The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-15

william Fit hellogg:
II President in so,ne way indicate recognuion
Cor. Pincl.tack and Legislature ,rould Sc: se.f'
crerything Our friends here acting discreetly.
Collector Casey piled his brother-in-law
(Grant) with vehement expostulations to the
same import Marshal Packard was earnest
and urgent in telegrams to Mr.. Attorney Gen
eral.
The contamination Of this conspiracy fol
accumulated wrong to the people of Louisi
ana was completed by Mr.. Attorney General
Williams IN the following telegram;
| DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
! December IL. 1872. (
Acting Governor Pinchback, New Orleans La:
/ Let it be understood that you are recognized
| AZ the lawful Executive of Louisiana, and that
the body assembled at Mechanics Institute is
the lawful Legislature Of the State; and it is
suggested that you make proclamation to that
effect and also that all necessary assistance will
be given to you and the Legislature herein recog-
nized to protect the State from disorder and vio-
lence. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS,
Attorney General.
This revolution was commenced by hypo-
critical and per6dious pretenses that there
was resistance to DEGREES and mandates, under
cover of which pretenses illegal and violent
DEGREES and mandates were executed with the
standing army without resistance. 1t closes
by another hypocritical and pertidious offer
given, step by step, the progress of this mon
strous act of usurpation up to the time when
Kellogg took his seat. We propose to trace
its subsequent history in an other article,
second Article.
We brought to the knowledge OF our read
ers yesterday the scenes in the first act of
what the Committee of the Senate of the
United States, composed Of Republicans,
termed the comedy of blunders and frauds
of Federal interference with the government
Of Louisiana. This designation is not to our
taste In the vocabulary of politicians we
know that blunders are regarded as worse
than crimes. We prefer, in this instance, the
word crimes as more exact and descriptive |
designation. As frauds and fraudulent pre-
lenses are various, and have many forms, we |
prefer to characterize those in this case as |
misdemeanors, as the more comprehensive |
and expressive term and as they have dis. |
turbed the peace, and violated the dignity, |
honor and rights Of sister State OF this
Union, they may be regarded as crimes and
of no ordinary magnitude.
We repeat, then, that in previous article
a history OF the high crimes and misdemean-
ors of Mr. Attorney General Williams in the
subversion of legal government in Louisiana.
We discard the word comedy" for unfortu-
nately it has not been a dramatic representa-
ion, but real, actual commission Of fragrant
'ffenses against the constitutional rights Of an
entire people.
There is no State in this Union which has q
better claim to inquire Of the misconduct of
N Acknowledgement of the United States than
his State OF Maryland Within the memory
# living men, Maryland has contributed to
orm the standard Of official rectitude, capaci-
al, and hat l. /
William Pinkney, Roger B. fancy, John Nell
on and Reverdy Johnson. Maryland has q
arge claim in William Writ. native OF the
state, and who died member of the Mary
and bar. Is there person in Maryland with !
SO disordered as to conceive the
that either Of these Maryland jurists
ould have been party to any such acts as !
hose Of Attorney-Gener Williams, or could
ave lived under the communicated guilt that '
hese acts and orders Undue their author with t
Ill men know that every one OF them would 9
ave refused to deal with subordinate min
,terial officer of the Court as to tie manner t
n which the DEGREES and mandates of IA Court {
I the United States were to be enforced They t
'ould have required copies of the orders and c
ecrees, ascertained the character Of the resist
nee, and its cause, and have made thought a
III, impartial and thorough investigation of l
hem before asserting to the use of the stand t
lg army OF the Union in enforcing decree S
r mandate affecting the person or property I
the humblest citizen Of the land. But for 9
hem to give to the Marshal OF the Court b
over to call for as many troops as he needed v
} enforce DEGREES and mandates not Q
! existence, is simply uncomfortable. t
What shall We say of the enforce b
lent of an order to seize and to hold for o
even weeks the capital of State in civil
nit, among its citizens, in which no interest, il
ght. or use OF the property Of the State was p
Dncerned the. seizure and occupation to be '
ade so that the Marshal of thee Court might II
and at its portals, examine the credentials n
the members OF the Legislature, upon their t.
gress to the Legislative hall, the catalogues j
its clerks, the conduct OF its members in K
ne, the direction of the empanelment of the t.
legislature? What shall We say of the or ft
n to establish q truculent usurper in the A
overnor's Office. and of the swift order Of p
cognition on the application of Kellogg, N
lsey and Packard? We shall not claim for m
e Maryland Attorney Generals transcen- Of
ntal pre-eminence. Pennsylvania gave OF
radtord Rush, Gilpin and Black to that 81
fice. From other States, Berrien, Grundy, in
'Sare, Toucey, Mason, Crittenden, Bates, Sc
anbery, Evarts, have come to illustrate its &C
gnity and importance. We are unable to es
lieve that any one of them would have d
lctloned the preparation OF such violence pr
d wrong. Grattan. in an eloquent and til
erited tribute to Chatham, said: 1.-The q
cretary stands alone, modern degeneracy Sc
S not reached him." OF Attorney Gener i la
lliams it may be said. he. too, stands alone, Pi
} incarnation and illustration OF modern wi
generacy in these orders and acts of his of
til
After the perilous contamination had taken ne
ice the people of Louisiana, aroused under co
n feelings of indignation and resentment ar
It have not often been seen in any part OF an
$ Union. They met as by a common senti- by
mt by tens OF thousands. They selected ca
nmittee OF two hundred OF their fellow wi
ferers to go to the President. Mr.. Attorney ca
neral with the rapidity Of lightning ordered ce
IN not to come; that the President was i'm tn
,dble They would have gone if it had SCI
ned Williamses night and day during their til
ole progress. Their reception at the White tn
use by the President with Mr.. Attorney fol
neral at his side, was as cold as an Arctic Phi
tier They made an appeal to the people his
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