New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-21
FUNERAL OF COL. POPE.
Resolutions of Ex-Soldiers and
Sailors Meeting,
A SOLEMN SOENE
Honors to the Deceased

iVimoLly VI t1e -nlTLy y-LHlTU lllln0lS V0iu n
teers. .g.
Since the close of the war Colonel Pope
has resided in Louisiana. He was last
spring elected sheriff of the parish of St.
Mary, and the tragical circumstances of his
murder in Franklin on the seventeenth
instant are fresh in the mind
OF the whole country. He was
assassirated on the porch of the
hotel where he was residing, and Judge
Chase of Franklin was also murdered near
his side. Colonel Pope left wife and an
infant child. We hope there is not heart
in New Orleans to-day that does not sym
pathize with the wife and child in this
great and sudden grief
A committee. consisting of Senator Kel-
logg, General McMillen, Governor War
moth, General West and General Lee, YES
terday requested the use of the Post Band
and invited the Commanding General of
the Department and bis staff to attend the
ceremonies of to-day. Their request was
Immediately acceded to and the invitation
accepted in the following letter:
Headquarters DEPARTMENT OF LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Louisiana, october Il, 1866.
GENTLEMEN Your note of last evening
was handed to me this morning,
The brass band will be directed to report
to you at twelve o'clock NJ, at the Mechau-
ics' Institute, and shall endeavor to be
present with my staff to participate in the
funeral ceremonies of the late Colonel n, Fl,
Pope. Very truly, ETC.,
LOWELL H. ROUSSEAU.
Messrs: Kellogg, McMillen, Warmoth, West
and Lee, Committee, etc.
At twelve o'clock the ex.soldiers and
sailors assembled at the Institute.
Meeting called to order by Sam H. Hous.
ton, and on motion, Hon. Frank Morey was
unanimously called to the chair and NJ.
Marks, Esq, was appointed Secretary.
Motion made by General A. l.. Lee, that
the committee on resolutions be called upon
for the resolutions, which were offered by
General L. A. Sheldon, Chairman, as fol-
lows, to wit:
We, the eX-soldiers and sailors late of the
United States army, and many residing in
the State of Louisiana, have learned Of the
assassination Of Colonel Henry H. Pope, at
Franklin, in the parish of st. Mary, with
astonishment and horror. We're this an
Isolated case of brutal and cowardly mur-
der, it might be passed over as one of those
atrocities which might and occasionally
does occur in any country or community,
but when it constitutes only one instance Of
long series of similar outrages actually
perpetrated, and in conformity to the threat.
ened designs of extended organizations
whose cardinal principles seem to be vic.
lence and btoOdshed committed upon indi-
yiduals solely for political opinions, the
occurrence becomes one which should excite
alarm in the bosoms ofall good citizens, and
should arouse every lover of civilization and
peace to the most determined efforts in
arresting and bringing to condign punish
ment those who participate in OF give coun-
tenance to these crimes against the peace
and dignity OF the State and against the
sacred rights of humanity. That our united
opinion may stand publicly recorded, we
do therefore concur III the passage of the
following resolutions:
Resot0ed, That we shall ever remember
the good qualities of Colonel Henry H.
Pope, as soldier and citizen, and now
proclaim to the world, that in both capdci.
ties he bore himself as became an American
patriot.
Resolced, That we condole with his widow
and all his family friends, and assure them
that our hearts are filled with the most
poignant grief for their irreparable loss.
ResolCed, That we feel that. in the fall OF
our late comrade in arms, we recognize that
the cOwardly hand of the assassin is raised
against us all, and that we are called upon
to meet the emergency with the same patriot
ism and courage which animated US in 90
ing forth seven years ago to meet the armed
enemies of our country.
ReSolced, That we assert and shall main
tain our right to live in this country and
to have our opinions, to express and vote
them on all occasions freely, on the general
grounds that we are citizens of the United
States, and on the special ground that We
have assisted in bearing the flag of our couu-
try in victory from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande.
Resolved. That we appeal to the Govern.
ment of the United States, whose honor we
have maintained upon many a sanguinary
held for protection in our persons and prop.
erty, and in the free exercise Of our polit1-
cal rights as men and Americans.
ResolUed, That we appeal to the General
commanding the United States forces in this
State to use the troops of his com mand TO
his utmost ability to give security to his late
comrades in arms, and to afford them safety
in loving and advocating the principles Of
justice and the sacred cause of cur common
countrTs
On motion of DR.. II. A. Southworth the
report of the Committee on Resolutions was
received and the resolutions adopted.
Moved, that this meeting adjourn, and as.
semble at the entrance Of the hall and pro
coed to the river with the corpse.
The meeting then adjourned to join the
procession at the entrance to the Institute,
where the remains of deceased were await
ing their escort. ..-.5
In the meantime the officers in service, who
of course took no part in the meeting up
stairs, had assembled in the Governors
room. We noticed, among these, Gen
erals Rousseau, Ayres, Hatch, Buchanan,
Neill Tompkins aud Beekwith; Celonels
Keller Russell aud Mcclure, and Captains
Badly, Burbank aud Major Hatchings.
The funeral procession then moved to
the levee, escorted by the ex-soldiers, to the
number of one Thousand The officers still
in service and on duty here, followed in car
ridges. Arriving at the ieVee, the solemn as
sembly gathered about tie remains Of their
deeeasedloomrade, and brief aud touch
ing prayer was offered by the'Rev. DR..
Newman, in which he besodght the bless,
ings of peace, called down the protection
of heaven on the widow and fatherIess, and
entreated that no unchrisdan
malice might be stirred up in such times Of
excitement.
The remains Of the deceased were then
conyeyed upon the Nicholas Lop0vorth