The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-08-24
For Governor
CHARLES P. KIMBALL,
Something for Americans to Think Of.
OF PORTLAND

| Something for Americans to Think Of.
We RETAINED last week from copying
the report of the interference of the ma.
tional administration in the politics OF
Louisiana, because Of a hope that the al:
fair might prove to have been exaggerat
ed. Reluctantly compelled to accept it as
true. we now give place to the dispatch
which later advices have confirmed in full
1t is as follows
| NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 3. AT an early houl
| this morning large crowds of whites and blacks
| gathered around the custom-hOuSe building
| where the republican State convention was t1
assemble. About 8 o'clock two companies OF
! the United States infantry, with two Gatlr
| guns, under the command of Captain Smith
| with armed troops, marched in and stacked
| their arms in the hall, at the head of the steps
at the Canal street entrance. Large Numbers o
deputy United States marshals closely guarded
every entrance of the custom-house, no one be
ing permitted to enter without a ticket from
Marshal Packard.
At half-past ten o'clock Governor Warmot.,
accompanied by General Campbell. Senator
Pinchbaek and about eighty followers, some
with and some without tickets, entered the
building and endeayored to pass through the
ii
and Informed that no one was permitted to pass
until the hour for the opening of the conven-
ton Mr.. Yarmouth expressed his naigna-
ton, and mounting chair said ''Haying been
refused admttance to the hall designated by the
central committee for the holding of 4 conven-
ton, | propose we know adjourn TO Turner
Hall ana hold a convention there" The speech
was received with cheers, mingled with Il few
Kisses. Mr.. Yarmouth descended from the
chair and reentered his carriage and the crowd
al triI, u,
through the streets TO Turner Hall
AT twelve O'Clock the crowd was called to
order, and Mr.. Masters of Carroll Parish was
elected temporary chairman. Governor War
moth. Messrs. Pinchback and Campbell and
Judge Dibble, denounced the interference OF
United States officers. Judge Dibblc charac-
terzed the custOm-house convention AS a body
of administration favorites, guarded by bayonets
and lawless tyranny.
Mr.. Pinchback said Is it possible that we
are to be put down by a government we have
sustained? If that be the case, the sooner this
government is torn down and anarchy built up
on its ruins the better.
After eftectin2 permanent organization,
with Mr.. Pmchback as president, they adjourn
ed to meet at Turner Hall at half-past seven
O'Clock TINS evening.
Mr.. Packard called the custom-holse conven-
ton to order at twelve O'Clock, when J. Henry
Burch, (coiored) of Baton Rouge elected
contemporary chairman. A permanent Organi-
Dunn as chairman.
AT the evening session Of the republican con-
vention in the custom house, the committee on
credentials reported for the Warmoth delegates
in several parishes. and five out of thirteen OF
the CITY wards. Speeches were delivered by
Postmaster Lowell, Messrs. Dunn, Carter, In
graham, Hardy and others, all of which We're
exceedingly bitter on WarmOth the majority of
the speakers pronouncing him recreant in every
trial. and an enemy to the republican party
he mi rfaI Inf 0Iln .a,lfaa
ing a place in free schools to every child; APP
proving of the limitation of the State depart
ment expenses TO $25,000,0O0; calling upon the
governor TO preserve the peace; declaring that
Governor Warmoth no longer enjoyed the con-
hdence of the republican partV; instructing de-
egates to vote for U. s. Grant for the nomina-
ton at the next national republican convention :;
declaring the New Orleans Republican no
longer the organ of the republican party, and
asking the administration to withdraw the
federal printing from that paper, and thanking
President Grant for his promltness in protect
ing them.
All the federal officials We're reelected on the
central committee, after which the convention
adjourned sine die.
The troops on duty We're procured from
General Reynolds, commanding in Texas on a
fequlstion from the United States marshal.
Ii this recital fails to arouse the country
to a sense of its danger, to stimulate in
quiry and arouse the Indignation of an
outraged people. we may as well write
the history of the republic to this date,
and place Finis at the end of the chapter
The bayonet enactments Of Congress,
in defiance of the constitution, We're level
ed against Democratic success. But the
New Orleans affair, with its sudden APP
partition of muskets and cannon in support
of the Presidents faction of his party,
must startle even the most complaisant of
party men. They will see that the letters
which they helped to forge for Democracy
are liable to become their own shackles.
The evil spirit which they have created
will not down at their bidding. From
sowing the wind, they are reaping the
whirlwind. The facts of the case will
bear us out i'll going still further. Casey,
the collector Of New Orleans, is a brother
in-law to the President He quarrels
with the party in Louisiana, and makes
use of the Custom House in which to hold
a. Convention, with the entrances guarded
by soldiers, and the streets threatened by
cannon, to keep out obnoxious individuals
who might otherwise come ''between the
wind and his nobility" The United States
Marshall said at the time that the Presi
dent had authorized him to use the Chs
tom House for the Convention, and to
bring United States troops for its protec-
ton. Bringing the matter down to its
finest point, are not the Democratic party,
the republican party, the Yarmouth fac
ton, and every body else, warned by
musket and cannon against interference
with the Royal Family, of which Gen.
Grant is the head? In supporting his
brother-in-law in the New Orleans Custom
House, he supports himself in the White
House. The mailed hand is shown. The
worst that Democracy ever predicted is
to-day realization. Instead of Presi-
dent made SO by the free ballots of citi-
zens' we have throne upborne on bay
onets, and hedged about by cannon.
The appearance of the troops of Charles
the First at the door of the House of Com
mons was not greater outrage upon law
and right than the parading of Grants
soldiers before the New Orleans Custom
House. The rash and obstinate English
king lost his head upon the scaffold. 1t
is hoped that the recurring election, be-
fore the American people have been en-
tirely bound hand and foot, will make
peaceful way for successor to the mock
king at Washington