New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-03

hclently pro yOvW0 ~ -. %.;sk- "A
icnrumsnt az the House until Wednesday
issves IND ono day Of the regular session.
E;ther the Senate order stands or the Gov
ernor il virtually deposed by Democratic
trick. and We sincerely hope that all legal
authority will be resorted to to maintain
tho former situstlOn.
there is NO room tor doubt. It 10 such q
repetition Of the old White League lawless
nees % will rouse the indignation Of every
honest voter in the country. Northern
Democrats themselves have earnestly pro-
tested sgsinst it - ruinous to tho hope of
their party. The Confederate element could
not, however, be restrained. They have re-
turned to their old games. They invite
again, just ct time when Louisiana was
the old disorder, destruction and bloodshed.
Their course will be repudiated and their
policy trodden upon BY every honest man
In the land, North or South, East or West.
From the Louisville Commercial:
Though the Democratic majority of the
Louisiana House of Representatives, in
their resolutions for the impeachment Of
Governor Kellogg. put on an appearance Of
respecting the Wheeler compromises. the
whole purpose and tenor of their action il
to overthrow and evade 1t. The lmpeach-
ment resolutions were got before the House
by grave violation of parliamentary rules,
and the offenses they charge are such as
would never be thought sufficient ground
for impeachment by any legislative body,
animated BY q less revolutionary spirit.
The purpose to disregard the Wheeler COM
promise il lust - evident in this case - it
was in the movement in the House of Rep
resentatives Ut Washington which was 90
summarily expos ed and equelched in the
beginning of the session, though the Louisi.
ana disturbers of that settlemen have the
grace to pretend to respect it, while they
are trying to overthrow it.
Tho indications are that this attempt to
revive turmoil in the State does not meet
the approval of the people who are mainly
interested in its welfare. The merchants of
New Orleans. who appreciate the incalcula-
BILE damage which will be done to the trade
of the city by revival of the revolutionary
discord from which it suffered 90 much Q
year ago. have united in memorial pro-
testing against the impeachment scheme.
and kilograms sent out by the impeachers
to county parishes asking for "red hot dis
patches indorsing their actiua have met,
in ono case at least, very chilling response.
The leading citizens of Webster parish re-
ply that public sentiment there 10 opposed
to impeachment. This disposition OF the
substantial people of Louisiana to hold in
G080k
they have heretofore to their cost allowed
to lead tbem where they would, IL one of tho
most hopeful Indications of good times for
Louisiana that has yet appeared. Louisiana
10 rich in all the elements of wealth and
prosperity, and only peace and order are
needed to bring them into proper relations
for productive activity. New Orleans, with
every advantage of situation and of COM
mercial facilities, only needs continuance
IN a. ahA
used to be. the seat of Q great busting and
growing trade. No possible good to any
body but few politicians can come of this
impeachment scheme. and if the substan-
tisi people of Louisiana should submit to
have their interests made football of BY
such lot they would show themselves tho
dullest at learning from experience of any
that they don't propose to lend any sup
port to revolutionary schemes.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Iuter Ocean writes:
Congressman Wheeler, of New York, the
author of the celebrated Wheeler compr0-
mise, under which matters in Louisiana
were adjusted last winter, il Watching the
Developments in the Kellogg impeachment
plot with great deal of interest and anx-
iety. He ssys, a. lie indicated in the news
papers, that the better class of Democrats
do not indorse the scheme, but that it is
merely the mad folly of the mob. The
scheme itself is but an attempt to levy
moral blsckmail ON Kellogg, and compel
him to WELD to the leaders of the Demo
cratic majority OF the House. He has the
Senate to back him. however, and the
influence of the better class Of people.
1t is known that kilograms have been
sent from the capital to New Orleans
at the rate OF q dozen q day, pro-
testing against any such movement as has
been commenced. If carried on the movers
will receive no aid nor encouragement from
the respectable portion of the Democrats
in the Senate and House here, who re-
cogniEe the disad vantage of the movement,
and do not hesitate to acknowledge that it
is violation of the spirit, if not of the let
ter, of the Wheeler compromise. Mr..
Wheeler says he believes in special provi-
dences, and he sees in this. as in many other
things, that the Democrats have done the
wise ordering of Providence that has de-
creed the triumph of the republican party.
The Democrats, he thinks are selling every
cudgel they can find to beat out their own
brains, and in the short interim they have
been illustrating that they are not only
unfit to govern the country, but are unable
to govern themselves.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin:
The Democrats in Louisiana are making
an attempt to secure the impeachment OF
Governor Kellogg, in direct violation of the
Wheeler compromise which gave them gu
premacy in the Legislature. This move.
ment has excited the opposition of influen-
| tial men of the mercantile class, who know
| that any fresh agitation begun by the rebel
politicians for their own aggrandizement,
will strike deadly blow at the trade inter
| ests which are beginning to revive under
tho inAuonona nf aunh mama 1.Ouiain an q
| has not possessed since the war. We trust
| that the decent men OF the State will insist
| upon having their way in this matter. Kel
| logg has done nothing worthy of impeach
nent since the compromise was effected, and
to turn him out by fraud and force, would
be to bring back again the anarchy which
has nearly ruined every important interest
| in the State.
From the Buffalo Express:
The Democrats of Louisiana are at their
old tricks again, and are apparently deter
mined to break up the comparative quiet
that has reigned there since the adoption OF
the Wheeler compromise last year. The
present move tor the impeachment of Gov
ernor Kellogg seems to be one based on
pure malignity. No ono outside of Louis
lana, at least, believes that Governor KEEL
legg has done anything since April of last
year for which he should be impeached, and
the committee appointed merely to examine
have reported without making an examina-
ton, and have grossly violated the rules Of
the House in presenting their report. In
deed, if there is any kind of reasoning that
meets this case as presented this morning,
except reasoning at the point of the bayo.
net, We should like to have it pointed ont.
The protest of business men. who know the
ruin that anarchy will bring, are likely to
have no influence with these political by.
enas, who are maddened with the taste of
power. 1t is to be hoped. however, that for
the present the Republican Senate may