Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-07

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D1soR uc oEgRAeEs.
Review fthe Week.
When Monday morning last ush-
cred in the new year, the commune
" calming reposing insecurity, the
majority of the Legislature waiting
the appointed hour for them to as
semble, little dreamed of the exist
ence and ripening Of fendish plot
which was to produce in New Or
leans, in Louisiana and over this
country the profoundest sensations,
and to stir to their depths the hearts
and souls Of men interested in the
preservation ofpeace and the estab-
lishment and perpetuity of consti-
tutional government among us.
The hour for assembling the
Legislature had not arrived before
it was discovered in the absence Of
many of the Senate members that q
scheme was in process to defeat the
formation of a quorum in that body.
At the appointed hour the appre-
tensions were realized /; and for
this entire week this unheard OF,
this disg graceful and humi]iating
spectacle has been witnessed at the
State House. And where are these de-
linquent Senators skr'king? Know
ing the Constitutional provision to
compel their attendance to dis
charge the important duties they
are sworn to perform, they have
been permitted to take shelter from
the reach and enforcement Of law,
on board Of the United States
Revenue cutter WILDERNESS, and to
cruise up and down the river OPP
posite the city, in defiance of
authority. The House Of Repre-
sentatives met and for two days the
absolute sense of the House could
not be elected. On Wednesday
however an unquestionable majority
of the House determined to remove
the Speaker, but postponed erpul-
sion on the distinct promise, that he
would resign the next morning.
The next morning, few minutes
before IL o'clock, writs of arrest
were underlying and frivolous pre-
fences obtained from a United
States Court, to impiison the Gov
ernor Lieutenant Governor and
about twenty members of the
House, for the sole, and in
famous purpose of breaking
the majority and allowing the
minority to rule the House
This was developed by the fact, that
no sooner were members arrested,
taken out of their seats in the
House, CONTRARY TO THE coNsT1TU-
T1oN, and conducted to the Custom
house, than the temporary and
fraudulent majority proceeded sum-
marty, without trial and without
a quol dm, to declare the seats Of
the arrested members vacant. The
U. s. Court before whom they were
taken Immediately bailed all the ar
rested parties but too late to restore
them to their seats. UoisgsT err !
Under apprehension of the grave
and revolutionary aspect of affairs,
this majority assembled in the after
noon in the State House and APP
pealed to the Governor for inter
ference and protection. In response
Governor Warmoth rose to the level
Of the encounter and exerting
the puissance of the Government,
threw around the members that
protecting arm which is provided
Tor such emergencies. Determined
not to yield to a lawful MAORI
", nor yet to bow to the majesty of
aw properly invoked and judicious-
y exerted, this recalcitrant crew
oetook themselves over q coffee
house, and with effrontery only pa
'alelled by their vile designs, pro-
seeded to call themselves a House
If Representatives; and in further
collation. of all right and justice,
again procured tools to swear false
before the u. s. Court so as to re-