Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-05
LOUISIANA.
The Committee of Two Hundred,
Returned from Washington,
Make a Report.
They Recommend that the War
moth Legislature be RecOg-
nized by the People.
The Black Pinchbeck PrOclaims
Against this, and Threatens the
''T'raitOrs" with "B'leOd."
A Negro Farce Threatens to End
in Tragedy, and Perhaps a
General CIeaning-Out.

| UtutIdf OltdilHS -Otibs
NEW ORLEANS, December 4.-The
Subcommittee of Two Hundred have
reported, giving an account OF
| their action at " ashingtOn, and
expressing their views of the pres
ent condition of affairs.
THE REPORT.
In fulfillment of the mission confided
/ to US by the people, we have laid before
| the President of the United States an
| impartial and truthful history of the ex-
| traOrdinary events which haze recently
| transpired il the State of Louisiana,
resulting in the overthrow of the Gov
ernment elected by the people, and in
| temporarily installing in the offices OF
| the State men who were not
| in any manner elected thereto.
The President, while maintaining the
propriety Of the course which he has
pursued in an executive capacity, has
not professed to consider his action as
a final decision of the vital questions at
issue in the politics of the State, but has
remitted us to Congress as the proper
tribunal to investigate the facts with
more minuteness than the means within
the executive control affords him an
opportunity Of doing, in order to render
such relief as the nature Of the case may
seem to require. We have assurance Of
both
THE PRESIDENT AND ATTORNEY-GEN-
ERAL
that such an investigation by Congress
will meet with no opposition from the
A -, sssk,-
readily cooperate in the affair, aftOrding
such appropriate aid as Congress may
see fit to recommend. We confidently
anticipate that Congress will promptly
appoint a committee to investigate
fairly and impartially the facts of the
case, and in view of the gross and pail
pable wrongs which have been COM
mitted we cannot doubt that such a
committee must admit and report to
Congress the necessity of prompt and
complete relief The committee advise
that the Lyceum Hall Legislature as
semble Monday in order TO perpetuate
its legal existence, and recommend that
the people of the State and city extend
to them their moral support and earnest
sympathy, and such material aid as may
enable them to assert and maintain by
legal means the rights of the people of
the State to local self-government.
ACTING GOVERNOR PINCHBACK
to-day signed an act recently
passed by the Kellogg Legislature en-
titled an Act to suppress riOtous and
unlawful assemblages. 1t provides that
if three or more persons being armed
with clubs, or any other dangerous
weapon or weapons, or if any ten or
more persons shall unlaWfully assemble
in the city of New Orleans or in any
town, city, or parish, within this State
for any unlawful purpose with intent to
disturb public peace, or to cause public
disturbance, the persons so assembling
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor
and shall on conviction, be punished by
fine and imprisonment.
A two-column address to the people,
signed p. B. PichbacB, Acting
Governor Of the State of Louisiana,
is published in open recital of alleged
misdeeds during the recent campaign.
1t says: Not content with all these out
RACES against American citizenship,
these
FOILED AND DEFEATED LEADERS OF
THE MINORITY
when thwarted by the majesty of the
law, as construed and enforced by an
honest and independent Judiciary, State
and Federal, now propose, through
man pretending to be GovernOr-e elect,
and a Legislature pretending to be
elected, to organize and operate Gov
eminent in direct conflict with and in
violation of the dignity and peace of
the existing government of the State of
Louisiana and of the United States.
We recognize the right of free dissen-
sion, and of free assemblage Of people.
They may lawfully meet, not only to
memorialize authorities, to redress
wrongs, to perpetuate right, not only
to criticise and eensure their servants,
wherein they may deem them direlict,
but even to denOunce them for wrongs
real or imaginary. But when any class
of men, with an undetermined and un-
ascertained official status, propose to
meet and organize law making her
citizens to indulge themselves as fully
as the largest personal liberty may re-
quire, and financial embarrassment and
social disgust incident thereto, must be-
long to them; but when their action
becomes organized, and suggests and
prompts violations of law, and obstruc-
tions and antagonisms to the authority
mate functions in that department, and
inaugurate an executive and exercise
governmental functions in the presence
of and in conflict with existing estab-
lished authorities such parties are revo-
lutiOnists and guilty of treason against
the State and are dist1rbers of the pub
lie peace, and must be dealt with as such.
| am prepared, as the acting Executive
/ TO xrrifl 1of
hindranee. A faction cannot for a mo-
ment be ignored or overlooked, but must
be met and suppressed. 1t is my duty
as executive not only to quell mobs and
instructions but to prevent, by q prompt
and vigorous execution of the laws,
the law the inception of such riotous
and disturbed conditions. do not pro-
pose that such state of things shall be
inaugurated in the State of Louisiana as
shall make it necessary for the National
authorities to declare martial law there
in and take possession thereof, however
much this deplOrable issue may be
sought by the few il-advised, short
sighted and self-seeking men who are
laboring to that end. The Governor
elect, as returned by the Legislature in
session at the Statehouse, will on the
day provided for in the constitution be
inaugurated, and the Legislature recog-
nized by the President will meet and
perform its legitimate functions, but
NO PRETENDED GOVERNMENT
shall be inaugurated, and no petended
General Assembly shall convene and
disturb the public peace. Parties par
ticipating in either case are public
wrong-doers, and shall be prompt
ly dealt with as such. The
whole force of the State shall be used
for this purpose, and all necessary ma
tiOnal aid will be invoked to cooperate
with and sustain the same. Ihaye every
confidence that the General Assembly,
now in session, sustained and aided by
the suggestions and the general infiu-
ence of the community, will make wise
and adequate laws; and | shall cheer
fully cooperate with them in furthering
the public veal, but no good end
can be accomplished by disorder
and revolution, while the financial and
industrial interest of the State will be
seriously affected thereby. No good cit
izen will sanction them, and, under the
obligations of my oath of office, / am
determined they shall not prevail.
THE CUsToAIHoUsE LEGISLATURE.
A careful inquiry fails to show
that there is truth i'm the statement tele-
graphed from Washington that the Gus
tomhouse employees had resigned their
seats in the Kellogg Legislature. Such
resignation it is believed will break
the quorum in the Senate. Postmaster
Lowell, Surveyor Ingraham, the two
Herwigs and Sypher took part in the
Legislature proceedings to-day. 1t is
understood all Customhouse members
have leave of absence from the Custom
house during the session of the Legis-
lature. Pinchback's address, threaten