The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1875—TRIPLE SHERT. the qualifications of its members, of which the them and to say, ‘-O Father of thy Country, © soul: | body itself is the sole and sovereign judge. Alaw of all That was Wise and good and perriotic, save | may be Violated, w particular wrong may succeed, US, save Us TOM A Weak adiairation jor military but a principle that subverts the system is giory! Save us irom the passions that ceriainly the end Of that Jorg o! goverument. destroy, Irom the canker of indifference This is the — source om which =Grant that eats Way; from the negligence that claims to derive bis powers; and tue executive undermines ths foundations of Liberty!” Ir @utbority claimed by him {8 pot ouly oppressive one who does not hoid to the intercession of a cruel but mean aud medulesom SEs tvosaint, ed who believes that prayer snould UP AND FI DOWN A SVATS GOVERNMENT never bo addresand to any but the Supreme Be- TO SUIT IS WILL AND CAPRICE. aud thea, In- | 1g, Could baeXcused for snon a reiigieus inCoD- Stead o| caving ib ty take cure of itself, bo ase sivteacy, if Wigar be whoeu he looks upou the Sumes lo regniate, through dis azeats. odicers aud tuage Of Wa8alugtou lu these dexencrate aays. soldiers, all its internal avairs, irom organizing iis NO MIGHT TO INTERFERE, Lextslature down to tue police regulations of a mau- My friends, 1do uot fee! myseil able to give much wicipality. | advice in this emergency, 1 ove rhing, Lowever, SOUTHERN OUTRAGES. I pave @ clear conviction; and tbereiore, lam No doubt it will be claimed that there was ane- glad that this meeting docs Lot propose to call Cessity Jor Lhe action taken by the President in this Upun Congress to interiere by ori to reguiate the Case, growiug out o! the disturbed and revolution. Gomesuc aMairs of Louisiana, | do 1ot hoid that ary condition of aflairs in tue Sonth; and bere Congress has any legicimate power to provide tor comes up again the question of Soutvern outrages, the creation of @ State government, assuming Tthought tis quesion was dispos Of last iall, that there is Mone im lawiul existence. bey May And would never be revived again. ‘The Independ- | Dave, but J do not see tt. 1 consider (hat the 2Ut press took hoid of it and disabused We public clause in the tederal cunstitution whien vinds the Mind of the Impres-lons that iad beea made by United States to guarantee to every State a repud- false Siatemeuts aud reports. They cannos be re- lican form of gove: nment, means this and nothing Yatoped aud find currency at the North, Peopie more; that when the existing government ola Siate leei that we bave already bad enough and tog oF the State itself needs the aid o1 the Untied much of this; they will not brook turther agita- States to prevert the esiabiishment of @ monurcay ton on the subject, It Was not strange tat atthe Of any other iorm of government that ts uot re- close 0: the war che North should have cherished publican, according to an American idea of a re- Strong feelings Of hostility toward the South, Pase pudlican system, such ald siwil be given, But Hous apd prejudices ran high, and to gratily re- Whe # State has the iisiortune to get ito suca sentments many tuings Were done that were 4 condition that itis without any lawil govern- ’yainst tue interests of Our own people. And this Meut tt beioags exciusiveiy, in my judgment, to Was natural, But | oelleve that Low conservative the people of that state, in their sovercigu and meu Of ali parties agree tat (his persistent policy primary capacity, to take ail the initiatory and a'l o4 bate is not ony neediess aud cruel, but it is the flual steps for the establisnment of a govern- soo expens.ve; it costs too much; and seli-inter- Ment; and if thts is done, and the government 1s est, Ii No higher motive, should dictute @ cuange One of a representative character, aad resung on in" the policy that dimimishes the pro- the will Ol the people, it wiil necessarily be repud- ductive industry and impairs the resources ican in torm, lor this is the very essence ot repuo- ol the South, Ve must dispense with the lican government, as we hold it. Congress can luxury of revenge. Depression and im- Deither enavie, assist, bor guide the people of poverishment are ‘co widespread vo waste the State im tue creation o: a State gov- one drop o: our resources, it was badenougn to ernment. But on this point there are differ- deplete and impoverish ourselves so long by ob- ences of Opinion, ‘This meeting coniines itself, If structiog tie richest aud broadest channels oi bus- 1 understand tue resolutivns correct.y, toa rebuke iness and interchauge. Wx SHOULD NoW STRikg 01 What has been dove, and Goes not propose to DOWN THE HAND THAT WOULD REKINDLE TRE BITTER. SBY Waat ougut now tu be done, That revuke is NESS AND THE PASSIONS THAT ARE DYING OUT, AND NOW CO ve given as the unwuimous voice of this THAT SEKKS RROW THE STREAMS OF great city, Let it go forth soveriy, but friniy and OUR PROSPE: STRETCHED OUT TO GutDLE WIth emphatic earuestuess. Let it be spoken in THE FOREST TREKS THAT SHADE ITS FOUNTAIN, So tODeS that Will cause It to be felt by those whom THAT NEVER MORE SHALL ITS BXAL " 1GiS meant to reach. Jf we do nol arrest these EXG CURRENTS FLOW OUT TO SNRICH THE LAND, usurpations here and novo the next cocurrenos of truth is, this country is one iu its growth and in- “ibs kind will produce an earthquake Mat will terests; it is a body Knit t eT, Joint to jomt shake the federal governmem from turret to foun- &nd limo ‘olimb. You caunot maungie or disjoint Gution, or ue shai loss every remnant af liberty part of it witnout marrmg the proportions and = Mal remains to us and sink beneath the tron heeb reugth O: ihe waoie. We may plenge & military despotism, , but the blood that runs out weak- SPEECH OF MR. WILLIAM E. DODGE. ens the whoe irame, ‘he South bas been Mr. PRESIDENT and FRLLOW C1TizENs—I am here Borely smite until it 1s Wasted almost to skin to-might Mot vs the representative ol any party, @ud boue, and can scarcely drag itseli along; and put as one of the oldest merchants 01 the city, to Mow tue North, with its proua wud stately siep, express What I honvstly think 13 the 1eemg o1 the Wales und stands aghast us st begins to resize business meu ot tie couutry. Ido pot come to that it8 vital energies have been oozing rom Lhe denounce tie generul policy 01 the adfhimistration, Wounds its own funds have inficted. Aud this por the party with Whica lor pany years | iave DOdy of tie American people wil never Stand Up- been ideatidied, vut to [rankly object to the furtuer right, stre 4th wil ever return to tis umbs, the interierence vy the general government wito the low oO; Dealt) fo 1s Wen chees. until its augry legisiation of the pouthero States, or 1m aby way row is cooled im a purey and nodler atmospuere ty attempt Lo Mfvence the votes Of thore States, then that of atic on and revenge. Lif US or decide gs to the results of their elections, ‘len fre eld 2 . 