The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1873-11-29
The COMven aiOHa.

The Peoples Convention met at Grunewald
| Hall, on Baronne street, New Orleans. or
Monday last, the Gath inst, pursuant to thu
call of the Committee of Seventy. At quar-
| ter past IL, the Convention was called to order
by Hon. r. III. Mari, Chairman OF the Com
mittee Of 70, and DR.. s. Chopin, of Orleans
was designated as temporary chairman. The
Convention then organized permanently by
| selecting Judge w. B. Egan. of Caddo, al
President, and Thes. L. Maxwell, ESQ.,, o
Orleans, as Secretary. After adopting the
| report of the Committee on Credentials. the
| very able Report of the Committe of Seventy
| to the Peoples Convention" was read amid
| the most tremendous applause, and vote OF
thanks rendered to the Committee by the Con
vention. Gov. McEnery and Lieut.. Gov Penn
being present were invited to take seats upor
the stand, and were escorted thereto by com
| mittees appointed for the purpose. A Com
mittee on Resolutions, whose duty it was made
| to frame out and prepare the subjects the Con
vention had to pass upon. was then appointed
and, the hour of o'clock having arrived, the
Convention adjourned until the next morning
at 10 o'clock
On Tuesday at haf-past 10 o'clock A. M, the
Convention was called to order by the Presi
dent. The Committee appointed by the Com
mittee of 10 to review the action of the U. S
Circuit Court, in the suits of Kellogg and An
tome vs. Warmoth and others, made mas
terly report, clearly setting forth the unlawful
means by which the Kellogg usurpation was
thrnat npen ns- The plain, nava=nisAeA, k.t
damning facts therein presented cannot be
gainsayed, and this document will undoubt
edly have great weight with Congress, to
whom it will soon be submitted. The Com
mittee ON Resolutions then made its report
recommending the adoption of resolutions pro-
testing in the name of constitutional liberty
against the Kellogg Government as a usurpa-
tion; declaring that this government, imposed
and maintained by Federal power alone, CON-
mands neither our confidence, respect nor obe
dience, and that the people of louisiana have
submitted to it only because they have no in
clination to come in conflict with the armed
forces Of the United States; that our U. s.
Senator elect, Congressman at large and the
other members of Congress, be requested to
be present at the opening of Congress to urge
their several claims without delay; that
Messrs. John A. Campbell, Randall Hunt,
Robert III. MARI, Horatio N. Ogden, William
b. Spencer and Michael Ryan, be appointed q
committee ON the part of the people of Lou.
isiana, to repair to Washington and present
fanny and the restoration Of Louisiana to her
rights and liberties as free State of the
American Union that the President appoint
a State Committee of Ways and Means, to be
composed of three citizens of each of the
wards of the city Of New Orleans, and of
each of the parishes of the State, whose duty
it shall he to solicit and receive subscriptions
for aiding the cause of restoring free govern
ment in the State of Louisiana that the Com
mittee of Seventy be requested to continue
their oganization in permanence until the
fl,al settlement Of the Louisiana case; that
when the Convention adjourned it should net
be sisae die, but that the members thereof
pledge themselves to each other to hold them
selves i'm readiness to reassemble In Conven-
tien ut such time and place as the President
thereof may hereafter deem proper to eonveke
them and that all persons throughout the
State, whe have naemsrials for signature, or
testimony touching the election of last Ne
vember, be requested to forward the same
Immediately to the Committee of Seventy, at
New Orleans. The resolutions were adopted.
A revolution protesting against the keeping
of troops or ships of war, i'm time of peace, by
the Kellogg Government, was then adopted,
aud Gev. MeEnery was invited TO address the
Convention. The Governor responded in O
calm and dispassionate manner, lueidly set
ting forth, In speech of some length, the
reasons why Congress was compelled to act
in this matter, and why, the case once taken
up, it was bound to grant us relief from the
usurping and rasealiy government foisted up
on us through the instrumentality of the ether
two branches of the General Government.
After Gov. MeEnery had taken bis seat, the
President, Judge Egan, complimented the
members upon the degree of decorum and
dignity exhibited by them throughout the
journed subject to his call.
Of the personnel of the Convention, the n.
O. Pieaynne of the 25th inst. says:
There has probably never been in the his
tory of Louisiana gathering representing SO
entirely the respectability, homer and charac-
ter Of oar people than the present People, q
Convention. The feeling was easily to be seen
i'm the arm and determined faces OF the MEM
bers, and thers was nothing of che nsua con-
comitants of political bodies to be noticed.
Deeoreus and earnest, all seemed moved by
one common motive. and that to do their duty
to the State and people. The country mem
bers were present In Numbers, the delegations
being remarked for their intellect.