Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-17
MORE DEVELOPMENTS.
HOW col. CARTER WAS BEF0oLED, AND
THE DELEGATES IMFpsED ON.

In the published report OF the
proceedings of the Customhouse
pow-wow on Aug. 9, we find
Speaker Carter from the Committee
on resolutions introducing the fol-
lowing among the set, and which
the credulous innocents, the un-
authorized representatives, the
gullible and gulled members, unan-
imously adopted.
"That we tender our thanks to
the President of the United States,
and the constituted authorities OF
the Federal Government, for the
prompt and efficient manner In
which they have preserved order
and secured to this Convention the
legal (?) exercise of the rights OF
undistarbed public assemblage and
free speech, Notwithstanding the
Vaccinations of Fl. G. Warmoth
and the subordinate Office holders
with whom he exercises present
control.
Now it has been settled that this
was an imposition on the creduhty
of the members of that Convention.
It would be interesting to know
whether Marshal Packard imposed
on Speaker, Carter and the other
members of the Committee on Re-
solutions, and caused them to in
nocently dupe their brethren, or
whether the Committee was IN col
fusion with Marshal Packard and
knowingly deceived the Convention.
One thing is true, and ''tis pity, tbs,
It's true" that all the sweetness
and effect OF this grandiloquent
Utilization of Presidential sensibili-
ties. has been wasted "on the desert
air" and fallen with thud on the
Presidents ears, and the people
who unanimously" voted these
thanks are told by President Grant
himself, through the regular dele
gates who waited on him, that he
was unaware that the troops had
been used until he saw it in the
papers and thus the members Of
the bayonet convention were fooled,
and they thanked" the President
for nothing.
The Gatlin gunners likewise dup
ed their disciples with reference to
the authorities of the Federal
Government" They did the nm
thankful thing of thanking" them
too. But President Grant says that
when General Reynolds sent the
troops to New Orleans he did
not know that the troops were to
be used at u political convention,
sor the inference il, he would not
have sent them; and SO more
thanks were prodigally thrown
away. And this is II fair sample of
the INTEGRITY and veracity which
pervades the whole proceeding.
We hope our friends in the parish
es, who in the simplicity of their
hearts alienated themselves from
the real representatives of the Re
publican party during the 9th and
10th of August, will open their eyes
to the receptions which were prac-
ticed on them to secure their adhe-
sion to the boiling faction, and see
that their aiding the use of improp-
er means to control the party, can
only result if successful, in disgrace
to themselves, and disaster to their
party.
The New York Tribune in this
connexion says: -
We are gradually getting at the
bottom of the New Orleans military
outrage. The remOnstrants against
the high-handed proceedings of
Marshal Packard and Collector
Casey have made their formal COM
plants to the President and have
received the'assurance that he never
authorized the employment of
United States troops for the pur-
poses for which they were used by
his superserviceable appointees at
Now Orleans. Gen. Reynolds, it
seems, is responsible for the detail
of the troops, though ignorant of
the precise character of the emer-
gency existing. We rejoice that
the often expressed disbelief of The
Tribune in Gen. Grants being in
any way party to this dissraceful
business has been justified by all
the facts. And now that the re-
sponsibility can be fixed upon
civilian officials at New Orleans,
without any difficulty, we shall ex-
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