10 tHE WORK OF RE- years have NOW passed Siuce the close of the war, and there is @ very general feeling that the ume St has come when we suould all adopt the language k (ROY OUR — of the President and say, “Let us have peace.” It REACH Our THE UIBEX was vot reasonable to expect that suc a radical LAND SURE EMBRAUE OP change im the social s)siem oO the Soutu, by b UNIC N iS PLOPLE FROM which 4,000,000 01 slaves were emancipated O LONG BEEN SEPARATED, and then entrauchised, could have taken eaten Se OPNGE SICEAUS, SER Fei local governments I submie tune there aes é . r Y ents. a aay 1¢ MR MaYOR AND {ec:.LoW CITIZENS:—On Satur- | hus been less than migal, under tne circumstances, day evening ireceivea unexpectedly the tpvita- have veen expected, anu tuat tue slaves, as at tion of your cowmitiee to add) ,, general thing, have disappoiuted the peopie North aaa ae en ee this meeting. 2nq° sauth by their quies and peaceiu: behavior. en BO BArt in the preliminary Grrange- yiiny predicted that they Would Dot work und that Ments, aud had not even ied the call ior the the cotton ficios would he waste, and tuis no meeting. Had I believ sf ca . longer be the principal country tor producing that on cp tale ” ne myse.f capable of utters Die; but lucia bave decided the question. ‘The Za word on this occasiod with @ partisan pur- jast two years have been fully up lo the average pose I should have dechmed tne invitation ana , = 9, held my peace. But Unis meeting bas no party ae ete POW BSNS 1S OaPirAL ‘pap TO DEVELOP HEK RESOURC H character, Parties are organized tocarryonand CANNOL OBTAIN ’TILL 4. Give effect to differences ot opinion cyncerning the ae yf Pao ‘3 ae BE RESTORED, admunietrat = oti AND THIS W: ‘EVER BE DONE BY FEDERAL Lipa ri ie of (Oe ral This mecting 18 AYONETS. ‘Tuey must be let to work out ths called to consi: how the Repudlie can be saved, problem among tnemselves, The treedwmen must Itis called to protest, with al the force that can fae ri for themselves, ‘ ey view ae ail ie i oka? .. their interests, to which party they will Pe cinan to pudtte opinion, agains: an act af usur- heiong, Ig would Dever do for them to suppose ation that s:riies the civil liverties of the cour- | that they are ulways to be in opposition to the try at thetr very heart. 1 had thought, Jellow ctti- wees Sepals, only sarees, one = th € overn| rotect them. ‘Tne. Zens, during the war, and for some time alterward, ribs to ety ples that in many sheeae ther that 1 had drained to tne dregs the bitter interests are mutual, and it will be Jar better ior cup of public calamity; that I bad suffered all Ces ut they La] = Leo “eo Ber the Pe oid : arties, so ure the influence and protec- that a lover of free instituuons can suffer from tion of that to which they belong, ratuer than their violation. Wuen I saw the writ of habeas keep up a constant political war of races. terpus of the Coler Justice of the United States ee Pere Ok ane ee ii 2 Sl enn 3 je a ‘onstitution, prevented by military power iromreacaing anim- ang now if, alter wil tne cost of blood and treas- brisoued citizen; when men were seized aud cast ure, we are lo sail in this, and remain 2s we are, into dangzons on the telegrams of a Secretary of with, our oe br tk eens Roaeneraaket = a wi ¢ ushe jon, pro! coustandy War or @ Secretary of State; when men, notin Geciining, business conauered under great disad- she army or the navy, were tried for tneir hives vantage noe her arene eae to maiotain fore military commissions, laces w their credii—to this extent our effurt has jailed. pac vegans’ Gavia peta ee ir How can we at the North expect to prosper a e in lorce and undisputed when sucu a large part of the Union is suifering? exercise of their functions; and when, at last, We are to.d in sacred Scripture that “li one mei @iter peace was restored and there wasa general er SUMer ail the members suffer witn It."? Noth- be truer in this case. submission to ail the just autuority of tne goverc- jee, Shut “tas general governinent tae madeus Ment, Isaw the South’rn States dealt witn as if mistake ag | ba are the peace and quiet f ant: " 01 the South by appointing many Northern men to they were foreign conn! Flea conquered in war and Dies "trust tae the ‘South, who haves im ther annexed by right of conquest tu tue United States, turn, been active in securing the Yures of the freed- ( thought that I had endured all tnat a citizen can ben bo al ae bg oo sn a oo gwery ba ft " t dist : governm ‘as their Special iriend, rather than endure of mortification, of distress, of Gespair for Those with whom their lot was cast, umong whom the safety of our free institutions. Yet 1 tried, they niust live and lor whom they must work, We Rone.tiy tried to find am excuse jor these aVe tried tis loug enough. Now let the South suing f saw that multituaes of alone. Let them work out tueir own probleni, un- my ¢ untrymen, whose patriotism 1 could not ders‘anding that only in case oO! oppressivn or in- foubt, hela tuese things to be im some degree ex- surrection Which the State canuot coutroi wiil the cusuble, and were willing to velteve that they general governmeat interiere, As merch nts, we boded uo permanent tujury to the pubic liverties, Want to see the South gaio ler normal posiuon in Ico uot say thut | acquiesced im their judgment, the commerce of tue country; nor we ope for bur 1 Gid try to appreci their reasoning. And a geueral revival of business while things remain now what las happened? Hereigan actdone in 8 they now are. Again 1 say, “Let us nave a time of peace, profound peace, that is so dan- peace.” gerous (0 ali chi sreedoin, 80 dota and reckless a Governor SaLomon then said :— riolation of law, so completely an act without ex- FeLLOW CiTIiZENS—Il tne American people at cuse, that men who have condoned everything this particular time, aiter hearing tne news tuat are compeuied to speak out, Aud now ict me bas come to us, sould uot rise ‘tM the majesty Decupy a Jew moments oi your time ina plain ef Dd provest aguinat the acts of military usurpa- fort cu define cuis uct. In every country onearun on in Louistana. then I suall believe ‘tiat the wuere free pariamentary goverument exisis it love oi liberty nas passed away. Bui, my jellow isa iundamental principe 01 law hat every site Citizens, there does not appear to be any lear of ting member of a legisintive body is this act being passed unnoticed, at least in this auntie! to hold his seat and exercise City, ‘as 1 see by this monsier meeting that bis inunetions es @ member until the ‘he people have