Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-08-11

business he had to issue any order in the
matter.
Next, we End this order addressed not to
the Governor of the State, but to the Attor-
ncy General Why is thisY Does the rreS'
dent supersede the Governor.
But after all, il Is not the GOVERNOR, nor
the Attornev General, nor any otatc oiucer,
lint local citv officer the Mayor Oh new
Orleans-as il happens, fragrant and defiant
Rebel who seems to think that the Presi-
dental pardon in his pocket not only con-
dones his crime, but justities tit is this
person who takes the matter in hand of ar
resting the convention. Under his skillfull
management a considerable percentage of
the members were assassinated before they
were arrested. A..t - Il
Z We do not see how all this can be ex-
planned we trust the President, by publish
ing the whole correspondence, of which we
have now only his order, will be able not
only to justify the manner of his interference
itself. For the present we can only say that
his order appears to have had as unfortunate
an effect as his 22d of February speech; in
stead of comforting and protecting the law
abiding and loyal citizens, 1t seems to have
encouraged bloody minded and vindictive
mob of men lately engaged in rebellion; in
stead of "suppressing all illegal or unlawful
assemblies" in the words of the order. the
effect seems to have been to give full rein to
the most lawess and aw-defying mob, and
to secure complete immunity from punish
ment to the rioters
Who made the President the Judge Of the
legality of State Convention When did
he hear evidence upon the matter Where
does he get his authority for interfering
BY the Constitution, "the United States
shall protect each State against invasion,
and on application of the Legislature. or Of
the Executive (when the Legislature capnot
be convened), against domestic violence" !"
| Where was the ''invasion2" where the "do-
mestic violence2" where the application of
the Legislature, or of the Executive2 Where
was even the danger to the public peace A
convention numbering 26 men met in u hall
in New Orleans. Was it feared by the MUIR
derous mob or by Mayor Munroe that these
20 would rise and put the whole order OF
! Thugs to the swordi
Suppose the convention was illegal; sup
pose it had passed an ordinance, no matter
to what lntent-what then? Its orders
could have ha6 no force. If there mad been
u doubt upon their legality, they ought to
have been taken before the State Courts
whose province it is to decide such ques
Louisiana, according to the Peace Proclama
ton, if Louisiana is State, with consttu
ton, laws, officers, couits and judges, then
all such matters must be settled and decided
in the State, by the State officers, and by the
courts, not by mob.
1t does not escape the attention of the
Union loving people that every outrage like
the New Orleans riot, in the Southern States
is done in the interests of oppression, anc
against equal rights and impartial justice, by
men who were but lately Jealous and fragrant
rebels, and who continue to boast of thei
crimes against the country and the flag
Whether Memphis or New Orleans, Rich
mond or in Georgia wherever we hear o
mob violence, it is the violence, the bruta
lawlcssness of men lately engaged in an at
tempt to destroy the Union and their vic
tins are men, women and children who's
loyalty to the Union was so active durin:
the war that no history of the war can b.
written without recording their courage
fidelity and selfsacritcing. 1t is not plesan
to Union loving people to see the Presiden
of the United States, no matter by wha
accident or inadventure, placed in the posi-
tion of giving encouragement to such law
lessness, and making less endurable the su!
, fciently hard position of men, who, wit
: him, are hated and revled by the late rebel
as southern loyalists"
, THE PRESIDENT "sUPERsEDEs" GOV. WELL:
From the New York Herald.
t Col. Dostie positively denies having sen
any such dispatch to New Orleans as
attributed to him; but on the contrary, i
= conjunction with Mr.. King of the NeV
Orleans Times, and acting under the advic
5 of the President, repeatedly and urgentl
telegraphed from here, urging the people i
no particular to interfere with the assemblin
e of the Convention. The President has vii
tually deposed Gov. Wells by directing til
c Hon. Andrew j. Heron, Attorney Gencrs
of Louisiana, to preserve the peace and tax
all necessary steps to put DOWN all revolt
tionary proceedings against the existin
e State Government and ordering the militar
forces of the United States to render him a
needed assistance.