Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-12
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NOON DISPATCHES.
NEW YoRK pIsPATCHEs.
Mexican NeWs-RePOrI of the Majority
OF the New Orleans Riot Committee

Mexican NeWs-RepOrf of The Majority
of the New Orleans Riot COMMITTEES
Published, etc. efe.
NEW YoRK, Feb. 1.-THE Heralds
Durango, Mexico, correspondence Of the
Eth ult says: Large numbers of French
and Austrian deserters were serving i'm the
the Republican ranks, and many Mexican
and Imperial officers were applying for
employment in the same place, but were
not received.
The pecunlary stringency is so great in
Pitt county, n. c., that the people recently
compelled the sheriff to burn ND all his
writs and executions returnable at conrt.
refusing to be elected from their homes and
being unable TO pay. Destitution is evident
all over the State.
The Legislature has passed the relief
bill, postponing payment Ofdebts for twelve
months.
Negroes were grealy troubledb by exploits
of band Of regulators, who had made oath
to dispossess every negro in the State ofhis
property, and with that end in view were
stealing their HOSES
Solomon johnson, colored man.
formerly President LincOln's barber, has
been appointed frst-class clerk in the
Treasury Department, in Washington, with
desk in the Secretary's office.
The report of the majority of the New
Orleans Riot Committee is published. II
says, in view Of the facts proved, we are
constrained to say that the time has fully
arrived when Congress should intervene
and shoEld so legislate as to secure to the
people of Louisiana a republican form of
government. The condition of things ex-
isting there cannot continue consistently
with the safety, security or peace of loyal
men. Since the surrender of the Rebel
army, rebellion has assumed another form.
and now controls the government through
the same agencies that led their armies i'm
time of war. That Congressional action
should be had is settled by fact, not opin-
ion. When men are driven from their
homes, and their lives threatened and their
property destroyed when in business they
are prescribed; when recent Rebels hold all
places of trust, and having power use il TO
Cypress and punish loyal men because they
are and have been loyal when the whole
body of colored men, who have never
flinched from duty as Radical loyaIists
when the day was gloOmiest and the danger
greatest IN the time of war, are prosecuted
by system, hunted like wild beasts, and
without mercy, and with en-
tire impuni!y from punishment there is
no room left for doubt that some legislative
remedy shouldbe applied. These are mat
tiers of fact, and not Of opinion, and in our
judgment but one course should be pursed
without hesitation or delay. According to
the judgment of all who have felt the pre-
senee of the Rebel rule and have stood
firmly and fearlessly for the Union when
treason was nearest to success; whose iudg-
ment is given under oath and is based upon
facts within their personal experience, who
give opinions resting on knowledge and
speak Of what they have seen and known,
the present civil government of Louisiana,
existing without the saetiOn of the national
law, should be suspended by act of Con-
gress and provisional government estab-
lished and maintained by military power
until the time shall come when Louisiana
is controlled by loyal men, when she NAV
be restored TO her former relations to the
Union without endangering its security and
peace. The report is accompanied by bill
providing for the appointment of officers
Ior the new organization by the President,
and provides that Rebels shall be enfran-
shised by going through a naturalization
process, taking ont papers from United
States courts
Times special says the Southerners who
Dave been at work on reconstruction are
till at work. 1t appears they are ready to
make all concessions asked by majority
If Congress, except adopting themselves
he disability clanse of the amendment. |
I is understood they win give the negroes |
mirage according to the dictates of a ma
GRITTY of Congress, and they will be content
With any legal enactment by Congress
which shall disqualify the leaders Of the
ebeliOn from holding Federal offices. 1t is
aid the President viii approve such legis-
alton. ta
The Ways and Means COMMITTEES have |
etained the clause requiring the Pacific |
railroad Company and all others, to use
american iron, which was stricken out by |
he Senate.
Ii issaid Lucien Adams and Billy ODon-
ell, members of the New Orleans police,
ave fed the country in fear of punishment |
Dr their crimes in the riot