The weekly Louisianian., 1872-07-27

| WILL SpcClstl ueputy ouAIcO OCntor
marshuls armed for the occasion
To complete these extraordinary
preparations for 8 political conyen'
ton and to emphasize the inaugu-
ration OF this new style Of con-
sulting the wishes of the people,
they obtained the necessary order
from the military authorities and
fortified the closed Customhouse
: with Gatlin guns and garrisoned it
with United States soldiers under
arms. One hundred and ten dele
gates to the convention,' being a
majority, disguised and indignant
at these tyrannical proceedings,
turned away from the Customhouse
and assembled in Turner Hall. The
State Central Committee appointed
by that convention has by its au-
thority convoked the present one.
On tho nineteenth Of June Mr..
Packard and his partisans called a
convention at Baton Rouge to NOM
mate candidates for the State Off
ces. The Customhouse cabal could
not keep good faith even with their
own confederates.. In order to Sc
cure the nomination of the favorites
of their own ring, and obey instruc-
tions from q "higher authority, -
they expelled from their convention
all representative and Independent
men, and seated strangers, intru-
ders, carpet-baegers and proxies Of
their own creation, until their con-
vention consisted of Customhousc
officials, internal revenue tax collcc-
tors and postmasters.
| Custolnhouso employees, who were
elected as delegates to the Baton
Rouge convention wero openly
threatened with dismissal from Off
CO by United States Marshal Pack
ard if they failed to vote as he die
tated. The lists of delegates elected
as furnished to the State Central
Committee by the parish and ward
clubs were suppressed by MIR.
Packard for four weeks previous to
the meeting Of the convention. and
the names of delegates were not
allowed to be made known to
members Of the committee. Lists
of delegates pledged to the ring
candidates were manufactured III
the United States marshal's Office
and foisted upon tho convention
as the regularly elected delegates.
Lobby tickets wero issued, so that
all access even to the lobby was
denied to any but the partisans of
Mr.. Packard. Mr.. Casey refused,
in tho presence Of several we'll
known gentlemen, to assure his
Customhouse employees that their
places should not be imperiledif they
voted Independently of Mr.. Pack
ards dictation. Mr.. Packard and
his instruments, when they dis
covered that q majority of the
convention favored union with the
regular Republicans, substituted a
fraudulent resolutions in place of
the one really offered, by which such
insulting conditions were imposed
that union was made impossible.
They refused all honorable offers of
union with the regular Republicans
for the sole reason that such COM
promise would intefere with the
Customhouse state for nominations.
The President and secretary of the
convention were convicted in open
session of fraudulently altering
their own rolls. Credentials were
withheld from legally elected dele
gates unless they would pledge
themselves to vote as Mr.. Packard
ordered them. Finally, by a series
of fraudulent, corrupt and tyranni-
cal measures, they rammed the
choice of small Customhouse ring
down the throats of the convention
in the place Of able ano we1lknown
Republicans, who were really their
choice, drove away over one-half of
their own members, and cut them
selves off from the whole body of
regular Republicans, so that success
under their lead, and with their
ticket, is impossible.
This convention, so constituted,
in obedience to the will of it's mas
ter, James F. Casey, and his chief
tool, S. B. Packard, nominated an
States collector of Gus
toms and a johnson Democrat and
q resident Of Illinois for Governor,
who was the defender of the mas
sacre Of 1866, who refused to en-
ploy single colored man in the
Customhouse and who refused to
vote for Mr.. Summers civil rights
bill in the United States Senate; q
man who has never had a perma-
nent residence in this State, has
never been Unidentified with the Re-
publican party and who is a sub
servient creature of the military ring
at Washington.
Their candidate for Lieutenant
Governor is a Wilderness Senator,
who last winter conspired with
Customhouse men and Democrats
to overthrow the Republican State
government We therefore say in
all honesty and candor to tho whole
body Of Republican and colored
voters in Louisiana, without regard