The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-14

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1t That night Governor warmoth garrisons
y she legislative hall, stationing in the lobbie
and galleries and at all the doors largo number
D OF armed Metropolitan policemen. The door
y OF the Speakers room were also barrioaded
l. IN the following day, few minutes before tn
= assembling Of the Honse Governor warmoth
Cnief OF Police Badger and sixteen Warmotl
q members were arrested by United States Mar
nal Packard. Tho anidavit charged them
with violating the Kn-Klux bill. OF courss
Q the whole party were released on bond. During
. the absence, thus obtained, of the sixteen
: "armoth members, the Carter party, ON vari
. Gus pretexts, unseated twelve Of the opposition
and voted in twelve men known to be favor
} able to their own side. The Carterites, by
these extraordinary measures, having obtained
clear working majority, adjourned in triumph
and fancied security. Governor Warmoth that
} same afternoon called an extra meeting of the
Legislature, and this time 1t was the Carterite
party that was weakened by the absence of
| some OF their members. Speaker Carter HIM
self was absent. At this extra session sixty
hve members were present. thirteen more than
q quorum. Speaker Carter was deposed from
the office of Speaker and expelled from MEM
bership OF the House. o. H. Brewster was then
elected Speaker. Thus were the Carterites
circumvented, and on the following day, when
they visited the Statehouse, they found, to
their dismay, that they had been completely
outmaneuvered. Carter, however, did not give
up, but rallied his followers and proceeded to
hold q meeting over the Gem Saloon. Fifty
members were present, and strenuous efforts
| were made to obtain o quorum. Sergeants-at-
arms were dispatched in all directions to bring
| in absentees. Each wing OF the Legislature
continued to hold sessions until the morning of
the 10th. The Carterites. on going to their
place of meeting, found their old enemies, the
armed Metropolitans, again confronting them
in this, their place of refuge. They, therefore,
adjourned, to meet the following morning, at 0
o'clock.
Tho killing Of Walter Wheyland, q member |
of the Warmoth Legislature, created intense
excitement amongst that body, they at once |
jumping to the conclusion that the homicide |
was committed by the Carterite crowd. Why |
they should have arrived at this conclusion |
does not appear from the facts although Cor |
oner Creagh of the jury brought in q verdict |
charging w. w. McCulloch as the principal |
to the deed and duplicating George w. Carter |
and Isidore Mccormack as accessories. w. |
w. McCullooh is an old citizen and is much |
respected. He and Mccormack have both |
been arrested. The Texan Chameleon was not |
arrested, but appeared before Judge Abell on |
Friday last, and was released on bail, no posi-
tive evidence being brought against him. The
more respectable of the Witnesses in the case
would indicate one Of the Metropolitsns as
Wheyland's slayer. Be the issue as it may,
from the biography of Wheyland, published
in the National Republican, it would appear
that the community had not suffered much of |
q loss in this taking off of NJ. Wheyland. The
Carter legislature, by its own blunders and |
through the superior craft of Warmotb, has been |
forced apparently to close its inglorious career.
The oustom-house clique and the Democrats in |
league with them have been thus far foiled if |
not utterly routed. The committee of "ffty- |
one" citizens of high social position, have not,
as yet, been able to achieve much. 1t may he |
they are too honest to cope with deceit and
trickery. Surely it cannot be from lack of zeal
or ability. On Monday evening last n mass
meeting eff citizens held in Lafay ette square.
About four thousand persons were present. !
Many speeches were made and Carter and his
crowd were endorsed. But, alas! it has too
truly transpired that the makers of the bill
being worthless, the endorsers will have to
pay. But how that is the question. A petit
ton is being gotten up by prominent members
of the bar, asking President Grant to declare
martial law in this State. 1t behooves every
honest man to ponder we'll the present situa-
ton. Are Louisfanians incapable of the gov
ernment of their own State. Are forever
to occupy the position in which were
placed by the result of the late civil warf
The liberties of which we have been de-
prived by military usurpation and unjust
legislation, they never to be redeemed 7
The apathy and Indifference felt and expressed
by the majority of our good citizens, during
the late disgraceful strife for spoil and power,
should now give way to action. We have
been bought and sold often enough, therefore,
tits time to act. Remember
who would be free
Themselves must strike the blow
ALLITERATIoN.-Coleri and De GUM
cey are rich in ALTERATION. De Quincy,
that I" illustrious master of English prose-"