The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-09-22
DID PRESIDENT GRANT Or
DER THE NEW ORLEANS
OUTRAGE OR NOT.

A committee OF Republicans from
Louisiana are to wait upon President
Grant some day next week to learn
officially what he means to do about
the Intervention of United States
troops With Gatling guns to exclude
from. the Republican State Conven-
ton at New Orleans the delegates be-
lieyed to be opposed TO his own re-
nomination as candidate for Presi-
dent.
There is every reason to believe
that Observation-Disclosures of using
troops to control political conyen-
ton was committed with the sanction
of the President; In fact, that it was
done by his order. The chief agent
in the transaction was his own broth
er-in-law, who had but short time
previously spent some time With him
at Long Branch, and who afterward
declared that ne had the very highest
authority for arraying the troops at
the doors of the Convention. II is
also in evidence that the brother-in-
law and his associates at New Orleans
sent telegram to the President and
to some members of the Cabinet two
days before the assembling of the
Convention, expressly requesting that
troops should be furnished to coop
crate with them. Besides, it is
known to be the usage in the army
that no commander shall send troops
on the application of civil official
without first obtaining telegraphic in
structions from the War departments ;
It is also fully proven that the dayY
before the convention large number
of prominent Republicans In New Or
leans telegraphed to Secretary Bout
well in Washington, that they had
been informed that troops were to be
present at the Convention, and re-
questing him to interfere to prevent
q wrong so needless and alarming.
To this joint telegram no answer was
received; but there can be no doubt
that it reached Mr.. Boutwell,, and
that, If it had been in his power, he
would have procured from the Presi-
dent an order forbidding the presence
of troops.
These are tho facts which go to
show that it is Gen. Grant himself
who is responsible for this great po-
litical crime. This concluded is
strengthened by the circumstance
that, although three weeks have pass
ed away since the event, he has nei-
ther said nor done anything TO indi-
cate that he disapproves of the action
of his brother-in-law and the other
office-holders In New Orleans, or that
he intends to punish them by reinov-
al from their Offices Nothing else,
however, can avail In any degree to
relieve him from the odium of having
himself been the head of the conspir-
acy of which they were the executive
agents. Nothing else can avail in
any degree to mitigate the indigna-
ton with which the people every
where regard this proceeding. But
if such an act of justice is TO be per-
formed at all, there is no time to be
lost. The demand of the louisiana
Republicans should not be waited for
If Casey, Packard, and L'owellare to
have their Just dues, their dismissal
should take place INSTANTLY. Thus it
may, even at this late day. have some
appearance of having been promoted
by creditable disgust for their ac-
ton. If the President intends to
strike them, he had better do it at
once, and not wait for the interview
of next week.
The above which We copy from the
New York San. a Republican paper
of the anti-Grant persuasion. will
give our readers some idea of the in
harmonious condition of the Radical
element of the country.