Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-31
THE CASEY AND PACKARD
DEFENCE. M

You told he; an odious, damned iic;
Jpon NV soul. a LEA wicked lie. - OrHIIo
1t is something new and start
ing in American politics to see
Federal officials, in their capacity
rs such, attempting to justify them
selves before thecountry for break
ing up local political gathering.
It destroys bright dreams of "liber-
ty of speech and fright OF assem-
BLY," for Collector of Customs"
and q United States Marshal" over
their official signatures, to explain
why they ordered State Conven-
ton into a Federal building, and at
the bayonet's point, excluded there
from the very people for whose be-
pett the body was supposed to de-
iberate. Yet this is what s. B. Pack
ard and James F. Casey have deem
ed it necessary to do, and in max
ing their defence have shown as
little regard for truth, as they had
previously for the liberties of the
people. They have Published a
card throughout tho North in which
mendacity unstinted is employed to
bolster up fraud and usurpation.
In this card they arrogantly ad-
NIT that credentials of members
elect to the Convention were order
ed to be sent to Mr.. Packard, etc
be by him presented to the Conven'
tion," or (which is more generally
believed,) pocketed; but they at
tempt not to defend this unprece'
dented outrage.
They next accuse the "Wa1mott
faction" of the crime Of ''using ev'
cry means to insue their success
throughout the State" Money ano
Office" were promised, and thugs
sent to ward meetings to defeat the
Customhouse candidates, they al
lege. For the sake OF argument
solely, admit this to be true, ano
we ask if the State Administration
the recognized leaders OF our party
were to sit calmly by while the
Federal departments were packed
with unnecessary employees whose
sole duty was to control or destro,
Republican clubs? Did not Mar
shall Packard and Collector Casey
in the very beginning OF the contest
lead a chosen band Of roughs, thei
own subordinates, and break up tn
I 10th Ward club? Did not Post
master Lowell, night after night
lead his brigade of letter carriers t.
the 3rd Ward club for the sole pur
pose of hooting down speakers OBJ
noxious to their faction, but VIII
we're present by the wish of larg
majority of the legitimate members
Did not the Deputy Collector c
Customs, the internal Revenue As
SCISSOR, and other Federal officials
by chance presidents Of clubs, re
fuse to put adverse motions to tn
bodies over which they presided
and when ousted from their seat
by the almost unanimous vote
the indignant members, try to OF
game boiling clubs? And as fo
the employment Of thugs, we assel
and can prove that bloodier set
villains do not to-day desecra'
Gods green earth, than a lare
: proportion of the men Marsh'
} Packard adorned with his badge
on the 9th Of August. There wei
men whose names are the synonym
of murder and violence, and hidde
) in the gloomy granite corridors
the Customhouse were select scol
or 40 of those nover-to-be-forgette
= 'Innosents," who made the stree
: red with the blood Of colored me
g in 1868. Can Messrs. Casey IN
1 Packard deny these facts?
In support Of their charge tn
"Warmoth's friends boasted tn
they would control the Conventio
no matter at what COST" the Ma
, shall and Collector adduco as es
, dence the remark (since denied d
!, a single individual, to wit: 1--WE W
! have control of that Convention I
blood" So weak is their case tn
, they attempt to show how sangu
nary is this solitary indiyidu
Senator West) by announcing
the world that he voted "again
ratifying the treaty with Gre