The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-07
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in the foot. The Metropolitans escaped with
out scratch.
THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF THE EMEUTT.
After careful inquiry the origin and pur-
pose of the McEnery government may be
safely stated as follows: AFTER it became evil
dent that Congress would do nothing to settle
the Louisiana difficulty, the fusion leaders
generally came to the conclusion that the only
way to derive any advantage from the situation
was to use force to establish the McEnery
administration as the de .facto government
of the State. They argued, that as it was ad-
mitted on all hands to be de jsue government,
it only lacked the element of possession and
actual authority to force its recognition ct
Washington. They thought that Grant would
not venture to use military force to suppress
State government thus established or to sup
port Kellogg, which six out of seven Of the
members of the Senate Committee had de-
clared to be an usurpation and fraud. They
likewise relied on the public opinion of the
country to sustain them and influence the ad-
ministration. To accomplish their purpose
| it was necessary to reinstate the judges who
had been expelled by the Kellogg Legislature
and take possession of the police stations of
the city. With thsse objects, under authority
of acts of the Fusion Legislature and proclama-
tons of Governor McEnery, an attempt was
made to organize militia and police force.
This was attended with much difficulty, on
account of
THE LACK OF ARMS,
as all the weapons belonging to the State had
been turned over to the Kellogg militia after the
old State militia was disarmed by the United
States force in December last. Neverthe-
less considerable force was enrolled, amount
ing to about two thousand men, and it was re-
solved to make the attempt to capture the
Court House last night, to hold it, and to
reinstate the expelled judges to-day. At the
same time the police station was to be taken,
and new police force organized in the inter-
est of the McEnery government
THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE
The movement failed, as the HERALD has al
ready been advised, principally because the
overshadowing power and imminent interven-
ton of the United States government para
lyzed the courage and weakened the ener-
gies of the people, and affected the
whole movement with fatal lassitude. Be-
sides this the other side had force of several
hundred police, armed with Winchester rifles,
thoroughly equipped and disciplined, and sup
ported by a battery Of two Napoleon guns the
whole under General Longstreet, commanding
the first division State militia. The attacking
party was about four hundred strong, vari-
ously armed with shot guns, pistols and brick
bats.
M'ENERY's STATEMENT.
Governor McEnery's whereabouts was I'M
known during the earlier portion of the day,
but this evening your reporter succeeded in
finding him at friends private Office. he
appeared very much depressed at the turn af-
fairs had taken, and was inclined to be
reticent. In response to various inquiries pro-
pounded, his statement may be summed up as
follows -
The movement of the militia was made with
his consent as an unavoidable necessity in the
discharge of duty, but only after having ex-
hausted every other resource in his power.
Its main object was to precipitate an issue
with the general government in order that its
policy might be clearly defined and military
interference with the State government made
overt before the American people. On no
account was the United States authority, when
once asserted, to be disputed or resisted. He
had hoped for more successful result, but
attributed it's failure TO the supineness of the
people and want of the means. They had but
few arms, no money, and lacked proper or
ganization.
NO SURRENDER.
When asked Il be gave up the contest he