The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-07
NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS.
Great Popular Demonstration In Sup
port Of the Peoples Legislature.
WASHINGTON, January 6.-Gen. Emory
was instructed by telegraph on Friday
that he could use the Federal forces i
necessary to preserve the peace, Gentle
men in authority do not anticipate such q
difficulty as will require military inter
vention.
NEW ORLEANS, January 6.-Ths city
is quiet this morning. Fears Of con
fiCt are subsiding. Very little business
Is doing. Some three thousand persons
are already assembled about the City
Hall and Lafayette Square. The meet
ing there to-day will undoubtedly be q
large one.
This morning q battalion Of infantry
and q company Of cavalry moved up
from tho barracks 10 temporary quarters
corner Of Magazine and Julia streets.
The Conservative legislature Is CAUCUS
ing. Sixty-eight members Of the House
are present. It Is understood that It will
not meet at Lyceum Hall. but elsewhere.
sEcoND DISPATCH.
NEW ORLEANS, January 0.-The meet.
ing Is momentarily increasing, The
stores are generally closed, as on Sunday.
Canal street looks deserted. There is not
a lady to be seen on the great thorough
fare. Nearly all the business men in the
city seem to be participating more or less
in the Lafayette Square meeting.
THIRD DIsPAToH.
NEW ORLEANS, January 6.-The as
semblage has increased to five or six
thousand. A large United Statesfsg has
been displayed from the balcony Of the
Odd Fellows Hall, on Camp street, indt-
eating that the Conservative Legislature
will meet there. The crowd Is rapidly as.
sembling on that side of Lafayette square
The assemblage Is very quiet. The meet
ing has not been called to order.
FOURTH DISPATCH.
NEW ORLEANS, January 6.-The RIcay.
Uns has the following:
Our reporter this morning, visited the
Mechanics Institute, which he found
guarded at the doorway by about five sol.
diers and police. In the ante chamber
were assembled about thirty policemen,
all colored, from the fourth and fifth pre-.
cincts, under Captain Rey. Pinchback
was in his private office, and made the
following statement. Upon being asked
what he thought of the present situation,
he replied:
II think it Is exactly what l said 1t
would be some months ago. It's The STIR
ring up OF the white element against
the black, and as long as this
state Of affairs exists you cannot have
peace. / have always labored to
bring about peace between the two, but
as long as there Is the least difficulty, or
intimation Of one, there is terrible out
CRY against the colored race, and there.
fore you force them, as 1t were, into the
Republican party. 1propose to live here
in this State If l can, and so do great
many black men, and we desirepeace and
quiet; but as soon as q lot OF white
carpet. .baggers come here and kick up q
row, you at once blame the negro. | tell
you, as have told the people before, show
the black man that you will be his friend
and he will come with you and be your
steadiast friend"
Reporter-"But, Mr.. PinchbaCk, you
see we claim that you have overthrown
our legal government, and now attempt
to defFaud US Of our rights"
Mr.. Pinchback-"Well in that you see
l am doing nothing more than you are at.
tempting 10 do. l am keeping TO perpetu:
ate my party. II you were inside and !
out you would not let me In II you could
help 1t, and besides, suppose was to sub.
NIT to your party, how do ! know that l
might not be hung at once"
Reporter-"If you do not admit, then,
our rights, what action will you take in
regard to our legislature?"
Plnchback-SI will positively let them
alone as long they do not attempt to exc
cute laws against or interfere with the
legal government, They will be allowed to
meet, TO make laws and inaugurate any
body they please; they can do 80 peacea-
bly, and they will not be intertered with"
After this as our reporter was retiring
he was called back by PinchbaCk, who
stated that as he was going to the United
States Senate probably, he deslred to go
there as the friend of the people, and not
their enemy. He also said that the pro-
gramme OF the National Government had
been arranged, and would not allow inter-
ference until the matter was placed before
some proper tribunal. Let this matter
20 before the people Of the United States
In peaceable light. "Do not have any
difficulty, but keep quiet; and ] Tor one
am willing to have the questions involved
placed before any investigating tribunal
that may sit here, in Washington, or
elsewhere"
FIFTH DIsPATCH.
NEW ORLEANS, January 6-The Times
has the following:
"In reply to q question Gen. Emory
replied that he had received orders to sus'
tain the Plnchback government as the
Dc t1ct0 government Of the State. Should
body Of citizens meet claiming to be
tho Legislature in opposition to that Of
the PinchbAck government and proceed
10 inaugurate measures to trammel and
interfere with that government, 1t would
be violation Of the State law just pass.
ed and they would be stopped by some.
body"
The Inference drawn by the Times rep.
resentRtive from Gen. Emory's words
was, that the Fusion Legislature would
not be allowed 10 proceed in any Of the
usual functions Of such body, Gen
Emory was emphatic in his determination
TO preserve the public peace at all hazards.
a caucus Of the House Of Represents
tives Of the Peoples Legislature was held
this morning, tiity.seven members pres.
enL The Clerk Of the House proceeded
to City Hall and removed his records. 1t
was agreed in the caucus that they
would assemble at 12 N. at Odd Fellows
hall. At the ArmoFy. in David9on's