New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-23

/ in bntiIesMs compound 81 phosphorus and
other substances, and most terrible anu aiaoohe
invention, which will be IN the hanos OF me 8
Fenians, of whom there are in ireland aud Eng n
and thousands upon thousands, prepared to {
ruin and plunder and massacre all before them. =
NEW York. Oct. IS.--A Herald Toronto special !
Of Yesterday SAYS 81 s. Mcdonald, counsel for !
the Fenians confined at Cornwall, intends to demand
The release Of his clients on the ground that the
government have no evidence to prove that they I
intended to violate any law of the province. Mr.. {
s. Il. Strong, queens counsel, Will represent the
government. a /!
INDICTMENT OF THE PRIsoNERs.8
tsThe grand jury reassembled this morning, and
after examining the evidence that was submitted
by the government, found true bills against Col.
Lynch, Rev. J. Mcmahon aud Rev. Mr.. Lumsden,
At two in the afternoon the three leading prisoners
were brought into court when the judge asked
them if they were ready for trial. NJ. Q. Cameron,
their COUNSEL answered in the affirmative. inc
Judge then informed them that they would be ar
raigned for trial this week.
MEETING OF THE ERHooD--RETALIATIoN
RocHEsrER, N. Y. Oct. l8.-Tlere was large
meeting of senators and centers of the Fenan
brotherhood of the State of New York in this CITY
last night Reliable information is furnished that
resolution was adopted to the effect that if the
Canadian authorities inflicted punishment on the
Fenian prisoners now in their hands the most
severe retaliatory measures will be Immediately
adopted.
FENIAN ROBERTS.
trict court to-day, before Judge Smalley, nolJe
| rrosequ5 was entered by District Attorney Court
ney in the case of the Fenian president, William I
| H. Roberts. who was arrested some time ago ana
/ held to bail to answer for an alleged Violatlon OF
the neutrality laws of the United States. innvad.
i ing Canada with the Fenians. The bail bonds Of |
| Mr. Roberts will be Cancelled.
4 Gen Sweeny is now at his home, in Waterford, |
4 with his family. He has issued card in which ne
wishes it understood that he resigned the position
of secretary Of war, and declined the offer OF the
command IN chief OF the army OF ireland, Delng
therefore no longer connected with that Organiza-
ton. He does not intend to take any part at
| present in the proceedings of the brotherhood
THE RADICAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BY WENDELL
4 PHILLIPS AT BOSTON LAST EVENtNG--THE I'M
4 Placement OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON CALLED
4 FoR-GEN. GRANT DENOUNCED AS A TRAITOR
CONGRESS EXPORTED 10 MAKE ITS NEXT SESSION
4 A PERPETUAL ONE.
BosroN, Oct. l8-The recent lecture of the old
4 Bay State course was delivered to crowded
audience in fremont Temple this evening by
i Wendell Phillips upon the Peril of the
Hour
for prolonged applause.
One year ago, he said when he told an audience
in that hall thatthe South meant to accomplish
! by diplomacy what she had failed to do by arms
, and that the executive was not power to be
, coneiiiated, but an enemy to be watched, there
| were as many there who thought him unduly sus
3 picious as there were few now to deny it. The
great weakness of democratic government, he
continued was that the masses are impatient to
8 succeed, and it was the duty Of all leaders to
h engraft into the body polite the virtue OF its
4 opponents. He said that one year ago he eX-
pressed it as his belief that Jefferson Davis never
q meant to rebel, never Intended to light the nag,
or to desert Washngton that the fatal mistake Of
the Southern movement was, that it lost the sure
i anchored element of neutrality. Fifty years
. hence, he believed the evidence would be ample
4 that that was true. They meant that the North
should be the rebels while they held the govern
/ rhp ida n
a the same as during the war, when the power OF
4 the South was bugbear There was no strength
Il outside the national lines to be feared like the
n cowardly unreadiness of the Northern masses to
d accept their proper stand.
a AS long ago as last June the South planned,
with the aid of the executive, to place herself just
q where the retreat from Washington placed her in
1861. She has not given up the intention yet.
Fifty years hence he believed there would be no
i doubt of that. Mr. johnson may surrender Q
4 point; but the great purpose behind him lives,
~ and what had the North with which to meet it !?
1t was said the unantmity displayed in the recent
: elections was an evidence of their power to OPP
pose the danger The unanimity also of the lead
!. ing Republicans of the day, who to q man are
" pledging themselves as thoroughly convinced of
the necessity of impartial suffrage those men
were speaking in favor of impartial suffrage; but
why, he asked, did they not enact their belief into
3 a fact? The remedy for that was to send those
q back to Congress, and tell them to enact theil
q belief into statute.
l, He would say to the New York Tribune the
n National Republican committee, and Congress
d itself, Go back and sit down in the House OF
Representatives, and govern the republic; and for
q the first act in that government impeach the
Z President" prolonged applause.) He would
I have the House of Representatives Impeach the
President, place the president of the Senate in
/ his Office; then the people would run the ma
chine. tApplause,) The great trouble of our
4 government was that the pivotal man Of the re-
public can have his policy unchanged for four
years. In this connection, he stated that Henry
Wilson said he knew in January last that the
4 President meant to betray them. If he knew
iit,n said Mr.. Phillips. why did he allow the
storm to beat upon a few men who were standing
on the outposts, and procaiming what he already
I knew2 That was not service OF the republic
A great fault in the past has been the foolish
fear of letting the people know the real facts. He
believed the people could govern themselves.
The reconstruction which he wanted to have was
to begin Immediately. It would begin when it
was safe for a Massachusetts, man to walk the
streets of New Orleans. They might fill the House
j. of Representatives with men like Alexander IL.
7 Stephens, andreconstruction would notcommence.
u He would have the South and Southwest made
like the victorious North. There was no hurry
the South would wait.
y Speaking of the constitutional amendment, he
: denounced the insertion Of the word g male as o
libel on the nineteenth century. The desertion Of
Z the negro made it not only an unjust but infa
!, nous proposition. He asked whose fault it was
i that there had been such bloodshed and persecu
{ ton in the streets of Memphis and New Orleans
= He asserted that the policy Of the President haG
! thing to do with 1T but that was not all. Il
7 was General Grant. applause and hisses.) The
!. most hnmiating position occupied on this cont
= nent, he said, was by UlyssesS, Grant. If they
!. had conquered, why were not the streets of New
y Orleans safe? If the President would not le
y General Grant protecti life and liberty there thei
y General Grant Should resign. Henry Wilson knew
Y the President was false and hidit. Gen. Gran
I knew the South was not safe, and allowed it t,
!. be.
Y "If, y said MIR. Phillips, " Gen Grant does no
= mean to make the South safe for Northern man
~ he is not fit to hold his office. IF he has not the
means TO do SOL then he should ask for them ant
y if the President will not permit him to do it, thel
u he should Immediately resign his position Al
& general If he does not want to do his duty thel
/, deneunce him as traitor. What is the use of ou
= national flag, if it means nothing except in til,
L streets of Boston--i it does not mean protection
!, Of Northern life and Northern capital in TIL
= South.n
( His theory, Mr. Phillips said, was that there
=, no President. He is a deserter. The legslatiy
Y Y power is the only power left 0ur James secont
= has abdicated and parliament rules the natSn
y He wanted Congress to commence its next sessio
! as perpetual one. Every moment that it was no
. in session the South was ruling the government
! and lie would have the next Congress enact tina
= they should Teassemble in March, 1867, and b
y themselves the government.