risen en mosse, indignant at tne body itself ha elected, or 18 otherwise disqualified. ‘Ibis princi- these inserlere wita the legislative organizations, ble 1s net peculiar to us, although 11 is universally Dispersing @ legisiative body vy military author. helo to ve part of our law. in Engiand and im ail ity 18 no new ting In’ the world; but tt happens her colouies—in tue whole of that maguificeat Em- {t 18 in this country. You will remember pire, extending into three-quarters of the givoe, %2 ‘48 there was one of those uniortu- where ile flag and the specch o! England have Bate revolutions in France, when Louis tariied Ruglisn liberty—t..is principle prevails, if Puuippe had to fy and a_ republic you Wil reiiect upoa it for a moment you wii see Was extablisned. In Germany aiso there arose & that without it there never could be any legai Cowmotion, uot so violent, pernaps, as that in brvanization O1 @ legisiauve body. The wery ex- France, as the Anglo-Saxon race are more apt to istenve and continuity o| a legisiarive body as a Subuut rather (han appeal vw urms. They coe-ordina‘e and independent vraucn of govern- Wished to have reai uuity im Germany, ment depend upon tits pilmelpie—tna: tio-e woo 42d, in adaition, they : also desired to are prima jacie members are, and coutinue mem- CStabiish in the several States constitutional bers unt the body itseli declares otnerwise, OVernment instead of monarctical sule. From this it follows, by irresistivie necessity, Several revolutions took place among them, the thai no external authority, no cursive power, be TeVolution of March, 1848, 10 Berlin Wulch resulted it civil or military, can in aay Way act upon the {0 the King prowising that he would give his rigat of any Member to cootinue in iis place ag ech opr tag allowing them to legislate ¢@ to exercise his imuctions; aud it ts, y the legisiative todies elected by themseives. bhereiore, as piain a proposition as any tratu There was such body cailed together In mathematics that by whomsoever ordered, by the people ana they debated or by W.omsoever done, the iorcibie expulsion UPON Lhe constitution Guring the entire summer, DF Asibgle memover, by auy theory bat tne order of But presently there came a chaoge in the action the body itseii, destroys the lewal existence uf Of the King, and he arrived at the conclusion tuat that vouy because it destroys its authority. In be would dissvive this iegisiative boay that had the present case the circumstance that ive mem- been caued together by bim, He spread a cordon bers were jorcibly expeiled by soldiers ot the Uniied «=O! troops ground the city, and on the yth of Sates is an aggravation of great atrocity; out November be tssued an order proroguing the what I wish you to Ox your atiention upon ts tung of the legislative body unill he this—that the jorcible expulsion oi those five should agatn call them together at Pitsdam. The members by the military power o1 the Unitea Legtslasive Assembly declined to disperse, aud States, po miatier Who moved, or caused to move, Cousequentiy the King marched his troops into the expelling luree, has destroyed the legalexist: the city and coucentratea them in a square near ence of the Legisiative Assembly Of Louisiant the legisiative puliding, Which was surrounded by Those who remain, no water bow many they are, 9 CoTdon of citizens two deep. The troops were oy What they call th mseives, are nu longer, in halted all the night op their arms, not touching law, the Legisiative Assembly of the State, ‘The 2 Single man, but waiting uusll the Subsequent withdrawal of tue so-called conserv- romyeny! dispersed. The miitary then entered ative or democratic members does not atect the tbe building and closed it up so that the memoors matter ove way or tie other. From the woment Were refused admission on the next morning. when (bese five members were expelled by the “Lbat act, togetuer with many other acts, were the troops gi ibe United States tne Legisiatiye As- Commencemeat of tue revolution of 1343 semoly of Louisiana ceased to exist. Some other ($0 Prussia, It was those deeds tuat power bad usurped tue function of deciding who rove many @ young man to this coun- are memvers. try tu seex the liberty they could uot Fellow citizens, many years ago 1 set myseir Mid athome. One of those men, Wuose voice bas to study the political institatious of our native been heard in the legisiative hails vt the United land; to learn aud voset lorth now and way it States speaking against this action in Louisiaua, Was, Liat out of the throes of revolution aud the | 18 Senator Carl Schurz. at i kings ciaia the sufferings aod turmoli of war, there arose tuat Tight to such action, tue constitution oi the United complex and beautiiul system vl civilliverty whicn States gives uo such authority to its executive bas cowe down tous. 1 found that above and | officers, beyoud ali other infuences o. u personal nature Mayor Wickham then arose and stated that it Was due to this—tiat the great leader o: our there were several other speukels present, but as armies, je WhO had conducted us to victory anu 1t Was getting eo iate he moved that the meeting enabied us to accomplish arevolution, Wasa man ‘stand adjourned. The tumense crowds that ‘Who vad # proioaud reverence jor tue civil powers ‘hronged ihe bal them slowly passed out by (ne @nda xed determiaation never to differeut exits and returned to thei; howes, satis- Muitary power to obtain an ascendency, | fied with waving been present at THERE WAS MANY AND MANY A TIME IN THs DARK- Meetiag ever Leid in tue Cooper lastitute. fr yasions OF OUR REVOLUJIONARY WAR WHEN * ——— ASHINUTON WOULD MAVK BEEN TEMPORARILY JUSTIFIBD BY WALP OF THR CIVILIZED WORLD, | yy HE OUTSIDE DEMONSTRATION, NAY. BY A MAJORITY OF MANKIND, IP 1B HAD Dis- undreds of people, woo wore unable to obtain PERSED CONGRESS AND STATH LEGISLATURES aT admieson to the hall, congregated about the THE POINT OF THE BAYONET, AND HAD TAKEN - UYON MiMSELY THE SUPREME DIRROTION OF AF VALS. jp Veostaas bee vate SiFeet, and organized NEVER FOR ONE MOMENT DID He YIBLD TO 80CH A oto an informal meeting. Several STHIKB LOWN W AND BULDEST WBERiIES, We IN f£O GATHER 1d BROLHERHOOD WHOM WE HAVE TEMPTATION. YuU KNOW, OX OUGHT TO KNOW, ThE parties, Whose names could not be ovtained, mado | RESULY. YOU KNOW, aND OVGH' NEVER TO ruRGET, speeches aud were ioudly cheered, @HAT IT WAS BECAUSE HE WAS FAITHFUL AND ihe shame/ui negligence o1 the police was com- PATRIOTIC AND UNSE: mented On by every one. In several spots through. EVER EXCELLED bY ont the hal uuray crowds iad located themsaeivea, ‘WOULD NOT PERMIT RY POWER, ON bd during the curly part of ‘ie meeting prevenied ANY PRETEXT, TO INfLict THE sLiguTReT the speakers (rom veing heard. it was notorious, WouND UPON’ THE SACRED BRODY oF CryiL | Sithough the aisturoauce Was protracted, that LIBERTY, THAT YOU Possess THE INSrrTUT:ONS the police were Lever uear Inese places. ‘The non- uN WICH YOU Live. It was in the days or partistn crowd fually #ucceeded in quieting tue my early manhood that I began to jeara these jowling rufians who sougut to disturd the quiet of ‘things, and irom that day to tus, woerever Ihave the house, beeu, have kept (auging upon my walis in the Dest lorm { could obtuin the Image «1 that serene aud majestic Countenauce that so speaks to the American heart in # never-ceasing auimonition to be Wateniui over the trusts o/ our civil ireeaom. to you, my countrymeu, tuet, Aor CALIFORNIA SPEAKS. The following despatch {rom the Democratic State Centra! Committee of Caliornia ved 100 late to be read at the meeting:—‘rhe | people and press of California, irrespective of party, With inegDiG0ant exceptions, denounce tie by night inte the legisiative hal’s of a sov- eveign State, They demand that Sheridan be dis- milssed the service and punisied, by mifitary rorce CONGRESS. Ilis request Louisiana #8 bunditti, im order that be might butcher them, together with Secretary Belknap’s | telegram to Sheridan of the 6iu inst.—"The rest | apd all of os bave juil confidence ia you, ana ; preve \our course’—bas grouscd ia te the deepest indignation. pulriotic protest azatust this attack On American wand carnestly hope your deliberations to-night | may resuit In rewoving Humiliation and disgrace Whicn the present ad- ministration has throw upon @ nation of forty millions of people.” GERRIT SMITH MEMORIAL. ciuzenship, | m some degree the THE REPUBLIC IN DANGER. Self-Government Destroyed in a Sover- eign Commonwealth. TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF GERRIT SMITH BY THE COLORED CITIZENS AND OLD ABOLITION- I8STS OF NEW YORK. There was a peculiar fitoess in the meeting held at the Sniloh Presbyterian church, on Sixta avenue, last evening, when the colored citizens and Old abolitionists of New York met to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of Gerrit Smith, Who for so many years, amid evil and good re- Lawlessness of a Little Brief Authority. clampion of the downtrodden and oppressed of that race to whien tte formec belonged and who did 80 much to give respectability to the cbarcter of the latter when the very name was a byword Above the rostrum, against the wall, the flag of the Unton was gracetully draped, surmounting @ portrait of him whom they had as- sembled to honor, observable, save the usual pictures representing Scriptural scenes which were hung about the Soon after eight o’clock the meeting was called to order by Dr. Henry H. Garnet, and the following oMcers were appointed:—President, Brother John Peters:n; Vice Presidents, t, Ss. W. Titus, Brother Jonn Cary, Samuel Jonnzon and others. Several secretattes were also appointed, Religions exerci+es followed, ied by the President, | The House Passes a Resolution Dr. Garnet then read the memortal, prefacing it | by a .ew remarks reiative to the object for which | they had met, It is addressed to Mrs. Smith and | 4s as 1ollows:— Constitutional Safeguards Violated by the Federal Executive. and a teproach, decorations were BEWARE OF C/ESARISM. What the Stretching of the Presi- dent’s Power May Lead To. of Inquiry. THE MEMORIAL. Drar Mapamr—We meekly bow to the dispensation of by which your beloved busband and venerated friend, the late Hon. Gerrit | ABERT, THE RECUSANT re the enutterable sorrow of our hearts, caused NGTON, Jan. 11, 1875, Mr. FERRY, (rep.) of Mich., presented a memorial of citizens of Detroit, asking the pa defining a gross of matches. from citizens of Chicago was presented by Mr. | Logan, (rep,) of Tl., botn of which were reierred to the Committee on Finance. THE COUSHATTA TROUBLES. Mr. CLAYTON, (rep.) Of Ark., said he supposed every Senator desired all the information whion could be obtained in regard to the Louisiana He, therefore, asked unanimous consent lo take up and pass the resolution heretoiore sub- mitted by him, requesting the Secretary of War, if not incompatible with tne public interest, to transmit to the Senate the ofMecial report and com- munications of Major Lewis slerrill, United Stat Army, In re‘erence to the Coushatta troubles. (dem.) of N. C., objected, Mr. CLAYTON then gave notice that he would move to take up and consider the resolution as soon as the morning business should be dis- wary the ite and | attracted the ad- | y epared friend hav wiration and praise of not only the friends o: humanky ond progress of his own counwry, bul f t nave also evoked ie and yenerous people ever his philanthropy hav mmense riches, he might have pur- ifea path far away irom a tami iarity ‘of the poor: b r and divy @ true and consisient 1 inith Was a mau of refined | jeman by birth, education and kind and condescending to ihe ather and his God. t the benedieuons of all bum A similar memorial and jofty mst. om the walks ie tore himselt away been most conzemal t agitated the country tor torty education, hé evinced a Jauduolder, he dis. possessions to the ‘hot and made 60) jeople irecholders. Depioring the evils temperance, le banisied intoxicating liquors of all and beeatne the A lawyer by pi otes- nade the ietter and @he spirit of our national Mr. MERRIMO: ly careiul study, and | deciared slavery existed against the laws of God and the Estceming the slaves ot the United Stutes to de nothing less than men and bi published an address to them avd exhorted then to trust mm God and patiently wait tor His deliverance, Personal iriend of tue martyred, John Brown, and gave him his tome at Mount iba, that overlooks the ‘the ashes of the old & base. consplra: Mr. Davis, (dem.) of W. Va., introduced a@ bill making an appropriation for the improvement ot | the Little Kanawha River, in tne State of West Virginta, Keferred to the Committee on Com- waters of Lake Champlain, where Mr. STEVENSON, (dem.) of Ky., irom the Judici- ary Committee, reported favorably on the Senate bill tor the rehef of the United States District Judge for Vermont. Piaced on the calendar, MAJOR MERRILL'S EXPLOITS, Mr. ULAYTON moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of nis resulution calling upon the Secretary of War (or the report of Major Lew.a Merrill, &c. Agreed to. Mr. Davis inquired if this was the same who was on daty Carolina, where he committed outrages upon inoffensive citizens and was alterward trans. Jerred to Louisiana where he handcuffed citizens, cut telegraph Wires and committed sundry other offences ior which he was Dow under arres". would like to have the resolution amended so 28 to have General Emory report Upon the conduct 01 this same oulcer, Mr. CLAYTON sald he bad kcOwn Major Merrill for