New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-03
Senator s9lOrr0..

Senator 9lorron.
a: :he close Of Senator Carpenters re-
marks in tn. Louisiana case on Friday,
Senator Morton submitted some of his
views in brief speech. but which is very
pointed While he was thus engaged. how
ever, the reporters whose duty it Is to pre-
pare the news for the Southern press were
out among the hangers on in the lobby,
gathering up ill natured remarks to send
on in lieu Of the speech of the great Indiana
Senators which was entirely suppressed.
We are compelled, therefore, as usual, to
supplement our reports from the Western
presss The st. Louis Republican of the
thirty-frst ultimo supplies the missing
chapter, which we copy as follows:
Mr.. Merton said he would inquire who it
was demanding new election in LOaisl-
ana but first be would tell the Senate who
did not demand it. The Republican party
of Louisiana did not demand it. 1t regarded
it as movement in favor of its enemies a
movement to put the party in the hands of
its enemies. The business men of New Or
leans, he was informed and believed, op-
posed it. The men who were interested
in the preservation Of order and the pro-
lection of honest labor opposed it for the
reason that they were opposed to anarchy,
and knew full we'll that the overturning of
this State government would be the signal
for disorder and the shedding of blood.
There was blood in this work, and all this
argument of the gentleman MIR. CarpenterD
was in direct condemnation of the admins
tration. Yet, in the same breath. the gen
tleman said that a large majority of
the people OF Louisiana are Re
publicans. He (Mr. Morton) argued
that the Kellogg government was in
sympathy with and sustained by a
large majority of the people of Louisiana.
Tie speech of the gentleman (Carpenterl
was tissue of contradiction from begin
ming to end. He denies the jurisdiction of
the court in one case. and admits it in
another. The Chief Justice Of that court
was man whose legal ability was of high
order. and of which the Senator from Wis
consin need not be ashamed. Senator Car.
penter assumed that he knew more about
tue Louisiana case than the court there.
aud asked that Congress set aside the
State government. In whose Interest was
this! He would tell the Senate. In the
first place. that of Governor Warmoth and
his Irusty iieutenants, who were here ON
the floor % the Senate today, and of John
3. McEneryo also On the floor of the Senate,
he who had caused bloodshed in New Or
Jeans. The Senator (Carpenter) had picked
, lttis out here and there, but had stated
nothing correctly. lie (Morton) did not
mean 10 say that gentleman did SO intens
tionally. Tie Senator had said the Presis
dents s ! reclamation was without authority
and yet said he was glad the
President Sssue., it. There was blood
in this movement The men moving in it
were covered all over with blood. They
ha al u &c SrE
rnurderers killed more than 1000 men in 'GS,
most of them colored people. In May, 1868,
the Republicans captured the State
by 5000 majority. but the terror wrought
bv the massacre, the work done by the ku.
klux gave the state to Seymour by 10000
ma ority. The assassns OF 1868 are there
now. and he had evidence 80 show that
John McEnerr was acting with the mobs
of the eighteenth, of March. 1873, where a
number Of men were killed. and the men
in that mob were acting by authority of the
pretended Governor. 1t was proven be.
fore .he committee that the Seturns
from Grant parish were forgeries.
He reviewed various circumstances
attendin. riots. stating that in one
case eliorei Hnn were put in file and
shot like the Iirginius prisoners. The
whole w0rld was shocked a short Tins ago
by the Mu.der Of fifty y-three tilibueters en-
gagged IN an unlawful expedition. They
were tried by courtmartial and hurried out
of the world. But time was given them for
their confessions, and II cay their prayers,
but hers IN Louisiana were a hundred
people murdered, and nothing said about
it.
Some 9: the men compos.n. THIS mob are
on the floor o: .ha Senate Today,
urging new election. The lite of the
colored man III louisiana was of no