The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-17
8irllnpond Dispatclt,
HURsDAY..........AUGUsT II, 1871.
THE CIRCULATION OF THE DISPATCH
rs LARGER THAN THE COMBINED CIR
CULATION OF ALL THE OTHER DAILY
NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.
1he Federal Troops at New Orleans.
From the Picayune.1

the Dunn, Carter, Packard, and Casey lac
tion, but their proceedings were conducted
SO secretly that 1t was impossible to ascer-
tain what was the nature Of their delib-
erations. The door of the United States Cir
cult Courtroom, where the convention
was to have assembled, was closed, and no
one permitted to enter.
About 8 O'Clock A. N. there arrived ut
the CuStom-house three companies Of the
10th regiment United States Infantry, and
the two Gatlin guns, under the command
Of Captain Smith. The infantry were sta
toned, and stacked their arms at the head
of the steps on the Canal street entrance.
and the Gatlin guns were rolled into the
basement to await orders.
Soon afterwards every entrance to the
Custom.house was closely guarded, and no
one permitted to enter except those who
| were provided with tickets issued by Mar
shall Packard. And thus was United
States Custom-house temporarily converted
from public building for the transaction
of public business into private hall, lIn-
der the control Of q faction Of q political
party. All business was temporarily sus.
pended, aud no sane business man would
have trusted himself within the walls of q
building in which the chances were almost
ten to one there would be riot between
the two wings of the Republican party
now struggling for supremacy in this State.
The very presence of the military, called
out under the pretence Of preserving the
peace. but really. as it would seem and was
believed by the Warmouthites, to su6serve
the purposes 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 arrived
! the excitement naturally increased, nor was
| it allayed by the arrival, shortly AFTER OF
some eighty uniformed policemen, under
| Superintendent Badger.
About IL o'clock, or q little before, Gov.
Yarmouth arrived ut the Custom-house in
a carriage. accompanied by Hugh j. Camp
bell and p. 3. 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 up the
| main stairs in body, and thence to the
United States Circuit Court. Here they
were confronted by special deputy, who
| informed them they could not enter, as the
committee was not yet ready, or something
| to that effect. Wbereupon Gov. Warmou,h h
expressed Indignation, and proceeding with
the delegates to the space occupied by the
troops and Immediately IN front of them,
called for chair. Mounting this i'm
promptu rostrum, and standing, supported
on his crutches, (he is still lame), lie said,
| in substance
| Gentlemen, Citizens Of Louisiana and
| Delegates to the Republican ConUents0n :
We are called upon to-day to witness a
sirht which has never before been seen
since the foundation of this Government.
| We stand here in the presence of three
companies Of the United States army, who
have been brought here to intimidate the
/ At
deny to US the privileges conferred upon us
| by the people,
| TJust here Capt. Smith, commanding the
military, pulled the Governors sleeve and
whispered something to him, when tue
| Governor continued !
| ".We bow in respectful obedience to the
mandates of the military power, ana nav
| Ing been refused admittance to the hall de-
| signated by the State Central Committee as
| the place for the Convention to assemble,
| propose we now adjourn to the Turner
| Hall and hold the Convention there"
Terom the New Orleans Republican,
It is necessary that this notorious truth
| should be known at Washington, and
among the Republicans everywhere. | fthe
Federal Admin .tratiou, if the party itself,
intends to do the work with the representa-.
tives OF Republicauism in Louisiana, they
must work with the men who composed the
Convention ut Turner Hall. If they refuse
to acknowledge the true men Of the party
they cannot expect to succeed. II the
Democracy select q submissionist he will
he beaten in the South, because the masses
of the party will not support him. Ii the
Republicans at Washington elect to 90 with
mere fragment of the party in Louisiana,
they must expect to lose the State. We
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do not intend that the authorities at Wash
ington shall interfere to prevent us from
doing this thing. ~
Let the Republicans at Washington con-
slider the Importance Of arresting Federal
interference with Louisiana Republican,
ism. The selfshness Of a few men who
have attempted to use the party ADD its
patronage for their own purposes must be
suppressed, or the Republicans of Louisi-
ana will visit upon the heads of those who
could stop this trouble, but who do not,
The penalty of their mistakes. The party
in Louisiana is united in its determination
TO arrest dissension by Furnishing the dis
senters. 1t has spoken in terms not to be
mistaken. The voice Of the convention at
Turner Hall represents thirty thousand
majority. 1t can we'll afford to give away
ten thousand disaftected men, and still
sweep the State. And it can do this
whether the Government ut Washington
supports its efforts or opposes them. So
the Federal authorities are more deeply in
terested in learning the truth than we are
in telling'it. They need our support, and
we can succeed without theirs. IL they
want the State, then, they had better ac-
knowledge the convention at Turner Hall.
[From the New Orleans Times
Yesterday Was q day 1ono tn he remem-
bered, not only in Louisiana, but through
out the boundless realms of Ulysses I. The
| first practical application OF that despotic
military rule W hlch servile Congress was
so ready to authorize, and besotted Pres.
| ident so ready TO enforce, was then pushed
| to an offensive entreme, though in direc-
ton little dreamed Of by those who pre-
pared the poisoned chalice. The enforce
ment act was intended to strengthen the
President as candidate for reelection in
1872, and to perpetuate Radical rule
throughout the South, by eftectually sup
pressing every constitutions attempt to re-
establish y legitimate self. government
among the people. But man proposes and
God disposes. That which was intended to
give strength has already proved itself an ell
ement of weakness. The rule which was TO
be perpetuated was undivided Radical rule,
and the people to be held in check were the
landowners and taxpayers OF the country,
who demand honesty and efficiency in their
public servants. The first enforcement OF
the enforcement act In this vicinity was
against men, white and black, VINO claimed
to be the authorized representatives OF Re-
publican opinion in Louisiana. The mouse
of Radicalism in the State is divided, and
Federal bayonets were invoked to support
one .sectlon or faction of wrong-doers