The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-01-09
LOUIsIANA.
A Threatening Manifesto from
Pinchbaclz.

a threatening M an1fcStO from
Pinchbaclz.
The citizen committee Of New Or
leans having returned from Washing
ton, publi4hed an address to the people
OF Louisiana on the 81 inst, detailing
the result Of The Interview with the
President and the probable action of
Congress for their relief. They say.
We have the assurance Of both the
President and Attorney General thar
such an investigation BY Congress will
meet with no opposition from the Adj
lainistration, and that they win readily.
cooperate in the affair, affording such
appropriate aid rs Congress mav see fit
to demand. We confidently antscipate
That Congress VIII promptly appoint a
ceAillnittee 60 investigate fairly and im-
partially the facts Of the ease. in view
Of the gross and prababIe wronxs which
havls been committed. we cannot
DOUBT that snch COMMITTEES must admit
ana report 70 Congress tie necessity OF
prompt and complete relief
n pc committee advise that the Lyc-
eum Hall Legislature assemble Monday
in order TO perpetuate its legal exist
ence, and recommend that the people of
the State AMI 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 right of the people of the
State to local self-government.
Whereupon Pinchback the negro
usurper, who claims 70 be Governor,
and who has been installed by fraud
and recognized by the Federal Courts
and the President against the wishes of
the people, Issues a manifesto declaring
tie Legislature of the people revolu-
tionIsts, guilty OF treason and disturBers
of the public peace, should they at
tempt to organize as suggested by the
people.
He says:
Such a faction cannot for a moment
be either ignored or overlooked, but
must be met and suppressed. It Is my
duty as Executive not only to queil
mObs and Instructions, but to prevent
by prompt and vigorous execution of
the law the inception of such riotOus
and disturbing conditions.
don't propose such state Of things
shall be inangnrated in tile State Of
Louisiana as Will make It necessary for
the national authorities to declare mar
tial law therein and take possession
thereof.
A later dispatch says private advices
from New Orleans state that there is no
fear Of violence or collision between
the opposing factions on the day fixed
for the Inauguration of its candidate.
It is said that the purpose Of these fu-
sionists is TO save the legal point which
might appear to be waived by an omis-
sion TO perform the ceremonies.
Great excitement prevailed through
out the city on Sunday in anticipation
Of the morrow. The merchants, me-
chanies and business men were in con-
sultation all day. They passed reso-
buttons expressing a calm determine
tion to see the legally elected State Of
ficers regularly inaugurated, and cali
ing upon the people to close their
places of business on Nc lay and as
semble in Lafayette square to manifest
a determination to yield hearty and
ready support to all means to accom-
plish the ends contemplated by the
present movement.
The negro Governor, backed by the
bold bad men of his party and by the
Federal government, had declared that
the Legislature should not meet and or
ganize, and a collision was anticipated.
On Monday business was suspended
and the people met at Lafayette equare,
with calm determination to protect
the Legislature in its organization.
They did not propose to resist militia
ry force of the u. S. government, but
determined that no other power should
dispense them, and that the responsible
ity should all be thrown upon the Adj
ministration if it authorized Interior
ence.
The military, consisting OF batal-
lion Of infantry, compa + Of cavalry
and battery, had been conveniently
quarfered in the vicinity, while negro
policemen Haunted their badges in the
faces Of the people, and matters looked
threatening in the extreme. As the
hour approached for the Legislature to
assemble, tho excitement was intense,
until it became known that Pinchbaek
had subsidized from his belligerent atti-
tude, and that the U. s. troops were au-
thorized to act only for the suppression
Of a collision. At u O'Clock precisely
the Legislature was called to order,
without mOlestation, and all Is serene in
the Crescent City.