Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-15
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Great Meeting of Citizens to Re-
quest Governor Kellogg
to Resign.
Proclamation of the Acting Gov
ernOr-PreparatiOns for
Active Work.
The ColOred People Advised to
be Quiet and They Shall
be Protected.
Fighting COmmenced-Killed and
Wounded ON Both Sides
The Citizens Masters of
the Situation.
The Interior of Louisiana to the
Rescue.
The Interior of Louisiana to the
Rescue.
Meeting Of Citizens TO Protest Against
the Seizure of Arms, etc.


NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13.-The PicdylHe
publishes an address signed by fifty persons
and business firms, calling meeting at
Clay Statute at eleven O'Clock Monday
morning 10 consider the matter Of the
seizure of private firearms by the State
authorities 1t is understood that messen-
gers to-day notified the white leaguers to
attend, as they intend to make a demon
stratiOn in force. - r.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 14.-In response
to the call for uiass-meeting on Canal
steeet this morning, to protest against the
seizure of arms of private citizens, men be
gan to assemble about 10 O'Clock, and by IL
the broad sidewalks Of the great thorough
fare were filed for several squares. MANY
stores were closed, and there seemed to be
a very general suspension Of business. At
this hour, Y NJ, addresses are being deliv-
cred from the base of the Clay statue. No
Of any kind has occurred.
The meeting adopted resolutions re-
questing the immediate abdicatiOn of Gov.
kellogg, and a committee, cons isting Of r.
81. Mann, chairman, Jules Tuyes, Samuel
Chaplin, Samuel Bell and j. NJ. Leixas,
was appointed to wait upon the Governor.
The Call for the Canal street Meeting
The following is the call signed by so
business men and firms, under which the
Canal Street Meeting Of to-day assembled:
Citizens Of New Orleans: For nearly
two years you have been the silent, but in
dignant objects Of outrage after outrage,
heaped upon you by an usuTped govern
ment; one by one your dearest rights have
been trampled upon until at last, in the
supreme heights Of its impotence, this
of republican government has de-
MED even TO grant you that right,
sOlemnly guaranteed by the Con-
stitutiOn Of the United States, which,
in article two of the amendment
declares that '.the right of the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
In the same instrument, to whose inviolate
perpetuity our fathers pledged their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor, it is
also declared that even Congress shall make
no law abridging ''the right of the people
peaceably to assembleIand to petition the
for redress Of grievances" II
now remains for us 10 ascertain whether
This right any longer remains to us. We,
therefore, call upon you, on Monday, the
| 4th Of September, to close yOuI places Of
business without single exception, and at
IL O'Clock A. NJ. TO assemble az the Clay
statue, on Canal street, and, in tones loud
enough to be heard everywhere, declare
hat YOU are Of right, and ought to be and
mean 70 be, free.
Action of the Citizens Meeting-Abdi-
action Of kellogg Demanded.
Whereas, at a general election held in
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1877, John MeEnery was elected Governor
5y z majority Of nearly 10000 over his op-
ponsnt, ~Xm. p. kellogg, and ID. b. Penn,
Lieutenant Governor by a majority of Ia
BOO over his opponent, @. G. Antoine; and,
Whereas, by fraud and violence, the de-
ieated seized the executive chair, and from
lime to time BY other irregular, fraudulent
and violent acts, in the face of the report Of
he committee Of the Senate Of the United
States, appointed to investigate the affairs
IF Louisiana, that the existing gov
eminent of the State is an usuTpatiOn,
he result of violent abuse and sustained
Dy force, Wm. i. kellogg has cOutiDued
himself in power to the gross wrong and
outrage of the people of the State OF Lou
Siana to the imminent danger of Republi-
,an Institutions throughout the entire
country; and whereas, with a view to con-
rolling and determining the results of the
election to be held in LOuiSi-
ana in November next, he has under the
act known as the registration act, for the
purpose of defeating the popular will, Sc
cured to himself and his party the power
IF denying registration to bona fide citi-
.ens, whose applications before the courts
for a man1amus to compel the Assistant
Supervisor to enroll and register them, has
been refused, the registration law indeed
furnishing the courts if they dare TO take
Of such appeals; and whereas,
ly false and infamous misrepresentation
IF the feelings and motives of our people,
ne has received the promise of aid from the
Federal army, placed al the orders of the
General of the United States, and
subject to the calls Of the United States
Marshals for the purpose of Oyerawing our
State and controlling elections; and
whereas, in the language Of the call for the
Meeting, one by one our dearest rights
lave been trampled upon, and at last inthe
height of this mOekery of Repub-
lean Government, has dared even to deny
hat right given and guaranteed by the Con
titution of the United States, which in ar
lcle two of the Amendments, declares
hat the right Of the people to keep and
,ear arms shall not be infrinSed.
Be it resolved, That we re-aflirm solemn
y the resolutions adopted by the
white people of Louisiana at Baton Rouge
IN August "A, 1874. That the whites of
Louisiana have no desire TO deprive the
,olored people of any rights to which they
ire entitled; that w. =. kellogg is a mere
lsurper, and We denOunce him as such, as
MS government is arbitrary, unjust, op-
lreSsive, and can only maintain itself
through Federal interference; that the cleo
ion and registration laws under which
his election was intended TO per
Detuate upon US by depriving the
people and especially our naturalized
citizens the right to register and vote, and
therefore in the name Of the citizens of
New Orleans now in mass meeting assem-
oled, and the people Of the State Of LOui-
,iana, whose franchise has been wrested
rom them by fraud and violence, and all
whose rights and liberties have been out
aged and trampled upon, we demand of
W. Z. kellogg his immediate abdicatiOn.
Resolved, That a committee Of five
be Immediately appointed by the chairman,
who shall be a member of said committee,
20 wait upon Mr.. kellogg, to present to
him these resolutions and to demand of
MIN an immediate answer, and to report
he result Of such interview to this meet
ing.
Gov. Kellogg Refuses 20 Receive the
Committee.
The Committee called at the executive
office about noon. The Governor not be-
ing present, Brigadier General Diable, of
the Governors staff, received the delega-
ton. Mr.. Mann, as spokesman, said they
had called as a committee to interview the
Governor. Gen. Diable said he would
convey the fact to the Governor. After
brief absence, he returned and made a re-
ply which, at the request of Mr.. Mann, was
reduced TO writing, as follows:
/ have communicated with the Governor,
and he directs me to say to you that he
must decline to receive any communica-
lion from the committee appointed by the
mass meeting assembled on Canal street.
He does so, | am instructed to say, because
he has defiuite and accurate information
hat there are now assembled several large
bodies of armed men in different parts Of
he city, who have met at the call which
the mass IaeetiDg which you
represent. He regards this as a menace, and
be will receive no communication under
such circumstances. He furthermore d.
-ects me to say, that, should the people as
,emble peaceably without nehance, he
would deem il one OF his highest duties to
-acaiva any communication froua than o,-