The daily gazette., 1875-01-14
For TIE Gazette.
Il ne Recent Federal Ost5ga0e,
IN L0uisia2a0.

When The King OF Great Britain es.
tapiished arbitrary government in one
oI Ihe colonies the remaining colonies
took the alarm lest it might serve as a
precedent, as well as an instrument, to
establish such government elsewhere.
IL IS we'll that the people Of the Uni
ted States have at last taken alarm.
ana nave, and are daily expressing their
otter detestation Of the vile acts COM
mltted by armed forces of the United
States on the 4th instant in the city of
Ne" orleans; 1t is high time for the
people to be hearo, when the legislature
OF a sovereign State is, invaded Ly.sal.
diera and the members taken into ems
tody on driven from the State House. Il
IS tlne for every lover Of liberty to
speaki IN unmistakeable tones when, as
Mr.. Pomeroy. OF n. Y, says, ''ciyiI iber-
ty i5 threatened only to foster horde Of
thieVe5, and Tor establishing the supre
macy OF the African race, thereby plac.
ing a pyramid On its apex, and inyertine
nature Mr.. Pomeroy, who was a Fed
rral soldier IN the late war, and helped
to elect den Grant in 1872, was in New
Orleans on the 4th of this month WHEN
the legislature convened, and states DOS
itively that the dispatches of Gen. Sheri-
dan IN reference TO an existing spirit OF
defiance to all lawful authority. inseeo.
rity Of life, etc, were entirely untrue.
anu TINS statement is confirmed and COR
roborated by hundreds of northern and
western men soJourning in the city OF
New Orleans, also by N. ]. Perche, Arch
bishop OF New Orleans; J. p. b. W Inner.
Bishop OF Louisiana; James X. Galhrem
Pastor Temple OF Sinai. S. c. Keener.
bishop M. +. Church, South; Chas. Doll.
Rector st; Joseph's Church, and several
others. All over the country the peo-
pie are calling indignation meetings, and
the newspapers of both parties, as gen
eral thing, condemn the outrage, and
speak of it rs Il Strange and Shocking
sight to find the army of the United
States compelling the partizan organiza-
tlon OF a State Legislature at the point
OF tho bayonet." A majority of the peo-
pie north and west would never consent
to see martial law, as General Sheridan
recommends, established in any portion
of the country again. By martial law.
says Justice Woodbury., lin the opinion
delivered in the II. S. Court in the case
OF Luther as. Borden, How. 62) every
citizen, instead OF roposing under the
shield Of known and fixed laws as to his
liberty, property and lite, exists with a
rope around his neck, subject to be hung
up by military despot at the next lamp
post, under the sentence of some drum
head court-martial. (See Simmons Prac.
OF Court-Martial. 40.) See such a trial
IN Hough on Courts Martial, 1888, where
the victim on the spot was blown away
by gum neither time, place, nor per-
sons considered. As an illustration how
the passage OF such law may be abused,
Queen Mary put in force in 1853, by
proclamation merely. and declared that
'whosoever had IN his possession any
heretical, reasonable or sedltious books,
and did not presently burn them, with
out reading them or showing them to
any other person, should be- esteemed
rebel, and without any further delay be
executed by the martial law,-Sytler on
military law, p. so, c. l, l. Hallam, in
has Court History, page 420, declares that
It's use by the commissioners to try
military offenders was procedure ne
cessary, within certain limits, to the dis
clpline of an army, but unwarranted by
the constitution of his country In
deed a distinguished English judge has
since said that martial law, as Of old,
now does not exist in England at all, was
contrary to the constitution and has been
for century exploded" Efe+
Let our legislature protest strongly
against this outrage committed against
the sovereignty Of sister State. In
their warfare upon a peaceful, quiet
people; in their attacks upon the soyer-
eighty OF States; in their desperate
struggle to hold fast to power, let the
Republican party and Generals Grant
and Sheridan beware how they "borrow
weapons from the armory of arbitrary
power" They cannot be welded by the
hands OF free people--their blows will
finally fall upon themselves.
ONE OF THE people,.
st. Georges, Jan. s, 1875.