The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-10
oRICE-FTVE CENTS.
The Prostratioa Of Republican Goyernment
~ .u In louisiana.

The Prostitution of Republican Government
1 .asi "a In Louisiana.
! [From the n. Y. Herald, 9Th inst ,@
There was witnessed in the Louisiana State
House yesterday a spectacle which is the first
OF Its kind in this country, and which should
cause every true American to blush with
| shame and Indignation. A BODY of Federal
| troops entered legislative hall, took the
Speaker from his chair, and forced number
OF protesting members from their seats and
marched them ont with soldier ON each
side, prepared to drag them along il they re-
sisted. We congratulate the citizens of Lou
isiana and the people of the country that this
extraordinary and most revolving scene did
not provoke violence and bloodshed.
Forcible resistance would have been iusti-
fable in this case, if it be ever Unsuitable in
any case-fOr greater outrage on every pfin-
ciple OF ffee government was never perpe-
trated-were it not for the fact that the people
Of Louisiana have q surer resource for the re-
dress OF their grievances in the sense of JUS
tice Ut the whole country and in the public
resentment which will be kindled to the high
est pitch by these atrocities and unexampled
proceedings. t -.6 E,5
Every maxim Of free government was vio-
lated and trodden under foot by the Federal
interference yesterday With the organization
Of State Legislature. Our Declaration Of
Independence denounced the King Of
England for making the military superior
to the civil authority. and tor dissolvinc
representative houses for opposing his in
vasions on the rights OF the people.
President Grant has done these very things
By the use he made of the Federal army in
sponsibility must rest on Gen. Grant, for
without his orders none of his military sub
ordinates would have dared to interfere with
the organization Of State Legislature.
1t cannot be pleaded that this was done 70
preserve the peace. for the citizens Of New
Orleans were never more quiet and orderly
than ut the time this great outrage ON free
institutions was perpetrated. 1t is principle
which pervades our system Of government,
that every legislative body is the sole Judge
of the qualifications Of its own members and
OF their rights to seats---a principle 80 sacred
that courts of justice never interfere with il
or call it in question. But we are suddenly
brought to such pass that Federal troops
undertake to decide who are entitled to seats
in q State Legislature and to eject members
by force. The outrage is not extenuated BY
saying that the Federal troops acted In obedi-
ence to Governor Kellogg. as was pretended,
while these shameful scenes were enactiAg.
No Governor OF any State has the Least
shadow Of right to interfere with tho organi.
zation Of the Legislature. Every State Con-
like the Federal Constitution, ex-
plicitly makes each Legislative house the free,
sole and unlimited judge Of the right Of
claimants to sit as its members. Kellogg has
no more right to decide that certain persons
are not entitled to seats in the Louisiana Leg
islature and to put them out than the Presi-
dent has to pursue u similar course respect
ing members of Congress. Kellogg il guilty
Of new usurpatiOn when he assumes 70
make such decision, and President Grant
acts in the arbitrary and insolent spirit Of
Jasarism in encouraging such interference
t by the rude hand of military violence.
No rights are held so sacred in all free gov
Is those of their Legislatures. All
rec constitutions protect them from every
ind OF Executive interference. Their members
re privileged from arrest they can not be-
allied in question in any other place for words
poken in debate they can be expelled only
y . two-thirds vote Of the house to which
hey belong and the ultimate decision on their
light to seats is vested exclusively in that
ouse and can not be reviewed or reversed by
ny outside officer or body. All these consti-
utionaf principles, which have always been
eemed essential to free government, were
rampled under foot yesterday by Federal SOL
iers in obedience to the orders of President
srant.
His only right to interfere in the domestic
fairs of State is for the purpose of sup
ressing violence. There was no violent re-
istance yesterday, either to State authority
r Federal authority, nor any offer of resist
nee or imminent danger Of any. The Presi-
ent has no more right to unseot members Of
he Louisiana Legislature than he has to un-
eat members Of the New York Legislature.
he act Of Congress which confers all the an.
hority he possesses to employ Federal troops
q q State empowers him to use them only In
ase Of "an instruction in State against
he government thereof"
The peaceable organization Of the Louisi-
ma Legislature was not an instruction and
justified no such high-handed proceedings ~
hose which took place yesterday. The Presi-
ents authority is limited in every case to the
mere suppression Of violence and preserva-
ion Of order, and no stretch Of the statute
an make it extend to the organization of
legislature and judging Of the election and
of its members What Gen.
irant has caused to be done in New Orleans
iii prove finishing and irretrievable blew
. him and the Republican party, unless Con-
ress shall promptly repair this monstrous In
lstice which was perpetrated under the eyso
( one of its own committees.
Near to Colombo, in India, snake, seeing
parrot in cage, had made ito way to place
here it could make an attack upon the par
ot. child observing this, and not know
az the danger, grasped the snake by the tail.
lille the snake and the parrot attacked each
ther. Just then an elder sister, observing
ne little one in danger, snatched the child
way, and in SO doing pulled the snake out Of
he cage. At this moment dog came mp and
mong them all they dispatched the snake.
he dog, the snake and the parrot all died
.om the effects of the encounter, but neither
the girls received any injury.
Pure PoEr. Lord Lytton Owen Incredibly,
no Is in the British diplomatic service in
ortugal. writes to o London periodical:
All port wine hitherto exported for the Eng
sh market is largely mixed with brandy, and
composed as much Of elder-berries as Of
rspes. The way in which what in England
called port wine has hitherto been manu-