years, and all he knew apout htm led tim to believe that he was an honorable man and a true soldier, a soluier Who dared to do his duty in the lace Of all tue abuse levelled at ever dared to co his duty in @ Southern State. Mr. CLayron then moved to amend the resolu. tion by striking out the concluding portion in ref- gpa tHe eiscnar ea coreaee Sdeoraes ie | parish of Caddo; J. Jeffries, R, L. Luckett and G, the fruits of our fields Md wil gud fraternal affection to hing with hunger. dd the whoie town of Smithtield, he who seconded every noble heart, allowe Sons (o Waitt 100, Farment, 1uel or shelter, af they would eur wants to him. his own expense wit! those who were in his own vil- jaye of Peverbory, thengit conce: but make known 2 ‘Yhe aeseription Warch the patriarea Job gives of hi imself is literally eur heard me it blessed me, because I de- Uvered the poor that cried and the 4 tb uone fo help him. shcame upon me, an u yy. yes was Ito the biind 31 ¢ lume. I was @ father to the poor use which I knew not I searched out. of tne wicked and plucked the spoilout of his m his youth he was the friend of the wronged, and, like the vounz Heréul his early attempis to strangle the serpent of ‘The remembrance of his superiative excellent qualitics of iaind and heart, together with Mundiug personal presence, bis deep-toned and sweet rless and him Major Merrill oppressed and he exhibiied his his princely aud com- nis cle unsurpassed eloquence and soldier who pletv and” the bt which he shed in histamly the pro.ound re- sse3 of Ine pouple— ere 18 lor usin our great With a becomani nd peacetar death to is memory and irreparable loss but utter ihe lamenc of the universal Christian Church— word hath taken away. Biessed sting, composed of many colored citizens and jonists of the ciiy of Mew York, Tespectiully convey to Mrs. fauuly and relatives our heartfelt and sin he wreat loss which they hi that we inoura with them and mingle our ) theirs. The meeting orders this memorial to ned by ics officers and transmitted to Mrs Smita GENERAL EMORY’S REPORTS AND LETTERS, MERRIMON submitted an amendment re- juesting the secretary of Wartolay beiore the ovate tne official letters, communications and States Army, entered the Legislative Hall in full reports o: General Emory, of ihe United states Arms, in reference to any disorders in any Way connected with the late elections tn Louisiana, Mr. CLAYTON opposed the amendment, and said if It Was Lhe intention Of the Senator irom North Carolina by his ingenious subteriuge to suppress the intormatio. called 10r by his (ar. Clayton’ resointion, he wanted the responsibility to re He was followed by with his friend’s (Mr. Merrimon) party. THREATS TO AS8ASSINATE GRANT, | Mr. West, (rep.) of La., said while Congress | was considering the events occurring iu Louisiana, | it aight ws well give some attention to events itsnould not forget that bere in the city 0! Washington, iu the Capital of yester- day, Was a direct proposition f ol the President, Mr. THURMAN, (dem.) 0! Ohlo—Which capital? be the nume of the Loru. $8 1. mith and her bereave e sustained, Wita the In méVing the adoption of the memorial Dr. Garnet paid aa cioquent tilbute to the noble qualities of the ceceased. an vid abolitionist, aud by Joha Cochrane, alter which Lue meeting adjourned, THE MARINE SOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING. One of the most pleasing reunions of the year Was that of the above society, which took piace Donn Piatt’s Capital oc this capital ? jt evening at Kolb’r, No. 120 Pearl street, the occasion being the 105th anniversary of its charter. At four o’clock P. M. iully fifty venerable genti men, who have been shipmasters and merchants in traversing the dangerous patis of the ocean, assemoled in an upper room tu elect their oficers, 86 is provided by a cbarter granted (hem by George While the present readers of the HERALD are not specially inierested in George Lil, who com- missions thee gentiemen “by the zrace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,” &c., they are interestea in the sur- vivors of the gentlemen who secured the orginal cuarter irom our last Dictator. 1be@ business weeting Was called to order by the Presidest, Captain Joho M, Ferrier, when urer Wiliam A, Ellis reporced tue financial conal- tion o1 the society as follows :— Keceipts tor the year. Exvenaitures. near at home. declared that .e was notduly action of the ‘ederal authorities, Such acis as | Mr WEST then sent to the Cierk’s desk ans had Tead an articie irow the Capital of yesierday, com- menting un the recent anonymous letters threat. enivg Assassination, and stuciug, Of course, that such a Course Would be deplorable. a dangerous ganie and gome\imes ends in the destruction of its instigators, He : read @ Commuuica ion, sigued “J. H, H.,” lished in the New York Tri conciuding as But iawiess yune ot Saturday last, | “some one will Brutua to this Grant's Cxsar without fajl, which, by Loe Way, Would be @ great olessing to try.’ Heonmmng his argument, Mr. West said there Was an atmosphere of Washington but in ihe met and asked if the Senator irom Onio (Mr, Lhuiman) would be sacetious over this. eHe (uur. West) kacw r would T-e in his seat and condemn Treas- assassination. He thougut it ba State that Major Merrill Was under ie knew the iuct. ‘AHUBMAN said he Was not in & dcramati 05 mood wis morniny, and tuereiore did not pro- : Te8 2 pose to take part in the comeuy which the senator irom Louisiana had geen fit to present on the stage As to iacetiousness, he thougut if the editor of the Capital was not next Sunday over the speech oi Senator jrom Louisiana (Mr. nation not only in polis of the country, e << arrest uni@s The report was received and ordered on file. Joseph Perkins, made lis report, snowing that curing the year Jour SbipMasters and jour houorary members had been ciected, tive members uad died aud one pen- sioner lad Veen added to the list, woe 24,955 hud Piatt woula pave lost that wit of which be had nad the reputation for the last toirty years. Tribune, he (Mr. Thurman) vever saw the article tiougu that paper did not need any fencefrom im; it was able to take care of itsel. . West) asked i any Sei ator here Getended assassination he put au imper- tinent and an in country lor assassi The venerable this Morning. been disbursed in pensions. placed on Mie. Appointed Captains linker, Prou, aod Weyman the election of omic: ‘be report was re- ‘The President then teuers to conduct ensuing yeur, Mr. George W. Bluat, Pilot Com. When the senator (M nv issioner, made a speech in the futerest of Cap. talon pow, President o1 Ue Pilot Commission, tor Second Vice President. He also reported that having been appoluted « Commissioner 0: Sailors’ Boaruing Houses, he ent question. ‘nis was not a There never was an @ sagaination in America which the whole American complied with the jaw, aud, in ni® Opinion, all 4 jot resulted in the election o1 the | following Ucket.or tie ensning year:— For President—Joln M. Ferrier. For First Vice President—Ambrose Snow, For Second Vice 1” exident—s, G. Tinwer. For Treasurer—M. A. Bis. For Secreiary—Josepn Perkin: For Aitorney—Wiiiam Allen Butier. This tickel is the -ame as last year, except that ‘Yinker succeeds a The Presideut reappointed the sranding c tee of last year, nud on being t u banked the socicty lor his re-election, x i na met tend elis me 1 am prett, you 1 shalt ae Salt Lake of the society.” 