The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-07
being ordered to New Orleans. That is the
fact and know it to be So

stances attending the organization of til
Legislature in New Orleans on Monday las
land charged that, by the laws of Louisiar
the acts of the Conservative members OF thi
Legislature were illegal, violent and revoi!
tionary, and in fact were the acts OF moi
The seating Of five members whose sea,
were contested before any permanent organ
2ation was without parallel. He quoted fror
the records of Congress to show that JON
Quincy Adams ut one time presided in tn
House as temporary Speaker for sixteen days
on account of certain infested cases whic
were not acted upon until long after perma
nent organic alton had been effected.
| The so-called Speaker of the Louisian,
House of Representatives had declared thos
who contested seats were entitled to then
without any evidence to show that they wer
elected. The vote by which Wilt claimed t.
have been elected Speaker, lacked five of /,
legal majority of the body. He next reat
from a telegram stating that Congressman
Potter was present at the organization, ani
discountenanced the action of Witt.
Gen. De Trobriand was first called upon te
maintain order in the lobby by the so-called
Conservative majority in the House OF Repre-.
sentatives. The five men who contested
seats had not as much right upon the floor az
those in the lobby, aud when those men were
OlCCLCu ny OOl Dc lIOUElduu u0 ulu uOC Sct
how exception could be taken. 1t was all
the lobby, but all wrong when used to quell q
mob and eject from the floor five men who
were not entitled to be there.
The charge that the President had been
guilty of malfeasance was entirely contra
dicted by the facts before the Senate. He
then spoke of unkind treatment toward
Northern people in Louisiana, and said over
three thousand lives in that State had been
yielded for the sake of their political opinions.
Talk about peace in Louisiana, but there was
no peace there.
Mr.. Gordon, of Georgia, said he did not
propose to reply to the speech of the Senator
(West.) He was quite willing it should go to
the country and make its own answer, but
when the people whom he (Gordon) loved
rs his own life, whose fortunes were his
through veal or woe, through life or death,
were held up as assassins or murderers, he
could not and would not remain SILENT and
If his voice and gestures were tremulous
now with emotion, 1t was not the emotion of
anger but the emotion of indignation at the
outrage perpetrated upon his people.
He stood aghast at the spectacle presented
in this Senate yesterdsy-a spectacle of one
portion of the members seeking to ruin the
lair name and honor of the people of one Sec
ton of this country before the civilized
world. He was amazed, utterly amazed, that
there should be found in the heart OF men
with whom he daily associated upon this floor,
80 much hate. He was totally unprepared for
it; and if he believed to-day that the express
slons which he heard from the Senators lips,
Yesterday, reflected the sentiments of the
Northern people, he would feel that it was
time for the Southern people to die.
If he believed that those expressions fore
,hadowed the policy of this Government
toward the South, then he would say, "Let
rs have done with this farce Of local self-gov-
He did not believe that such SEN
iments were entertained by Northern people.
lie did not believe that the brave men against
whom the people OF the South had lately con-
ended entertained any such sentiments. He
believed the great majority of the American
lack, abhorred any such spirit of animosity.
lie believed the movement inaugurated in
872, by that large-headed and large-hearted
IAN of New York, to bring about good feeling
nd harmony, would be successful.
In the support which he (Gordon) gave to
he resolution, as presented by the Senator
.om Ohio, MIR. Thurman,) he protested |
gainst any construction which would make it |
ppear that he was wanting in respect to the |
resident of the United States. Much had |
cen said here about the President being the |
in-chief Of the army. He (Gor-
on) was glad he was commander-in-chief;
lad that the military was subordinate to the
ivil powers. He did not propose to discuss
,e resolution, but to reply to what he was
,rced to conclude were gratuitous insults
fered to his people by some of the Senators
q the other side of the chamber.
It was charged that murder prevailed
the South and that these murders
ere by the hands of the Democrntic white
ANS party. His reply to that was brief-the
large was false. It was true that murders
I'd occurred, but no one deplored them more
presented. His people had always said that
le class of people committing these murders
ere the worst enemies Of the South. If /,
urd rs were committed was that any reason
r branding the whole Southern people as
It of assassins and barbarians.
Wherever, in the Southern States, people &,
honesty and integrity have control OF pub {
: affairs, property, life and liberty are as {
fe as they are in any Northern State. ZAP {
ause in the galleries Did the Senator
ON Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) forget that ]
ERE were States in the North in the hands of /
10 Democrats. He (Gordon) apprehended (
at those States were governed just as well {
States governed by Republicans. He was 6
re that such was the case in the South 1
Since the war not a solitary arm had been
ised in Southern State, against the power !
the Federal Government, and yet the
'uthern people were charged, day after day, {
being disloyal toward the Government, be- s
use there were riots at the elections, or riots i
crossroads. band Of misguided negroes +,
10 marched at night with arms to murder, @
d hearts to plumber, could not be attacked |
whites in self defense; if they were attacked, f
d conflict ensued, in which few were {
lied, the South was then charged with dis t
yalty and antagonism to the Federal Govern q
ent. Colored militiamen might insult t
'men, rob, pillage, and drag innocent men
'm their beds, and when the white men re- e
ted them. the Southern people were held up c
murderers and assassins. {
Men were sent down among them who had S
common interest with them; these men S
ade the laws, collected the taxes and gov c
ned the Southern people and then maligned {
3 same people. i
If the South asked how New England liked A
1T law, how the West would like it, and strive e