The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-07
THE SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS.
A Monster Mass Meeting in Favor of Nichols.

A Monster Mass Meeting in Favor Of Nichols.
NEW ORLEANS, April @.
A macs meeting Of citizens was held to-
day. 1t is estimated that there were from
ten to fifteen thousand persons present. A
series of resolutions we're adopted, the pre-
amble to which declare devotion to the
United States constitution, unqualified &C.
ceptance of the amendments thereto, and an
earnest desire 10 obliterate the feeling of
sectional bitterness, and unite with the
whole United States in a common bond of
brotherhood. The resolutions are TO the eff
feet that the right of local self government
is the fundamental principle OF the republi-
can system. That for four years the pee
pie of Louisiana have lived under usurp-
ing government never elected by the people
of the state, but maintained by the military
power of the federal government; that the
, result of this usurpation has been
the destruction OF happiness sad pros
perity and the foundation of disorders,
whatever of enterprise remained being sole
ly due to the hope that the late election
would restore the government to the con-
troll of the people that the Nichols gov
eminent is the constitutional government
of Louisiana, elected by over eeven thous-
and majority, and is exercising the only
governmental functions that are exercised
in the state; that the pretended govern
ment of which Packard clsims to be the
head is mere simularium without body;
the substance of legislative conspiracy of
late uSurpers to perpetuatc their power in
defiance of the will Of the people as ex-
pressed at the ballot box 4 that
1t cannot command the moral
or physical support Of any
considerable portion OF the people and
that the attempt to establish and maintain
1t by United States forces would be an out
rage on the constitution and crime against
civilization; that the people of Louisiana
hail the sentiments of the presidents inau-
gural as omens of a return to constitutional
methods of government under the observ-
ance of which affairs of state would ar
range themselves speedily, and an inesti-
mable benefit be conferred on the people
that the commission sent by the president
be heartily welcomed and every facility
be extended them, but that any
compromise to the effect of which
could be to put in office men not
elected or to depose any duty elected to
office is earnestly opposed that United
States soldiers are ever welcome while per-
forming their lawful duties, but that the
existing government OF the state is fully
capableto maintain peace aud nothing is
asked of the president except the with
drawal of troops from the support Of the
pretended government that the people of
Louisiana, wearied with strife, demand
nothing but peace and obedience to const-
tuted authority and believe the Nichols
government will secure peace, happi-
ness and prosperity that a large per-
ton Of the colored people are at heart
as devoted to Nichols as the whole white
people of the state, and are only restrained
from manifesting 1t by the inflammation of
the worst element of their own people;
finally, that with deep sense of RESPONSE
bility, with full recognition of our obli-
cations as citizens Of the Union. in no
spirit of threatening or bragadocio, with
profound consciousness Of the federal gov
eminent of our inability to resist it, but
with conviction that no calamity can pos
sibly befall us 80 considerable as the ruin
and disgrace of longer subsection to usur-
patton, we invoke the consideration and
Judgment of the American people uIon
the resolutions which here solemnly declare
never to submit TO the pretended Packard
government, never to pay it dollar, never
to acknowledge its authority but 10 resist
it at every point aud in every way and re-
quire that every demand it makes upon The
obedience of citizens be enforced only by
the present PHYSICAL power to which we
are incapable of resistance. We appeal 10
the president to stand firm by the just and
constitutional policy of non-interference
and we call upon other states to stand by
him in enforcing the adoption of that pol
icy. During the progress of meeting G.
DelBondio well known eastern produce
merchant, suicided by jumping into the
river cause, financial troubles.