1 % Dubie ever found in an empiy head, (Great laugiter.) ‘the amendment submitted by Mr. strike out the words in reiereace to Cousuatta aud insert the words “reiating to certain disor- ders in Louisiana,” was agreed to. ‘The ameudment o1 Mr. Merrimon, calling for the oMicial report of General Ewory in cegard to dis- | STATE RIGHTS, ‘#10 any Way connected wath the late elec- | nD, was @isu agrecu to, and the resolutis Clayton, to Posse deceased member. ENTERPRISES. resented @ me- Passage oi tue bill providing jor ‘he construction of the Portiand, Dales and jlroad and Telegraph, and for tue government service iree of Laid on the table, the bill having already been reported to the Seuure, (rep.) Of Ind., introduced the Forty-firet Paratiei Railroad Com- any Of the United staves of America, irom Lake erie to the Missouri River, and to limit the rates Keierred to the Qommittee on RAILRO. Mr. KELLY, (dem. morlal in tavor ot ¢ provanility,” % another meetiog. near Jordau; but while J am wi ali in my power for ive tuteres' A banquet followed, in Wuicn all the veteran mem- bers who heid thelr society dinner of more im- portance than the Cooper Union meeting participa. periormance of all FATAL RAILROAD CASUALTY. On Sunday evening Ann McCormick, a woman filty years of age and born in Ireland, was killed on the corner of Thirtieth street and Tenth avenue by being ran over by steam dummy No. to the Hudson Rive ad lived at No, $07 W street, Coroner Woltman was netifed io the Of ircight thereon. Transportation Routes. Mr. SUKRMAN, (rep.) of Unio, said he introduced but be Was very tar irom come | the bill by request, mitting bimseif to its provisions, SENATOR SCHULZ ON LOUISIANA, Mr. SCHURZ, (\ib.) Of Mo., then called up the res- olution sabmittea by him ou Friday Inst instruct ing the Judiciary Commit: lation of Congress is necessary to secure to the peuple of Louisiana their rights of self-govern- ment under the coustitutton and report with the 109, belougin @ to inquire what legis- SUPPOSED INCENDIARY FIRE. A fire proke out yesieraay morning im an out- | least porstble delay by bill or ocherwise. house attached to the Hamilton Park Hotel, at Sixty-uinth street and Thira aveau je of about $iu0, T Bincendiary” ‘aa exaitibasion iaie y Atl ve old to-day, being crowded, Mr. STEVENSON, | therelori (dem.) of Ky., moved toat the privileges of the public the power o/ the nutiousl government to fivor, in rear of the seats, be granted to jagies whe | interiere in Btate atairs most scrupulously limited to certain well Gefined cases and the ubservance Oo: The gallerie Oould not gain admission to Mr, HAMLin, (rep) Of Me, Owesied ‘eourpetuon of Great and Gueriden im invading | the sects of tue case I beg the Sena to believe that I approach the subject before wy in mo partisan spirit. Absut to retire to privateptation, the success of ue party can benefit, the Jefeat ol uo party injure me, e@x- resolution Seat by him:, Trenchant Speceh of Senator Carl | copt tn those wWerests Ihave incommon with all Sehurz on Louisiana. | American citize(s, whose chilaren’s fortunes are | Dound up in thoes) of tis Repubuc. I bave forined | muy opiutous Witliceliberation and iy an impartia, manner, 1 siaacase to express them in caim and temperate labguage. The suoject 13 90 grave that passion or jejudice should have no share in our judgment. T contess that tle news from Louisiana has pro- foundiy alarmed me, A thing has happened, which not only mver happened before tn this Ite- public, but whichI trust scarcely one of us ever thought possibie, In the debates of last week it was frequently aiid that no expression of opinion for that occurrence was right until an oficial re- port should havelaid ali the facts in deta! before us, Ido not think so, All the important circum- stances of the cate have come to our knowledge through @ multitude of concurrent statements, among them the elaborate despatch of General Sheridan, apd thestatements of Wiltz and Kellogg, and all the points that have been mentioned as smiil to be cleared up seem to me of secondary con- jacts:— THE FACTS. On the 4th ol January the Legislature of Louis- {ana was to assemble and organize, The State House was surrounded by armed forces, among them troops of the United States Army. The Legislature assembled without any disturbance of the public peace at the time and place fixed by law, The Cierk of the oid House of Represent- atives called the roll of members returned as elected according to the lst furnished by the Returning Board. A legal quorum answered to their names. While the result was being an- nounced, & motion was made by a member (Mr. Bilileu) te appoint L. A. Wiltz temporary Speaker. ‘Lhat motion was put and declared car- Tiea—not, however, by the Clerk. Mr. Wiltz took possession of the Chair, The oath of office was administered to him by Justice Houston. Amotion was made to appoint P, F. Trevesant Clerk and £. Flood Sergeant-at-Arms pro tem. The motion was declared carried. A resolution | was then offered to admit the following persons to | seats in the Legislature:—C. H. Schuyler and John | States, of De Soto parish; James Brice, Jr., of | Bienville parish; C, C. Dunn, of Grant parish, and | and George A. Kelly, of Wynue parish. [he status of these persons was tne iollowing:—The Return- ing Board nad declined passing judgment upon | | yet there being neither imsarrection nor domestic | the election in tne four parishes named, and ex- | pressly referred the claims of the five persons | whose names I have mentioned to the Legislature | itself, thus distinctly recognizing the possibility of | that Legislature. The question on the refo- | lution to seat them was put and declared car- ried, thus admitting them to seats subject to tur- | ther contest, They were sworn in. Motions were i omcers, L. A. Wiltz was nominated jor Speaker | by the conservatives and Mr. Hain and Mr. Lowell by the repablicans. The motion was de- clared carried. Mr. Lowell declined. The roll | Was called, and 55 votes were cast for Wiltz as and jourteen members present refusing to vote. Mr. Wiltz was sworn in, ana, the roil being