New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-25
THE LOUISIANA TROUBLES.
Opinions Of the Press.


The Providence, Rhode Island, Journa!
says:
The factions in the Louisiana Legislature
appear to be nearly at an end. Nobody
cares much about the method in which this
has been brought about, for the affair was
disgrace from the beginning. There was
nothing to justify the origin or continuance
of such proceedings, and their end could not
come too soon. The committee appointed
by Congress to investigate them, however,
it is said, still mean to inquire into the facts
of the case, and report how the blame is to
be distributed. 1t is to be expected that
the whole affair will turn out to have had
its origin in some personal interest or other,
very likely in an attempt to conceal some
financial fraud, or to put money in some
body's hands who ought not to have it.
Meanwhile the course pursued by the
itself to universal approval. Nobody, 80
far as we know, has presumed to find fault
with it. He has steadily refused to inter
pose any national authority whatever. Inc
action taken by the CustomhOuse officials,
very early in the proceeding, was not au-
thorized, and has not been approved by
him. 1t would have been very easy to
make the United States an arbiter IN TINS
vulgar squabble Of low politicians, but the
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such interferences. even when, as IN this
case, it is invited by each party in turn.
The old doctrine is the right doctrine, that
| every State must settle it's own internal
affairs, or show it's inability to do this by
| making an attempt without success.
The national authority can not interfere
| when the State is without any government,
nor at any time till the State government
| finds that it has not forces sufficient Tor It's
Haf
| themselves, if they are able, and must turn
| to the general government for aid only
when threatened by force superior to their
own. This was the ground taken even I'M
der the old confederation in the case OF
Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts, aud 1t
was always maintained after the establish
ment of the constitution down to the adOp-
ton of the recent amendments. These
have unquestionably extended the iurisdic.
ton of the United States over certain de-
partments of State affairs. They have
made national interference possible In
cases in which it was not possible before.
We rejoice. however, that the President has
exercised this wise and salutary canton,
and refrained from an intervention that was
not needed.
The St. Louis journal of Commerce is
Justly severe on the great agitator, and
says
Speaker Carter has renewed the legisla
tive war, and to day cOntemplates an appeal
to force. He has published an ilcendiary
address, which is as full of treason to free
government as an egg is full Of meat. He
calls on his friends to come before him, and
he will clOthe them with authority as deputy
sergeants-at- arms for the purpose of captur-
ing by force tho State House. Carter is try
ing his best to infame the cOlOred people,
and his handful reads:
ITO arms to arms to arms. COlOred
men to the front! Liberty or DEATH"
The situation, according to this mornings
dispatches, is full of danger, and knowing
what the consequences of celOred riot
must be, all good people will earnestly pray
that this infammable creature may be sum-
marty hindered in his knavish proceedings.
This is special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Gazette:
WASHINGTON, January 2l.-Dispatches
have been received here to-day from New
Orleans, which excite grave apprehensions
as to the result Of the extraordinary pro-
ceedings which have been instigated by the
Carter faction. Carter has been authorized
by the Legislature over which he presides,
to take such measures as his discretion might
suggest to protect the rights of both the
Legislature and citizens. Under this au-
thOrity, Carter issued a proclamation advis-
ing the citizens to close their places of
business, and to come to his assistance in
such numbers as will intimdate all oppOsi.
ton. He notified the police and militia
who had been stationed to watch the pro-
ceedings of the Legislature, by Governor
WarmOth, to disperse under penalty of arrest
and imprisonment. All citizens responding
to the proclamation will be furnished with
arms by Carter, under orders of the Legis-
lature. Private advices to night, to promi-
nent parties here, intimate that bloOdshed
can not be avoided if Carriers proclamation
is carried out.
The Memphis Appeal draws this picture
of the infammable creature:
Colonel Carter, the leader of one of the
Radical factions in Louisiana, is a scalawag
as Warmoth is carDet-bagger. Carter
was fighting Confederate Colonel, |
originally from Virginia, then of Texas and |
finally. when Louisiana was beautifully |
AtricaniZcd, he went thither with other |
foul birds to prey upon the people and |
treasury of the hapless State. We are told |
that Carter was an eloquent preacher in the |
Olden time, even as he was a learned pro- |
fessOr in a noted institution of learning, and |
that on one occasion he swore he would |
never more trust his Maker if the Con-
federacy collapsed. The end came, and in
conformity with his asseveration Carter |
became Radical.
Thus far he has conducted the conflict |
very wisely. His purpose evidently has
been to compel the intervention of federal |
power. BY this means the Legislature will |
be relieved of the overawing presence of |
WarmotI's armed bands.
The Attakapas Register truthfully says:
The Carter combination, composed of |
pretended Republicans and a majority of |
the Democratic members of the House, is
similar to those combinations which carried
Tennessee, North Carolina. Georgia and |
Alabama out of the Republican fold.