The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03

court that investigated 1t; by every man who
Se HE by %hae t6n9 Was who
Here there was a faint demonstration of APP
pa1se IN the gallery, but It was az R9Slpy
| In reference 10 the bill which he
would introduce for a new election,
Mr.. Carpenter said he would endeavor to show
that Kellogg was not legally elected; thai his
associates I'm state offices were never elected, and
/ the legislature sending Pinchback here was
never elected. He referred to the returns from
/ the polls. signed and sent up by the commits
n majority for McEnery. He &C rpenter) had o
doubt that but for the interferclee of the gen.
eral government; the McEnery government
of the Warmoth frauds, when just the reverse
was the will of the people, which Durrell first
stitution vested the power in congress
To order new electiou that instrument de-
elaring that every state should have a republican
form of government. The state of Louisiana
had Deen privately defrauded of its government
| tempts to interfere. the senator nom Indiana
says 1t will be violation OF state rights. be
the state by the action he proposed. He was
sorry that the state government had been strfck-
en- down by federal usurpation. Was there a
lawy er who did not know that Du'ell's orders
were void and to set up the kellogg government?
To redress that act was friendly, aud not an I'M
friendly act to the state. He read from the
notes of Judge Cooley, of Michigan, in regard to
| the action of Durell and argued that no govern
ment could be more despotic than one set up in
this manner He was now done with Pinch
hack and the Louisiana case, and would intro
duce his bill on Monday in accordance with no.
tice given.
STICKS TO HIS PRINCIPLES.
THE CHAMPION OF STATE RIGHTs-MR. NOR
TON PREPARES TO DEMoLIsH CARPENTER
AND DEFEND HIS FRIENDS, KELLOGG AND
PINCHBACK.
Mr.. Morton said he would inquire who II was
demanding a new election in Louisiana, but
first he would tell the Senate who did not de-
mand it. The republican party of Louisiana did
not demand il. 1t regarded 1t as a movement in
favor Of its enemies; q movement to put the
party in the hands of its enemies. The business
men of New Orleans he was informed and be-
lieved, opposed il. The men who are interested
In the preservation OF order, and the protection
Of honest labor, dropped 1t for the reason they
were opposed TO anarchy. and knew
full well the overturning of this state govern
ment ould be the signal for disorder and she'd
and all this argument of the gentleman Car
penter) was an indirect condemnation of the adj
ministration; yet in the same breath the gentle.
man said a large majority ef the people of Lou
isiana ere republicans. He (Morton) argued that
the Kellogg government was in sympathy with
and sustained by large majority of the people
OF Louisiana. The speech of the gentleman
lCarpenter) was q tissue of contradictions from
beginning to end. He denies the jurisdiction of
the court in ore case and Admits 1t in another.
The chief Justice OF thai court was man whose
,esai aoaatS "as OF hgn oTuSr, anu OF whlt t
ashamed. Senator Carpenter assumed that he
knew more about the Louisiana case than the
court there. and asked that congress set aside
The state govsrnment. In whose interest
this? He would tell the senator in the first
place that of Gov, Yarmouth and his trIIsty lieu
tenants who were here on the floor of the senate
to-day of j Il. McEnry, also on the floor of the
senate who had caused bIoodshed in New Or
leans. Senator-Carpenter had picked little out
here and there. but had stated nothing correctly.
He (Morton) did not mean to say that the gen;
tleman did so intentionally. The senator had
said tn presidents proclamation was without
authority, vet, said he was CAD the president
Tbe men moving il were covered all over with
blood They are the old PsSassins of SO. '6S tnd
II. The murderers who killed more than thirty
thousand men ia 6S, most Of them colored peo-
pie. In May. '6S the republicans captured the
state by 26,CGO majority, but the fever wrought
by the massacre and the work done by Ku Klux
The assassins of 1868 are there now, and he had
evidenre to show that John ID. McEnrv, acting
with the mobs of the 18th of March, 70 where
a number of men We're killed, and the
men of that mob were acting by authority OF
governor. IL was proven before the committee
that the returns from Grant parish were for
geries. He reviewed the various circumstances
ored men were put in line and shot like the Vir-
ginus prisoners. The whole world was shocked
libusters, engaged in an unlawful expedition.
They were tried by a court martial and hurried
out of the world, but the time was given them
for their confessions and TO say their prayers.
But here I'm Louisiana were hundred people
murdered and nothing said about it, Some men
composing this mob are on the floor of the senate
to-day urging new election. The life of COL
ored man in Louisiana was of no account, and Of
all the. murderers not one had been brought to
himself with that crowd. He knew his friend
did not intend to do anything wrong,
was doing the behests of the worst men in
the state. Gov. kellogg did actually represent
to-day large majority of the people of the state
of Louisiana, and he (Morton) was assured the
better class of democrats were utterly opposed to
any change. They are democrats In politics, but
are interested liz the cause of peace. He would
prosecute them
whose faults or crimes come within the purview
of his Jurisdiction. IL was not the men. There
were great constitutional questions involved;
one of them was: when a state government is in
existence. ard going on peaceabl7. the govern
When the congress of the United States set aside
one state government upon such groupd, then
every state government would be at the mercy
OF the federal government. Congress must recog-
Dize the fact that the state government has
rights. Mr.. Morton here announced that he was
not through, nut would no. proceed further to-
day. The senate then went into executive
session, and after a short time adjourned until
Monday, when Morton will resume his speech.
THE SCENE IN THE SENATE
WHEN CARPENTER CAME DOWN FROM THE
PRESIDENTS CHAIR AND WENT FOR LOUISE
ANA.
The Chicago Times Washington special
gives a sketch of the senate when Carpenter
delivered his Louisiana speech, "a reported
in yesterdays Sentinel: The galleries were
crowded with ladies and gentlemen long be-
fore the expiration of the morning hour,
and when the Wisconsin senator descended
from the presidents desk and began his re-
marks, every available inch OF room set
apart for spectators was occupied. The sew
ersl members of the Louisiana ring now So
iournine in the city were on hand. Pinch
back, Warmoth, Mcmillan, Sheridan, and
one or two lesser lights were conspicu-
Gus figures in the lobby Of the senate
floor, while quite q number OF men,
bers Of the lower house of congress
together with Gen. Sherman and the secre-
tary of war, distributed themselves on the
sofas and chairs in the rear of the senatorial
desks. Mr.. Carpenter took his stand at Sem
atoi Buckin gham's desk, which is on the
front row. Immediately across the aisle from
the seat occupied by Senator Morton, who.
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