Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-15
THE NEW REBELLION.
LOUISIANA WHITE LRlCIERS IN ARMS.
PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT GRANT
The Insurgents ordered TO Dfsperse
within Five Days.

Within Five Days.
The exciting character of the news from New
Orleans has caused some anxiety here. The
subject of conV ersstion in all the government
departments this morning was in regard 70 ths
unfortunate occurrences of yesterday. 1t seems
that disorders were not wholly unanticipated.
from the fact that yesterday dispatches were
received st the War department from Genera
Mcdowell. inc!osing one dated the day previous
I ON General Emory, commanding the Depart.
ment Of the Gulf, to the effect that in his
opinion riot would ensue from the Cana
street meeting.
Early this morning President Grant was in
his offic e, and manifested considerable anxiety
TO receive the latest intelligence from New
Orleans. At haf-past IL O'Clock, Attorney
General Williams had a consultation with the
President, and soon afterwards the following
proclamation was issued:
Proclamation Of President Grant.
Whereas, under the pretence that William P.
Kellogg, the presen1 executive of Louisiana,
and the officers associated with him in the state
administration, were not duly elected, certain
turbulent and disorderly persons have COM
bined together with force and arms to resist the
laws ana constituted authorities of said state;
and whereas, it has been duly certified by the
proper local authorities and judicially deter
mined by the inferior and supreme courts of
said state, that said officers are entitled to hold
their offices respectively and execute and dis
charge the functions thereof; and whereas Con-
gress. at its late session upon due considera-
ton OF the subject tacitly recognized the said
executive and his associates then, as
now, in office by refusing to take any action
with respect thereto; and whereas, it is
provided in the constitution sf the United
States, that the United States shall protect
every state in this Union on application of the
le legislature, or of the executive when the legis-
lature cannot be convened, against domestic
violence; and whereas il is provided in the laws
OF the United States that in all cases OF insur-
rectioD in any state or of obstruction TO the laws
thereof it shall be lawful for the President Of
the United States, on application of the legisla-
ture of such state, or OF the executive when the
legislature cannot be convened, to call forth the
militia of any other state or states. or to employ
such part of the land and naval forces as shall
be judged necessary for the purpose of snp-
pressing such insurrectiOn or causing the laws
TO be duly executed; and whereas the
legislature of said state is not now in
session and cannot be convened in time
to meet the present emergency, and the
executive of said state, under section of article
4 of the constitution of the United States, and
the laws passed In pursuance thereof, has,
therefore, made application to me for such part
OF the military force of the United States as may
be necessary and adequate to protect said state
lence, and to enforce the due execution of the
laws; and whereas il is required that whenever
1T may be necessary, in the judgment of the
President, to use the military force for the pur-
pose aforesaid, he shall forthwith by proclama-
ton command such insurgents to disperse and
retire peacefully 10 their respective homes
within a limited time:
Now, therefore, /, ULYSSES S. Grant, do hereby
make proclamation and command said turbu
lent and disorderly persons to dsperse ana
retire peacably to their respective abodes within
hve days from this date, and hereafter to
submit themselves to the laws and constituted
authorities Of said state, and invoke the aid
and cooperation Of all good citizens thereof to
uphold law and preserve the public peace.
witness i have hereuut0 SET M
hard and caused tie seal OF the United States
To be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington this fifteenth
Gay of September, in the year of our
Lord one Il ousand eight hundred and
[sEALl seyenty-fcur and of the independence
OF the United States the ninety-eighth.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary Of State.
The above proclamation is an exact copy o.
the PROCLAMATION issued in May, 1873. upon the
occasion of the riotous demonstration made in
New Orleans at the beginning OF the Kellogg
gubernatorial troubles, with the tx
ception that in this instance, the insurrecton-
lists are required to repair to their respective
abodes within five days, instead Of twenty days
as on that occasion.
SENATOR WEST,
who is in the city, is of the opinion that the riot
is Of much more aggravated nature than the
reports by telegraph in the morning papers
seem to indicate. 1t appears that the outbreak
has been in contemplation for some days, ana
that the course TO be adopted at the Canal street
meeting was previously arranged, the gathering
being merely to give pro fOrm1 endorsement
to what had been agreed upon in advance
CONSULTATION AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
At II O'Clock Gen. Townsend was sent for by
President Grant. He at one repaired to the
White House. The conference was merely iB
connection with orders which it might be neces
sary TO issue with reference to the movement of
troops during the day. Secretary Belknap and
Gen. Sherman both being away at the reunion
of the Army of the Cumberland, Gen. Town
send will direct, until their return, any dispos-
ton Of the United States forces which may be
ordered by the President.
PRESIDENT GRANT DETERMINED TO CRUSH THB
NEW REBELLION.
President Grant In a conversation in refer.
ence to the troubles said that up to noon he had
received no dispatches which covered any more
ground than set forth in the morning news
papers. he said that Gov. Kellogg had IN ade
call upon him for protection which was guaran-
teed TO every state in case of domestic violence,
and hence, though he regretted the occasion
which called 1t forth, he had issued the procla-
nation, commanding the insurrectionisss to
disperse, and further said that he would use
the full extent of his power, if 1t became neces-
sary, to quell the incipient rebellion, and to
protect life and preserve the public peace.
At two O'Clock no dispatches had been re-
ceived by the Attorney General.
NOT KNoUGH o. 8. TROOPS.
This afternoon a dispatch was received from
Gen. Emory, at the War department, setting
forth that the situation was quite critical, ami
that the presence OF the United states troops in
the city had lost the moral force which usually
attaches to the garrison of a city in time o;
peace; also that If conflict with the United
states forces became necessary, he had not half
enough troops to meet the emergency.
1t is understood that Gen. Mcdowell has been
directed 10 notify Gen. Emory that he will only
use the troops under his command in case an
actual disturbance of the peace is threatened
or when in his udgment the efforts of his COM
mand are essential to protect life and limb.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES DIsORRD-
TIED.
Up to 2:l5 p. m. no advlces had been received
at the White House, War department or by the
Attorney General, which confirm the startling
kilograms received by the Associated Press.
and they are generally discredited.
CONsULs OFFICIALLY RBCoGNIzKD.-The
President has recognized Thomas John Elmore
British Consul for Georgia, and Hugo Tritsch,
Austrian Consul at New York.