The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-18
THE NEW ORLEANS ROW,
Party Organization Maintained
by Bayonets.
A FOretaste of Kaiser Ulysses
Policy.
Federal Troops at New Orleans
From the Picayune !

Al tAS ~ h1toSSo NSeAs NN'A'
were assembled those members Of the
State Central Committee who are in the
interest of the Dunn, Carter, Packard
and Casey faction; but their proceed
ings were conducted so secretly that
it was impossible to ascertain what was
the nature OF their deliberations. The
door of the Uuited States Circuit Court
room, where the convention was to
have assembled, was closed, and no one
permitted to enter.
About nine o'clock A. NJ, there ar
rived at the Custom House three compa-
MES of the 10Th regiment Uuited States
Infantry, and the two Gatlin guns,
under the command OF Captain Smith.
The infantry were stationed and stacked
their arms at the head Of the steps on
the Canal street entrance, and the
Gatlin guns wers rolled into the base
ment TO await orders.
Soon afterwards every enterance to
the Custom House was closely guarded.
and no one permitted to enter except
those who were provided with tickets
issued by Marshal Packard. And thus
was a Uuited States Custom House
temporarily converted from a public
building for the transaction of public
business, into a private hall, under the
control OF a faction of a political party.
All business was temporarily suspended,
and no sane business man would have
trusted himself within the wall Of a
building in which the chances were
almost ten 10 one there would be a
riot between the two wings ofthe Repub-
lican party now struggling for supre-
macy in this State.
The very presence OF the military,
called out under the pretence Of pre-
serving the peace, but really, as it would
seem and as was believed by the War
mothites, to snbserve the purpose Of
the opposing faction, was calculated to
create unnecessary excitement and to
produce those very acts OF violence
which the Central committee feared.
From the moment the military ar
rived the excitement naturally increas,
ed, nor was it allayed by the arrival
shortly alter OF some eighty uniformed
policemen under Superintendent Bad
ger.
About eleven o'clock, or little be-
fore, Governor Warmoth arrived a: the
Custom House, in a carriage, accom-
panied by Hugh j. Campbell and P. B.
s. Pinchback, followed by a large crowd
of delegates, some eighty or ninety in
number.
On exhibiting their tickets they were
permitted to enter, and proceeded upthe
main stairs in a body, and thence to the
United States Circuit Court. Here they
were confronted by special deputy,
who informed them they could not en-
ter as the committee was not vet ready,
or something to that effect. Where
upon Governor Warmoth expressed in
dignation, and proceeding with the del
egates to the space occupied by the
troops and Immediately in front Of them
called for a chair. Mounting this i'm
promptu rostrum, and standing support,
ed on his crutches, he is still lame, he
said in substance:
"GentLemen, Citizens Of Louisiana and
De,,qates 10 the Republican Contention ::
We are called upon to-day to witness a
sight which has never before been seen
since the foundation OF this Govern
ment We stand here in the presence
of three companies Of the United States
army, who have been brought here to
intimidate the free Republican voters
of Louisiana, to deny to us the privi-
leges conferred upon US by the people. ="
[Just here Captain Smith, COM
manding the military, pulled the Gov
ernor's sleeve and whispered something
to him, when the Governor continued j
1--WE bow in respectful obedience to
the mandates Of the military power, and
having been refused admittance to the
hall designed by the State Central Com
mittee as the place for the Convention
to assemble, l propose we now adjourn
to the Turner'S Hall and hold the Con-
vention there"
From the New Orleans Republican,
II is necessary that this notorious
trpth should be known at Washington,
and among the Republicans everywhere.
IF the Federal Administration, if the
narty itself intends to do the work with
the representatives Of Republicanism in
Louisiana, they must work with the men
who composed the Convention at Turn'
or Hall. If they refuse to acknowledge
the true men OF the party they cannot
eypect to succeed. II the Democracy
select a submissionist he will be beaten
in the South because the masses OF the
nsrtv will not support him. II the Re
pubiicans at Washington elect to &c
with a mere fragment Of the party IL
Louisiana, they must expect to lose the
State. We make our own selection o.
leaders, and we do not intend that the
authorities at Washington shall inter
fere to prevent us from doing $50.
Let the Republicans at Washington
consider the importance Of arrestiDG
Federal interference with Louisiana
Republicanism. The selfshness OF 8
few men who have attempted to us'
the party and its patronage for thei
own purposes must be suppressed, O.
the Republicans CT Louisiana will visi
upon the heads Of those who coulC
stop this trouble, but who do not, tn
penalty of their mistakes. The part!
in Louisiana is united in its determine
ton to arrest dissension by punishini
the dissenters. 1t has spoken in term
not to be mistaken. The voice of tn
convention at Turner Hall represent
thirty thousand majority. 1t can vel
afford to give away ten thousand dii
affected men, and still sweep the State