The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-02
MEETING IN THE SECOND
WARD.
Compromise Repudiated.

The meeting was called to take place at th
: wigwam on st. Charles street, corner of Cal
Hope, but in consequence of the impossibilit
{ OF fitting up in time, the Iron Building wa
adjourned to.
President Houston called the meeting t.
order. and called Dr. Chopin to the chair
! stating that IS he was President Of the Sec
ond Ward Conservative Club it would perhap
be more in keeping with the character of thu
meeting and OF the citizens Of the ward t.
have some other presiding officer.
DR.. Chopin, however insisted On Judge
Houston keeping the chair and on motion O
lIr. Archibald Mitchell Judge Houston was
elected President of the meeting.
Resolutions were declared in order and Mr..
Frank McGloin submitted the following:
Whereas, there has been adopted by bare
majority Of the Conservative Caucus a certain
proposition Of compromise with the so-called
| kellogg government which proposition is
commonly known as the Wheeler compromise,
and
Whereas, we are informed that some of our
Representatives have, at the meetings of said
| Caucus, advocated the adoption OF said com
promise and voted in favor thereof: and.
| Whereas, il is the sense of the members of
this club, representing the Conservative
voters of the Second Ward Of the parish of
orleans, that SAID Caucus was without author
lty TO adopt any compromise on behalf Of
their constituents, they having been elected
Tor no such purpose; and that the compro-
mise proposed, or any other similar to it,
waving or guaranteeing the rights Of the
people OF this State. is detrimental and dis
honoring; and.
Whereas, William P. Kellogg and bis
usurplng government is a fraud and an iinpo-
sltlon, having no shadow of right or iustitica-
ton, we deem it our duty to protest against |
Its recognition and to declare ourselves op-
posed TO any voluntary acquiescence therein |
recognizing as we do a marked distinction
between that obedience which is forced at the
point OF the Federal bayonet, and such as we
wouii voluntarily accord as the result of COM
promise or contract ; wherefore, be it
Heo0lred, That our Representatives in the
CONSERVATIVE Caucus are hereby instructed
and required to oppose in every manner the
going into effect Of said compromise or any
other OF IA similar character, and in behalf of
lhelr constituents to refuse to sign the same
l nat such OF our representatives as voted in
ayor OF sad compromise are hereby in
'tructed to move a reconsideration of the vote
thereon.
That they are instructed to urge said
notion, and see, if upon bald techn!calities
he voice OF the people in this ward is to be
titled and ignored, by Directing to their
ight to reconsider u pom pariia me tary usage
Lat IL case such objection is made and l
Qstaih1 they are required to appeal to the Y
louise from the decision of the Chair
mat IN case Of an unfayorabe decision by I
ne Chalr and House, they are required to 4
rye and move for repeal of said compro-
Use or withdrawal Of the consent thereto, /
az that N 10 event are they to sign as our $
representatives, any document intended to set L
nth ol give effect to the same. Z
~. VIVA. j. Hamm md, Representative of "
le ward, said thai if 1t would not be consil Ct
I'd cut Of order h- would like to make q
question. think, he slid. that while .,
'lng our duty we should be careful no. to
cate discussion, aud if we carry out the in
motions in IL. resolution we would beIikelv b
10 Sc. o.
President Houston desired 20 know if Mr. b,
made that as otion, at the same II
ne assuring the gentleman that he, equally ef
to any other citizen of the ward, was at lib =.
y to participate in the deliberations of the
eeting. in
Mr.. Hammond declined TO put his sugges-
Il in the form of motion.
i1r. G. L. Hall, Representative OF the
,ond Ward, then took the floor and said
Vas impossible to carry out the provisions 90
the resolution. 1t was Impossible 10 undo I'm
ne things that had been done and impossible Pc
recall some signatures that had been given. bu
Jn{t
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possible to perform. He thought it would on,
proper tor the meeting to give an express AM
/ OF opinion as to compromise PIC
lis course could no. be condemned. as he ]
never received any instructions from the A.
,,Ia of l;s ,r,,a Ixho, Eva
az fio''oua cha
7tlng he had clearly expressed his views on of
compromise question. He had never re- on
ca instructions from even one hundred VIC
he three thousand citizens who voted for ' ,ei
" he hau acted as he DeleVed 1t his duty acc
O, and having once placed himself on plet
I'd he was hard man to turn back. cen
g then gave a detailed statement of NV
proceedings Of the Caucus on compro- bror
and the part he had taken in them. cou
ing his account, in referring to the neco LOT
ons Of Messrs. Z4charie and Burke. be r
that these two gentlemen went to Wash 2 O
on on their own account and were totally rasc
lthorized by the caucus at
. then told what he considered would be sire,
ted by lie compromise, which, boiled till u
Il, amounted to a majority in the House, the
ten men in the Senate. max
r. Frank McGloin asked Mr. Hall if he kro.
'rstood him to say that signatures had fed
gwen. the 5
r. Hall-Thought he had expressed him and
plainly enough. He had said ;hat GER in ca
things had been written. certain sigma nam
siBAeI, ana certain matters sent on son.
couid not lie recalled, He did not wLer
thiV ne was at liberty to give a palmer the :
er and did not think that the gentleman g.
/ right 10 expect it. ~
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