Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-12
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FROM NEW YORK,
The New Orleans RiOtS-ReDOrt of
The Majority of the Committee.

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The New Orleans RiOts-RepOrt OF
The Majority of the Committee.
New York, Feb. 1.-THE report of the
majority of the New Orleans Riot commit
tee is published. IT. says:
| In view of the facts probed, we are con-
strained to say that the time has fully ar
| rived when Congress should intervene and
| should so legislate as to seem to the people
of Louisiana republican form of govern
ment. The condition of things existing
there cannot continue consistently with the
safety, security or peace of loyal men.
Since the surrender of the rebel armies G.
bellion has assumed another form. and now
controls the Government through the same
agencies that led their armies in time OF
war. That Congressional action should be
had Is settled by fact, not opinion. When
men are driven from their homes and their
lives threatened and their property de-
stroyed when in business they are pro-
scribed; when recent rebels hold all places
of trust, and having power, use it to oD-
press and punish loyal men because they
are and have been loyal; when the whole
body of colOred men who have never finch
cd from duty as radical loyalists when the
days were gloomiest and the dangers
greatest in the time of war, are prosecuted
by system, hunted like wild beasts and
slaughtered without mercy and with en-
tire immunity from punishment, there is
no room LETT for doubt that some legislative
remedy should be applied. These are mat
ters of fact and not of opinion; and in our
Judgment but one course is open and should
be pursued without hesitation or delay.
According to the judgment OF all who have
felt the pressure OF the rebel rule and have
stood firmly and fearlessly for the Union
when treason was nearest to success, whose
judgment, given upon oath, is based upon
facts within personal experience, who give
opinions resting in knowledge, and speak OF
what they have seen and known, the pres
ent civil government of Louisiana, exist
| ing without sanction of national law,
should be suspended by act of Congress
and provisional government established
and maintained by military power, until the
| time has come when Louisiana is controlled
| by loyal men, and may be restored to the
former practical relations to the Union
without endangering its security and peace.
The report is accompanied by bill pro-
viding for the appointment of officers for
the new organization by the President, aid
provides that rebels shall be enfranchised
| by going through naturalization process
taking out papers from the United States
Courts.
Ship Dashing Wave Sunk.
The ship Dashing Wave, from San Fran
cisco, struck on b lrnegat Shoals yesterday,
and being got aflOat again sank inside
| Sandy Hook. No lives lost.
Solomon johnson, a colored man, form
erly President Lincoln's barber, has been
appointed first class clerk in the Treasury
Department in Washington, with desk in
| the Secretary's office.
| Mexican AdVices.
The Herald's Durango (MeXico) cores
pondence of the 18th ult., says large num-
bers of French and Austrian deserters were
serving in the Republican ranks, and many
Mexican Imperial officers were applying
for employment in the same place, but were
not received.
Affairs in North Carolina.
The pecuniary stringency is so great in
Pitt county, North Carolina, that the peo'
pie recently compelled the Sheriff to burr
up all his writs and executions returnabl'
at court, refusing to be elected from thei
houses and being unable to pay. Destitu
ton is evident all over the State. The Leg
islature has passed a relief bill, postponnI
payment of debts for twelve MONTHS
The negroes were greatly troubled by eX
ploits of bands of regulators, who had mad
oath to dispossess every negro in the Stat
of his property, and with that end in view
were stealingtheir horses.