New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-16


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So it il all the fault Of Congress, according
to the President and his cOurtiers, that the
Louisiana difficulty was not settled long ago.
Gen. Grant never wished to interfere with the
domestic affairs Of that miserable State He
has repeatedly asked Congress to take the
Job off mia hands. He has several times-at
long and irregular intervals to be sure, and
in a confusing aud incOnsequential manner
been in favor of ordering a new election; but
Congress has declined to accommodate him.
Upon that body, consequently, rests the
responsibility of the recent military outrage
and the continuing disorder and usurDatlon.
Let us see about that Congress of course
is to blame for refusing to redress the wrong
which it so clearly recognizes; but who was
the original 0ffenderi The trouble goes back
to 1872, for it all springs from the attempt to
keep in Office by fraud and force Governor
and Legislature who were originally Installed
by fraud and force. If the people had been
allowed to register their will at the ballot
box, this trouble never would have happened.
In his special message to the Senate,
Gen. Grant pretends that he only used
the army in 1872 to enforce the de-
crces of the United States Court, after
they had been unlawfully resisted This Is so
far from the truth that the interpOsItlon OF
the troops VIGOROUSLY preceded the action of
Judge Durell. st the beginning of December.
1872 the famous midnight order" the start
ing point of all these Outrages, had not yet
been issued. There had been no resistance,
no disturbance of any kind, no pretext for
Federal interference in any shape. Yet on
the Sd of that month the Attorney General
suddenly telegraphed to Marshal Packard to
call upon Gen. Emory for troops, and enforce
the DEGREES of the courts, no matter by whom
resisted. Two companies of soldiers were ac-
cordngly ordered from Fic::;;d:;: Sc NNc",
Orleans. They arrived on the night Of the
5sh. Packard and Durell were waiting for
them. The Judge then applied to himself at
his own lodgings, without the presence Of
counsel on either side, for an order instruct
ing Packard to take possession of the State
House. IL was an order void on its face,
destitute even OF legal form, without the seal
Of the court, of no more force than sheet
of white paper; but Packard seized it, rushed
after the soldiers, marched them to tie
prevented the Legislature from assembling,
and under the protection of bayonets made
up q false Legislature to suit himself. Aud
that is what the President calls enforcing tho
DEGREES of the United States Court BY this
false Legislature, sitting behind a hedge of
muskets, Warmoth was deposed and Pinch
back set up in his place. Then the President S
fAmilars, Packard and Casey, began tele-
graphing to Washington to obtain Gen.
Grants approval of this fresh outrage. Did
they trouble themselves to argue that it was
according to law 7 Oh, no; they presented
considerations Of very different kind 1.-THE
decree, if enforced, wiU Sdue the Republican
majority and give Louisiana a Republican
Legislature and State Government" "f
"requistion of Legislature is complied with
all difficulty will be dissipated the party
saued, and everything go on smoothly" And
SO Mr. Williams sent telegram to Pinchback
in the Presidents name, recognizing him as
Governor of Louisiana, i'll order to save the
Republican majority Which only goes to
prove, what all the world knows, that the
Republican State Government of Louisiana
during the past two years has been nothing
but the creature Of the army.
For more than q year the President sus-
tanned the usurpation thus established. He
stands square up to u.s." wrote Senator West
to Mr.. Kellogg; Il have had q very pleasant
and liberal conversation with him." But
suddenly, in January, 1874, Grant changed bis
mind. After urging, through Mr.. Morton, the
admission of Pinchback to the United States
Senate, he became anxious for new election,
and instructed Gen. Butler Gas the correspond
ence captured at NewOrleans last September
shows to move the impeachment of thisver Du
rell upon whose scandalOus orders he now relies
for his vindication - You have heard what has
probably changed the Presidents mind wrote
West to Kellogg. 81 have it from the very
"bcst authority that in case of new election
Casey would come to the Senate; and you can
see, if there is, "a seems to me, a move for the
third Sterm, the President would like to have
him there. Then you know the family in
tiuence." Nov it remains to be seen whether
in view of the reelection of Pinchback in
this new false Legislature, set up as the other
one was by the Federal soldiers, the President
will still insist upon new election, for the
purpose of getting his brOther-in law into the
United States Senate.
III Will not no 10 throw az the DuIuen Oh
this foul wrong upon Congress. Grant him.
self was the beginner of it, and the crime OF
Congress has been q cOwardly submission to
his wishes. Will it allow him TO play with
laws, legislatures, and common morality fOreverl
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