New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-12
INDICATION MEETING AT ST. LOUIS.

THE INTERFERENCE OF THE MILITARY DENOUNCED
IN SPEECHES AND RESOLUTIONS.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. lin pursuance of a call signed
by about 40 prominent business men for a pub
lie meeting to consider and take action re-
gardng the recent interference with the Lousi-
ana Legislature by the military power the
Mercantile Library was well filled tonight
by very respectable and orderly class of
citizens, including many prominent merchants and
professional men Judge j. ID. 5. Dryden presided.
and Capt Isaac NJ Mason was Secretary. Speeches
were made by Col. James o. Broadhead and the Hon.
Henry c. BIockmeyer, condemning the action of the
President in interfering with the rights OF the people
in managing their own affairs. Mr. Broadhead was
specially severe Sheridan for his conduct IN the
matter and particularly for his dispatch to Secre-
tary Belknap, in which he advises that the leaders
of the White League be declared banditti The
following resolutions were adopted by reclamation
and with great applause
Resolred That the merchants and citizens generally
OF st. Louis meeting assembled hereby express
their unqualified and indignant disapproyal and CON
domination Of the recent action Of the Federal Executive
in the action OF the State OF Louisiana that such arb
rary and warranted proceedings not merely sub
veisive Of vital constitutional provisions and princi-
pies, but arc menacing TO peace. social order and
prosperity
Resolved That IL the settlement OF q question Of
par liamentary law Is permitted to be made pretext
for using the military power Of the Government to
abrogato the authority Of loyal State,
TO dissolve It's Legislature. and ignore
its sacred constitutional guarantees, the spirit
and the purpose OF the Union longer exist and the
OF our Republican system is dismaned and
foundered wreck The question involved is in
winch all party differences sunk and forgotten
in necessity for the preservation OF our
rights.
Resoped That II an army officer In temporary author
ty IS permitted without rebuke the limits Of
law and by insulting official Utterances, 10 impuRn the
loyalty and asperse the honor OF the people OF whole
State conduct. confidently believe VIII receive
neither the sanction respect OF the American people
Resolved That earnestly protest against tne policy
and acts above referred that we regard them with
surprise and apprehension, and firmly believe that II
maintained aud repeated. thev must inevitably lead to
the worst civil disorders and the anarchy incident 10
despairing and desperate people.
Resolved. That citizens Of st. Louis closely
bound by commercial and social ties to the people
of New-Orleans and OF the South, we offer them our
deepest sympathy in their present unhappy
condition. II is with regret unspeakable that
we behold their political misfortunes, and
we do assure them that in the depths OF our
feelings they may indication Of the
general sentiment of the country, which their par
alleled sufernRs have affected The integrity ana SUI
premacy of the Union being undsputed the magnanim
ity OF the peopesgeneraY will not permit continued
oppression any section and although its charae
ter may be lntoerabe, yet counsel them to proong
patriotic and peaceful endurance until 1t can be ter
minated by constitutional means.
Resolped That Representatives in Congress from
from tis city and hereby requested 70 exer
else their individual and combined influence 10 anchor
ate the condition OF the Southern people and to express
In Congress the with which public opinion
in this State regards the recent ourages In Louisiana
Another resolution directs that copy OF the reso-
lutions be sent to President Grant, Mayor Witt OIL
New Orleans, and to each Representative IN Con-
gress from Missouri.