New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-10
Atthe Customiiouse.

| Eighty-fve delegates marched in body
| to the Customhouse with tickets of admis-
sAion, but were refused admittance into the
| hall by deputy United States marshals,
supported by two companies of United
States troops, stationed near the door of the
| United States courtroom, selected as the
hall of the Convention. Governor War
moth at the head of the delegates asked for
| admission of himself and delegates to the
hall. The deputy marshals refused to ad-
| NIT them. The Governor again demanded
| admission and was again refused, but was
| told that he, if he chose, could enter the
| hall. The Governor replied that he would
not go into the hall unless the balance of
the delegates, having tickets, were ad-
| m1tted.
| The marshals still refusing to admit the
delegates, they retired to the head of the
| Customhouse stairs, right in front of the
| line of United States troops with muskets
stacked.
A chair being brought, the Governor rose
and said:
Fellow Republicans: We have submitted
to the dictation of the State Central Com
| mittee thus far. We have consented to
| meet in convention in the United States
Customhouse, although that building is
without the jurisdiction of the State of Loui-
siana. We have consented to come here, not
| withstanding the fact that the hall was
surrounded by an army. of United States
| deputy marshals. We have consented to
| take such tickets as they were willing TO
| give us; but we have come here to-day, the
| legally constituted delegates of the Repub-
| licans of the State, to represent their wishes,
| and to express their will. We are refused
| admittance to the hall of the convention,
and these deputy marshals, backed up by
| these companies of United States troops,
| seem determined we shall not have fair
! expression of our opinions, and that the Re-
| publicans here assembled shall have no
| part or lot in the public deliberations of
| this convention.
| [Just here Captain Smith. commanding
! the military, pulled the Governors sleeve,
and whispered something to him, when the
| Governor continued.
| We bow in respectful obedience to the
| mandates of the military power, and having
| been refused admittan3e to the hall desig-
| mated by the State Central Committee as
| the place for the convention to assemble, 1
propose that we now adjourn to the Turner
Hall and hold the convention there.
TO move to the delegates here assembled
that we do now adjourn to the Turner Hall,
at the corner of Dryades and Lafayette
streets, and there organize the delegates
into a convention, and proceed with the
business for which we have been called to-
gether.
The delegates then followed the Governor
down the stairs, rolling up cheer after cheer
for Governor Warmoth. They were met at
the door of the Customhouse building by
thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, who
echoed their cheers till the granite building
rang again, and called upon the Governor
for a speech. He began to address the
crowd on the steps ia front of the main
entrance, but was forced out of the build
ing By the pressure of the crowd inside
striving to get out.
At this point Mr.. Blanchard, brother
of State Registrar, B. p. Blanchard,
ESQ, says he saw mah wearing the badge
of deputy United States marshal, draw a
pistol and present it at the Governor, but
that Mr.. William Roy, the deputy marshal
in command, told him to put it up.
The Governor then mounted his carriage