Year: 1871

THE LOUISIANA TROUBLES.
| The Pittsburg Commercial takes a proper
| view of the recent tiascO at New Orleans.
| when it denOunces the conduct of some of
| the parties who figured SO ingloriously in
| the recent Customhouse convention there.
The United States Marshal for the district
of Louisiana writes letter to the New
York Tribune, relieving the President from
the charge of having authorized the use of
the New Orleans Customhouse for the Re-
publican State Convention, and from all
connection with ordering out troops for its
protection. The requisitiOn, he says, was
made on his own responsibility, and the
orders of the commander were simply to
protect the public property, and not to
interfere with delegates in any way.


Marshal Packard adds that there was
nothing to restrain any delegate or con-
testants from access to the courtroom, in
which the convention was held, but that
Governor WarmOth made the presence of
the United States troops pretext for carry
ing out his previously determined purpose of
bolting from the convention The necessity
of holding the convention in the United
States courtroom arose, he SAYS, from the
fact that for weeks before the meetings of
the clubs of the city had been broken up by
men who were aided and abetted by War
moths police authorities; and that, except
for the presence OF the soldiers, the police
force would have effected an entrance into
the convention hall, and created a disturb
ance.


This explanation, while it fully exonerates
the President of the United States, is de-
tense of the most lame and impotent kind
The convention had no business to be held
in the United States courtroom, and the
federal officers of New Orleans were guilty
of an act of indecency in selecting a gov
ernment building for the scene of their fae-
tious squabbles. If Governor Warmoth
and his clan were twice as bad as they are
alleged to be, it would not Justify the action
of the marshal and collector; and we tell
these Kilkenny cats, whether they consort
with Casey or with Dunn, that the people
are sick of their jealousies, maignities and
feuds, and that the Great Republican party
does not propose to allow their rancors and
quarrels to imperil its prospects or interfere
with its purposes of healing the hurts and
wounds of the country. 1t is gratifying to
know that the President had nothing to do
with the miserable matter, but it will be
still more satisfactory to learn that it has
met his unqualified and emphatic condem-
nation.


from the Cincinnati Commercially
AS BLACK AN OUTRAGE AS WAS EVER COM


MITTED.


If proof of the scandalous conduct of the
federal officers of New Orleans in connec-
ton with the late rending asunder of the
Republican party in that State, were want
ing, it is furnished in the card of s. b. Pack
ard, United States Marshal of the district
of Louisiana, telegraphed to the New York
Tribune and republished in another column
of this journal. Mr.. Packard admits enough
to damn dozen such fellows. He tells us
the United States troops were in the Gus
tomhouse to defend the public property.
We were not aware that there was any pub
Lie property of much value in the Custom
house, with the exception of the brother-in-
law of the President, and his brother.


But neither they nor any other articles of
public property were in the slightest dan
ger; and, 'ifs there had been danger, we
should think the two hundred special