasestne.'
every colored member and put De- ,
amoedWfr'ee s. 'lb pr-a
gramme is elftdyedrawn up sa*
Spsmufollogish a sZel what ci
the Demoowats exziidem g'spa seue
"this is a white man's government,"
and so he aets.
is THE LOUISIANi4
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.~Back numbers can be ,uppli1
ny tide. r
Vole. L, IL, sandfl. of HaperD4~
for the year. 1O68, '0, '7L 44 e1
bound Iagses aorooo .1db
sent by exprees, freight prepaid, for
The postage on Harper' J3a
ces eaYpsi whleb niad be paid
subscriber'a post once.
HARPER & BROTIf
Dec. ?8, '71. Ne P