The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-12

That Constitution, made for troubled as we'll a
= peaceable times, undertakes to furnish til
= measure Of power to Federal Government i
j, respect to interference in the States.
a There are two very firm lines Of Limitation
t which will protect the magnificent symmetr
y OF our Government for people OF forty null
: lions as now, and of five hundred millions a
t hereafter; that the sole Intervention OF FEEDER
e al power within the province OF State author
G itv shall be to suppress violence, and tina
ce, even it shall not assume excep
y when enacted 10y the supreme anthorit,
OF the State fcheers] and that supreme au
/ thority of the State is named in the Fedora
!, | Constitution as the Legislature of the State
Tcheersl aad only in casual condition thu,
The Legislature is no. in session can it g,
f over; nor represent the Legislature on de
nand, but oalv on the condition that the,
cannot be receivcd'in the Constitution. Where
, here il a recess OF the Legislature of thu
State of New York, as in the ndjournmen,
, from April TO January, the Governo,
Of lie Safe has no authority under the Fed
eral Constitution to invoke intervention Of
The Federal power except in an emergency
that does not permit OF his con vening the
Legislature III extra session; and how the
| Constitution of Louisiana was that the Iegis-
laturc was in session and thai the Governor
had no power to represent that state or de
mand fer Intervention of Federal authority
[checrs.
| Have you ever been favored by Gen Sheridan,
tsome Kisses or Cabinet at Washington with
any pro nul < alton of a publication by the as
sembod Legislature in Louisiana for Federal
intefye ntion: ] think not: but it is only in
al instruction. or that degree OF violence
| shat comes TO an instruction in effect that
the Constitution of the United States has pro-
vided for intervention, and it is only i'll sup
port of that intervention that the legislation
Of Congress OF 1875 and 1907 has armed the
| President with authority.
| As for Gen. Sheridan, / ask that no special
measure of your disapprobation shall be
visited on him. 1t is fair to take his own s.a'e-
| ,ncnt OF the occasion and manner of his III
| teryeniion; that there was insecurity and
| alarm, and it is agreed Sheridan has no such
| tind disposition that he was likely to exag-
gerate the occasions Of alarm; and it is likely
| there had been some disturbances in the
State, and he Uses the somewhat uncommon
phrase in American politics. that the
military were present as conseryators of the
peace" Iausnter.)
There is a national Gend0lmerie. instead Of
civi! police officers, made at once for Us
flauohterl wherever the United State, troops
are to be found. The President OF the Uni
ted States had approved the action of the
troops; ard Coy. Kellogg, as he gave the
order 70 take the five members ont of the
Legislature, had approved it.
The speaker would like TO see Gov. Tiden
give the order to the New York military to
clear the Republican party out Of the Legisla-
ture when they were going TO elect United
States Senator. But Coy. Kellogg must bear
the responsibility. It might be in New York
some time. [Cries Of ''Never!" "never!"]
What it CHE Government) has done in one
State, it should do in all the States of the
Union.
The Legislature OF Louisiana was AZ much
a part Of the United States Government as the
Legislature OF the State Of New York. He
submitted That the crowd that was here to-
night was not Democratic or Republican, but
was American. If Republican majorites in
Congress approved-it they had no action to
akeif they sustained the right of soldiers
to deciuate the people he would not believe
il nn.il the party had been given a chance to
speak.
He had observed tendency in the Repub-
iican party To break away from the purity
which gave them birth. This was seen in the
vote which gave the Democratic party power.
They had gained two things that the peo-
PIE Of tie United States would not have their
territory taken Or their Constitution ruptureti.
He thought the constitulionality OF the law
set forth that whom riot WAS imminent
proclamation should be issued
There were other troubles in the South with |
respect 70 the suppression of which the Fede- |
raj Government WAS armed with extraordinary |
power Ii, when the election in Louisiana |
was held, armed bands intimidated voters,
then was the time for the President of the |
United States to interfere. He hoped. it
would be long before the citizens of New York
would not respond to n call like the present
in the South.
This effort to control the Legislature struck
at its very existence. That is what they fought
for in England for awhile. The King and the
House of Lords determined the qualifications
Of members of the House of Commons, but
in 1924 the latter House resolved to hold the
matter of their qualifications in their own
hands, and allow neither royalty nor the
House of Lords to interfere.
The speaker did not know whether there
was to be a sequel to this trouble in the
South, but he thought not. The people
should know and teach their rulers they
were only to act in accordance with law.
Simon Sterne then read dispatches from
Francis Kirk. Cla1kson n. Potter, George T.
Jonistock and Henry +. r. Tilden.
Hon. VIM. f. Dodge said: Il am not here
- representative of any party or to de-
nounce the party with which ] am 50 long
| am here as one Of the Oldest
merchants of this city on behalf of its COM
nerce, to denounce interference Of our Ma
ioual Government with any State Legisla-
nre. am going to have you cheer the Pres
dent [Laughter.l
You all agree with him in that noble senti-
nent Of his, ''Let us have peace" and any
ttempt OF his to array any portion Of the
North az ainst the South will meet with con-
Scripture says /: When one MEM
Der suffers all the members suffer with it.
That is the position Of the States, and We
ill arouse ourselves against anything that
ooks towards dismembering of these States. 7
me of the mistakes of the party to which l
'elong is sending down men to the South who /
each the freedmen just emancipated that the {
White men who surround them are their t
natural enemies, and their only hope is the g
federal Government or their party. d
l believe if the freedmen were left alone
hey wouli gravtate to the great parties to d
which their interests belong, and they would I