Year: 1872

|
ing with Fire.


Our special dispatches from New Orleans
represent tho city as having been remarkably
| quiet yesterday. The radical leaders-Judge
Durell, United States Marshal Packard, Sena-
tor Kellogg and Secretary of State Bovee-
affected to be in fear Of personal violence, and
moved about guarded by soldiers besides hav-
ing garrison to protect their residences; but
SO far as we can judge from the reports the
precaution appears to have been un-
necessary. A meeting Of prominent citizens
was held on Saturday evening. and
a committee was appointed to proceed at once
to Washington for the purpose of renonstrat-
ing against the action of Kellogg, Casey,
Durell and others who claim to act by author
ity of the general government, but at the same
time prepared to pledge to the President the
fealty and support of the people of New Or
| leans in all just measures. The Warmoth party
declare that on no account will they be guilty
Of or countenance violence, although they
express their determination to exhaust every
lawful and constitutional power of resistance
to what they call the usurpations of the
federal government. Up to this time the
Courts have been relied upon in all the move
ments that have been made, and no indica-
tions of desire to appeal to force have as yet
| manifested themselves on the part of the
Warmoth men. Under these circumstances
| it would seem that the radical fears are
groundless, and the suspicion prevails that
they have been assumed for Q purpose
legislative caucus was held yesterday by the
1 Legislature, recognized as regular by the
Governor and State authorities, and its men,
the greater part of the night 1t is thought
they will organize OF an early hour
this morning, while the Kellogg Legislature,
convened under authority of the United States
| Court, will assemble at noon. The latter con-
template compelling the attendance of such
members elect as remain in the Warmoth body
by the power of strong force of sergeants-at-
arms backed, doubtless, by federal troops.
Meanwhile the local press continues to COM
ment on the situation in tone not calculated
to allay the excitement.


Do these New Orleans politicians know that
they are playing with fre-that atany moment
they may occasion conagration that can only
end in their own destruction2 The proceed
ings that have as yet taken place have, it is
true, been confined to the action Of the Courts
of law, but chance collision, rash act on
either side, might prove the commencement
\ of an outbreak the limits Of which
cannot be measured. We regret the light
and frivolous tone adopted by General Emory
in his conversation with our special corre-
spondent, reported in yesterdays HERALD
The confidence he expresses in the strength
of the United States troops and his unsol-
dierly chuckling over the exaggerated esti-
mate of the force at his command seem to
imply that he does not look upon collision
between the authorities Of the State and those
of the United States-a conflict between the
people and the federal soldiery-ina sufficiently
serious light. No event more deplorable,
more dang9rous Or more disgraceful could
occur. We hope to see it avoided; yet we
cannot conceal the fact that the peril is i'm
minent. Governor Warmoth is bold and
unscrnpulous and he will not hesi-
tate to resist violence if any should be
attempted against his authority. He can
call out the militia of the State
to sustain him, and probably would do so in
case his Legislature should be scattered at the
point of the federal bayonet. Indeed, there
seems greater probability of an outbreak in
New Orleans to-day than in Versailles, and
every good citizen and every brave soldier
would deplore the occurrence not only on ac-
count of its danger to the lives of the citizens.
but for the disgrace it would bring upon the
nation.


President Grant condemns the action of
both parties to this miserable faction fight
and it is said that he will not suffer the inter-
ference Of the federal troops unless it should
become actually necessary for the main
tenance of the law and the protection
Of the citizens. But the federal troops
are already playing conspicuous part in
the drama, and, so far as General Emory is
concerned, there does not appear to be any
disinclination to give them yet more unenvia-
BILE prominence on the scene It might be as
well for the President to send General Sher-
man to New Orleans, or at least to detail some
experienced and discreet officer to the tenn
porary command of the department until the
trouble is ended AS the Collector of Customs
at New Orleans is mixed up in the deplorable
scramble for Office it might also be well for
the President to make an immediate change
in that position, and thus remove at least one
of these political frebrands from the unfor-
tunate city.


The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraell
| at Glasgow.


| From our cable news it will be seen that
Mr.. Disraeli, the leader of Her Majesty's
opposition, is an honored guest in the city of
Glasgow. 1t is now some time since Mr..