The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
TIE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SUNDAY SEPTEMBER II,

men too excited to think of anything but th,
4 approaching conflict. closed at an early hour
From 10 o'clock the crowd around Clay Sta
ue increased rapidly In numbers, and within
"a hour there were some four or five thou
sand persons collected there The appear
ance OF half dozen we'll known gentlemen
on the gallery OF the Crescent Hal
opposite, with tables, glasses and papers
the paraphernalia of speakers, caused thu
crowd to surge over to that corner
where, bare-headed and with upturnet
faces, on which the hot sun Klared pitt
lessly down, they waited for the watchword
1t came, after o long list OF grievances reat
by Mr. Mari, in u formal demand for the i'm
mediate abdication OF william Pitt Kellogg
At these words, the crowd burst forth In the
Widest applause and cheers, In shouts that
bore evidence that the movement was success
FIJI; that the people accepted the demand foi
Kellogg abdication as the Issue Of the day
were determined on 1t; would Insist on 1t,
and would fight for It. The die was cast
The meeting had been called simply to de.
fend the right Of our people to bear arms
but when the people met together their on.
thusiasm grew 90 strong, their strength be-
came 80 apparent, that they lost sight Of their
original grievance, and demanded that the
tyranny that had 30 sorely afflicted them
should end at once. From that hour the KEEL
logg government was doomed.
| The history of that memorable day moved
rapidly after this. A committee was chosen
to bear this demand and challenge Of the
/ Al ,r,.t ipta -, IL All bali
hour they had returned and reported. Kel-
logg WAS gone; Kellogg was missing; Kel-
| logg was not to be seen; but from the Federal
stronghold, the Custom-House, he had mus
tered courage enough to refuse this demand
"What must be done now?" asked one of the
committee.
I'VE must flght!" "Give us armsH Gall
out the troops!" were the cries from thou
sand men.
DR.. Beard stepped forward, and In glowing
words called on them, In behalf OF liberty
and Louisiana, to defend their rights. They
must bring their arms, pitch their tents upon
the neutral ground. determined never to leave
there until the last vestige Of KeIlogg's rule
had been uprooted from our soil. II they
needed food, their wives and children would
gladly bring 1t.
"Go home, get your arms" said Dr. Beard.
"Come here again at half-past o'clock, and
you will find leaders to lead you to victory
1t seemed scarcely a second before armed
men began to appear In every direction. Old
armories and gun stores4ad been ransacked
to find something military. One man had an
ancient Roman broadsword, taken from some
theatres green-room; another bore as his
only weapon keg OF powder; old muskets,
disabled shotguns appeared, carried On the
shoulders of old and bending men.
Those having arms rapidly coalesced into
squads, and these squads were organized into
companies by officers who moved here and
there among the crowd, and then marched up
the street.
AT the same moment that the meeting broke
up the papers appeared on the streets con-
tanning the proclamation Of Lieut.. Gov. Penn,
Gov. McEnery being absent from the State de-
claring the McEnery government organized
and calling on the citizens and militia to arm
and drive Kellogg from power. This procla-
nation also appointed Gen. Fred N. Ogden
communicating OF the militia.
IL having become apparent that the object
Of Kellogg's military forces, then assembled
down town. was to disperse the mass meeting
and arrest the leaders Of the people under
the lately discovered crime Of State treason,
messengers were at once sent to the various
Offices Of the White League and other forces
III waiting, each at its own rendezvous, with
the information that the police was deter
mined to precpitate q fight, and that a con-
flct was, therefore, unavoidable.
Accordingly, at O'clock, Gen. Ogden put
his forces in movement from Felicity street
down Prytania and thence down Camp.
Shortly after portion Of Gen. Angels COM
mand, about twenty strong, under Capt. Nc
Gioin, occupied the City Hall, in order to be
In possession of this important position, and
the Central Police Station. Care was taken
at once to break up the telegraph communi-
cation between the various police stations
which centred there.
THE CITIZENS FORCES.
few minutes later the Crescent City White
League and auxiliary bodies, with two home
made cannons marched up Camp street to
Poydras, along which they prepared to form
their line of defense under Gen. Ogden as
ommander-in-chief, and Col. Behan second
in command. Protector White League Of
the Second District, Battery G, and Company
+, G. G. W. r., Capt. Peasants, formed on
Delta street. Thence the line extended up
Poydras In the following order:
Company A, Capt. w. e. Vaudry; Company
B. Capt G. IT, Lord; Company Q, Capt. S. Ii
Buck; Company G, Capt. D. NJ. Fitzpatrick:
Company X, Capt. Ed. Flood; Address Com.
pany, Aliens Company, Dupre's Company,
Company f, G. @. L., Capt. Mcintyre;
Phillips and Tennyson's Company; Romans
Company-w which formed the extreme of the
line on Poydras street. being stationed at
the corner OF ST. Charles and Poydras. An
CELLS Battalion, Capts. Bo1land, McGloin,
Richardson Blanchard, Lincoln and Hill,