called, the members were also sworn in by him at the Speaker’s stand—fiity-nine in all—among them | flve republicans, Messrs. Hahn, Baker, Drury, | the proceedings. A permanent Clerk and | Sergeant-at-arms were likewise declared | elected. Upon motion, Mr. Wiltz, as Speaker, then announced that the House was permanently or- ganized and ready for busine: Mr. Dapré, a committee of seven on elections and siderable disturbance and confusion had arisen in succeed in quelling, Mr. Wiltz, the Speaker, then | Army, who had some time previous occupied the | State House with his soldiers, and requested him to speak to the disorderly persons in the lobby, that 8 conflict might be prevented. The General did so, and order was restored. The House proceeded with business. The Committee on Electious and Re- | ing persons were seated as members and sworn | in:—Jonn Aguinn, of the parish of Avoyelles; J. J. Horan, A. D. Hand and Thomes B, Vaughn, of the ‘W. Stafford, of tne parisn of Rapides, and William ir Schwing, of the parish of Iberla, Then, at three o'clock P. M., General De Trobriand, of tie United uniform and with bis eword by his side, accompa- nied by his stafl; and Mr. Vigire, the Clerk of the late House of Representatives, exhiniced the fol” lowing documents Sate OF Louisiana, Execurive DePaRTMBEnT, Ni.w ORLEANS, La., Jan. 4, 1876. | ¥ | General Dz Tgonziany, Commanding:— | as or the assassination , by the Returning Bourd of the State. W. P. KELLOGG, Governor of the State of Louisiana. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, | NeW ORLEANS, Jan 4, 1875, | General DE TroBRIAND :— ‘The Clerk oi the House, who has tn his posse: sion the roll issued by the Secretary of State legal members of the Huuse of Representatives, will point out to you those persons now in the 90 had = ali o1 the House of Representatives returned by the legal Pejorning Boars ot tie State. Ww. P, KELLOGG, Governor of the State. al THE EJECTION OF THE LEGISLATORS. the coun- | The Chair reused to permit Mr. Vigers to read | these documents to the House and to call the roll of members, whereupon General de Trobriana, United States Army, had pointed out to him by one Hugh Campbell ana one F. C. Anderson the persons holding seats to ve ejected trom the Leg- islature of Louisiana; and those persons refosing sole io |«dlers, With fixed bayonets, into that legislative hall, ized the persons pointed out to them and against their proiests ejected them by force irom their seatsin a Legislature of a State, Aud who persons? When the Legislature con- vened they were clatmants for seats on the ground of tne votes they had received, some of (hem presenting claims so strong on the ground 0 large that a Returning Board such as Louisiana had did not dare to decide against to go out, he ordered a file of United Sta! who were thoi of majoriti them, aud when they bad been seated in a Legis. lature organized servative members le(t that hall in a body witn solemu protest. The United st: House of Louisiana on the 4th of January. with peculiar jealousy as tie most essential guard of representauve iustitutions—it 18 the ube solute ireedom of the Legisiature ‘rom interier- ence om the partot Executive power, especially by force, And, therefore, in a truly constitutional of the Legisiature be good or bad, is such interierence, concerns the admission of its own members, most emphatically condemned and most carefully guarded against, whether it proceeds from a Goyeruor, or a President, or a King, or pretext; | and whenever such interierence is successfuiiy carried out it 18 Always aud justly looked upun as @ sure symptom of (he decitne of free institutions. There is another thing which especially the Amert- can people hold as sacred as tie lile element of their republican ireedom: it is the right to govero and aduinister their local affairs independently, through the exercise of that self-government | and, we find in ths constitution of the Re- government, whether the proceedin; especially uncer whatever circumstance which lives in the organism of the Stat Mr. Scuunz thin spoke as follows in favor of the sequence, All resorts agree as to the following of their being legaily elected members of | Made to proceed to the election of permanent | Speaker and 2 for Hann, a legal quorum voting | Murrell and Thomas, who participatea in | » Upon motion of returns was appointed. In the meantime con- tne lobby, which the Sergeant-at-Arms did not | sent for General De Trobriand, United States turns reported, and upon their report the follow- I have described United States soldiers witn fixed bayonets decided the case inst them and took them out of the legislative hall by force. When that had been done the con- soldiers kept ion, and thea the repavlicans, under their protection, organized the Legislature to sult themselves. Tis is what happened in the State Sir, there is one thing which every iree people, | | living under @ constitutional government, watches tations be arbitrarily disregarded by the national authorities we shall surely say that our system of republican government is indanger. Weare by the recent events in Louisiana forced to inquire how the cause of local seli-government and of legislative privileges stand to-day In the United States. Betore laying their bands upon things go iinport, aud sacred the authorities shonid bave well assuved themse!ves that they huve the clear est, most obvious aud most unequivocel warrant of law tor their doiag, WARRANT FOR FEDERAL INTERFERENCE. What is that warrant? In tne constitution wt find but one sentence referring to the subject. Ih says, In section 4, article 4:—'The United States shall guarantee to every State mm tnis Union a re- publican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and, om appitcation of the Legislature, or of the Executive when tne Legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence.” There are two statutes prescribing the mode in which this is to be done, the statute of 1795 and the statute of 1807. The former pro» vides “that in case of insurrection in any State against the government thereof it shall be lawial tor the President of the United States, on applic& lon of the Legislature of such State, or of the Ex+ ecutive when the Legislature cannot be convened, to cail upon the militia of other States to sup. press the insurrection.” The statute of 1807 aa. thorizes the President to employ we regular army and navy for the same purpose, having first ob served the prerequisites of law. That is all, There had been in Louisiana on the 14th of September, 1874, an insurrection against the State govern+ meat recognized by the President, That State gov- ernment had been overth:own by the insurgents, The President, having been called upon by Acting Governor Kellogg, issued