New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-07

members OF that Legislature were illegal.
violent and revolutionary. and, in fact,
were the acts OF mob. The seating
OF five members whose seats were contest
ed, before any permanent organization was
without parallel. He quoted from the re-
cords OF Congress to show that John Quincy
Adams ut one time presided in the House a.
temporary Speaker for sixteen days on &C.
count OF certain contested cases which were
not acted upon until long after a permanent
organization had been effected. The 40
called Speaker of the Louisiana House of
Representatives had declared those who
| contested seats were entitled to them with
ont any evidence to show that they wero
elected. The vote by which Wilt claimed
to have been elected Speaker lacked five OF
legal majority of the body. He next read
from telegram stating that Congressman
Potter was present at the organization, and
discountenanced the action of Wilt. Gen
eral De TrObfiand was first called upon to
maintain order in the lobby by the socalled
Conservative majority in the House of Rep
resentatives The five men who contested
seats had not as much right upon the floor,
rs those in the lobby, and when those men
were elected by Colonel De Trobriand ho
dld not see how exception could be taken
1t was all proper for the military to he used
in clearing the lobby, but all wrong wher
used to quell mob and eject from the floor
i've men who were not entitled to be there
The charge that the President had been
| guilty OF malfeasance was entirely contra
| dlcted by the facts before the Senate He
| then spoke of unkind treatment toward
Northern people in Louisiana, and said over
5000 lives in that State had been yielded for
the sake of their political opinions. Ta!k
about peace in Louisiana, but there was IA,
pe ace there.
Mr.. Gordon, of Georgia, said he die
propose to reply to the speech of the S.
ator (West). He was quite willing it shoav
60 to the country and make its Ow.
swer, but when the people whom he j>sy
dom loved as his own life, whose tortun>
were his through veal or woe, thrC,y:
life or death, were held mp RS assassinslo or
murderers, he could not and would Nc. s6.
main silent; and if his voice and gestures
were tremuiOus now with emotion, it wAS
not the emotion of anger, but the emU....sn
OF indignation at the outrage rerpetrasess ,
upon his people. He stood aghast at tho
spectacle presented in this Senate yestor-
day-a spectacle Of one portion of the mo,l-ss
bers seeking to ruin the fair name and honoe !,
Of the people of one section of this coua
try before the civilized world. He wnA
amazed. utterly amazed, that there shooIt
be found in the heart of men wiz
whom he daily associated upon this foox :
30 much hate. He was totally unpreS.ntxs
for it, and if he believed today that tn r.
expressions which he heard from the Senar-
tors lips yesterday reflected the sentimest9
of the Northern people he would feel that ie3'
was time for the Southern people to as-
If he believed that those expressions foEss- =
shadowed the policy of this governments rep4
ward the South, then he would say .st 6. J.
have done with this farce of local self gov
ernment. He did not believe that s'ick
sentiments were entertained by North
ern people. He di6 not believe that thM -
brave men against whom the people O.. ,.R. !,
South had lately cOntended entertained
any such sentiments. He believed tho
great majority of the American people, Of
both North and South, white and black,
abhorred any such spirit of anim0sity-
He believed the movement inaugurated in
1872 by that large headed and largo
hearted man of New York, to bring about
good feeling and harmony, would be sue
cessful. In the support which he (Gordon)
gave to the resolution as presented by tho
Senator from Ohio (Mr. Thurman), he pro-
tested against any construction which
would make it appear that he was wanting
in respect to the President of the United
States. Much had been said here about tho
President being c0mmander-in-chiefO of tho
army. lie (GOrdon) was glad he was COM
manderin- chief; glad that the military was
subordinate to the civil powers He did
not propose to discuss the resolution, but to
reply to what he was forced to conclude
were gratuitOus insults offered to his
people by some of the Senators on the other
side OF the chamber. 1t was charged that
murder prevailed throughout the South,
and that these murders were by the handa3
of the Democratic white mans party. His
reply to that was brief; the charge was
false. 1t was true that murders had oc-
CURED, but no one deplored them more than
himself, nor more than the people he repre-
sented. His people had always said that
the class of people committing these
murders were the worst enemies of tho
South. If murders were committed was
thai. any reason for branding the whole
Southern people as set of assassins
and barbarians9 Wherever in the South
ern States people of honesty and in
tegrity have control of public affairs,
property, life and liberty are as safe as they
are in any Northern State (Applause in
the galleries.I Did the Senator from
Vermont Mr.. Edmunds) forget that there
were States IN the North in the hands Of
the Democratsg He (Gordon) apprehended
that those States were governed just as we'll
as States governed by Republicans. He
was sure that such was the case in the
South. Since the war not solitary arm
had been raised in Southern State against
the power of the federal government, and
yet the Southern people were charged day
after day with being disloyal toward the
government because there were riots at the
elections or riots at the cross roads. A band
of misguided negroes, who marched at
night with arms to murder and hearts to
plnnder, could not be attacked by whites i'm
SO defe nse if they were attacked. and a
conflict ensued in which few were killed,
the South was then charged with dsloyalty
and antagOnism to the federal government
COlOred milltiamen might insult women,
rob, plllage and drag innocent men from
their beds, and when the white mer
resisted them tho Southern PEG
ples were held up as murderew
and assaesins. Men were sent down among
them who had no com non interest witE
them. These men made the laws. collecteG
the taxes and governed the Southern peaS
pie and then maligned the same Seople
If the South asked how New England likes
that law the West would like that ans
strive by every lawful means to overthro%
these men. Her people were charged wisd g
being murderers and assassins. How 1ODs.
are we thus to be misunderstood in the faess
to meet the Northern people upon equag
grounds But we are told that we intimi-
date voters; it does not matter what may
be our minority though we may be AZ
one too many; still we intimidate voters
1t would soon be found that there was
intimidation On the other side. He IGOR
dom then read from the Chicago Inter.
Ocean certain testimony taken IN Alabanls
to the effect that bacon for the relief OF
persons in the Overhowed district was dis
trbuted to persons living out Of th0ss dis.
tricts ON the eve of the election. Other
coIOred men swore at they had bee6 dis
charged for voting the Republican ticket.
and others that they had been beaten and
turned out of church for 80 voting. The
Senator from Indiana (Morton), yesterday
had spoken of lies sent out by the Southern
A. sociated Press agents He fGordon)
thought that libel on the Associated Press
OF the South, and he thought he knew ar