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

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When in July last the authorata-
tive force of a great enactment
passed by the United States Con-
gress, was turned against the citi-
Gems of the State of Louisiana in q
time of profound peace, and the
aid of United States soldiers, armed
with United States bayonets, was
invoked to prevent the legal as
sembing of q properly elected con-
stituency to, State Convention,
our citizens were at once astounded,
indignant and Disguised at such o
stretch of power. e. - sza;tssa
But we have to record q greater
display Of recklessness, and q more
tremendous outrage upon Repub-
licanism in the acts recently perpe-
trated by Messrs. Packard. Carter
and Lowell under the pretended
sanction of United States authority,
when they arrested the legally
elected Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of our State, and such
Senators and Representatives as
had become distinguished for their
Republicanism, and by this means
broke up a reconstructed legisla-
ture, at the behest of Democratic
allies, and removed members from
their seats, elected by overwhelming
majorities only to place pretenders
IN their stead who had never even
stood political contest on our side.
For four days the disorganizers
have prevented the assembling of
quorum in the Senate, and feasted
the recusant Senators on green tur-
tie, green seal and greenbacks in the
cabin of the United States Cutter,
"WnDERNEss," under the direction
of an INSCRIPTIONS leadership, and
with the sanction of a Democratic
following, who at last by the unpar-
donable sin of political boiling have
tried to set up a separate Legisla-
fnre II III
Whatever might have been the
pretended short comings of Gov.
Warmoth, and whatever might have
been the pretended illegalities of
Lieut.. Gov. Pinchback's election,
no greater proof can be shown of
The violation of the peoples will, no
greater evidence of the reputation
Of the peoples choice than the at
tempt to establish separate Legis-
lature on the part of one who boasts
that he took two States out Of the
Union, and who during all the leni-
ency Of reconstruction has never
lone one act to keep a single State
n it.
We appeal to those States who
,annot possibly be the victims of
Ku-Klux law, and demand
he cooperation of those members
If Congress who are in favor of the
9erpetuity of Republican institutions
% save the State of Louisiana from
urther partizan outrages and des-
'otic measures. For if this thing
to continue the old boast of |
Coombs that he would call the roll |
# his slaves under the monument
4 Bunker Hill will be realized in q
more disastrous sense by the link
ng of Louisiana and Massachusetts,
0 the car Of an imperial authority,
anctioned by United States officials,
nd led by the purposes q = centra-
led despotism which,win laugh to
corn the suAerings Of, our people
q the great contest, making impos-
IDLE great victory over the un-
crupulous foe which new eonfronts
IS, and those dastardlyr combine
ions which are against Us on our
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The defeats which we have suf-
cred in Tennessee, North Carolina
nd Alabama are sufficient to arouse
be greatest apprehensions-the al
iances formed by interruptions men
Tho claim to be in our own party
nth prominent Members lof the 4
,emocracy.the fight made BY the
enators of our own State to pre-
ent the recognition of a colored ,