New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-12
A DEMOCRATIC CORRESPONDENT
Illegal and Revolutionary Mob
A HEARTY SYMPATHY WITH WARM0TH

The New Orleans correspondent OF tn
ST. LOUIS Times writes as follows, dating OF
the fifth instant, after mentioning the ali
sence of quorum in the Senate:
1t was the Carter or anti Warmoth fac
ton that thus took refuge under the gun
of the federal government. A quorum thu
being broken, the wheels OF Legislation
were at a dead lock. Meantime the Hous
met as usual, all the members being studi
ously present; for the two factions were 81
equally pOised-or thought to be-that tn,
absence of one or two OF one party wOult
give the other the ascendancy. Matters
remained thus until yesterday, when ties
vote having demonstrated that the War
mothites had a bare majority, the Carter
ties Tor Grant faction) resOrted to bolC
and extraordinary stroke of policy-Ont
that excited the establishment and indigna
ton of the people of New Orleans, accus
toned, as they have been. to witness and
feel high handed and illegal Radical meas
ures.
Yesterday, Just before the time for the as
sembling of the House, United States Mar
shall Packard appeared at the State House
and served writs of arrest on Governor
WarmOth. Chief of Police Badger and six
teen members Of the House of Representa-
tives, all WarmOth men. The Governor
| was released on his own recOgniZance, but
the members were spirited off to the Gus
tomhouse, and held in durance for several
| hours. The Grant faction having thus
weakened the enemy by arresting sixteen
| of their number, commenced the work OF
deposing number of WarmOth members.
! About dozen were unseated on one pre-
text or another, and Grant Republicans de-
| clared entitled to the vacant seats. The
| work was done rapidly and withOu form
atty. 1t was short, sharp and decisive. A
member weuld move that such and such a
| seat be declared vacant, and such and such
| a man entitled to the seat, and the motion
| being put, was adopted without calling for
| the yeas and nays. In fifteen minutes a
| dozen men were thus rotated out and a
| dozen new ones rotated in. 1t was the most
! novel and extraordinary scene ever, per-
haps, witnessed in a legislative body.
While all this was going on the most in
| tense excitement prevailed on the streets
In and around the State House was col
lected an immense throng Of eager, excited
humanity. Tie avenues leading to the Cap
itol We're lined with people, and around the
adj acent street corners were collected num-
berless squads of curious citizens discuss
ing the events and their probable final is
sue. A great many predicted that the mat
ter would end in bloodshed and riot, and
that the horrible scenes enacted in and
around the same building in 1866 would be
reproduced in 1872, only on more exten-
sive scale. Your correspondent circulated
freely among the crowd, and, from the con-
versatiOn among the citizens generally
there was nothing to justify such ill-Omened
vaticinatiOn. There seemed little bad blood
among the popuiace at large, and, if the
affair was destined to eliminate in little
blood letting, it was evident that it would
be confined to the thieves themselves and
that honest people would thereby be the
gamers.
After thus deposing sufficient number
of Warmoth's adherents to insure them a
clear working majority in the House. the
Carterites adjourned in triumph They
had, as they imagined. effected a coup d'etat
that would founder the enemy. They went
forth to rejoice over their victory, little
dreaming that within few hours the willy
Warmoth would show them "a trick worth
two of that" The latter's friends, it must
be said, were a little blue, and thought the
day lost. But when their chieftain appear
ed upon the scene, smiling and serene, they
became treasured. AT four o'clock ON the |
same afternoon Warmoth issued a procla- |
nation converting the Legislature in extra
ordinary session at the State House, and, |
sixty -tive members, or thirteen mere than a |
quorum. being present that body proceeded |
to leg islate regarding the extraordinary, il |
legal and revolutionary action of the mi |
nority few hours before.
The Speaker of the House George w. |
Carter, who is likewise the leader of the |
party was deposed as well |
as several other officers who had allied |
with the latter. Before adjourn |
ing they took good care TO secure possession /
OF the State House on the morrow The |
with large body of |
police, slept all night in the hall, and today
the CarterlteS, when they came to survey
the field, discovered to their dismay that
they were the victims of a coup detdt more
complete than had ever been dreamed of in
their philosophy. The enemy were in pos
session of the Capitol with more than
quorum, quietly at work. and they locked
Dut in the cold. The tables were COM
pletety turned But Garter and his forces
were determined not to give up the fight
yet.
This afternoon a hall was secured on
Royal street, and this faction was enscOnced
therein; but, as they We're without quo
'um, and are looked upon by everybody as
IN illegal and revolutionary mob, they can
Eject nothing. Meanwhile the regular
legislative body holds possession Of the
State House, and, so soon as the revenue
utter Wilderness returns with the abscOnd- |
ng Senators, the Legislature will probably |
ret to work. The Capitol building is guard
,dsby large force of police aud militia,
md any attempt at an outbreak will be !
checked. Governor Warmoth to-
lay issued a proclamation warning the peO- |
lie against violence, and assuring the pub |
&c that no apprehensions of trouble need
re entertained; that he is master of the sit
atiOn, and is fully able to preserve the |
eace.
General Emory, the commander of this
apartment. to-day visited the Governor,
nd rendered to him the use of the United {
tates troops in case he should need such {
id in quelling any disturbance,
The Garter faction relied heavily on the |
ssistance of the federal authorities. They {
re backed by ''brother-in-law Casey and t
ne whole CustomhOuse ring. But this is t
IL the aid they have received from federal !
)urces, save SO far as a refuge on board of a
revenue cutter by the absquatulating t
enatOrs is concerned. t
Grant telegraphed to-day to Warmoth +
lat he totally disapproved of United States O
arshal Packards conduct in serving the )
rits on the members of the Legislature, o
nd saying he would thoroughly investigate il
e matter Il
Everything is quiet this evening (eight d
clock), and it is thought the crisis is past. f.
8 between the Warmothites and Cartert p
rs, there is little choice. They are all a d
.ck of thieves and Adventures, and are o
lily fighting for the spoils Of course. g
ere is not particle of principle involved, d
I'd all honest people would rejoice with ex. s.
edipg great joy if the fate of the tradi il
)naf Kilkenny cats could befall them. But d
between Warmoth and the State author t,
es, and Carter and the federal authorities. o
ere Is wide difference, and no honest 81
rson would hesitate as to where his SYM Il
tines lay. II the latter faction had organ II
"a irrespective OF the Customhouse clique, W
"a had relied upon the citizens of Louis, OF
ma Tor AID and support, there is scarcely a IL
ubt that Warmoth could have been cir tt
invented, If not just Immediately, at least al
the near future. But when they lnol, ed 10 | U