The daily gazette., 1875-01-08
popular Indignation. Against the
. Military CsurpafiOn.

S'nS ~ thut lily, SlSneu Dy cltl-
zens irrespective Of party, TO give ex.
preston in regard to the Louisiana
outrage, is already out. indeed :"
says the Express, ''the first signature
Is the name of William Cullen Briant.
denouncing the outrage of Gen. Sheri-
dan In New Orleans, in suppressing at
the point of the bayonet the Louisi-
ana Legislature, convened on Mon;
day"
The Evening Post, Mr., VIM. Cullen
Bryant's paper, alluding to the fiimsy
excuse for the slight placed upor Gen.
Sherman by the administration in not
consulting him in the assignment of
Gen. Sheridan to the Gulf department
lthe excuse being that Sherman has
removed his headquarters to St. LOUIS
says:
"We believe that there are two
lines of telegraph that lead from
W ashington to st. Louis which arc
available for communication between
the White House and General Shcr-
mans headquarters, and the univcr-
sal opinion is that the President will
do well to use them, lie certainly
needs good advice"
In dispatch to the the New York
Tribune, dated New Orleans, Jan. g.,
the Hon. r. II. Mari, chairman Of the
committee of seventy, says: "No dis
turbance has occurred; our people are
determined to keep the peace. The
legally elected Legislature has been
dispersed by military force. The is
sue Is fully made. We expect soon
to hear public expressions from the
North against this unparalleled out
rage on constitutional liberty md the
right OF self-government.
MASS MEETING OF NoRTHEES AND
|, WESTERN MERCHANTS.
There was mass meeting OF North
ern and Western business men al the
st. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans,
on Tuesday night. The rotunda, par
lors and corridors were crowded. The
organization was constituted a4 fol
lows: President, G.. A. jain, of New
York; secretaries, l.. C.. Keever Of
Cincinnati and A B. Cruikshank of
New York; committee on resolutions,
New York, E. T. Martin; Boston, J.
@. Case; Rhode Island, Gen. Hazard !;
New Jersey. 8. White; Pennsylvania,
]. n. Phinpey; Ohio, Leopold Block !;
Maine, Amos Patton; New Hamp-
shire, Alfred A. Lewis; Vermont l..
Spaulding; Indiana, L, Swamstead; i;
Iowa, F. D. Kust; West Virginia. G..
W Bodley; Wisconsin, r. N. Oney.
Mr.. j. Nj. Pomeroy, of New Y York,
stated that he was soldier during the
war, and the last speech he made was
in favor of the second election of
General Grant He was impcllcd to
speak, because civil liberty in this
country was threatened only to foster
a horde of thieves and for establish
ing the supramecy of the African race,
thereby placing pyramid on its apex
and inverting nature. General Shcrl-
dams dispatches, he asserted, contain
ed not one word of truth, and il he
attempted to arrest him (the speakcr)
in New York he would be protected
John A. Thompson, Il colonel of IL
volunteer New York regiment during
the war, said, Among other things,
tell you that if an outrage like that
perpetratcd here yesterday occurred in
New York the streets would run
with blood. II is not that Louisiana
is attacked. This tide may go on un-
til it may one day sweep Massachus-
etts. ltell you, if this condition of
things continues, have lost my leg
for nothing, and instead of decora-
ting the graves of Union soldiers with
flowers, we should write the word
fool on each headboard." Speaking
of Sheridan's dispatch, Mr.. Thompson
added: "And yet he, us the old adage
says, tell a lie that, by repeating it, as
he did, might become true
Mr.. Cruikshank said he was Il mem
ber of the second Massachusetts regi-
ment and fought side by side with
Sheridan. II say that his dispatches
are simply false. ] have been through
! the streets of this city, and made it my
business to see whether the lives of
citizens, even though they were from
the North, were safe, and l found that
could trust my wife and family here
with as easy heart as any where
else.
General ]. G. Hazard, formerly of
the Union army, appeared and said
81 am pleased, gentlemen, that here
in Louisiana, to-day there is evinced
such o cool determination to keep the
peace as becomes brave men. The
citizens act as cool and vigilent men.
have asked in the North how long
such confusion would last there, and
invariably received but one answer,
and that was that twenty-four hours
would not elapse before change
would be effected.
Resolutions were then passed eX-
pressing the sentiments of the meet
ing, and especially contradicting the
falsehoods of Sheridan and his new
allies, the political thieves of New
Orleans.
| WHAT RESPECTABLE PEOPLE sAT-AD-
DRESS TO THE COUNTRY.
To the american People Whereas
General Sheridan, now in command
of the division of the Missouri, under
date of the 4th instant, has addressed
a communication to Mr.. Bclknap,
Secretary Of War, in which he repre-
-ast-