The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-07-01
eession here last night in honor of the
Democratic victory,
Signed JOHN d. FREEMAN.
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democratic victory,
lSigned JOHN d. FREEMAN,
Chairman Dem. Elk. Com.
NEW York, June 23.-The delegates
from the West aud South are coming in
rapidly. At all the hotels Of the CITY ear
nest canyassing is going on between the
friends OF the varions candidates. The
anti-Pendleton men seem to have been on
the ground first, coming from New Eng
land and New York Pendeton has more
than twenty friends and supporters in the
New York delegation. They declare that
the masses of the party in the State are for
his financial scheme, and that they can car
ry New York by hundred thousand ma
lorliy for Pendleton or any other man the
Convention may nominate.
The Pendleton men from the West now
here are willing to take the resolutions of
the New York Assembly as their platform
| on the subject of finances.
1t is generally believed that rule will
be adopted requiring all the candidates for
President and Vice President to be an
nounced previous to baloting, no nomina-
lions to be in order after balloting shall
have commenced, and the lowest candidate
to be dropped on each ballot. Every can
didate announced must be vouched for as
a supporter of the principles of the party
and of the choice of the Convention.
Gov. Seymour, of New York, is talked
of ss a candidate for President of the Con
vention, as also Gov. Bigler, of Pennsvl-
vania. 1t is urged against Mr.. Seymour
that he was President of the last Demo.
cratic Convention at Chicago; also, that
New York ought to claim no more than
she has received, in being selected as the
place for holding the Convention.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-In the House.
Mr.. Schotipld, from the Committee on
Elections, reported that the credentials of
the Arkansas Representatives were in pro-
per form, with a resolution directing the
administ alton of the oath of Office.
Mr.. Brooks presented protest, but the
resolution Was adopted, and the members
sworn in.
The protest presented by Mr.. Brooks is
signed by all the Democratic members. and
is quite lengthy. 1t was read. The con-
cusion oft is as follows: We, the Rep.
resentatives of the people from the free
States, IN behalf OF our constituents, ear
aestly and solemnly protest against this
violence upon our constitution, upon our
people, and do hereby counsel and advise
all our friends of popular government to
submit to this farce and fraud only until
at the ballot box, aud operating through
the elections, this great wrong can be ,5ut
right. There is no law in the land over
the constitutional law, and there il no gov
eminent but a constitutional government,
and hence all bayonet made and all Con
gress imposed constitutions are of no
weight, authority or sanction save that
enforced by arms-an element O, power nm.
known to Americans in times of peace.
and never required but as it acts in and
under the supreme civil law, and the con-
stitutional statutes enacted in pursuance
thereof.
We protest, therefore, in behalf of the
free people OF the North and West, against
the right of this military oligarchy, estab-
lshed in Arkansas, or elsewhere in the re-
enslaved States of the South, to impose
upon US, through Congress, taxes, or Gus.
toms, or other laws to maintain this oliear-
chy or its Freedmen's Bureau. We protest
against going into the newly promised CO.
partnership of military dictation, and hav-
ing negroes in the administration of this
government, and we demand in the name
of others, in the name of the constitution,
and for the sake of posterity, not its re.
construction, but the restoration of that
sacred instrument which has been to all of
us a fiery pillar from 1887 unto its pres
ent overthrow, and in all solemnity, before
God and man, and under full sense of the
responsibility of all we utter, we no hereby
affix, our names to this protest against the
admission of these persons claiming to be
members of Congress from Arkansas.
WAsHrNGroN, June 2G.-The Joint Re
trenchment Committee have decided to re-
port bill abolshing the Printing Bureau
of the Treasury Department, and providing
that all notes, bonds and currency shall
hereafter be printed in three different es-
tablishments-the face OF the note in one,
the back in another, and the finishing to be
done in the Treasury Department.
Gen. Grant issued an order today, and
telegraphed the same to Gen. Mcdowell,
directing him, in view Of the fact that Ar
kansas is fully restored to the Union, to
turn over the State government to the civil
authorize. as soon as he could do so with
safety to the public interests.
Large numbers of petitions to Congress
are daily arriving, Endorsed by District
Commanders, recommending the removal
of the political disabilities of prominent
persons in the South.