The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-12-14
pretending to act as the Senate Of the
State.
[Signed) W. l.. MCMiLI't'H.
L. b. ICNES.

-. M. THOMAS.
We concur in this protest and desire
to protest further that the acting Pres
idcnt has no constitutional or legal
right to preside over the Senate and
only maintains his Tenure BY military
or physical force.
(Signed) OSCAR L. HUSsAckEE,
S. NJ. TODD,
CT. DAIGLE,
S. NJ. THOMAS.
Mr.. i'inchback said he would not en-
| terrain it as it was out Of order ana a
reflection on the Chair.
= Mr., Mcmillan continued
! 7 do not, as a Senator, desire to be
obstructed by United States army sold
iers. do not desire to be intimidated
by United States Marshals. l am Al
| Senator duly elected by the people,
and do not desire that United States
bayonets and soldiers shall say Whetli-
or + shall enter this Senate chamber or
not. T. as a Senator of the people be-
long to them, and shall uphold their
laws. Therefore, Iprotest against men
who have no home with our people
nlacinc crossed bayonets before nay
breast. Nothing in the history Of the
State has warranted such-and ] say as
| !, Senator that there is no authority for
] such in the law of the land and tho
United States. do not desire to be
installed by any petty miserable United
States Judge, but desire to be as free
as any citizen. In the Constitution Of
our land it is expressly provided that
we, the Senators and Representatives
OF the people duly elected, shall never
be curtailed, and if the United States
Government, MarsliaIs and soldiers
shall intim;date the Senators and Rep.
resentatives with crossed bayoncts then
our liberties are dead and we sink into
nero abject slavery. Arc We consider
ed by this petty Judge in rebellion,
that no orders United States bayoncts
to intimidatc tho Representatives OF
the people? There is no law that this
| mere District Judge can put ia force to
do this. That order was promulgated
by him under tho most peculiar civ
cu1nstances; at tho dead hour OF night
| like cravcn5 and towards he issued this
order. There is 80 law for this; and,
sirs, I pretend to say llo would not
dare to have done SO without the assu-
rance that the United States bayonc!s
should stand against tho ;icoats and
breasts OF the representatives, Of the
people. I say that it is q conflict be-
tween tho United States administration
officers in tho city and the representa-
tivcs of the people. After Il bo;tntiful
dinner at certain friends expense he
was conveyed to his chamber in Il very
uncertain condition, and there induced
to sign an order which knows no pre-
cedent, and which forever does away
with the rights Of this people and thci,
duly elected government. This was
but the first act in the game. To-day
there arc fourteen Senators here who
hold over, and they are overawcu by
United States soldiers and United
States Marshals. The ex-senator in
tho chair brings in q lot Of pcrsous
whom he considers elected, and swcars
them in. Therefore, l maintain that
the acts of the Assembly cannot be Ie-
rnlly recognized. l am not vcrse;l in
the subtlctics of the law, but there is 4
reason which overIics all law, and
when both law and reason are over
thrown by petty United States Court,
and United States soldiers in tho face
of this great people, North aud South,
I, for one, as 4 representative of the
people, and a citizen, am astonished at
this unprecedented outrage upon our
people. I came here as q duly elected
representative, to bring order out Of
the chaos which prevailed, and 1 be-
lievcd that the repre- sentativcs Of the
people would do this, but we are met
upon the threshold by this unprcce-
dentcd act of outrage by this court, and
we are compelled by force, ntinli,la-
ton, and fraud, to submit.
Gen. Hugh J. Campbell then read
his written protest, as follows:
SENATE CHAMBER,
New Orleans, Dec. 8, 1872. J
President and Members of the Senate:
hereby protest against the illegal
and prccipitatc organization of this
Senate, rs the organization OF the pre-
vious Senate, presided over by Lieut.
Gov. Dunn, Which, took place under
the Same provision OF law as is now il
, force, q Senator during the cal, of tnC
, roll Of tho new Senators, objected t,
the swearing in OF Senator Gallup, a1I
thcrcupon the President directed SCI,
ator Gallup TO stand aside, and he did
and was not sworn i'll until the rest O
the newly elected Senators, who w.cr,
not objected to BY amy Senator, wvr,
sworn in. At this organization, Srna
; tors Mcmillan, Hunsackcr and lnysc!
sought, at The proper time, rs the name
of gentlemen were called whom w,
, did not think were properly, legal,
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