his proclamation com- manding the insurgents to desist. They did so at once and the Kellogg government was restored and bas not been attacked since. NO AUTHORITY FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY, The insurrection was totally ended. On the 4th of January there was no insurrection; the State of Louisiana was quiet; the laws were obeyed; there was no domestic violence, not even an attempt at 1%; the State House was surrounded by the armed feices of the Governor; those forces were not re- sisted, their services were not even called inta requisition; there was certainly no demand upon the fresident for military mterierence by the Legisiature, nor was there by the Governor in case the Legislature could not be convene:l, for the Legislature did convene at the time and in the place fixed oy law, and was called to order by the officer designated by law, and viojence—there being neither @ call for military interference upon the President by the Legis- lature, nor by the Governor in case the Legis- lature could not be convened; there being not the remotest shadow of an observance of all the pre- requisites of law as provided by statutes, the troops ofthe United States proceeded, not against an iwsorrection, not against a body of men commit- ting domestic violence, but against a legislative body, and the soldiers were used to execute an order of the Governor determining what persons should sit in that Legislature as its members. What provision of the constitution, what laws are there on the statute book Jarnish- ing @ warrant for such proceedings? it it said in extenuation of the interferencs of the military power of the United States that the persons ejected from the Legislature by the federal soldiery were not legally electea mem- bers of that Legislature, Suppose that had been s0o—but that is not the question. The question is, Where i the constitutionai principle—where the law authorizing United States soldiers, with mus kets in their hands, to determine who is a legally elected member of a State Legislature ana who not? It 18 said that the mode of organising that Legislature was not in accordance with the state utes of the State. Suppose that had been so—but that is not the question. ‘Ine question is, WHERE I3 THE CONSTITUTIONAL OR LE@AL WARRANT for the bayonets of the federal soldiery to inter pret the statutes of States and to decide for and in @ Legislature points of parliamentary law! It 19 said that the Governor requested the aid of United States soldiers to purge the Legislature of illegal members. That may be so, but that is not the question. Tho question is, Where is the law authorizing United States soldiers to do the bid- ding of a State Governor who attempts to decide who are to be the members of a Legislature regu. larly convened at the place and at the time fixed by law? Itis said that trouble was threatened be tween contending parties in Louisiana. Suppose that had been so—vut that is not the question, The question is, Where is the law from which the Rational government, in case of threatened trouble in a State, derives its power to invade @ legislative body by armed force, to drag out per sons seated as members of a Legislature that others may take their places? Where 1s the law, Task? You will search the constitation and stat utes io vain, Itis my deliberate judgment, com sclentiously formed, that the deed done on tne 4th of January in Louisiana constitutes gross and manifest violation of the constitution and laws. - We have an act before us indicating a spirit in oar government which either ignores tne constitution and laws or so interprets them that they cease to be the safeguard of the independence of legisla» tion, the rights and liberties of the people, and that spirit shows itsel! more alarming stili in THE INSTRUMENT THE BXECUTIVE HAS CHOSEN to carry out his will. No Amorican citizen can have read without profound regret and equally profound apprebensiou, the recent despatch of General Sneridan to the Secretary of War, in which he suggests that a numerous class of citizens should, oy wholesale, be outlawed as “bandltti” by @ mere proclamation of the President, to be dé livered over to the military commander Jor sam- mary judgment by a military commission. No- body respects General Sheridan more than I do lor his briliiant deeds on the field of batile. The ne tion has delighted in nonoring his name, and the Ration would sincerely deplore to see the hero of the Ride of Winchester and the charge at the Five Forks stain his name by an attempt to override the laws and lead @ charge against the constitutional rights of his countrymen, The policy he has pro posed is so appalling that every American citizen who loves his liberty stands aghast at the mere possibility of the suggestion. [t is anotner illus tration how great @ man may he as a soldier and how conspicuously unavle to understand what civii law and @ constitution mean, how glorious in fighting for you, but how little fit to govern you; aud yet General Sheridan is not only kept in Louisiana as the instrament of the Executive will, but, alter all that has happened, encouraged by the emphatic approval of the executive branch of the national government, [ confess ail these things have alarmed me—not me alone; for in al parte of the country the press is giving voice te the same Jeeling. What Ilearn by private infor mation convinces me that the press is not exag- gerating THE ALABM OF THE PEOPLE, On all sides we hear the questions asked, “It this can be done in Louisiana, if such things be sustained by Congress, how long will it be be fore It can be done in Massachusetts and Obio M How long before the constitutional rishta of all the States, the seif-government oi all the people, Will be trampled under foot ¢ CAESARISM FORESHADOWED, How long berore a generai of the army may altin the chair you occupy to decide contested elem tions, tn order to make a majority in the senate; and velore a soldier will stalk into the House ol Nationa: Representatives, and, pointing to the Speuker’s maliet, say, “Take away that Lauble ?! Wild and exaggerated as these appredensions may scem, yet these are the teeliugs you will n expressed when the volce of the people pene trates to you; and I would ask you, can you ask what is posalo' and what not? Who i th among us who but three years Ago would have expected to be called upon to ap prove the grosa, most unjustifiable usurpation of Judge Dureli aad the President's enforcement of it as the lawiul origia of a State governmenst Aud who of you, Whe@ permitting that to be dong would have expected to see the United States som diers march into @ hall of @ State Legim Oertein striotly Dresurived sormesand Li these lim! | iatura to decide ite or@anigation? Parmit that to