Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-01-23
[Signedl U. S. GRANT, Pres't.
PACKARD PREsUMEs UPON GRANTS
RECOGNITION.
NEW ORLEANS, January 15.-The fol-
lowing is just issued:
STATE OF LOUISIANA, |


STATE OF LOUISIANA, I
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Whereas there exists an organized and
armed combination and conspiracy OF
men, which is now offering unlawful
and violent resistance to the lawful au-
thority of the State government and
whereas an unlawful and revolutionary
body claiming to be the General Assem-
bly, is now holding sessions and assum-
ing to act as the Legislature in the city
OF New Orleans; and whereas certain
persons are, without authority and in
defiance Of law, assuming to act as the
Legislature in the city of New Orleans
and whereas certain persons are, with
out authority and in defiance of law, as
Stunning te act as the executive and jul
dicial officers in places to which they
have not been elected and commissioned
or legally appointed; and whereas GER
tain persons are, without authority and
in defiance of law, assuming to act as
judges of the Supreme Court; and
whereas during the past week aforesaid
combination and conspiracy have Gull
minated in the messing in the streets OF
the white leagues and large bodies or
ganlzed in companies and under COM
manders, which armed bodies have tax
en- possession Of the streets and thor
oughfares, have marched over the city,
and have taken unlawful and forcible
possession Of the Metropolitan police,
Of the State arsenal, of arms OF the
State, and of the court-rooms of the
municipal judges, Of the Office of the
recorder Of mortgages, and have also
taken possession of the rooms of the
Supreme Court and of the records and
archives Of the same, and have violently
prevented the judges thereof from ac-
cess to the same
Now, therefore, /, Stephen B. Pack
ard, Governor of Louisiana, and in the
name and by the authority Of the peo-
pie of Louisiana, command said body OF
Louisiana, command said body of per-
cons pretending to be a General Assem-
bly, to desist from further prosecution OF
their lawless and reasonable conspiracy
and to Immediately disperse; and com
mand the persons aforesaid claiming to
act as judges Of the Supreme Court, and
all persons supporting, aiding, or abet-
ting them thereby, and all persons I'M
lawfully assuming to act as executive
and judicial officers, and all persons
having possession OF the police stations
and assuming to act as policemen on the
oblCClS, Gil bOuitS Vi Uitii iiOl
acting under and by authority of the
lawful government as above recited, te
Immediately desist from aforesaid I'M
lawful act, and to dispense and retire to
their homes, under pains and penalties
Of the law aHd-i command all persons
having in their possession or their care
I and control any arms, munitions, OF
other property belonging TO the State
taken from lawful c;istodians thereof
to Immediately deliver up the same t.
| the proper authorities. l further exhor
and command all good citizens of tht
State to assist me in the restoring of or
der, preserving the peace, and enforcing
the laws.
Given uuder my hand and the grea
seal of the State the 18th day of Janua
~, A. d. 1877, and Of the independence
of the United States the 101st, at New
| Orleans.
STEPHEN 3. PACKARD.
By the Governor:
Emile Hoaore, Secretary of State.