The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-14
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Iassoclafed , res Dispstches.l
The LOul.Iana outrage.
NEW YORK. January 6.-The Hsralsfs
New O-leans correspondent telegsaphs that
Sheridan. IN an interview with him yester-
day, sad be was going 10 put sop 20 the
people down there. by the solution Of their
troubles as proposed in his dispatch OF yes
terday, TO the President. lie has not con-
suited any OF the citizens in coming 10 hls
conclusion If the government and Presi-
dent viii endorse him, he will settle affairs.
de proposes to put down all secret armed
bodies.
WASHINGTON. January Cit is said the
prominent officials here endeavor to shield
Sheridan from the storm OF indignation
sweeping over the whole cOuntry, by repre-
senting that he dill not assume command
until nine o'clock Monday night, and Gen.
Emory, acting under Executive orders, is
responsible for the military invasion of the
Louisiana Legislature. But the President
IS quoted a. saying: Gen. Sheridan is OF
the spot and knows what to do, and his &C
ton VIII meet Executive support"
The following telegram was sent to Gen.
Sheridan to-day:
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Janu-
airy SO Gen. p. IL. Sheridan: Your tel
egrams are received. The President and
all of us have full confidence, and thor
oughly approve your course.
''WN. NJ. BELKNAP.
Secretary of War"
There is no probability that the President
will issue such proclamation as Sheridan
suggests in his telegram to the Secretary of
War yesterday.
WASHINGTON, January 6.-Vice President
4 -,
aC New 0rieans. Tie thinks it will be the
death blow to the Republican party.
NEW ORLEANS, January 6.-TO Hon.
w. NJ. Belknap, Secretary of War, Wash
ington, D. c.: The city is very quiet to-
day; some of the banditti made idle threats
last night that they would assassinate me
because dared to tell the truth. am not
afraid. and will not be stopped from inform
| ing the government that there are localities
which have been impregnated with assas-
sination for some years.
up. II. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant General Commanding"
! To the people of Louisiana: In the name
of all that men hold dear and sacred, / i'm
plore my fellow-citizens to avoid, Ivy all
means, traps which our enemies and op-
] pressOrs have deliberately set for u.s. Our
deliverance from political bondage depends
upon our prudence and forbearance, and
conflict with the soldiers or authorities
would be the ruin of our hopes, the riveting
OF our chains. A little more of heroism,
patience and fOrbearance, which has already
crowned you with imperishable honor, and
aroused the sympathies of the entire coun-
| try in your favor, and the usurpation and
misrule to which you are now subjected
will have ceased, and you will be once more
/ q FREQ and onH q houprr v,oOV,la
II. II. MARI,
Chairman Committee of Seventy.
| New ORLEANS, January 5. To the
! American people: Whereas, Gen. Sheridan,
now in command of the Department of
Missouri, has, under date of the fourth in
slant, addressed a communication to Gen.
| Belknap, Secretary of War, in which he
represents the people of Louisiana at large
as breathing defiance to all lawful authority,
and approving of murder and crimes; and
whereas, he has given 10 that communion
ton full publicity, we the undersigned be-
| leve It our duty to declare and proclaim to
the whole American people that these
charges are unmerited, unfounded and er-
roneous, and can have no other effect than
| of serving the interests of corrupt politi-
clans, who are at this moment making most
extreme efforts to perpetuatc their power
over the State of Louisiana.
Signed by ]. Perche, Archbishop Of New
Orleans; ]. p. B. Wilmer, Bishop of Louis
lana; James K. Guthein, pastor of Tempee;
]. G. Keener, Bishop of NJ. E. c., South;
c. Doll, rector of st. rJoseph's Church, and
many Others,
WASHINGTON, D. c.. January 6.-The
House consumed to-daY's session in discuss
ing the resolution of Hale, OF Maine, re-
1 rfttau tho dfcfr1rlo1 nd ~
condition of Affairs in Louisiana. The res
olution says this condition threatens the de-
! struction of law, order and civil rule. II
cites article 8, of section 4, of the Constitu-
| ton, which makes it the imperative duty
of Congress to guarantee to every State of
the Union republican form of government,
ETC., and says the best mode of rendering this
guarantee effectual is to remove all sense of
wrong and oppression from the hands of its
people, by new, fair and well guarded
election for their civil officers, and resolves
that the Judiciary Committee be instructed
to prepare bin for a new election of State
officers and Representatives in Congress in
| Louisiana under such guards and restrictions
and guarantees as will insure the fullest
liberty to every citizen, right of suffrage
without restraint, and as will provide for
such count and declaration of the result
| as will insure to the majority their consti-
tutlonal and legal rights. This was dis
cuSsed and postponed until Monday.
The New York Times says: "Such dis
patch as that which Gen. Sheridan sent to
the Secretary of War on Tuesday is not
warranted by any facts known to the public;
could scarcely be warranted under any con-
ceIvable circumstances. We have never
published such document before, and we
Il v,,khs,-, H., -
seen in the country under constitutional
government. It almost induces one to be-
| lieve that the world has gone back two or
three hundred years in theory and practice
of government. Cromwell did, indeed,
serve Ireland pretty much as Sheridan pro-
poses to treat Louisiana; but most of as
were under the impression that that sys-
| TEN of government had been definitely
abandoned. We are at loss to make out
what Gen. SheridRn's ideas are of the
functions of Congress or powers of the
Executive, to say nothing of the powers
which may rightfully be exercised by 4
Lieutenant General in the army. There is
a shorter cut still which Gen. Sheridan
might have recommended. Il is for the
President to declare the Constitution and
all its amendments annulled, shut up Con-
gress, put down all newspapers and then
proclaim himself dictator, with Sheridan as
his sole minister and chief executor. If
Gen. Sheridan had advised this course at
once, he would scarcely have shown greater
ignorance or disregard Of law than he has
done in bis most extraordinary and we must
add disgraceful dispatch Of January ..
NEW ORLEANS, January IA meeting
Of the foreign residents at the st. Charles
Hotel adopted the following resolution:
RcsOlred, That our position as foreigners
residing and carrying on business in Louis
lana and subject to its laws, does not per
nit rs as q body to express any opinion
upon the political questions now unfortu-
nately disturbing this citv, OF take any part
therein, but having read telegram sent by
Gen. Sheridan to the Secretary Of War at
Washington stigmatiziDg the community
of which We form part as defyiBg all law
full authority by lending itself 20 murder