Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-31

McEnery. He [Carpenterl h "a @ no uouo tit'
that but for the interferel We on Lns
GENERAL government the McEhery
Soyernment would hav, peer
in existence to-day as esuIt o.
Warmoth's frauds, when just Tue re,
versa was the will OF the peol Ne, oui
Durell first'smothered it. Carpe uler ar
Oped. that the constitution vest eu | he
5ower in congress to order neN ele c,
lion that instrument declaring ana
every State should have repui 2s5caI
form of government. The Sta te oi
Louisiana has been privately defTatsGea
of its government, from top to botsoA1S
aud now, when congress attempts 10
interfere, the SENATOR from 1nulaha
saws that it will he q violation OF
State rights. He LCarpenterI proposes
to yindicate the rights of the Stale py
the aL ton he propose I'd. He was sorry
that the State govern lment hao been
stricken down. Was there lawyer
who did MT know that Durell's orders
wore void VIII ;ch set uStl le kellogg gov
ernment9 To redress that act was
a friendly and not an unfriendly
act TO the StGte. BE read from
notes of Judge Coll, Of Mich igan, IN re,
gard to the action Of Durell, ana argued
that no government could be more ues-
motto than one set up in this manner.
He was now done with PinchbA OK ana
the Louisiana case, and would int rouuce
his bill on Monday, in accordance with
the notice given.
Senator Morton said he would inquire
who it was demanding a new election
in Louisiana, but first he would tell the !
senate who did not demand it. The Re
publican party of Louisiana did not de-
mand it; it reg arded it as movement
in favor of its nemies-a movement to
put the party in the hands of its enc
mics. Business men Of New Oriea ms,
he was informed and believed, oppo, sed
il. The men who were interested in he
preservation of order, aud in the prot &C.
ton of honest labor, opposed it, for he
reason that they were opposed to amir
chy, aud knew full well that the over
turning of this State government would
be a signal for disorder and shedding of
blood. There was blood in this work,
and all this argument of Senator
Carpenter was in direct condemnation
of the administration, yet in the same
breath the gentleman said that large
majority Of the people of Louisiana are
Republicans. He Norton argued that
the Kellogg government wat1 in sympa-
thy with and was sustained by large
majority of the people of Louisiana.
The speech of the gentleman lCarpen-
teri was a tissue of contradictions from
the beginning to the end. He denies the
jurisdiction OF the court in one case and
admits it in another. The ief-justice of
that court was q man whose legal ability
was of high order, and of which the
senator from Wisconsin need not be |
ashamed. Senator Carpenter assumed |
that he knew more about the Louisiana |
case than the court there, and asked |
that congress set aside this State |
government. In whose interest |
was this? BE would tell the senate,
in the first place, of Governor Warmoth !
aud his trusty lieutenant, who were here |
on the floor of the senate to-day, and of |
John B. McEnery, also on the floor of |
the senate-he who had caused blood |
shed in New Orleans, The senator |
TCarpentOrl had picked little out here |
and there, but had stated nothing cor |
rectly. He MOrton1 did not mean to /
say that the gentleman did so in |
tentionslly. The senator had said |
that the Presidents proclamation |
was without authority, and yet said he |
was glad that the President issued il. |
There was blood in this movement; the |
men moving it were covered all over |
with blood. They are the old assas-
sins of 1866, 1868 and 1878. The muir
derers who killed more than two thou
sand men in 1865, most of them |
cOlored people. In May, 1865, |
the Republicans captured the State |
by twenty-six thousand majority, |
but the terror wrought by massacre, and |
the work done by kuklux, gave the |
State to Seymour by forty thousand |
majority. The assassins of 1868 are |
there now, and he had evidence to show /
that John B. McEnery was acting with |
the mObs of the eighteenth of March, !
j S73, when a number of men were |
killed, and the men in that |
moi? were acting by authority |
of the pretended government. It was ]
proven before the commissioners that
the returns from Grant parish were for
geries. He reviewed the various cir.
cumstances attending the riots, Stair. e
that in one case cololed men were nut
in line and shot like the Virginius pris-
oners. The whole world was shoe ked a
short time ago by the murder of fifty
three filibusters, engaged in an unlaw- |
ful expedition. They were tried bry court |
martial and hurried ont of the world, |
but time was given them for tn cir con- |
fesslons and to say their pray ers, but |
in Louisiana there were q hundred |
people murdered and nothing was said |
about it. Some Of the men col nposing |
this mob are on the floor of the |
senate to-day, urging a new cleo
ton. The life of the colored |
man in Louisiana was of no. ae- |
count, and of all the murderers |
not one had been brought to public |
punishment. His friend, Sen ator Car |
penter, found himself with th at crowd. |
He knew his friend did not int end to do |
anything wrong, but he would tell him |
now he was doing the behe sts of the
worst men in that State. Cove amor Kel- |
logg did actually represent, to-day, a
large majority of the people of the State
of Louisiana, and he MOIton1 was
assured that the better class of Demo-
Gratis were utterly opposed to any
change, They are Democrats in politics,
but are interested in the cause of peace.
He would prosecute Kellogg, Pinchback,
or any Of them whose faults or crimes
came within the purview of his jurisdic-
ton. 1t was not the men there, but
there were great constitutional /
questions involved; one of them !,
was, when a State government is in |
existence, and going on peaceably, the !
government of the United States shall |
not interfere. When the congress of |
the United States sets aside one State |
government upon such grounds, then |
every State government would be at the |
mercy of the federal government. Con-
gress must recognize the fact that
State government has rights.
Mr.. Morton here announced that he 1
was not through, but would not proceed |
further to-day.
The senate then went into executive /
session, and after short time adjourned |
until Monday, when Senator Morton
viii resume his speech.
GREAT disappointment is felt in Vic
tOria at the report of Mr.. Mackenzie, the