The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-27

Correspondence of the Clarion.
New ORLEANS

M" CAALEAENSs -AdAtAf A-Oo'
| Our newly elected City Government is at
| last duly installed, the Governor and his
aristocratic Mayor to the contrary notwith-
standing, though these men, claiming TO be
Louisianians and one of them elected by the
people, did their utmost to set aside the
public election and perpetuate among us
their dictatorship. Thanks TO a Federal
commander, the people of New Orleans again
govern themselves, and are rid III some
measure of the oligarchy which has so long
oppressed them
lam not over fond just now Of Republican
Government especially as IL is expounded
by the so-called Republican leaders at
Washington. have no exalted respect for
the roG i,9Du'i and regard the rest Of the
adage IL false and profane; but assuTedly #
there ever was a time when people had
right to complain of and remove the men
holding power over them, it was in such
case as this, when men who by false pre-
tenees and lying professions had obtained
/ authority, not granted by the Constitution
and laws, sought to retain it in def
&uce of the wishes alike of the people to be
governed and of the conquering generals
over US.
Our Legislature has reached the end Of
its sixty days session, acts passed beyond
which time, our Constitution says, shall not
have validity 1t has done much good work
and some not a. good; and has left much
undone which might have been done to
very great advantage but did ever Legis-
atures do otherwise As a whole it is the
ablest and best body we have ever as
sembled here or at Baton Rouge; but l am
sorry to say that the corrupting influence
or an unscrupulOus Executive head of the
State, possessed, under the existing Consti-
tuition, of great patronage, and who has, in
defiance of it, clutched at the control of all
the other Offices under it, has drawn
quite a number of its ablest and most ex-
perienced men into an antagonism to the
popular wishes and disposition to aid tho
cncroachments of Executive power which is
utterly demoralising.
The Commissioners of Louisiana to Wash
ington, MesSTs. Egan, of the Senate, and
Cage and Eustis of the House, have re-
turned Wednesday the two latter addressed
the body in which they hold seats on the
position of Louisiana at Washington and
the general prospects of the South as seen
from that stand point. They had interviews
with the President, with his Cabinet and
with the chief men of the country, and their
conclusion was that our infamous C0nstitu-
tiom ofI-6. must be endured for some time
longer, ut least until the war between the
President and the Radicals in Congress ter
inmates Mr.. ESan also addressed the
Senate at night.
As to Southern affairs in general, Mr..
Eustis, who was the principal speaker re-
marked, 'tbe situation is truly critical" He
advises all who desire the Presidents Sopth-
ern policy to succeed to preserve silence,
reticencc, caution, and abstinence from all
remarks and comments on Federal affairs
The words and acts of unimportant persons,
isolated acts and unimpoTtant ones, are mag
nihed against Us, and even our sympathies |
with the President, when openly expressed |
do him injury. five desire to aid him we
must remain quiescent. Public expressions
of Southern approval and especial acknowl- |
''i-'tAINAAAN u tllliir uS TIC IItitt u blIG I
South, do him harm. He s III fact a MEM t
bcr of the Republican party of the North, |
in which and at the North. this battle is to
be fought; and we can do him 10 good and /
may do him harm by claiming him for the |
South. In that party it is question OF the /
perpetuatiOn of power; and the course !
which viii best perpetuatc power whether .
him, is the one most likely to be pursued |
We are mistaken in supposing it mere
question of justice to the South of punish |
ment to those they regard as guilty rebels /
or mercy to pardoned ones. It is altogether
one of continued party supremacy, and .
the arguments used to cover up
the object, that lies at the bottom OF all the
ebulitions Of popular sentiment at
the North. The less we have TO
say and do about our rights" the better
Our Legislature passed in the last days of
its session two acts authorizing the lease of
the New Orleans & Opelousas and the Baton
Rouge, Crosse Tete Il Opelousas Railroad.
The proposing lessees are the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad Company and some others,
who intend to push these roads through to
their several destinations and make them |
profitable adiuncts to our industry. Some
little unwillingneSs was expressed to see
them 90 into the hands of foreign, if not
alien, capitalists; especially of such as pre-
fer to see our trade diminished rather than
for fear that present prom
Ses were intended as a lure into future
lisappointments but our Legislature de-
ermined to trust our dear brethren anew
There was bill before them to prevent
my attempt by the Governor or Mayor from
'asting the vote of State or city in the
Jackson & G. n Railroad, as their charter
sives them already a number of electors
hosen by them exclusively 1t was OBJ
ected that this proposed law gives the State
# Mississippi too much influence, and that
'etween the vote of that State and of the
Individual stockholders, the greater interests
nd heavier investments of the city and
'tate were unduly represented. 1t was re-
lied that the claim not only to appoint di-
ectors, but to contest the vote of the rest,
vas even more injurious to the interests of :
he individual stockholders and TO Mssis-
ippi. l think the bill failed for want of
ime.
We are to have an extra session of our
legislature after the May elections. Our /
'oycrnor wishes first to see how many of |
is appointees to office are elected and then =
o see what he wishes dD.e. He is deter
lined, if possible, to have some substantive :
ecognition of the Constitution of 1864 and |
be Legislature at this session, in the last c
ay of their session, put a quietus on this,
V a vote of 81 to 81 on a motion - order
,int resolutions to amend the constitution
y recognizing the judiciary to a second
eading. Gov. Wells desires to.have new
cal, to be able to reward some of the legal ,
and punish others. If the APP =.
ointments We're to be made by the next :
GOVERNOR there would be less objection. e
From all that can learn, from the interior ''