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POLITICAL.
The Situation in Louisiana. o.
Mass Meeting of the People.
Martial Law and Re-RecOnstructiOn
! Invoked
4 lF.TH "EAGUWE8
In Preference to CustOmhOuse Mis-
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 28.-There was a
great deal of excitement il the city to-day
on account of the action of the United
States Senate on the Louisiana question.
The disappointment among the citizens was
general. Hungry and expectant seekers of
places were violent in denunciation, but the
better class gave expression only to gloomy
forebodings of the future, predicting the
further Generalization Of society and seri-
Gus injury TO commercial interests. The
friends of the Kellogg government are
Igratifed over this partial victory, but many
of them had hoped for something more de-
cided.
The efforts of some members of both
Legislatures to effect such compromise as
shall firm new Legislature out of the best
men regularly elected to both. are still con-
tinued, but apparently with less prospect of
success than few days ago. What to do
| to satisfy the colored men is really the prob
lem difficult to solve. Kellogg as well as
the fusionist Legislature undoubtedly desire
and hope for compromise. ~
Mass Meeting. Ea1 III
The meeting advertised to be held in
support of McEnery, tonight, in Lafayette
| Square, was a success. About 5000 assem-
bled and though very demonstrative, uDani.
mously approved the sentiments of speakS
ers, and condemned the Kellogg Govern
ment and the National Government. The
| speakers said the intention was to force
decision, and if the National Government
aided the Kellogg administration, the peo-
| pie of Louisiana would not resist with arms,
but submit like man bound hand and
foot. The most Incorporate speech of the
evening was made by Gen. Sheridan, well
known in the North as
Republican stump Speaker,
| and in Louisiana as the carpet-bagger who
made a fortune ont of the Office of tax
collector, to which Office he was appointed
by Warmoth. Being thrown out of Office
by the fortune Of parties, be appears as a
champion of the people of the State whose
unhappy condition he deplores. He coun-
selled resistance to the Kellogg government
to the bitter end, and said while the State
of Louisiana could not fight the whole
North, they could (f the National govern
ment would not send any more troops
here) soon gobble up the Federal regiment
which keep up the kellogg usurpation.
Resolutions.
Resolutions were adopted giving express |
sion to the popular sentiment as follows. |
After reciting in the preamble the action of |
the Senate committee, in which it Is declared |
that the report of that committee established |
these facts: first, that the McEnery govern |
ment is the de jure government of the |
State; second, that the McEnery govern |
ment could and can at its option displace |
in ten days any and all antagonistic organi- |
cations except the Government of the |
United States; third, that the spurious or |
ganization known as the Kellogg govern |
ment exists solely by force of the Federal |
authority through the courts and military, |
without which it could not stand; fourth, |
that this creating, fastening and maintain |
ing power, thus exercised by the United |
States Government in behalf of this usurp- |
| ing government is grossly illegal and un- |
warrantable: Therefore be il resolved by |
the people of Louisiana in mass meeting |
assembled: |
l. That the conclusion arrived at from |
these facts, admitted by the Senate Com |
mittee, is preposterous, illogical, and an in
suit to the confidence placed BY the people |
ia the good faith and political integrity of |
that committee, and we dissent from the |
conclusion that Louisiana has not Gov
eminent republican in form as violent |
and dangerous invasion of the rights of |
| State integrity, unparalleled in the whole |
catalogue of Federal usurp atoms, under the
deadly influence of which, as precedent,
the crushing hand of national domination
would be able at will to blot out and destroy |
the States of this Union. @
2. That we dsnounce the minority report |
Of Senator Morton as a piece of party
malignity and unfairness, unbecoming
statesman and disgracefully disiDgenuous
under the facts admitted, and further that |
the decision of the majority of the Supreme
Court of this State on which Mr.. Morton
based this report, we regard as a shameful
prostitution of their high position, whose
partnership was forsbadoWed and tele-
graphed by Collector Casey, and whose I'M
seemly zeal for party triumph led them
beyond the record to the expressions of
mere obiter dictum without the force or
effect of law over the questions presented
before that committee.
3. That the people of this State, Repub-
lican and Democratic, recognize with few
exceptions throughout every parish, the
McEnery Government as dejure as well as
defacto, and pledge it their answering sup
port and undivided allegiance; and notwith-
standing the false statements and empty
boasts of few political Migrants, designed
to deceive our colored voters and the Ma
tional Executive, it is notorious that the
only acquiescence in or submission to the
Kellogg usurpatioD, has been due exclusive
ly and entirely to the military coercion of
the United States Government.
4. That while we bow to the supremacy
of Gen. Grant, we claim IS a free people,
having government republican in form,
the right to conduct our State government
free from the dictatien of Federal favor.
But if it be the determination of Congress
TO SET ASIDE Jne OucerS OF Inc government
we believe have been legally elected, then
we sOlemnly prot st against the perpetna-
ton Of the Kellogg usurpation, which we
know to have been conceived in fraud and
infsmy, and established through perjury
and misrepresentation.
5. In the name of the people of this COM
monwealth, so long disgraced by political
sdyenturers and dishonest legislation and
oppression, we ask either the withdrawal
of that Federal protection by which alone
the spurious and illegal usurpation of Kel-
lcgg is sustained, to theend that our legal
government may assert its supremacy,o or else
that our State be placed under martial law
pending new reconstruction by the Fed
ersl government.
Missouri. |
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2S.-The Republican
members of the Legislature have drawn up
and signed memorial to the United States
Senate setting forth the history of the late
Investigation of charges of corruption in the
recent Senatorial election in this State, de-