The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-07

Gu cuse Ior !. iafce OF Legislation anay "a Il
body without Quorum. III aM len 3.
tturhances The people are nnIat y y 30 a.
Of ,Generais Emory, numberins ~, ibe fss
campea around the state-House, . sssi gee.
thsorders OF Kellogg. Sixty IJn',, sa9es /
seIdIefs have elected from Tho Ss,ea Va
four membess' who had been dee,a Leg, .s
elected by the Legislature n ah,d kag,
turns had been referred by tb m'i D The h
Board. The citizens of Lonisia ue Ietn,n,,
themselves cheated and detrauded. a ua,s "a
the iraud came pear TO failure t im fss
seen the whole power Of the Gens,y iaSs
vernment used to consum mate i I, aa 6.
Villainly successful. They mali !" :. aad NAB
but upon the facts as they are tb W. c,ccr!,
the deliberate judgment Of the 40, MOI,
people. VIC Ansriau
From the New York Herald of ro,,,,.
The Prostitution Of Republics =.
yernnaant I'm Louisiaa, ~
There was witnessed in the Lop,.;,,o
House yesterday spectacle which ' = sfs.
of its kind In this country and whioh ae dc;
cause every true American 70 h,,s,' H1d
shame and indignation. A bodv ~ u nj
troops entered legislative hsu - ,. ssats.
Speaker from his chair, and forced V Do b
OF protesting members from Their se auase
marched them out with soldier On ca s a.:
prepared to drag them, along If thev r.':'a
We congratulate the citizens of Ton;, ;;sStA
the people of the country that tbis 's a,, al'
binary and most revolving scene did ~. .I1
vokeyioience and bloodshed. Fo En- mvt F'.
sistance would have been jus,i6ahls. ; ~ y
case, If it be ever jus,ifiable in apy ga, ~ 'aa
greater outrage on every princioIe ~ 10
government was never perpetra,edN y, ne
not for the fact that the people Of Ior %saeA
have surer resource for the redr.wntMItl'asi
grievances in the sense Of iusfjcs ', 4, s- ,a
whole country AID in the public re.eo,, We
which will be kinded to The biyhet r a;.I.
by these atrocities and unexampled pror rs.
ings.
Every maxim of free goyernmep, vas
lated and trodden under foot by the y1,..,
interference yesterday with the orgauj,,,;os
of q State Legislature. Our Declarsio,nt
Independence denounced the King Of pr..
land for making the military superior "a +,
civil authority, and for dissolyiug represent.
tive houses for opposing bis invasion. Nv
rights Of the people. President Gran. b..
done these very things by the Use he madeT
the Federal army In New Orleans yesterd,r
Of course, the responsibility mus. rest 0.
General Grant; for without bis orde..
none of his military subordinates vou!.
have dared to interfere with the o.,
ganization of State Legislature. 1t eac
not be pleaded that this was done I,
preserve the peace, for the citizens Of .yss
Orleans we're never more quiet and ora,,y
than at the time this great outrage on n.
institutions was perpetrated. II Is a p,in:.
pie which pervades our system Of go,err
ment that every legislative body is The SOLE
Judge of the qualifications Of its own men.
bers and OF their right to seats-a principi.
SO sacred that courts Of justice never in,e,
fere with it or call it in question. But ":
are suddenly brought to such lass thai
Federal troops undertake to decide who az,
entitled to seats in State Legislature, and L
eject members by force. The outrage is 90
extenuated by saying that the Federal trOO.
acted in obedience to Governor Kellogg, II
was pretended. while these shameful scele
were enacting. No Governor Of any Stat
has the least shadow Of right to interior
with the organization of its Legislature
Every State Constitution, like the Feten
Constitution, explicitly makes each legish
tive house the free, sole, and unlimited judg
of the right of claimants to sit as It's men
bers. Kellogg has no more right to decd
that certain persons are not entitled to sea.
in the Louisiana Legislature, and to putthen
out, than the President has to pursueasini
lar course respecting members Of Congress
Kellogg is guilty of new usurpation whs,
he assumes to make such decision, and p.
sident Grant acts in the arbitrary and irN-
lent spirit OF Casarism in encouraging suc1
interference on the palt OF kellogg and
supporting him in 1t by the rude hand
military violence. No rights are held :
sacred in all free governments as those
their Legislatures. All free constitution
protect them from every kind Of Executive II
reference. Their members are privilege
from arrest; they cannot be called In que
ton In any other place for words spoken
debate; they can be expelled only by tWj
thirds vote Of the house to which they belol
and the ultimate decision on their right
seats is vested exclusively in that house, ai
cannot be reviewed or reversed by any GU
side officer or body. All tn SO constitution
principles, which have always been deeue
essential to free government, were tramp'
under foot yesterday by Federal soldiers
obedience to the orders Of President Graz
His only right to interfere in the domes'
affairs of State is for the purpose Of su
pressing violence. There vas no Giolen!
sistance yesterday, either to State author
or Federal authority, nor any otter oil resi-
ance or imminent danger of any. The re
ident has no more right to unseat mem0e
of the Louisiana Legislature than be 1as
unseat members of the New York Legs
ture. The act of Congress which oore
all the authority he possesses to emp:
Federal troops in State empowers d
to use them only In case Of San lusuI'e
ton in State against the Go1ernM
thereof" The peaceable organization OIL
Louisiana Legislature was not an lnsu''e
ton, and justified no such high.handed pr
Us tEOSc WHICH, LOon p'asS -,
day. The Presidents authority Is lluH'
in every case to the mere suprressioI
violence and preservation Of order, ana
stretch of the statute can make 1t eSteno
the organization Of a Legislature and !au
ing Of the election and qualifications O
members. What General Grant has csu:
to be done in New Orleans will prove
ishing and irretrieYable blow 70 him anu :
Republican party unless Congress ~
promptly repair this mopstrous ip]ls.
which was perpetrated under the eyes VI
of les own committees.
From the New York World Of Tuesday,
The StranSled State.
Two hundred and thirty.four years
Yesterday Charles Stnsrt went down 10
House of Commons in person and deman'
the arrest Of Ppm, Hsmpdeu. Hollis, d.
rig, and Strobe. Yesterday Ulysses u''
10 the person OF General De rrobrisp1i,
tered the Legislature OF Louisians ana
manded the election OF Eve members Of
body. The five members OF Louisiana v
as strictly the champions Of free goVelpGG'
as the i've members Of the House OF y
mons, and the whole political wellafe
these United States is bound up WIFE Tue