Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-04-23
Lost louisiana.
An Appeal e che Nerth.

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Resolutions adopted at the citi-
zens' meeting Of Monday last In New
Orleans.
l. Thst although the federal execu-
tive has chosen to sustain with the
army q sc. of pretentiers to state au-
thority In Louisiana, pronounced by
tha senate committee of their own
party to be without q shadow OF
legal title, and continues to dictate
ut the point Of the bayonet the gov
eminent Of o state, III every respect
the political equal Of New York or
Massachusettsy we protest against
this use of military power, and call
upon u sister States to witness the
exercise in Louisiana of an arbitrary
power which next may DO in
voked against themselves /; and we
warn them that when the spark OF
resistance shall have been crushed
out in the Southern States they will
perhaps awake TO realize that In the
future al ambitious and unscrupu-
lous executive might fluid, III a peo-
pie thus accustomed to submission,
a bulwark and q power on which he
could rely to bring the work of sub
jugation and absOlution to bear upon
the Northern States themselves.
2. That we believe our case, rs
presented before the c0untry aiid be.
fore the senate committee Of the last
congress, is legal, just and ihcontro.
vertible, and while we heartily in
dorse and approve of the report and
the action of our late committee Of
two hundred, and return to them
and tho eminent author Of their rG.
port, our unqualified thanks aud con-
CALCULATIONS, we assert our firm de-
termination to persist in every way
to maintain II true allegiance to the
McEnery government, and to dis
countcnancc aud resist by every and
all legal and %peaceable e the
fraudulent u%surpetion of W. p. kel-
lOgg, and place firm reliance for re-
lief in the next congress, under the
influence and direction of the pub
lie opinion throughout the whole
country.
8. That we recommend that every
citizcn of this state proposing to
travel north during the coming sum-
mer report his name, address and
proposed route of travel, to the head
quarters of the legislative caucus,
No. So Carondelet street, and obtain.
ing all published facts in Jul case, to
constitute themselves q ranyassing
committee before the people of the
North, to the end thai the iniquities
of this vile usurpa:ion may be spread
abroad and pubic opinion there be
thoroughly informed and stimulated
to act upon the next congress i'll oul
behalf.
4. That we deprecate any scheme
of compromise looking to the per
! i,etuation of power of those political
Adventures who have by every means
of fraud and crime, trampled upon
and thrust aside the popular verdict
and Installed. through the prostitu'
ton of federal power, n usurping and
fraudulent government i'll this state
5. That we call upon the members
of the legal (McEnery) general assem-
bly, to stand firmly together, and tc
reject any and all contract, consOlida
ton or union with the bogus assem-
bly, organized under federal bayonets
and whose record rs law-maker:
would be a disgrace to barbarism il
self.
6. That VIC cordially approve o
the act of the general assembly, call
ing for a constitutional convention IL
November next, and urge all friends
of reform and constitutional govern
mcnt to respond heartily thereto.
Z. That we recommend the adoption
of the plan of organization known a,
the peoples League of Louisiana
and pledge ourselves to its supper,
and maintenance.