New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-20

grave instance of tyranny, for which every
person in any degree responsible must be
held up to public odium and eondemnac
ton. Occurring in the, peaceable city OF
New Orleans, justified or extenuated oy no
law it presents the most daring example
of military despotism which has been
offered by those in power since the close OF
the war.
From the Washington Patriot.I
THE NEW ORLEANS OUTRAGE.
THE United States Marshal at New Or
leans has taken the trouble and gone to the
expense of telegraphing all the way to the
New York Tribune his reason for using the
federal buildings for a partisan political
convention, and the Tribune grimly pro-
nOunces them unsatisfactory. He confesses
and avoids. The convention did not meet
in the Custcmhouse, but in the courthouse
he, the marshal. being, in his own phrase,
custodian of the court" which is under
the same roof with 1.-THE Customhouse, and
of the whole building the Presidents
brother-in-law. Mr.. Collector Casey, is the
guardian. The troops were brought there
as part of the federal posse cOD,itatns to pro-
tect the federal property-neaning either
the convention or the building-and they
were to protect it against the Republican
State police.
1t may be a narrow view of the matter,
but, as. question of official misdemeanOr
may arise, We utterly deny that the marshal
has such control OF a federal courthouse as
to enable him to make what use he pleases
of it. The master of a courthouse is,
strictly speaking, the judge, whose seat OF
justice is there, and OF whom the marshal
IS the servant, to execute his process. to do
his bidding; and the marshal has only such
control OF vacated courtroom as head SER
want has of an empty house when its master
and mistress are away. He protects 1t. bat
he can not desecrate it. He may occupy it,
but he can not invite into it all the political
rowdies and yagabonds OF hisiacquaintance
to hold high carnival there. The very fact
which this marshal admits, that he appre-
hended disturbance, makes it all the more
indecent, and of the two patches of federal
territory, we are clearly of opinion that the
Customhouse, where mere plumber and
abuse are going on all the time, would lave
been litter place for this cOnvocation and
exhibition than the courthouse. where
serene Justice is supposed to sit We take
the liberty of calling the attention of the
Attorney GeneraI-if he has leisure to at
tend to such triiies-to this matter. for we
find, on accidental reference to recent
statute on the subject 1.-THE act of second Of
August. 1871. that che is charged with the
general superintendent and direction of the
marshals of all the districts in the United
States and the Territories; and the said
marshals are required to report to the Al
torney General mot to their New York Iii-
bunc ian account of the official proceed
ings and the state of their respective Offices
Now, while the calling the convention
into court was not an official proceeding, the
sending for troops clearly was. 1t must
have been as marshal he called for them, or
the requisition would not have been needed.
We impatiently look for the marshal's for
NAL report in the premises, and the Attor
ney Generals action on it. We trust it will
be as emphatic as is what the Tribune says
on receiving its official report:
"The use of the United States courtroom
in the Customhouse as the place for holding
the convention of one of the factions. and
the use of United States troops to exclude
from it persons claiming to be delegates, or
any persons. are things so shamelessly in
decent that we repudlate the ascription of
their origin to President Grant as an I'M
warrantable and incredible SANDER"